Common Council Rebuffs City Manager Bonus Proposal
The council, Tuesday night, wisely rejected a request to pay the former city manager a four percent bonus for extra work during his tenure. The move was not prompted by Mr Field and the council argued bonuses with taxpayer funds for contractual city employees exceed its powers. The reasoning rests on a sound principle regardless of the merits of the official.
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Arthur Field
Common Council
Field
Council urged to fund FBI national police training benefit
An editorial argues for sending a police officer to a three month FBI training course and two week state school, asserting the value of scientific, intensive instruction. It notes the $150 cost for board and lodging and emphasizes efficiency, crime prevention, and using FBI resources to uplift local forces.
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National Police Academy
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Congress
Council
Common Council
Winchester
Summer Heat and Prosperity in a Hot Climate
The piece argues that hot summers drive American vacations cooling habits and drink consumption while claiming heat fuels national prosperity. It counters the idea that heat saps labor by citing Egypt and ancient achievements, noting farmers endure heat while urban dwellers lament high temperatures.
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Egypt
Champion of Fools and the Horn Blower Traffic Nuisance
The Ledger-Dispatch rages against impatient drivers who honk at red lights and jams, noting the lack of traffic laws here and praising patient behavior in pedestrians. It laments the rude transformation some motorists undergo behind the wheel and questions modern civilization’s spread of such boorishness.
German chemist makes trees edible promising knotholes for doughnuts
A German chemist presents a method to render trees edible with edible knotholes suggesting potential uses including making doughnuts from knotholes. The remark hints at broad possibilities for edible wood products.
Seven Quiz Questions From The Daily Page
The reader is asked to answer seven questions: water between Sicily and Italy, citizenship for marrying an alien, Denmark’s Foreign Minister, who signed Mary Queen of Scots death warrant, Mammoth Cave location, meaning of episcopacy, Tony Lazzeri’s team, New York state flower, Lazaro Cardenas country, and a will wholly in the testator’s handwriting.
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Sicily
Italy
Denmark
Mary, Queen of Scots
Mammoth Cave
Tony Lazzeri
New York
Lazaro Cardenas
Today’s common error on how to describe block alignment
This note explains a preferred usage for describing construction and typography. It advocates using endwise to express blocks aligned along their ends rather than end ways.
Handley High School honors sponsor at class day exercises
Miss Jean Whitehurst daughter of Rev and Mrs R V Whitehurst receives the annual sponsors award during class day at Handley High School. Mrs Eulalie Nally is elected president of the Euterpian Study Group. Pinckney Arthur hosts dinner at Wayside Inn Middletown for the directors of the local Rotary Club.
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Jean Whitehurst
R. V. Whitehurst
Handley High School
Eulalie Nally
Pinckney Arthur
Wayside Inn
Middletown
Rotary Club
Martinsburg couple announce daughter’s marriage in Virginia
Five years ago Mrs H B McCormac headed a fundraising committee for the Children’s Home Society of Virginia. Mr and Mrs J W Lloyd of Martinsburg announce the marriage of their daughter Cora Elizabeth to John D Crowl of Winchester. H D Fuller of Farmers and Merchants Bank left today for Virginia Sea ch to attend the Virginia State Bankers Association. Miss Carolyn Hunter has returned from Columbia S C where she has been the guest of her sister Mrs Robert Kennedy and Mr Kennedy.
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H. B. McCormac
Children’s Home Society of Virginia
J. W. Lloyd
Martinsburg
Cora Elizabeth
John D. Crowl
E. A. Crowl
Winchester
H. D. Fuller
Farmers and Merchants Bank
Virginia ‘Seach
Virginia State Bankers Association
Carolyn Hunter
Columbia
S. C
Robert Kennedy
Kennedy
Ten years ago graduates and honors noted in brief item
S V A graduates 14. Billy Reno of Winchester wins gold medal for a 97 average over four years. Mrs Logan Fay and Miss Mollie and Clara Wood return from Washington. Miss Judy McGuire travels to West Point for June Week.
