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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1939
Page
15
Column by Caroline Chatfield argues a deceiving husband tests a wife's endurance and cost of divorce. Notes the social fallout, children, finances, and public scrutiny, urging readers to weigh staying versus leaving. Includes reader letters and local social notes with memorial service reminder.
The text advises seeking action against distress from others and notes concerns about kidney and bladder function. It mentions potential symptoms and warns that damaged kidney tubes and filters can allow poisonous waste to remain, posing serious health risks.
Reynolds Store notes list local residents including Mr and Mrs E C Shenk L A Clarke near Winchester Mr and Mrs E C Stotler Mr and Mrs Carson Whitacre of Siler N L McIntire and family in a brief community update.
The Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau promotes a ten cent booklet CARE OF THE FEET detailing foot care hygiene and exercises. Readers are urged to mail ten cents and request a copy to Washington D C with name and address.
A European style puzzle excerpt lists across and down clues with partial phrases and misprints. It ends noting a Supreme Court figure who died in 1938 and credits King Features Syndicate 1939. The fragment reads as a themed clue set rather than a complete article.
Greenway June 15. A yard party at Greenway Church is planned for Saturday night June 18 to benefit the Sunday School if rain moves to Monday night. Local residents Ruth Funkhouser, Carl DeHaven and family visitors Daisy Grubbs mourners and Stephens City memorial services are noted. Mrs Perry and Mrs Armel visited Mrs Combs. Hollie Reid and children from Hagerstown were guests in the village Sunday.
Simple patch quilt patchwork guide for Mayflower applique offers a leaf flower and center patch blocks. Use same or varied scraps and create pillows or scarves. Pattern 6416 includes block chart pattern pieces color schemes yardage directions and quilt illustration. Send ten cents to Winchester Evening Star Household Arts Dept 259 W 14th St New York NY.
NBC plans a major expansion of television in the New York market after six weeks on W2XBS. The schedule adds three evening hours weekly on Tuesdays Thursdays and Fridays at 7 30, three outdoor pickets weekly on Thursday Friday and Saturday afternoons, and four noon programs weekly Tuesday Wednesday Thursday and Saturday with educational and entertainment features plus films.
Listings show NBC and CBS channels airing at various times including Let’s Talk It Over and Ma Perkins in the afternoon, followed by music and drama programs. Hibbing Minnesota features a high school band and Women in Making of America with Iowa Farm Women’s Chorus and a Club Matinee in the late afternoon.
An old ad promotes FASTEETH alkaline powder to sprinkle on denture plates to prevent slipping while talking eating and sneezing. It promises a confident secure feeling with no gummy taste or paste feel and urges purchase at any drug store.
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