Wise man among you shown by works and meekness
A verse from James 3 13 identifies a wise man who endures with knowledge and displays meekness through good conversation and deeds.
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1940
Page
4
Price veto and division of corrections in Virginia penal reform
Governor Price vetoed House Bill No 9 proposing a division of corrections and possible Department of Corrections. The conflict over two similar reform proposals created confusion, with funding unclear and no appropriation in the budget. Critics argue the penal program lacked clarity and cost data, affecting its fate in the 1940 session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Price
State Department of Public Welfare
Virginia
State Department of Corrections
General Assembly
Virginia Advisory Legislative Council
Division of Corrections
Department of Corrections
Spiers Commission
Spiers Commission Recommended A Division of
Corrections
Price Administration
Assembly
Pity that Wagner speech fails to curb Labor Board flaws
The Baltimore Sun editorial argues Senator Wagner should have spoken earlier to expose partisan bias in the National Labor Relations Board. It asserts that the economy rests on free private enterprise and private property, and that regulatory boards have not properly honored these principles.
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The
Baltimore Sun
Wagner
Senate
National Labor Relations Board
Smith
House Committee
Labor Board
Washington
Roosevelt
Fame and Fame in Henry Watterson Centenary
The piece recalls Henry Watterson’s centenary and contrasts enduring fame with a poet's view. Arthur Krock cites Watterson’s legacy while Marie Henry Watterson notes doubts about lasting fame. Arthur Elliott Sproul shares Watterson’s line about fame ending in oblivion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Krock
Louisville
Henry Watterson
New York Times
Henry’ Watterson
Marie Henry” Watterson
Arthur Elliott Sproul
The
Times
Watterson
A Valuable Legislator E Blackburn Moore Named In Richmond
Charles Houston praises E Blackburn Moore of Berryville Clarke County as the most useful Assembly member. Moore presses for salary information, prompting late work hours for state workers, and argues publicity improves government morality in Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Houston
Richmond
E. Blackburn Moore
Berryville
Clarke
Moore
Virginia
W P A rolls to be cut by July 1940 says Harrington
Col. F C Harrington administrator tells Congress that Work Projects Administration rolls will be halved by July 1940 The item notes a possible transfer of the O Sullivan Rubber Co main office to Winchester and a local plant plan to add 75 workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. C. Harrington
Congress
W. P. A. Rolls
O’sullivan Rubber Co
Winchester
World powers react to Hitler vows to expand German forces
Five years ago reports stir world powers as Hitler pledges to enlarge Germanys army and navy defying the Versailles treaty. Carl Gordon of Bakers Drug Co buys the first auto tags for 1935. Mr and Mrs Walter Knee welcome a son on March 15 at the hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hitler
Germany
Carl Gordon
Bakers Drug Co
Walter Knee
Lions Club forms 30 voice glee club for Alexandria broadcast
Ten years ago the Lions Club prepared a glee club of 30 voices to sing in the Winchester series broadcast by the Chamber of Commerce in Alexandria. In Rotary Club talks Handley students urged more recreational facilities for girls. The Prohibition Bureau announced it found a denatured alcohol additive that would be harmless but emit a foul odor.
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Lions Club
Alexandria
Winchester
Chamber of Commerce
Rotary Club
Handley
Prohibition Bureau of Government
Water deemed unfit for Fremont school use
Dr C R Anderson county health officer condemns water used at Fremont school as unfit for use. Tom Cover Sr hosts a stag party at Ange rona on Fairmont avenue. Charles Huitt elected captain of the South End succeeding the late J D Grim. British report 166 ships lost. Germans claim victory at Ypres on the Western front.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. R. Anderson
Fremont School
Tom Cover
Mrs Lynch Criticizes Frederick County Schools at Farmers Institute
At a Frederick County Farmers Institute gathering Mrs M M Lynch voices mild critique of the local school system. Early morning alarm of a fire at 714 South Market Street awakens James B Hodgson who rouses neighbors and saves residents in the downstairs room of Joe Lyder’s residence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. M. Lynch
Frederick County
Farmers Institute
James B. Hodgson
South Market Street
Joe Lyder
The Daily Quiz Seven Questions From Page Two
Questions cover poults young of turkeys, sunan commanded to stand still, pronunciation of unrequited, location of Gatun, a famous speech beginning Four score, distance to nearest stars, Peyton Randolph, US citizens visiting Cuba, Celsius Fahrenheit equality point, and the largest single farm revenue source.
