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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1940
Page
4
Advertising rates for the Winchester Evening Star include classified ads at 2 cents per word with a 25 cent minimum. Display ads with borders cost 45 cents per inch, due by 9 PM the day before publication. National reps are Tenney Woodward and Conklin with offices in major cities.
The Virginia General Assembly fights over the largest two year appropriation in state history totaling 178 million dollars. The piece contrasts this with a federal equivalent running for just five days.
The piece tracks federal payrolls from 1933 to last December, noting 563,847 at inauguration, 824,259 after Roosevelt's 1936 victory, and 987,538 as an all time high. It excludes military legislative judicial staffs and CCC camps and cites the Civil Service Commission. It compares current figures to Wilson’s 1916 payroll.
The piece surveys the 31 U S presidents, noting 24 were lawyers and eight served in the cabinet, 11 in the Senate, 13 in the House, and 13 in state legislatures. It highlights military service as a factor for several leaders and mentions two presidents rose solely on military glory. It also contrasts Washington and Jackson with others in political careers and education diversity.
The record notes that only Theodore Roosevelt and Calvin Coolidge were reelected on their merits. It mentions John Tyler Andrew Johnson Millard Fillmore and Chester A Arthur retiring at the end of the term for which their predecessor was elected.
In Baltimore federal court Judge William C. Coleman ruled that the words coca and cola may not be used in any soft drink trademark except Coca Cola Company. The decision bars rival bottlers from disguising products as Coca Cola and requires clear identification of Coca Cola when sold. The ruling supports Coca Cola’s claim of exclusive use of the term cola in its trademark.
The Washington Post reflects on Masaryk's 90th birthday and his lasting impact. It notes his lifetime work aided Czech Slovak independence and the post armistice republic, now under alien rule, yet Masaryk remains a rallying symbol and model of European civilization opposed by dictators.
A group of local businessmen offer to loan the city 4000 dollars for its share of costs to lay parallel tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad between Fairmont Avenue and Cameron Street. Lée Grant acts as city manager in place of resigned Arthur M. Field. Miss Rachel Jennings is elected president of the Dale Carnegie class.
Babe Ruth plans to depart the Yankees seeking a pitching role with the Boston Braves signaling the start of his 22nd major league season. A. J. Wigginton, deputy sheriff, awaits cold weather to levy on 40 hives of bees in a separate action.
Ten years ago Miss Mary M. Gordon resigns from her post as superintendent of Winchester Memorial Hospital. Local Rotarians plan a program tied to a new radio station in Alexandria. Winchester and Frederick County lead the state in TB seal sales last fall.
Twenty five years ago a cattle herd owned by John Larrick was killed and buried as state and federal officials enforce strict precautions against hoof and mouth disease. Authorities aim to prevent spread amid intensified surveillance and control measures.
Forty years ago prices for men’s and women’s wear rise as stores follow national trends. Charles Siler is thrown from a buggy when a frightened horse bolts along Millwood Pike injuring him. Local subscribers may soon talk by telephone with Harpers Ferry Winchester company to string wire.
Questions cover bird names power units national leaders a European microstate and more. It asks about Cordell Hull age US agencies Stephen Foster and other items in a 1930s quiz style.
A language guide advises avoiding oblique judgments and suggests using simple direct terms. It recommends replacing phrases that imply weakness with neutral substitutes to improve clarity and respect.
Dr Logan Clendening discusses how tongue examination reveals health signals. Moisture, coating, and movement indicate nutrition, digestion, and nerve function, with signs for stroke, fatigue, fever, and facial palsy.
Lenten note outlines a sample day of meals. Breakfast includes fruit cereal and half a cup of warm skimmed milk with one sugar lump. Lunch features a corn muffin red cabbage and milk with coffee or tea. Dinner lists consommé chicken Brussels sprouts bread butter pineapple and milk with sugar. Total calories 950.
The text explains glossopharyngeal nerve paralysis causing loss of posterior tongue taste and outlines testing with bitter sweet sour and salt solutions. It notes tongue coating and color changes as diagnostic signs for illnesses like scarlet fever and anemia, plus advice on rectal fissures and physician pamphlets offered by Dr Logan Clendening.
Bill Strickland recalls a murder at the Rio Vista club where Alfred Markham lies dead after a party. Police captain Clyde McDonald and Coroner Silver investigate as reporters photograph the scene and guests await details while the family learns of the tragedy.
A question and answer on library books as disease carriers concludes they are not significant. Germs don t survive long outside the body and books can be disinfected with formalin, either by sprinkling or vapors in a closed container. Murillo painted the Immaculate Conception fifteen times as his favored subject.
The reader via the Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau gets quick factual replies on topics from Lady Astor's seat since 1919 and her election history to who started writing late, notable illegitimate offspring, gardenia naming origins, life preserver rules, Roosevelt miles traveled by 1940, Gone With the Wind publication, Insull's Edison link, Supreme Court age, penny postage, Vancouver namesake, and Titanic ocean depth.
Seventy page booklet with forty approved single family house plans and exterior sketches floor plans and economy tips is offered by the Washington Information Bureau ten cents postpaid. Special emphasis on farm houses with kitchen plans approved by home economics experts for efficiency and low cost. Mail ten cents in coin to Information Bureau Washington D C with name address.
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