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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1941
Page
4
The Winchester Evening Star lists advertising rates two cents per word for classified and 45 cents for display ads with border. Minimum charge 26 cents. Office deadlines 9 P.M. for display ads. Includes Associated Press rights and publication regions DeLisser Boyd and major cities. Subscription options shown with terms and advances.
The clipping presents a religious meditation from 1941 with the Bible verse 2 Corinthians 4 17 18. It contrasts temporary earthly trials with an eternal weight of glory and invites readers to focus on unseen spiritual realities rather than present hardships.
Critics argue the lease-lend bill grants vast powers to the President and would require new laws to retract. They press for enforceable time limits and genuine Congressional accountability through regular reports. They warn convoy use could drag the U S into war, urging explicit prohibition of naval convoys.
The passage argues against granting the President unrestricted budgetary authority in wartime. It urges lawmakers to fix a specific amount and retain congressional control over taxes, warning that surrendering finance to a single official would undermine democracy while supporting England. It stresses honesty, fiscal sanity, and safeguarding citizens’ rights.
The Roanoke World News reports the U S Post Office will start a Virginia First highway mail route from Washington to Harrisonburg on February 10 using a bus styled vehicle with mail handling and sorting facilities. The project may expand to Roanoke via Lexington and Harrisonburg to Winchester, serving areas lacking rail service and inadequate current mail facilities.
Governor Price proposes consolidating six state boards into three to speed up business. Over 300 attend the President's birthday Ball boosting the Infantile Paralysis fund by more than $300.
Five years ago Hitler announced in a nationwide broadcast that the Nazi people seek peace because they love it. Roosevelt urges federal state cooperation on soil and flood problems in a message to Congress. Mr and Mrs Delbert Sibert welcome a daughter.
Ten years ago estate valued above 125000 was disposed of by the will of Charles M. Ebert, a wealthy retired farmer of this city. Cartoon by Neill Woods features prosperity theme with a forward looking caption. Paul Rhodes loses control as a cow jumps on his car in Kernstown.
A Scranton judge refuses to surrender $1.5 million of Winchester property left by Judge John Handley to the Handley Board of Trustees. Dr. C. R. Anderson of Gore plans to open a Winchester office. News notes recount preparations for a major Zeppelin air raid on London and other English towns.
Forty years ago the new Reuss city hall will be turned over to the city council building commission in a few days. Contractor Miller is thirty three days behind schedule. W. L. Slifer loses two horses at Rippon when field fire surrounds animals tied to binder. The County Board of Supervisors plan to place an Opera House in their Court House to compete with the one in the new city hall.
Logan Clendening discusses Dr. W R Houston's Art of Treatment, noting seven treatment forms including specific remedies, nursing care, lifestyle limits, tentative arthritis management, and psychology as a chief method. He cites public beliefs, medical authority, and offers seven pamphlets available for 10 cents each.
A reader inquiry series provides factual answers on topics from presidential mothers to almanacs, broadcasting frequencies, and the Duchess of Windsor. It includes figures on British war material spending, almanac origins, and the legality of the Railroad Retirement Act, with concise definitions of charivari.
An up to date Webster Dictionary and Word Book listing 20000 words with supplements on abbreviations foreign terms word origins and compounding. 382 pages. Twenty five cents postpaid via The Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau Washington D C. Enclose 25 cents and mail to address.
Ida M. Humphries of 312 South Kent St writes to The Star protesting Sunday sports. She condemns ball games skeet shoots and other amusements as blasphemous and urges keeping stores closed on the Sabbath.
The Star quiz lists seven questions about U S history geography and public notices. It asks for second accession after the Louisiana Purchase and asks names and details such as the Under Secretary of Agriculture and Thomas Jefferson's Virginia estate.
A note on proper Victorian style procurement of letters. It advises avoiding phrases like Yours of the 6th inst. and recommends more explicit forms such as I have received your letter of January 6.
In the tense scenes Cary Essex denies killing Mark Essex and faces officers Captain Laney and Chief Crane. The narrator aids with details while weighing alibis as Miss Nolan nurses the captain and Kaye frets over fear and pressure. The plot points toward a hidden killer among suspects, with Cary's fate unsettled.
After a year and a half police recover John Condon’s stolen watch reported stolen in June 1939. The watch turned up last weekend but police do not know Condon’s current address to notify him of the recovery.
Open season on deer began with a 175 meter roam at the Bonnell ranch in Raidoso New Mexico. Bonnell reported four does and one Hereford in the bag and considered moving cattle to Roswell if the Hereford tally grew. Bonded whiskey history notes the 1897 act authorizing storage for four years and 100 proof bottling.
Olin Campbell, 61, who longed for the privileges of a trusty, finally achieved them but collapsed and died the first day while working on grounds outside the Walla Walla prison walls.
Readers are cautioned that news from most of Strove is subject to censorship before transmission to the United States, reflecting wartime controls and censorship practices affecting reporting of events from that region.
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