Advertising rates and newspaper policy notice
The Winchester Evening Star lists advertising rates two cents per word with minimum charge twenty five cents and a 9 PM deadline for display ads. It notes transient rates fifty cents per inch and national reps in several cities. Subscription options and prices are shown for six months three months and one month and the date is Monday March 11 1940.
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Tenney‘Woodward and Conklin, Inc
New York
Detroit
Kansas City
San Francisco
Chicago
Boston
Atlanta
Los Angeles
Associated Press
Home Pear
Gary
1940 Virginia General Assembly Ended With Fiscal Prudence
The 1940 General Assembly adjourned after enacting a balanced budget and raising public school teachers’ salaries while failing to abolish the sheriff fee system. It supported Battle’s unemployment tax measure to stabilize business, refused to widen women’s hour law exemptions, and passed a speech bill seen as problematic. Delegates Moore and Governor Price highlighted salary changes and budget pressures.
Representatives Delegate Moore Active in House Affairs
Five session veteran Delegate Moore played an energetic role in the House introducing inquiries on state salaries backing premarital syphilis tests promoting highway billboard regulation and supporting a joint study to redraw legislative districts in 1942. Senator Harrison a new member made a quiet effective impression in the Senate. Warren County leader chaired the Senate Finance Committee guiding seventy amendments to a 278 million appropriation bill, all adopted.
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Moore
House
Senate House
Harrison
Senate
Warren
General Assembly
Senate Finance Committee
Average American: What Fortune Poll Says About the Middle Class
The Minneapolis Star Journal reports Fortune survey results showing eighty percent of Americans identify as middle class. Most want a good job with chances for advancement, not mere security, and many believe their children will have better prospects. Self-reliance, opportunity, and civic duty define average Americans.
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Minneapolis Star-Journal
New Fortune
Reprinted Editorials on Newspaper Suspensions in 1939
The Charleston News And Courier notes 85 daily papers suspended or merged that year. Atlanta’s The Georgian also folded despite prestige and features. Costs rose, profits fell, and communities faced unemployment and reduced buying power as newspapers retreated from the field.
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Atlanta
South
What Happened to Alabama
The Lexington Kentucky Herald recalls the Civil War battleship Alabama told by Senator Byrd. The piece draws parallels to the German Graf Spee and the Wakama incident off Brazil, arguing self destruction is the worst surrender for both crews and ships.
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Lexington
United States Navy
Alabama
Harry F. Byrd
Byrd
Graf Spee
Brazil
Kremer Elected President of Junior Board of Trade
John Thomas Kremer is elected president of the Junior Board of Trade for the ensuing year. Joseph Stalin accuses the U S France and England of halting their fight to resist aggression to draw Russia into a ruinous war. Mr and Mrs Leon Sawyer announce the birth of a daughter on Friday March 8.
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John Thomas Kremer
Junior Board of Trade
Joseph Stalin
U. S
France
England
Russia
Leon Sawyer
Moonshine Raids Lead to 11 Arrests in City Raid
Five years ago police raided liquor operations resulting in 11 arrests and large moonshine seizures. A Cuba riot sparks a state of war after three days of anti-government strikes. Max W. Doman of Middletown is one of three William and Mary seniors named to the National Intercollegiate Conference.
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Cuba
Max W. Doman
Middletown
William and Mary
Miss Geraldine Farrar to Appear in Handley High Concert
Handley authorities announce that Miss Geraldine Farrar is to appear in the high school auditorium in a concert on March 30. Winchester citizens are urged to help with fund to restore Stratford the birthplace of General Lee on the Potomac. Census taking begins and many local people believe that findings in Winchester will show a doubled population since 1920, date of last count.
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Handley
Geraldine Farrar
Winchester
Latane and Massey wed in New York City
Mrs Elizabeth Love Latane and Mr Joseph Anderson Massey both well known Newport News lawyers were married in New York City twenty five years ago. County farmers held a mass meeting to discuss reparation for cattle killed by federal and state experts during hoof and mouth disease combat. A London destroyer rammed and sank a German submarine in the English Channel. crew captured. Steamers continue to cross the Atlantic with heavy passenger lists as a German cruiser arrives in Newport News with Russian and French prisoners.
