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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1935
Page
4
Publication rates and mailing options for The Evening Star Publishing Co Winchester Virginia are listed. Various subscription terms include one year three fifty six months one eighty five months. The notice consolidates with The Morning News and other weekly papers.
Advertising rates include 2 cents per word with 25 cent minimum. Memorials priced at 1.50 for four stanzas. Cards of ks 75 cents. Display ads with border due by 10 A M on publication day. Transient rate 42 cents per inch. National reps Devine Tenney Corp in New York Chicago Detroit Pittsburg Des Moines and Atlanta.
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A biblical exhortation urges spiritual members to restore a fallen brother with meekness while self reflecting to avoid temptation. It emphasizes gentleness, humility, and accountability within the community.
The Montgomery Advertiser denounces government disclosure of income tax returns and associated brief statements as an invasion of privacy. It urges confidential taxpayer relations and rejects neighbor testimony as worthless, calling for government to conduct its own scrutiny instead.
Romney West Virginia review notes a London ship unloading Argentine corn in Baltimore last Thursday. The piece questions why the government paid farmers not to raise corn while imports of corn and wheat enter the United States, suggesting a flaw in the agriculture program.
A librarian’s survey shows Mark Twain as the most read American author among library patrons outside New York with readers from diverse occupations. The study of Thomas Hardy readers lists stenographers, mechanics, maids, porters and their wives, plus assorted professionals and tradespeople.
The piece lists quiz items asking who was the tallest President and notes Lincoln at about 6'4" and Washington at 6'2" as the second tallest. It cites Earth–Moon distance as about 238,867 miles. It also mentions the cross of Jesus being made of palm cedar olive and cypress according to legend and that it graced four quarters of the earth.
A gypsy girl Consuelo is accused of stealing a large diamond ring during a town court case. She defies the judge and guards, refuses to surrender the ring, and boldly taunts authorities in Romany before being escorted toward a jury chamber by two women. Marcu then announces he bought the ring and vows to protect his people as disorder swells in the courthouse.
A doctor’s wife a news writer a piano teacher and the wife of a label maker show reading interest crosses social and economic lines. The observation suggests reading is not confined to any single group even if it proves little.
Royalty in exile, King Prajadhipok of Siam abandons royal Siamese trappings to live as an English gentleman in England. He enjoys independence, money, and the freedom to order his life, despite a Siamese Parliament he created insisting on its own grand plans.
One year ago Hugh Johnson made a strong plea for higher wages and shorter hours. Clarke County agent C. C. Funkhouser announced spring programs. Tax measure sponsored by Governor Peery passes the Senate. Two French aviators notify Paris they have found the lost capital of the Queen of Sheba. Mrs Bertha Hicks is named acting secretary of the local Red Cross.
Potomac Edison reports improved business while local Rotarians plan a program on WJSV. Mrs Mary Metz dies after a long illness. Miss Mary M Gordon resigns as Memorial Hospital superintendent.
Firemen adopt recommendations to increase efficiency and reduce hazards. Two pilots jump to safety after planes collide at 4 000 feet altitude in San Antonio. Handley defeats Waynesboro Pennsylvania 38 to 28 in final game. Sarah Zane firemen announce cooperation for the Apple Blossom Festival.
Twenty five years past, George McFarland uncovers two skeletons while working on a sewer main. The Cumberland Valley employees face a 10 percent wage raise. Dr. E B Smoke plans a move to Martinsburg West Virginia from White Hall. Blue Ridge hunt fixtures for March are announced.
Advertises a machine shop offering comprehensive machine work for any size job and branch, inviting visits or a call to prove capabilities with a detailed estimate. Promotes a modern plant and broad applicability.
Past 34 hours ending 8 a m shows no new rainfall. March total 0.06 inches, year to date 5.55 inches. Twenty two year average 34.61 inches. Monthly averages list January 2.35, February 1.94, March 2.81, April 3.16, May 3.88, June 3.60, July 3.39, August 3.35, September 2.43, October 2.90, November 2.51, December 2.30.
Trustees announce a public auction of the No. 109 West Pall Mall Street lot in Winchester on March 23 1935 at noon. The property includes a frame dwelling and encumbrances require a 6 percent loan interest, with one fourth cash and balance financed over three years by purchaser bonds.
Public sale of valuable city property to be held March 20 1935 at 11 A M in front of Winchester Court House Virginia. The lot 106 West Cecil Street between Braddock and Washington Streets is offered with buildings. One third cash and balance in two annual installments secured by bond deed of trust and fire insurance. Auctioneers Dunn and DuVall.
Students from Berryville Front Royal Handley Middletown Stephens City and two other chapters met in Stephens City to organize the Northern Triangle Federation of the Future Farmers of America. Officers were elected and a constitution drafted. The Berryville chapter invited all to Berryville for the next May meeting. A Home Demonstration Group prize for an essay on local sanitation was announced. Miss Ann Thomas Stickley visited Stephens City.
Brief items report a divorce suit testimony over dogs and milk, a wife’s assault claims, a jail sentence for Driving while drunk in Minneapolis, a five year old’s closet joke, a theft of 158 dollars, a spring yawn injury update from Springfield, and a dust storm boast from Great Bend Kansas linking fossil beds and bone meal fertilizer.
Miss Marion Bartlett attempted to open a second story French window in Long Beach California. She toppled from the window and landed feet first on the concrete sidewalk injuring her ankle. A doctor said she fractured her ankle.
Rev Ivan R Smith urges Lent campaign participation to unite churches in belief and worship. He cites Theodore Roosevelt and John’s gospel to argue for a universal Christ living in believers, stressing daily acts over dogma and a shared missionary purpose. The piece reflects a call for church loyalty and collective spiritual responsibility.
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