Winchester Evening Star Classified Rates and Contacts
The Winchester Evening Star lists advertising rates and submission rules. Classified ads cost 2 cents per word, minimum 25 cents, with cash required. Display ads 45 cents per inch with border and same day-before deadline. National agencies include Native Tenney Woodward and Conklin. Associated Press news use rights noted.
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Tenney- Woodward and Conklin, Inc
New York
Detroit
Kansas City
San Francisco
Chicago
Boston
Atlanta
Los Angeles
Subscription rates announced with prepay options
A compact notice lists Carrier subscription prices in advance terms: one year four dollars fifty cents, six months two dollars twenty five cents, three months one dollar twenty cents, and one month forty cents. The fragment ends with unclear trailing text.
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Etheociimonioalites
God Wants A Changed Life Sermon Reflected In Scripture
The excerpt quotes Isaiah 1 11 reflecting a sermon on sacrifice versus sincere repentance. It notes the date Saturday June 29 1940 and presents a religious message urging inner transformation over ritual offerings.
Americans Must Accept Their Duties-Minimize Their Rights
A French warning on democracy urges Americans to curb selfish uses of public money and political patronage. It calls for national unity, sacrifice, higher taxes, reduced government waste, and disciplined effort to meet a potential dictatorship or war with resolute action.
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France
Congress
America
Reprinted Editorials On American Statesmanship
The piece cites Anne O Hara McCormick noting French tolerance of corruption and politics as personal affairs. It warns America faces ineptitude and indifference until crises reveal truth and calls for bold, nonpartisan leadership to defend liberty and the Atlantic against the shrinking Maginot Line of steel.
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Charlottesville
Anne O'Hare McCormick
New York Times
America
Miss McCormick
France
Hitler
Atlantic Ocean
Magnetic Warfare and the French Collapse in War Critique
Chiang Kai-shek touts magnetic warfare drawing the enemy to doom while commentators note German advances threaten France. The French spirit and sacrifice are questioned as Petain hints the crisis may reflect deeper national cleavages and strain.
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China
Chiang Kai-shek
France
Petain
Chiang Kai-Shek Draws Japanese to Doom in China
The article lauds Chiang Kai-Shek for a three year struggle against Japan, noting his ability to draw the enemy into danger while Japanese planners miscalculated the duration. It questions American fear whenever Japan threatens Pacific bold moves against the United States and California shores.
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Hoyle
Chiang Kai-Shek
China
Japan
Uncle Sam
Pacific
California
The New Taxes
Fredericksburg editorial notes tax plans will broaden the base and raise rates to bring in about a billion dollars more annually. It says more people will be taxed and warns taxpayers will seek wise, thriftful spending for national defense amid global peril.
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Fredericksburg
Free Lance Star
City and County Offices Close for Dee Brannon Rites
Public offices close as last rites are held for Dee Brannon clerk of the circuit court who died of a heart attack. The Park announces its summer recreation program directed by Mrs Rebecca Kern. Brooklyn Dodgers and Boston Bees end in a 2 2 tie after 23 innings, the third longest game in major league history.
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Dee Brannon
Rebecca Kern
Brooklyn Dodgers
Boston Bees
Travelers and local figures attend regional events and travel
C. M. Martin departs for conventions across the north and abroad while Bishop Tucker is entertained in Clarke County by Mrs. Earl Boy-Ed and Mrs. W. B. Watkins. Eastern Shore potato growers halt shipments hoping to lift prices amid truck blockades and tire shootings.
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Bishop Tucker
Clarke County
Earl Boy-Ed
W. B. Watkins
Southern Cross Arrives in Harbour Grace After Atlantic Flight
The plane Southern Cross lands in Harbour Grace completing another leg of its around the world tour after a harrowing Atlantic crossing from Ireland. Brady W. Largent undergoes eye treatment at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. Miss Mable Pauline McQuay and Mr. Clarence W. Easterday wed.
