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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1935
Page
4
The Evening Star of Winchester Virginia lists mailing class second class matter and daily publication except Sundays. It provides subscription rates for various periods and notes consolidation with The Morning News Weekly Times and Weekly Mirror.
Advertising rates listed for classified and display ads with word counts, minimum charges, and payment rules. Memorials and cards of thanks priced separately. Transient rate 42 cents per inch. National reps named in New York Chicago Detroit Pittsburgh Des Moines and Atlanta.
A notice from the Associated Press states its news dispatches are exclusive for publication and local news in this paper. It emphasizes reprint rights and credit requirements for republishing the material.
A brief quotation from Psalms 82 3 urging defense of the poor and fatherless and delivering justice to the afflicted and needy. The line emphasizes social duty and compassion in faith.
A newspaper argues Secretary Hull acted wisely on the Russo American trade pact, noting a rise in U S purchases from 12 million to 20 million and a 50 percent tariff cut on manganese ore. Supporters say the agreement aids cotton and recovers foreign markets despite criticisms from Western congressmen over tariff concessions.
A readable school page presents three Q A items. It notes Jesus used parables to clarify his teachings. It defines hoopoe as a bird with a distinctive cry in warmer continents. It identifies Andrew Carnegie who started a weekly rate of $1 20 and later donated 125 million for philanthropy at age 77.
At Chicago's National Association of Master Plumbers show, items such as a foot operated ball bearing faucet control and a non skid tub are showcased. Many tubs now fill from the bottom and colors range from green to chartreuse. The piece urges extending basic bathroom facilities to Americans without running water.
Experiments from the University of Minnesota indicate cast iron pavements offer superiority over current materials. They resist wear, are less slippery when wet, and cost about the same as other pavements. The blocks are triangular with studded surfaces and may allow a shared service conduit beneath, reducing future street repairs.
A discussion notes Abyssinians settling grievances on the street with on the spot trials and immediate debtor chains for debts. It contrasts their frank customs with American tendencies and worries about street congestion if such methods were adopted here.
Moon eclipse drew disappointment for Winchester residents as thick clouds blocked view. The event, the longest in 50 years, saw copper colored light and lasted from 9 10 p m to 2 35 a m. visibility varied across regions with rain and cloud banks masking much of the spectacle.
Present and past rainfall data show 24 hours ending 8 a.m. July 45 with 0.45 inches. Year to date totals reach 18.72 inches. The Winchester Laboratory reports a 22 year average of 34.61 inches annually and monthly averages listed for each month, from January 2.35 inches to December 2.30 inches.
A report notes that the Turkey Knob Orchard case has been appealed to the Virginia Supreme Court. Apples are reported to be thriving in the county per a new survey. Illegal liquor seizures occurred in two local homes. E. E. Triplett of Rock Enon recounts seeing three wild cats and a bear by a mountain spring. O Sullivan Rubber Company salesmen hold a two day meeting here.
Five years ago a plan to create a star mail route from this city to Strasburg and south was under investigation. A dollar day sale is slated for July 18 and 19. Boy Scouts start summer camp at Camp White Rock. J Reginald Darlington a Baltimore and Ohio Railroad telegrapher died here. Rioting in Alexandria Egypt leaves 14 dead.
Twenty five years ago Col. John S Mosby faces removal due to age as Boston and Winchester figures report the incident while other items note a $10000 suit by William Grim over a son’s death and a deadly crash involving the New York Central line. John Woomer dies at his home and Baltimore residents pay fines for speeding in New Market.
The passage notes that in clan based societies the unit is the clan rather than the individual. When a member falls, the response is our blood has been slain, not the blood of the slain, explaining vendetta customs seen historically in Italy and among savages.
Fragment of a scrapbook item from 1984 credited to Comtrative Rniisation, with garbled title text and partial copyright notice.
Val and Jan confront a tangled past as Val reveals Lia plans for divorce and insists he must choose between loyal duty and forbidden love. Jan confesses love but fears Lia’s fragility, arguing divorce would trap Lia rather than free her. The scene ends with Val insisting they are meant to be, while Jan warns of broader consequences.
Unique National Park sits in the mid Pacific territory of Hawaii on two islands, Hawaii and Maui, separated by about fifty miles of sea.
Public notice in 1935 orders D. E. Walker to appear within ten days to defend a mensa et there from Blanche Walker in a divorce action on grounds of wilful desertion. Publication in The Winchester Evening Star weekly for four weeks and posting at Winchester courthouse. Clerk C. C. Brannon.
Congressman Clifton A. Woodrum will address the Young Democratic Club at the Loudoun County courthouse Friday night. A Roosevelt supporter, he is expected to discuss the administration's viewpoint. Mrs. John Galleher chairs the club's program committee.
A notice indicates preparations are under way to accommodate a large crowd. Details about location timing or organizers are limited in the fragment, but the emphasis is on anticipated attendance and crowd management.
The Laxey wheel in Laxey Isle of Man is a giant engineering work built to pump lead and silver mines. Montevideo in Uruguay, famed as a resort city for Buenos Aires residents, is nicknamed the City of Roses with parks featuring hundreds of varieties of flowers.
The Palace Theatre presents Black Sheep with Edmund Lowe and Claire Trev and supporting players Tom Brown and Eugene Pallette. Also showing Party Wire with Jean Arthur and Victory Jory plus a new blackout of plot twists and song parlor numbers featuring Betty Grable. The Nitwits tale adds a blackmail plot and a chilling extortionist known as The Black Widow.
Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey star in The Nitwits a caper style comedy at the Capitol. The act centers on outwitting a murderer figure as the thieves scheme unfolds with lively banter and farcical situations.
The wood bison is a subspecies of the American bison with zoological name bison americanus athabascae. It lives in the woodlands of northern Alberta Canada and is both a grazer and a browser feeding on grass and tree leaves twigs and bark.
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