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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1935
Page
4
The Evening Star is entered in the Winchester Virginia post office as a second class matter and is published daily except Sunday by The Evening Star Publishing Company of Winchester Virginia.
The notice outlines yearly and short term subscription prices by mail. It consolidates with The Morning News Item and several weekly papers, including The Weekly News The Weekly Times and The Weekly Mirror.
Classified advertising rates are two cents per word with a 25 cent minimum. Memorials cost 1.50 for four stanzas of four lines each. Cards of Thanks cost 0.75. Display ads with borders must be in by 10 A.M. Transient rate is 0.42 per inch with contract rates on application. National reps include Devine Tenney Corp in several major cities.
A copyright notice states The Associated Press holds exclusive rights to use and republish all AP credited dispatches and local news published in the paper. The notice governs reproduction and redistribution of the paper's content by others.
A religious text excerpt cites Jeremiah 22 3 urging mercy and justice. It calls readers to refrain from violence toward strangers the fatherless and the widow and to avoid shedding innocent blood in the land.
The piece mocks the five thousand million dollar work relief effort with items in New York City for air quality study, street name origins, and rock underpinnings. It notes labor unions demanding higher wages and ends with a pointed question what next.
The investigation exposes how utility interests spent 700000 to defeat Wheeler Rayburn and how 127000 telegrams were sent to lawmakers. Telegraphs were often sent by two or three agents with random signatures from phone directories, and records were destroyed after the defeat. The paper opposed the death sentence, favoring regulation, while condemning the lobbying methods.
Shenandoah Valley mourns loss of A. T. Moore Roanoke Times reporting his death after a car accident. Arrived Staunton in 1907 he engaged deeply in community life and public service, serving as a steady force in regional development.
The Shamrock is Ireland’s national flower because Saint Patrick used it in a sermon illustration. The first great American poem is Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant at age 17. A lammergeier is the largest European eagle, the griffin vulture, feeding on carrion in North Africa Asia and southern Europe.
Obituary notes the death of a leading Staunton figure, former publisher of the Staunton Daily News and leader in the Southwestern Virginia chamber of commerce. He owned the Stonewall Jackson Hotel and the Fairway Tavern, villages’ top hostelries, and shaped regional upbuilding. His passing ends a long, useful career.
The piece traces the walkathon from a postwar novelty to a derided endurance event. It notes dancing walkathons evolved into fatigue shows with weary couples and creeping pace. Cities have banned or shut down long events, with one town ending an 81 day walkathon amid public protests.
Public health relief faced hard times, yet better nutrition knowledge aided meals at lower cost. Home economists and diet authorities pushed vitamins dairy vegetables and fruits into relief baskets. Mid morning milk and crackers in schools began to aid undernourished children as refrigeration and marketing improved year round.
Lon Warneke of the Cubs held the Giants to nine scattered hits and drove in two runs. Julius Solters and Tom Carey of the Browns sparked the Yankees series with three straight singles and Carey added two doubles in his major league debut. Arky Vaughan of the Pirates hit a ninth inning homer to tie and pave the win. Vernon Kennedy and Al Simmons of the White Sox limited the Senators to five hits while Simmons produced a double and three singles. Johnny Babich of the Dodgers shut out the Cardinals on five hits and fanned eight ending a 14 game winning streak. Charley Gehringer of the Tigers doubled with bases loaded to spark a winning rally against the Red Sox. Emmett Nelson of the Reds pitched a five hit shutout of the Phillies.
A report notes that nearly half of continental United States residents live within 96 metropolitan districts, highlighting urban concentration across major hubs and regional population patterns.
Present and past rainfall figures show 24 hour ending 8 a.m. at none. Jay to date 1.78 inches and year to date 18.89 inches. Winchester Laboratory average annual precipitation 34.61 inches. Monthly averages on 22 year record: January 2.35, February 1.94, March 2.81, April 3.16, May 3.88, June 3.60, July 3.30, August 3.35, September 2.43, October 2.90, November 2.51, December 2.30.
