Advertising Rates Notice at Winchester Evening Star
The Winchester Evening Star lists advertising rates including per word and minimum charge of 25 cents. Cash with copy required. Display ads with border due in this office by 9 PM the day before publication. Transient rate 45 cents per inch. National reps Tenney Woodward and Conklin Inc across major cities.
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National Advertising
Tenney- Woodward and Conklin, Inc
New York
Detroit
Kansas City
San Francisco
Chicago
Boston
Atlanta
Los Angeles
Subscription Rates and Pricing Notice
By mail and by carrier rates are listed for one year, three months and monthly options with advances. The notice appears in the Tuesday edition dated March 12, 1940, detailing price differences between delivery methods and term lengths.
1939 Book Market Shows Shift Toward Sociology and Economics
A Trend In Books notes 10 640 titles published in 1939 with 1 625 new editions. Gains appear in medical general literature sociology economics law domestic science while losses hit religion fiction juveniles poetry drama. History drops to fourth as war in Europe looms.
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Europe
Refining Revolution Boosts Octane Gasolines Across Industry
Chemists drive shifts in petroleum refining with polymerization and hydrogenation producing higher octane gasolines. Catalysts like clays and acids cut costs, enabling 100 octane at 30 dollars a gallon ten years ago to fall to about 20 cents for aviation fuel this year. Plans push toward 150 octane as power and fuel efficiency rise, with aviation and refineries investing millions to adopt new methods.
Saint Patrick’s Glory and Irish Reverence Across Lands
The text recalls Saint Patrick as a shared birthplace claim between nations, but Ireland ultimately owns his legacy. It notes his theft into slavery in youth, later monastic life in France, and mission to convert Ireland. Legends surround him, underscoring his enduring influence on Irish identity worldwide.
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Patrick
Ireland
France
Reprinted Editorials From Fortune on the Press as a Vehicle
The article surveys the U.S. printing and publishing landscape, noting massive newspaper, magazine, and book circulations, the role of newsstands, and advertising in art growth. It credits editors and art directors for shaping American belles lettres, and highlights writers who emerged from journalism and magazines.
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Fortune
Morning Star
United States
Haldeman- Julius
Little Blue Books
Carl Sandburg
Lincoln
Pocket Books, Inc
New York
Wuthering Heights
Pocket Books
Uare
Grant Wood
Alexander Brook
Thomas Benton
Rockwell Kent
Winslow Homer
Harper’s Weekly
Steichen
Anton Bruehl
Horst
Aldous Huxley
Mark Twain
Bret Harte
O. Henry
Sherwood Anderson
Willa Cather
Ring Lardner
Broun
Reader's Digest
Couple from DeHaven Wed at 119 South Loudoun Street
Lee Hawkins aged 73 and Rose Rogers aged 65 of DeHaven were married at 119 South Loudoun Street. Rev. George W. Stover, emeritus United Brethren pastor, was injured in an auto accident en route to Berkeley Springs. Engagement announced for Miss Emma Love Chapman and Mr Lynn Edward Chapman.
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Lee Hawkins
Rose Rogers
DeHaven
Loudoun Street
George W. Stover
United Brethren Church
Berkeley Springs
Emma Love Chapman
Lynn Edward Chapman
Roosevelt urges regulation of public utility holding companies
Five years after a policy push, Roosevelt calls for Congressional action to regulate public utility holding companies. Mrs. Lewis Hyde as general chairman leads a drive planning to raise 4500 dollars for the city’s aged and unemployed. Edna Holland of Handley recovers from appendicitis.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Lewis Hyde
Board of Public Welfare
Edna Holland
Handley
Taft Honored by National Leaders in Arlington Ceremony
Ten years after his death William Howard Taft, former President and Chief Justice, is honored by government and judicial leaders in Arlington. Winchester and Frederick counties lead the state in per capita purchases of T B seals for 1929 while Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks attend a local theatre showing The Taming of The Shrew.
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William Howard Taft
Supreme Court
Arlington
Winchester
Frederick County
Mary Pickford
Douglas Fairbanks
James F Adams to Lead Song Service at Stephens City Dedication
Twenty five years ago James F Adams was chosen to lead the song service at the dedication of the new Southern Methodist Church in Stephens City. Robert Woolley was inducted as director of the United States Mint and was noted as the son in law of Mrs William Mayo Atkinson. The United States ordered a searching inquiry into the sinking of the USS William P Frye by the German ship Prinz Friedrich.
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James F. Adams
New Southern Methodist Church
Stephens City
Robert Woolley
United States Mint
William Mayo Atkinson
United States
William P. Frye
Prinz Priedrich
Easter Parade Kid Gloves Advertised by Local Shops
Forty years ago local women’s wear stores advertise kid gloves for the Easter Parade. Jonah Reese presides over the Mutual Farmers Club meeting. A reception at Valley Female College honors the graduates of 1900, following an annual custom.
