Advertising Rates and National Representatives
Classified rates are 2 cents per word with 25 cent minimum. display ads with border due by 9 PM the day before publication. Transient rate 45 cents per inch. contract rates on line items. National representatives include DeLisser Boyd Inc in New York Richmond Chicago Pittsburgh Philadelphia Rochester Atlanta and San Francisco.
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DeLisser-Boyd, Inc
New York
Richmond
Chicago
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Rochester
Atlanta
San Francisco
Pass Through Adversity With Faith Says Wife of Job
A biblical verse from Job 2 9 is quoted about integrity and faith. The notation emphasizes that God will give strength to endure adversity. The message reflects a religious exhortation on steadfastness.
Pepper speech on poll taxes and Virginia election integrity
A letter argues Senator Pepper should compare Virginia to other states, claiming poll taxes polluted elections in eight Southern states. The writer asserts Virginia’s elections are cleaner than Florida and urges a direct Virginia versus West Virginia comparison to expose corruption and vote buying.
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United States
Claude Pepper
Florida
Congressional
Old Dominion
Virginia
West Virginia
Pepper
Union
Ford the Educator expands Ford Rouge schools
Henry Ford's industrial education program grows with a new aircraft apprentice training unit at the Rouge plant. The Ford Aircraft School can seat 3,000 students, ranking second to the 4,000-enrollment Apprentice School. Five acres host classrooms and labs as defense needs rise.
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Henry Ford
Ford Rouge
Dearborn
Ford Aircraft School
Ford Industrial
Ford
Rouge
Little Alexis of Russia and His Tin Army
In Tsarskoe Selo, the palace of Nicholas II, the young hemophiliac heir Alexis played in a large square room with a vast army of tin soldiers. He could not endure outdoor sports, and Rasputin’s influence over the empress helped shape tragic days before the family’s fall and deaths in Ekaterinburg.
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Tsarskoe Selo
Leningrad
Nicholas II
Kobolsky
Ekaterinburg
Alexis
Nicholas
Rasputin
Monk
Blue
Assassina
Reprinted Editorials Honor Carter Glass Senate Pro Tempore
A Republican newspaper lauds Senator Carter Glass of Virginia for being honest brave forthright and steady. It commends his integrity courage devotion to principles and his ability to both support friends and oppose enemies without hesitation. The piece notes his rarity and value in both Houses.
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Carter Glass
Virginia
Senate
Senator Glass
Democratic Party
Saving Gasoline and Lives Through Voluntary Driving Rules
An eastern fuel shortage prompts a voluntary conservation program for motorists. Readiness to curb speed accelerate less and limit gear use aims to stretch gasoline, cut accidents, and support Virginia as Governor Price urges residents to conserve. failure may lead to compulsory measures.
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Virginia
Price
Miss Dorothy Hawthorne Crowned Princess at Morgan Tomato Festival
Miss Dorothy Hawthorne named princess at the Morgan County Tomato Festival in Winchester. Engagement announced between Miss Margaret E Campbell and Shirley Bly.
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England
Aeriel Eee
Dorothy Hawthorne
Morgan County
Winchester
Margaret E. Campbell
Shirley Bly
Hosiery Plant Rumor Gains Support From Oscar Nobel Rep
A Oscar Nobel Co representative confirms rumors a Pennsylvania hosiery firm will open a local plant. Leaders F A Read E Goss L D Arnold and J P Hayley head a championship tourney at an Rg Club. Spanish towns mobilize under Gen Francisco Franco with fascist leanings.
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Pennsylvania
Oscar Nobel Co
F. A. Read
E. ©. Goss
L. D. Arnold
J. P. Hayley
Spain
Francisco Franco
Virginia Apple Storage charged in creek pollution case
In an all day session, 18 cases, mostly bootlegging, are disposed of in police court. The Commonwealth of Virginia charges the Virginia Apple Storage with pollution of Abram's Creek and death of half a million stocked fish in a nearby pond. Prof. G. C. Ralston leaves for Europe to aid American apple growers.
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Commonwealth of Virginia
Virginia
G. C. Ralston
Europe
Visit by Manila couple as Henry Noonan dies in crash
The William Althers and their son arrive to visit Mrs. Althers' parents Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Woore in Middletown. Henry Noonan is fatally injured and Clarke Pifer seriously injured in an auto accident near Middletown. A German counterattack south of the Somme is repulsed with heavy losses on both sides.
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William Althers
Manila
Philippine Islands
Donation to hospital fund from Charles B. Rouss
A $5,000 check arrives in the city as a donation toward the hospital fund. In Winchester a religious paper called The Free Agent debuts, publishing editorials that attack the Presbyterian denomination. Nearby, Dudley Miller is thrown from a buggy and injured in a runaway near Stephens City.
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City
Charles B. Rouss
Winchester
Dudley Miller
Stephens City
Judge Hooks 28 Inch Rainbow Trout At Birch Lake
Elkhart Indiana July 21 City Judge D Russell Bontrager narrates catching a rainbow trout 28 inches long and weighing seven pounds three ounces on Birch Lake Michigan after a 15 minute battle the fish broke the judge s fly rod and escaped but later surfaced exhausted and was netted into his boat
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Elkhart
Ind
D. Russell Bontrager
Birch Lake
Michigan
Inquest Hears Man Died From Love of Widowson
In a 1940 Suffolk inquest a man’s death was linked to his fondness for his widow and his fondness for special relishes of village life on the green, testimony noting his peculiar tastes and the circumstances of his demise.
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Suffolk
England
Freedom is Made of Simple Stuff
A Courier Journal archival piece frames freedom as diverse, everyday acts and emotions. It equates liberty with quiet porch moments, public debates, laughter, travel, and personal resolve, urging readers to see freedom in daily life and inner defense of values.