July 26 event at Ladies Night function. District Nurses Association lawn party underway. Frank Patton's dance hall gutted by fire. Gasoline again 20.9 cents after gas war. D Landon Calvert, 66, of Reynolds Store, hospitalized with fractured leg. Five years ago Mrs Lucy C Kline dies near Stephens City. Drought damages Virginia crops. Typhoon leaves thousands homeless in Japan. Weather chilly at Camp White Rock summer camp. Radio population for Winchester at 851 sets. Ten years ago will of Mrs Nettie R Ryan leaves $60 000 estate. Scopes verdict cited with appeal noted. The City That Never Sleeps shown at Empire Theatre. Garland Redd Quarles and Nancy Crisman return from honeymoon.
Twenty five years ago running water is being piped all over Berryville Horse Show grounds. Mrs Frank O Headley dies at home of her parents Capt and Mrs George W Kurtz. Miss Anna Edmonia Johnson becomes the bride of Winsfield Scott Earle. Mrs Emma G Ambrose, 46, is dead.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad announces bargain rate excursion trains from Martinsburg and other West Virginia points to Niagara Falls New York on Saturday August 3 with arrivals at the Falls early Sunday morning.
The W. W. M. Baptist Sunday School convention meets at this church with adult delegates from Blainsville Brookwood Berryville Craigsville Charles Town Hagerstown Harpers Ferry Kearneysville Lurey Martinsburg and Salem. John Johnson of Brookwood and William Brown of this city will preside. Miss Tatten of Storer College Harpers Ferry directs Saturday night music. Rev. L. Campbell of Harrisburg Pa delivers principal address Sunday at 11 30 AM. Public invited excluding children under 12.
The Little America Braves meet the Stephens City Cubs at the fair grounds in the afternoon. First pitch is 3 30. The Braves beat the Cubs 13 5 earlier this season and the Cubs seek revenge.
Sheriff John N. Bennett of Kent county Maryland planned to return today with John Ellis 26 of Chester Pennsylvania wanted for the roadhouse slaying of Kelly C. Terry at Chestertown Maryland Ellis waived extradition after Bennett arrived with the extradition papers in Seattle Washington
A long standing superstition states that a child cannot be born in a house where peacock feathers are kept. The belief links the feathers to misfortune and is cited in folk traditions across regions.
Lia endures a crushing family confession about her mixed heritage. Val vows protection as Lia fears public scorn, recalling past slurs and the pressure of royal blood. The scene ends with Lia trembling over her Chinese lineage and anticipated mockery. TO BE CONTINUED.
Lifeguard Derwood Brough wore a leather nose awning to mock sunburn at a Rochester Ontario municipal beach. The quirky accessory drew laughs and is being adopted by others as bathers joke about tans. Minnie Pyle of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union led a local meeting and the group adopted a condemnatory resolution.
John Fox Jr. aged five earned his first wages as a rail roading boy in Memphis Tennessee. Wearing a rail roader cap overalls and ker chief tied at his throat he helped bring the Rebel streamlined train into Memphis yesterday. He was named engineer mascot by I B Tigrett president of the Gulf Mobile and Northern Railroad.
Minnie Pyle was all in favor of the prize packages in Burley Idaho, backing the plan and signaling strong local support for the awards.
The pouch mechanism is unique to marsupials. Most live in Australasia, with notable members including the kangaroo wallaby wallaroo koala wombat Tasmanian devil and Tasmanian wolf. Except for the common opossum in the United States, other species are largely confined to the region.
In Portland Oregon the Miller family faced eviction for unpaid rent. A money order of 55.90 arrived via the Portland newspaper from inmates at the Oregon State Penitentiary with a note hoping it would help their humanity.
Chicago third baseman Chicago St Stan Hack and his wife attended a police show up. When asked if they were robbed he quipped he knows how it feels to be caught stealing a base and wanted to see how a thief looks when caught sealing jewelry.
Cleveland Plain Dealer notes the line is often credited to Emerson or Hubbard. It confirms Hubbard supplied the mousetrap image but the sense of the quote traces to Emerson's writings.
Central Press Washington Bureau outlines Hastings as the strongest Old Guard challenger in the Senate, with Vandenberg and Dickinson as weaker rivals. The piece argues Hastings combines ruthlessness and compact political skill, while others lack his edge for a hard-fought presidential bid.
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