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Gatun
Peyton Randolph
United States
Cuba
Cnue
Unclear prompt text about grammar guidance
A user supplied a meta sentence about common errors in English usage without any news content. The fragment discusses avoiding the verbs scare and frighten intransitively and suggests using simpler forms. No named entities, dates, places, or organizations are present.
On Your Guard Against Mumps
Public health guidance explains mumps as a spring risk, with high contagion, possible lifelong immunity loss, and infection of salivary and reproductive glands. Symptoms start with ear pain, swelling peaks by day six, and household spread is common. Rest in bed is advised, with minimal treatment and comfort via cold or hot compresses.
Breakfast and Lunch Dinner Menu Summary
Breakfast includes fruit cereal and coffee with cream and sugar. Lunch offers oxtail soup or vegetable soup with toast and lemon tea or coffee. Dinner features celery olives okra bread or bun with spoonbread and coffee with cream.
Tobacco use and health effects on a 50 year old man
The expert says tobacco has no proven organic disease but harms digestion and digestive secretions and may affect the eyes. It can raise blood pressure slightly and trigger chest pain. the patient’s 35 year habit is excessive. The habit is reportedly easy to quit with effort.
Daring River Chase and Rescue After Kidnapping
A man recounts a river pursuit after his friend Alfred Markham, a jeweler, is killed at a Rio Vista club party. Stranded in a boat, he battles bullets and water, drowns toward death, then is rescued by a reporter and a woman who rush him to safety, skipping the police for now.
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Bill Strickland
Alfred Markham
Rio Vista Club
Ian
Page Place
Corrections on Wadesville postal affairs from 1940 letter
A Wadesville letter from March 13, 1940, corrects local posting office details. It explains retirement timing for postmasters, the shift of railroad business away from Wadesville, and that annuities come from railroad and express company sources, not the post office, clarifying earnings by Elyette and a four cent commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wadesville
Evening Star
Winchester
Elyette
Railroad Retirement Act
William Elyett
Express Company
Parcel Post
Majesty of Law Is No Fisherman
In Indianapolis on March 16 thieves stole 96 gallon cans of apricot jam from a Civilian Conservation Corps truck and dumped it into Fall Creek. Three boys with long poles fished out 36 cans and told their mothers who alerted police. An emergency squad towed with a boat and drag hooks for an hour but could not recover any cans.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Civilian Conservation Corps
Fall Creek
Insult Being Added To Injury In Locomotive Wreck Case
Marcus Hook police charged James S. Silecki with leaving the scene after a grade crossing collision. He had sustained facial cuts a back injury several fractured ribs and went home for treatment. The wreck occurred when his automobile was struck by a locomotive.
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Marcus Hook
James S. Silecki
Sirbaugh Elected to Virginia Mutual Insurance Board
Leonard B. Sirbaugh of Winchester has been notified of his election to the Board of Directors of the Virginia District of Columbia Mutual Insurance Agents Association. Re-elected directors include M. Clement Culpeper Wm C Goodwin Salem J W Lark Pulaski and T A Smothers Roanoke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leonard B. Sirbaugh
Winchester
Virginia District of Columbia Mutual Insurance Agents Association
M. Clement
Culpeper
Wm. C. Goodwin
Salem
J. W. Lark
Pulaski
T. A. Smothers
Roanoke
Rede Awakening For Mr Officer
GRAND ISLAND NEB March 16 Like a cat toying with a mouse Officer M G Martin watched a man ransack an automobile near a downtown hotel I ll get a perfect case on him Martin told himself He sped to the arrest realizing it was his own car being ransacked
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Island, Neb
M. G. Martin
Martin
Has Many Friends Now After Hurdle of Loneliness
A 73 year old George Hurley, after nine years in a sparsely furnished room and receiving only $1.50 weekly, was committed to a state hospital. Police, during a routine check, found securities totaling 26000 and bank deposits of 9000 in his name.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
George Hurley
Uncle Sam Pays His Witnesses Well
Three Jaarez Mexico residents say being federal material witnesses is a good life. Officers escorted them from Santa Fe after about six months in custody. Each man got board pay and 166, a sum near 1,000 pesos at current exchange rates.
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Albuquerque
N. M
United States
Jaarez
Mexico
Santa Fe
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