Winchester Prepares for Two Big Bargain Days
Winchester merchants announce Thursday and Friday sale events amid a rising market. Prices across commodities show a brisk general gain with experts predicting continued upward trends for months.
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1940
Page
9
Winchester Bargain Days Invite Shoppers to Visit Stores
Winchester merchants extend a warm invitation to distance customers to visit their stores on two big Bargain Days. They promise eye opening values and urge repeat visits after inspecting merchandise. Existing patrons are assured the upcoming offers will surprise even long time shoppers.
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Winchester
Merchants Likely to Reorder After Reserve Stock Exhaustion
When reserve stocks run out it becomes necessary for merchants to buy fresh merchandise. Increased savings strategies are discussed to offset these future purchases and maintain supply.
New Joan Arc Discovers Life Too Complicated
Agnes Reynolds, 23, portrays a 1940 Joan of Arc in New York at Fifth Avenue and 40th Street. She rides a white horse with a spear and shield calling for peace jobs and civil liberties, but police refuse the permit and escort her away.
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New York
Fifth Avenue
Agnes Reynolds
40Th Street
Joan of Arc
American Youth Congress
Thrifty shoppers warned of higher prices in edition
The Winchester Evening Star notes consumers will face higher costs and urges readers to study the edition for value tips that might not be matched for months or years. The Star collaborates with advertisers to highlight bargains readers should scrutinize.
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Winchester Evening Star
Fence
Coopera
Jap Treaty Abrogation May Shape New History Chapter
The piece links the abrogation of the Japanese American commercial treaty to a potential major shift in history as Japan reshapes influence in Asia. It notes Wang Ching-wei's drive to form a new central Chinese government in Tsingtao with Japanese backing, amid broader implications for Japan's China policies.
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Washington
Tsingtao
Yellow Sea
Wang Ching-Wei
China
Japan
Bargain Days Sponsors List Across Local Stores
A compilation of sponsors for Bargain Days featuring Miller and Anderson Montgomery Ward People's Service Drug Store Workingman's Store Winchester Furniture Co Bell Clothes Stores J.C. Penney Huntsberry's Shoe Store Northern Virginia Power Co Raylass Dept. Store Pifer Printing Co Gray & Eddy Wender's Newberry's 5c 10c 25c Store Ino S Solenberger Co Timberlake's Miles Music Co The Gas Co Thomas Jewelry Co Baker's Drug Store Lovett Brothers Miller Hardware It page Retail Merchant's Division Chamber of Commerce.
West Virginia Fruit Men To Meet At Martinsburg
Wendell Calhoun of the USDA is added as a speaker for the forty seventh annual West Virginia Horticulture Society meeting in Martinsburg. He will discuss fruit handling in terminal markets and present department survey results. Open forum to follow with formal acceptances from Taft Holt Randolph for the banquet February 7.
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Martinsburg
W. Va
Wendell Calhoun
United States Department of Agriculture
West Virginia Horticulture Society
Carroll R. Miller
Department
Miller
United States
Taft
Ohio
Holt
West Virginia
Jennings Randolph
New Highways Link Winchester With Morgan and Hardy
Virginia has built modern routes connecting Winchester to Morgan and Hardy counties in West Virginia. Route 7 toward Morgan and Route 275 toward Hardy place Winchester within easy driving distance for West Virginians. A longtime link between Frederick and Hampshire remains. Bargain Days Thursday and Friday invite neighbors to visit, renew ties, and shop.
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Virginia
Winchester
West Virginia
Morgan and
Hardy
Frederick
Hampshire
Morgan County
Hardy County
W. Va
West
Winchester’s Old Roots Meet Modern Shenandoah Valley Growth
In Winchester a rich heritage of relics sits beside a bustling present. The town, nearly two centuries old, blends historic mementoes with busy industries and thriving commerce in the Northern Shenandoah Valley. Bargain Day shoppers may find a curious mix of old and new amidst apple and woolen plants and rapid urban pace.
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Winchester
Shenandoah Valley
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