Advertising Rates and Classifieds Policy Notice
The Winchester Evening Star lists advertising rates and terms for classified and display ads. Rates include 2 cents per word for classifieds with a 25 cent minimum and 10 cents per printed line for memorials and cards of thanks. Display ads with border due by 6 PM the day before publication. Transient rate 45 cents per inch. National reps listed for major cities.
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Tenney- Woodward and Company, Inc
New York
Detroit
Kansas City
San Francisco
Chicago
Boston
Atlanta
Los Angeles
Victory Through Magnanimity Message Quote
A concise devotional line cites Luke 6 28 urging blessing those who curse and praying for spiteful opponents.
Education under militarism in nations and in the United States
The piece critiques how Germany Italy and Japan train youth for war while the United States limits military influence in schools. It highlights Mussolini in The Modern Italian Reader with the Duce holding a boy who salutes, implying future Fascist ranks and a grim outlook for the child.
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Germany
Italy
Japan
United States
Mussolini
11 Duce
Living Dead
Rome
Golden Gate Exposition Promises Grand West Coast Fair
San Francisco's Golden Gate International Exposition opens six weeks before New York's counter attraction and draws huge crowds. Officials tout it as the era’s biggest world fair with bridges, a world’s largest man made island port and submarine base as backdrop. Organizers foresee up to 20 million visitors. The event blends carnival traditions with modern spectacle to spur lively competition with New York's show.
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New York
San Francisco
Perpetual Motion Notions and Nazi Allegiances
The chief clerk of the patent office receives six letters weekly denying perpetual motion claims as form letters. An 1813 circular deems perpetual motion a notion not to be pursued. Some members accuse Nazis in New York of pledged loyalty yet doubt their honesty, comparing words to actions.
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Patent Office
New York
George Washington
Freight rate debate tests southern justice against dislocation
The article argues that freight-rate discrimination harms the South and asserts that legislative action may yield greater national and regional benefits despite potential economic disruption. It cites past industry shifts like the Pittsburg Plus steel price differential abolition and urges decisive federal action with presidential support.
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Pittsburgh
United States Steel Corporation
Southern Steel
Interstate Commerce Commission
Congress
Commerce Commission
Davis recipient of Phi Kappa Phi honor at VaRea
B F Davis Jr earns membership in Phi Kappa Phi honorary fraternity at VaRea. A man presumed to be Morris DeHaven is found drowned in a pond near De Haven after days missing. The New York Stock Exchange suspends former president Richard Whitney amid probe into his firm facing trouble.
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B. F. Davis, Jr
Phi Kappa Phi
VaRea
Morris DeHaven
DeHaven
New York Stock Exchange
Richard Whitney
Five Years Ago A B C Liquor Control Act Passes
The A B C liquor control act passed by the state legislature will take effect March 22. Taxi driver Franklin Potts was held up at gunpoint by a stranger who robbed his Packard and fled along Valley Pike. Mrs D F Kern of the Gore Home Demonstration group was elected to represent local associations at the state convention.
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Thomas Jefferson
C. L. H. A. Jefferson
Franklin Potts
Valley Pike
D. F. Kern
Gore Home
Two Naval Blimps Crashed in Washington Formation
Ten years ago two U S Navy airships collided in gusty winds over Washington while flying in formation. A government vs insurgent clash at Vera Cruz is imminent with U S Marines safeguarding Americans. Severe wind damage hits orchards and shade trees after a snow storm.
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Washington
Vera Cruz
U. S
Beverley dies after long illness in home town
Twenty five years ago Francis Westwood Beverley battles two years of illness and dies at home. Young B Mitchell Knight wins a hidden check contest sponsored by The Star and advertisers. W R Lucas buys the Hotel Evans property from Mrs L C Janney and Mrs E B Sheetz. The Star shows damage at fairgrounds and Mt Hebron cemetery from a terrible hurricane.
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Francis Westwood Beverley
Young B. Mitchell Knight
The
Star
W. R. Lucas
Evans
L. C. Janney
E. B. Sheetz
Fairgrounds
Mt. Hebron
Telephone Co Seeks City Phone Swap for Tax Credit
Forty years ago the Telephone Company asks the council to exchange city office phones for part of its tax payment. A March wind blows the blinker from the Union Fire Co bazaar, now famous in town memory. James C. Totty, once of the city, writes T. Y. Kinzel he is bound for South America to make his home. Charles LaFollette of near Capon Bridge is slightly injured after a run away horse drags him in the road.
Information Bureau answers questions for a fee
A notice from The Winchester Evening Star informs readers that the Information Bureau in Washington D C under director Frederic J Haskin provides factual answers to questions for a three cent reply fee.
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Areaner
Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau
Frederic J. Haskin
Washington, D. C
Richmond Man Fined For Slush Splash Driving Violation
Marshall Taylor, 37, was fined $1 for driving without a license and $5 for speeding after a downtown Richmond incident where he splashed slush on pedestrians while driving near a sidewalk. Deputy Prosecutor Floyd Gardner described the act, and Judge B A Ball admonished him.
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Richmond
Ind
Marshall Taylor
Floyd Gardner
Taylor
B. A. Ball
Household Budget Booklet 1939 Advertises Thrifty Finance
Balance your budget with Food shelter clothing and insurance and saving. The 1939 Household Budget Booklet offers latest figures and guidance for individuals or families. Order today for ten cents postpaid by enclosing a ten cent coin with name address and location.
Start at the bottom to rise in work says Lyon
Dale Carnegie quotes Alfred E. Lyon of Philip Morris who stresses that youths fail to start at the bottom due to a poor attitude about work. He cites Winthrop Rockefeller and John Roosevelt as examples of starting low and learning all details. Zufall warns four memory don ts to avoid wasting effort.
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Alfred E. Lyon
Philip Morris Tobacco Company
Lyon
John D. Rockefeller
Young Winthrop Rockefeller
John Roosevelt
Boston
Ara
Shoes and a secret note lead Elsie to a new suspect
In a cluttered second room a closet holds thirty nearly new shoes hinting at Daphne. A bold unsigned note to Daphne suggests a meeting at a Linden tree tonight. Elsie toys with the mystery while meeting Ludwig the valet and mocking Mac McIntyre as the police return.
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Daphne
Mac
Linden Tree
Mac McIntyre
Elsie
Sherlock Holmes
Mr. Horace
Ludwig
Phil
Laidwig
Orsini
McIntyre
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John Stuart Mill
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Count Orsini
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