Winchester Evening Star publication notice and rates
The Winchester Evening Star notes its post office entry in Winchester Virginia, publishing daily except Sunday. Advertising rates include classifieds at 2 cents per word with minimum 25 cents, memorials and cards of thanks at 10 cents per line, and display ads 45 cents per inch with office deadlines the previous evening. National ads handled by Tenney Woodward. The paper is a member of the Associated Press.
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Tenney- Woodward and Company, Inc
New York
Detroit
Kansas City
San Francisco
Chicago
Boston
Atlanta
Los Iweces
Associated Press
Nothing Good Is Lost Bible Verse Motto
A brief printed line from March 23 1939 presents a religious motto. It quotes Ecclesiastes 11 1 about casting bread upon the waters and finding it after many days.
Salvation of Apple Industry Through Advertising Push
The apple industry faces shrinking production while oranges lemons and grapefruits rise. The 1938 U S orange crop reaches 80 million boxes and lemons 11 million, while apples total 7 million bushels last year. The piece urges a national advertising program to expand markets and demand for apples.
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U.S. Department of Agriculture
U. S
California
Town of Jarrett Emerges in Southside Virginia
In Sussex County near Greenville, the Johns Manville plant’s $1 25 million project spurred the incorporation of Jarrett, elevating a 250 resident community to town status with R L Burrus as mayor and a council of longstanding Sussex lineages. The change marks a shift toward local governance amid industrial growth.
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Richmond Times-Dispatch
Sussex
Greensville
Virginia
Morris Siegel
Petersburg
Jarrett
Johns-Manville Company
Greenville County
Sussex County
R. L. Burrus
Industrial Corporation
City Real Estate Departments Push to Reclaim Tax Foreclosures
City real estate divisions in Portland Milwaukee Sacramento and other cities manage and sell foreclosed land to recover delinquent taxes. Portland has sold over 4150 parcels and reclaimed about 400000 in back taxes while aiding 700 accounts to pay up. Milwaukee owns 6750 parcels valued near 2 million and earned 40000 in rents in 1935.
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Portland
Ore
Milwaukee
Wis
Sacramento
Calif
Boston
Mass
Vero Beach
Des Moines
N. Y
City Planning Commission
Answers to Questions by Frederic J Haskin information bureau
The Winchester Evening Star provides a service where a reader can send a question of fact to Frederic J Haskin director information bureau Washington D C and enclose three cents for a reply.
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Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau
Frederic J. Haskin
Washington, D. C
Frederick J. Haskin
Quick Facts Quiz Broadens Knowledge Across Topics
A collage of trivia questions and answers covers phonograph sales, world fairs, piano keys, palm anesthesia, the Midnight Sun, 14 to 18 carat gold alloys, and other historical curiosities. Notable items include the New York Times start date, Mount Palomar lens quartz source, and Lincoln Monument details.
Propaganda Critique of Social Security Blurb
The editorial criticizes federal Social Security material as misleading about benefits to farmers and Virginia residents. It argues funds cited as coming from the state were actually federal dollars and warns against bureaucratic exaggeration that could fuel skepticism of the New Deal.
In Springtime Pageant Prepared for Festival Production
Garland Quarles wrote a new pageant titled In Springtime set for production during the festival as fruit trees show advance bloom amid a spring heat wave reaching near records. Arthur E. Morgan resists stepping down as TVA head following Roosevelt’s request and offers no explanation.
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Garland Quarles
Mercury
Arthur E. Morgan
Roosevelt
Postal carrier retires as industry waves spread nationwide
Five years ago industrial upheaval spreads to more lines of work as strike fever grows across the nation. James O. Ritter longtime rural route carrier for 22 years announces retirement from the postal service. Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Miller welcome a daughter born this morning at Memorial Hospital.
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James O. Ritter
Postal Service, Jr
Charles G. Miller
Memorial Hospital
Greenbrier band to attend festival again this year
Ten years ago Greenbrier Military Academy of Lewisburg West Virginia announced it would send its band to the festival again this year and had won all prizes in 1928. Col Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow announced in Mexico City that they will be married in June. J Robert Brown 83 year old Confederate veteran dies here of pneumonia.
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Greenbrier Military Academy
Lewisburg
W. Va
Charles Lindbergh
Anne Morrow
Mexico City
J. Robert Brown
Valley churches report good year at Baltimore conference
In a general report at the Baltimore conference of the Southern M. E. Church the valley churches of the denomination had a good year. The item notes a local incident where W. M. Seal shoots a dog belonging to Councilman James Brown on North Main street. General Villa's troops are converging on Mexico City and federals fear they will not be able to stem the attack.
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Baltimore
M. E
W. M. Seal
James Brown
North Main Street
General Villa
Mexico City
The Star Omits Paper on This Day
Notice states the Star newspaper is not published for this day and no edition is available.
Expert Budgeting Guide Helps Household Listen to Experts
The 1939 Household Budget Booklet offers up to date figures on income allocation for food shelter clothing insurance saving and essentials. Thrift is a habit that pays. Send ten cents to obtain a copy and enclose payment in paper.
The Turning Point in Walter Chrysler’s Rise
A Salt Lake City mechanic earns $3 a day but proves his ability by completing a back cylinder head repair on the crack train to Denver before three o'clock. His instant success, aided by two helpers, propels him to foreman and marks the start of his rise.
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Walter P .Chrysler
Salt Lake City
Denver
Chrysler
Young
Walter Chrysler
Deaths at the By M E Corne Fort
In a tense scene in a manor laboratory Elsie and Mac piece together clues after a salon mishap suggests a murder. They search cyanide in the spotless lab while Count Orsini lingers and Daphne Witherspoon flirts, as suspicions sharpen about a killer who leaves no loose ends.
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Mac
Elsie
Phil
Benson
Richard
Walsy
Anne
Iave
Orsini
Phii
McIntyre
Count Orsini
Daphne Witherspoon
Daphne
Mr. McIntyre
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