Honeymoon of war boom may end says Johnson
Hugh S Johnson in Washington argues shortages taxes and red tape will heighten the burden on civilians and business. He urges reorganizing overhead to avoid losses waste and higher costs and warns failure could bring disaster. He emphasizes civilian morale and the link between farm and factory workers and national defense.
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Washington
Leon Henderson
Public appetite for proof before tough government moves
The speaker urges that Americans demand factual justification for sweeping actions. He warns that citizens resist coercive measures unless convinced, noting the automobile industry disruption would affect production, distribution, and employment nationwide.
Yankee Doctor in Paradise Tells How Hookworm Was Banished
Dr. S. M. Lambert led Rockefeller Foundation efforts across the South Seas to curb hookworm and yaws from Tahiti to New Guinea. In his new book A Yankee Doctor in Paradise from Little, Brown details wholesale en masse treatments, witch doctors’ clashes, and dramatic declines in infection by 1930.
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Suva
Victor Heiser
Lambert
Tahiti
Papua
New Guinea
Little, Brown and Company
Rockefeller Foundation
Fiji
Duke of Clarence
Prince George
King George V
Keep Prices Down and Civilian Supply in War Effort
The speaker criticizes Mr. Henderson as head of the Office of Price Administration for failing to keep prices down and for prioritizing civilian sacrifice over civilian supply. He questions the emergency defense body's actions on conservation, substitution, and restricting non-war construction to support both civilian and military needs. He argues coerced sacrifices are touted but not matched by real policy or action.
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Henderson
OPACS
Office of Price Administration and
Civilian Supply
Departments Complete
The speaker criticizes Washington's coordinated economic action for lacking a unified form of organization. Government supply departments compete for authority, overhead control bodies mirror each other, and no forum exists to reconcile needs. Duplication and overlapping functions abound, leaving civilians underserved.
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Washington
Seven Quiz Questions From a 20th Century Page
The page lists seven trivia items asking about the new name of the submarine Squalus the misquoted proverb time and wait for no man a slang term for birds or donkeys who wrote Alice in Wonderland the inventor of paper the fortifications between Finland and Russia the conveners of the Long Parliament and the Manassa Mauler in boxing with questions about American republics and leaders.
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Alice
Finland
Russia
Charles I
Cromwell
Charles II
Confusion of Speech Parts During Change Debate
The sentence notes a common fault where word choice mixes parts of speech. It cites the phrase Most everyone favors the change as an example of ambiguity between almost and most.
Japanese Beetle Menace Grows
NEW HAVEN Conn July 21 The beetle experts of the east declare total war on the Japanese beetle which they say is carrying on the greatest offensive in history against the seaboard s grass trees fruits and vegetables The menace will be ten times greater in the Eastern states this summer than in 1940 Says Dr E Porter Felt director of the Bartlett Tree Research Laboratories in Stanford.
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New Haven
Conn
East
Seaboard
E. Porter Felt
Bartlett Tree Research Laboratories
Stanford
Pecuniary Plight of Heir in Million Dollar Estate
New York July 21 Murray Kaplan an attorney hired many lawyers to settle his portion of an estate valued at about 1 000 000 Heirship reduced to 340 000 with many claimants Kaplan’s share settled at 74 755 Yet the lawyers seek 89 000 in fees Kaplan asks courts to cut fees arguing he would have been better off without any inheritance.
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New York
Murray Kaplan
Kaplan
Free sewing service for men in uniform in Albuquerque
Mrs. J. H. Lynch launches a free sewing clinic for soldiers and men in uniform in Albuquerque. Hours are 1 to 4 p m on Wednesdays at her home. Also noted is a brief mention of Henry Alonzo House and his 1866 steam automobile invention tested in Bridgeport and nearby towns.
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Albuquerque
J. H. Lynch
B. Henry Alonzo House
Bridgeport
Conn
Answers To Questions From The Winchester Evening Star
A reader can obtain answers to questions of fact by writing The Winchester Evening Star and enclosing three cents for reply.
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Winchester Evening Star
Discoveries and histories from early exploration to currency seals
The text covers multiple trivia items: James Cook’s 1778 discovery of the Hawaiian Islands, the 1899 Hague Peace Conference urged by Nicolas II, German gains in WWI’s early months, the meaning of scuttling a ship, Pope’s line on honor, KDKA as the oldest US broadcasting station, the Latin inscription on the Treasury Seal, and the share of household injuries occurring in bathrooms.
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James Cook
Resolution
Discovery
Earl of Sandwich
The
Hague
Nicolas II
Russia
the Treasury of North America
Inestead
United States
E. M
Continental Congress
United States of America
Treasury Department
Flags of The United States booklet offer and price
This notice advertises a booklet FLAGS THE UNITED STATES with history of the flag and the Flag Code. It lists display days and state flags information and asks readers to send twenty cents with a coupon to Star Information Bureau Washington D C.
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United States
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Fish
Louisville
Courier-Journal
Broken Peace
Westbrook Pegler
Roosevelt
Lindbergh
Dorothy Thompson
General Hugh S. Johnson
Preedom
Scott
R. J. Scott
America
E.P. Su
Charleston, West Virginia
Lincoln
Man
Ao U
King Peatures Syndicate
Holland
Hugh S. Johnson
South Sea Isles
Logan Clendening
M. D
Clendening
George
Duke of
Starkaas
Dr. Lambert
Mission Compounds
South Pacific
S. V
Star Quiz
Ham Stiching
By Frid Neher
By Frederic J. Haskin
Germany
Belgium
Luxembourg
France
Russian
Poland
Ah Q
Alexander Pope
KDKA
R. Ww
Or Aeseine Star Information Bureau
Frederic J. Haskin
Washington, D. C
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