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Elizabeth Love Latane
Joseph Anderson Massey
Newport News
New York City
London
English Channel
Atlantic
Post Office Flood Quells Fires. Ladies Honored
Water from recent thaw floods the post office basement putting out furnace fires. Friendship Fire Co. offers thanks and publishes a resolution praising the women who served the oyster supper. Interest wanes in Gainesboro Hayfield coal mines. Pennsylvania firm continues testing.
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Friendship Fire Co
Laddies
Gainesboro
Hayfield
Pennsylvania Company
Seven World Facts Quiz From The Daily Page
Answers to a seven question quiz touch on geography history and culture. Topics include Greece location on a peninsula Mount Everest country death risk in combat Keystone State Pisa tower intent Greek dance pioneer and postal money order limits.
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Greece
Mount
Everest
Pisa
Fa Ae
Fine word choices show clear, handsome, delicious wording
An observation on how the word fine is vague and often replaced by precise adjectives. It suggests using clear for explanations handsome for appearance delicious or refreshing for spring water to convey exact meaning.
Caution in Treating Aged in Medical Guidance
Aged patients require careful dosing and simpler regimens as absorption is slower and cumulative effects are common. Sedatives and heart drugs may have different outcomes. abrupt dietary or habit changes should be avoided, and the aged handle surgery better than overmedication might suggest.
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University of Pennsylvania
Do You Know Your Boqs In Ladakh Kashmir
An account notes tribal marriage practice where a girl who marries the eldest brother also becomes wife to all younger brothers in the family. The piece discusses marital customs observed in a northern India region near Kashmir.
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Poly Andry
Ladakh
Kashmir
India
The Riverside Clubhouse Murder Witnesses and Suspicions
In a Riverside clubhouse party a jeweler Alfred Markham is found slain. Captain McDonald interrogates guests including Bill Strickland and Jerry Montcalm as detectives map alibis and test doors and exits around the inner court while Coroner Silver examines the body site.
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Bill Strickland
Alfred Markham
Riverside
Silver
Iin
Clyde
St. Clair
Tde
Jerry
Bill
Mr. Strickland
Markham
Marge
Jack Berry
Attack on M1 Patrol Boat Sparks Cross Border Hunt
Dublin reports a three man raid on the M1 torpedo boat at Kingstown harbor by suspected IRA attackers. Police from the Free State and Northern Ireland search hideouts as the 50 knot patrol craft was boarded and the gangplank hatch hurled overboard before attackers fled by rowboat amid heavy firing. The M1 arrived Saturday from a British yard building five other swift patrol boats for Eire.
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Dublin
Irish Navy
Free State
Northern Ireland
Irish Republican Army
R. A
Kire
Kingstown Harbor
Eire
Answers To Questions From Frederic J. Haskin
A reader questions a facts service. replies cover sabotage origin, flamingoes diet at Hialeah Park, parachute jump attendance at the 1939 World's Fair, Bonnie Blue Butler’s birthplace and date, calcium abundance, John Paul Jones burial, sun dial collections, Boys and Girls Week dates, Rule Britannia origin, first mural at Cathedral of SS Peter and Paul Washington DC, and Washington’s presidential oath.
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SS. Peter and Paul
Washington
D.C
W.G
Jan Henryk de Rosen
Warsaw
Luc-Olivier Merson
University of Paris
Lausanne
Switzerland
de Rosen
Summer Palace
Gondolfo
Ope
Red Letter Edition of New Testament
The Winchester Evening Star offers a 254 page Red Letter Edition New Testament in a black flexible cover with extensive supplementary material. It includes lists of Bible named trees waters mountains and birds and features harmony of the gospels and reference notes. Copy available for 20 cents plus handling, with coupon and address to Washington DC.
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