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Southern Cross
Harbour Grace
Atlantic
Ireland
Brady W. Largent
Baltimore
Johns Hopkins
Mable
Pauline McQuay
Clarence W. Easterday
Appointment and social notes from twenty five years ago
William A. Collins is named deputy commissioner of revenue. A Winchester Inn dance benefits a new baseball team. Donald Weems debuts new pigeon walk as master of ceremonies. Temperance movement gains momentum ahead of the first American Anti-Saloon League convention in Philadelphia. German reports claim the French and English used air bombs first, with Germans using them to push the enemy from trenches.
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William A. Collins
Winchester Inn
Donald Weems
Philadelphia
Winchester Red Men elect new lodge heads. local obit notes centenarian
Forty years ago Aunt Clara Lavendar a 100 year old colored resident of Winchester dies at her Freemont street home. Thomas Spellman and Ashby Swanson are newly elected heads of the local Red Men lodge. Miss Mary Ell¢h Rinker and Mr. J Co Dolan both of the county are married.
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Clara Lavendar
Winchester
Freemont Street
Thomas Spellman
Ashby Swanson
Red Men Lodge
Mary Ell¢h Rinker
J. Co. Dolan
Vacations Then And Now By Dr Adrian Gibbs
Dr Gibbs reflects on changing vacation habits from leisurely rail trips to car travel and makes practical advice. He urges typhoid vaccination, clean water awareness, proper car seating, and simple first aid gear like gauze bandages calamine lotion and sunburn salve to handle common travel ailments and setbacks.
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Adrian Gibbs
Wanderers
What is phenobarbital and its uses
Phenobarbital, also called luminal, is an hypnotic that induces sleep and dulls brain activity. It treats epilepsy and some nervous conditions requiring sleep but should be used only under a doctor's direction and typically by prescription. rare skin rash can occur in some individuals.
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United States
Haetar
Answers to Readers Questions in The Winchester Evening Star
A bulk reader Q and A from The Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau covers topics from elements, bicycle record runs, and famous poets to dog tick treatment, youth government eligibility, surname derived words, syphilis age data, nun counts, Don Quixote sleep imagery, and blueprint origins.
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Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau
Frederic J. Haskin
Washington, D. C
Seven quiz questions from The Star page two
A reader asks seven quiz prompts covering eclipses, motion, Lincoln Roosevelt or Hoover etymology, Nathan Mann’s sport, Godoy’s nationality, FBI, U S territories, Ivan Canute Cyrus, Dryden’s role, and female names in play titles, with page two answers promised.
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Lincoln
Theodore Roosevelt
Hoover
Nathan Mann
Arturo Godoy
United States
Ivan
Canute
Cyrus
John Dryden
Dan not say He rarely smiles omit ever
The phrase notes that he rarely smiles and instructs omitting the word ever. It reads as a concise directive about tone and expression. The source highlights a telltale description of demeanor and a textual editing choice.
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Dan
Fortune Telling booklet offered for ten cents
The Winchester Evening Star advertises a pocket booklet on fortune telling. It covers card reading tea leaf and coffee grounds interpretations along with astrology signs omens and dreams meanings. Readers are invited to mail ten cents with name address and location to receive the publication.
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Winchester Evening Star
Frederick J. Haskin
Washington, D. C
Love Without Music and a Party of Intrigue in New York
Linda Avery, a New York models agency receptionist, rekindles romance with her childhood sweetheart Ronald Stafford while rival Sarah Markley plots to claim him. Linda's upstairs neighbor Robert Barton arrives to a glamorous night, prompting choices and romantic tension at a high society party.
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Linda Avery
New York Models
Ronald Stafford
Sarah Markley
Ronald
Robert Barton
Linda
Robert
Bagley Agency
Ronnie
Fifth Avenue
Mocking Birds
Hamilton
Linda Honey
Lin
Markley
Ronaie
West Coast
Night’s Paper
Sarah
Fish nest building and Pacific Ocean share of water
A stickleback male constructs a nest by binding water weed with a strong white thread produced from an internal gland. The Pacific Ocean makes up more than half of the earths total water surface.
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Yate Stickleback
Pacific Ocean
Globe
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