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Jonah Reese
Mutual Farmer's Club
Valley Female College
Seven quiz questions from The Daily Quiz page 2
The strip lists seven questions covering military insignia on Army uniforms, authorship of a patriotic line, a Hawaiian Islands test, Naval Academy graduation, a university at North Carolina, the North Star, a wedding luck couplet, myths about shaving hair growth, bat classification as mammals, and a private banking house planning incorporation.
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Hawaiian Islands
The
States Naval Academy
N.C
Common English Style Note on Adjectives and Adverbs
A reminder that in writing one should not use adverbs to modify verbs. Prefer concise phrasing by placing adjectives before nouns or after linking verbs. The guidance discourages phrases like plays first rate tennis and favors simpler constructions.
Refuting the Advice of Starving a Fever
A medical discussion debunks the old adage feed a cold and starve a fever. The piece argues fever suppresses appetite, so light diet or short starvation may help early fever, while prolonged fever damages nutrition. It cites typhoid undulant fever and tuberculosis to justify feeding enough to prevent nutritional destruction.
Lenten Reducing Diet For Wednesday
A brief Lenten diet plan lists small meals for a Wednesday. Breakfast includes orange juice egg bacon toast and coffee. lunch offers a frankfurter with sauerkraut bread and tea. dinner features celery stuffed with cottage cheese carrots broiled oyster plant and corn bread with junket and coffee. Daily calories total about 950.
Physiologic feeding guidance for fever and colds
Studies on digestion in fever patients show digestive juice secretion remains efficient to 80 90 of normal. Feed fever patients enough to maintain weight so nutrition resembles the starting state. For colds the acute phase is brief with no real nutritional deficit, then feed to the limit of ability with sweets salt meats and rust.
Dr Clendening Publishes Seven Health Pamphlets For Sale
The editor notes seven health pamphlets by Dr Logan Clendening are available at 10 cents each. Readers should mail 10 cents and a self addressed stamped envelope to Dr Clendening in care of the paper. Titles include Three Weeks Reducing Diet Indigestion and Constipation Reducing and Gaining Infant Feeding Instructions for the Treatment of Diabetes Feminine Hygiene and The Care of the Hair and Skin.
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Clendening
Logan Clendening
First plane takeoff from a ship by Eugene Ely
The first man to fly an airplane from a ship was Eugene Ely, who took off from the deck of the U.S. Birmingham on November 14, 1910.
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Eugene Ely
Birmingham
No One Has Accused You of Killing Him
In a nightclub murder mood, Captain McDonald questions Jerry Montcalm and others about the sudden death of Alfred Markham at the Rio Vista clubhouse. The narrator ponders a pocketknife clue and plans a secret return to the garden to recover the blade before investigators close in.
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Alfred Markham
Rio Vista
Jerry Montcalm
Muriel Benson
Clyde McDonald
Captain McDonald
Jerry
Rim
Mr. St. Clair
Mr. Markham
Mr. Strickland
Ali
Benson
St.Clair
Split behavior across parties and groups in Atchison
The Atchison Kansas Globe reports broad divisions within the Democratic, Republican, Labor, and farm organizations across Europe and Asia. The piece notes jokes about trouser splits and concludes with a quip that no thing is split except our notion to split an infinitive.
A Trio of Sams
The piece reflects on how voters are swayed by past figures. It cites Louisiana Democrats recalling Sam Jones of Georgia and Tennessee and Sam Houston Jones of Louisiana as influential names shaping support and memory of candidate figures.
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Montgomery
Louisiana
Sam Jones
Georgia
Sam Houston Jones
Sam Houston
Tennessee
Texas
Sams
Answers to Questions From Frederic J. Haskin
Reader inquiries answered by the Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau cover topics from radio loudspeakers and World War facts to botanic gardens, presidents in Congress, Gone With the Wind film length, and the meaning of the prefix Mac.
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Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau
Frederic J. Haskin
Washington, D. C
The
Winchester Evening Star
A Booklet For Coin Collectors
A 32 page Information Bureau publication by Frederic J. Haskin guides beginners through origin and development of coins, famous collections, rare pieces, customs, values, and starting a collection. Send ten cents to Washington DC for a copy with name address and city state.
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Evening Star Publishing Co
Winchester, Va
Associated Press
Science
Saint Patrik
the Land OF
By Logan Clendening, M. D
Dublin
Robert Graves
Scott
Paavo Nurmi
Ahlete
Finland
Nurmi
R.j.scott
China
By Frederic J. Haskin
Radio Corporation of America
Moma Q
War Department
W.N. A
Morris Fishbein
American Medical Association
U. S. Botanic Garden
Washington
D. C
George Washington
Mount Vernon
Columbian Institute For the Promotion of Arts and Sciences
Fiji, Sandwich
Society Islands
New Zealand
South America
Oo Q
A. John Quincy Adams
House of Representatives
Andrew Jackson
U. S. Senate
O— Q
Frederick William II
William I
William II
Stradivari
Margaret Mitchell
Macmillan
Susan Lawrence Davis
Henry W. Goddard
Miss Davis
Ku Klux Klan
Nero
Haiti
Liberia
Mac
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