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Billy Reno
Winchester
Logan Fay
Mollie
Clara Wood
Washington
Judy McGuire
West Point
Rabies Strikes City: Dozens of Dogs Die in Fear
In the last days more than a dozen valuable dogs have died from rabies in the city sparking concern. Lester E Huff and Miss Cora M Foreman married at the First Christian Church parsonage. Two hundred five excursionists joined a Sunday special to Winchester on a B and O galley division run.
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Lester E. Huff
Cora M. Foreman
First Christian Church
Winchester
B. and
Main street bar buys new cash register in 1900s
Forty years ago Ralph Savage purchases a cash register for his Main Street bar. Two pigeons from Hagerstown take an hour and a half to reach the town. Police warn numerous colored bootblacks to avoid gathering near hotel and railroad station entrances.
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Ralph Savage
J. W. Hillyard
Hagerstown
Love, a career, and a baby in Greenwich Village
In New York Phil Parrish, a reporter, chooses between his wife Eleanor and a newborn daughter Jessica. Eleanor wants a career, while Phil backs motherhood and plans for a Long Island home. Kate Douglas counsels, but Kate decides Eleanor cannot return to work now.
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Phil Parrish
Phil
Eleanor
New York
Greenwich Village
Kate Douglas
Soch
Kate
Ed Hastings
Parrishes
Nell
Jessica
Long Island
Eleanor Parrish
William and Mary to discontinue law degrees in 1940
The College of William and Mary plans to end its law degrees after 1939-40 to focus on social sciences and merge the jurisprudence school with the Marshall Wythe School of Government. The move aims to reduce duplication with the University of Virginia and save public funds while improving instruction.
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College of William and Mary
Board of Visitors
Marshall-Wythe
University of Virginia
Williamsburg
Virginia
Soviet Ambassador’s Ability to Talk Turkey Questioned
A Norfolk Virginian Pilot item notes the new Soviet Ambassador to the United States can speak Russian English French or German and raises whether he can also speak Turkish. The brief highlights language skills as a measure of diplomacy.
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United States
Turkey
Colorado Legislator Swallows Lighter Cigar Incident
A Colorado legislator reportedly swallowed four lighter cigars in a curious act described by local reports. Details remain unclear as officials investigate the peculiar incident involving the lawmaker and a goldfish theme.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Colorado
Vessels That Sailed From American Ports And Vanished
A partial list of vessels that sailed from American ports and disappeared includes Reprisal 1777 General Gates 1777 Saratoga 1781 Insurgent 1800 Pickering 1800 Hamilton 1813 Wasp III 1814 Epervier 1815 Lynx 1821 Wildcat 1829 Hornet 1929 Sylph II 1839 Sea Gull 1839 Grampus 1843 Jefferson 1850 Albany I 1854 Levant II 1860 Marie Celeste 1872 Tug Nina 1910 Cyclops 1918 Conestoga 1921 København 1928.
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General Gates
Saratoga
Insurgent
Pickering
Hamilton
Wasp III
Epervier
Lynx
Wildcat
Hornet
Sea Gull
Grampus
Jefferson
Albany I
Marie Celeste
Cyclops
Conestoga
Kobenhaven
America’s Favorite Poems booklet offered for ten cents
The Evening Star advertises a poetry booklet titled America’s Favorite Poems. It features cherished verses selected by readers and compiled in a neat booklet available for 10 cents plus a mail coupon. Send ten cents with name address to the Information Bureau in Washington D C for delivery.
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Tenney- Woodward and Company, Inc
New York
Detroit
Kansas
Igh Pai
Chicago
Boston
Atlanta
Los
Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau
Frederic J. Haskin
Washington, D. C
United States
America
Hedy Lamarr Oversold in Hollywood Glare
Hollywood gossip notes that Hedy Lamarr has appeared in only two films yet attracts heavy publicity. Her lack of screen work may clash with soaring expectations set by press hype, and studios should have paced audiences to form judgments. Other items cover quirky studios antics and anecdotes about celebrities and their offbeat interests.
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Hollywood
Hedy Lamarr
Hedy
Algiers
Charles Boyer
Gene Lockhart
Alan Hale
Bangor
San Diego
Europe
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