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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1939
Page
4
The Winchester Evening Star is released daily except Sundays by The Evening Star Publishing Co. of Winchester Virginia and entered at the local post office as second class matter.
Classified ads cost 2 cents per word with a 25 cent minimum. Memorials and Cards of Thanks 10 cents per printed line. Display ads with border due by 9 PM the day before publication. Transient rate 45 cents per inch. National reps Tenney Woodward in major cities.
The article notes that The Associated Press holds exclusive rights to publish AP dispatches and to publish local news from the paper. It emphasizes control over re publication and local content.
Rates listed by mail in advance: year $3.50, six months $1.75, three months $0.90, one month $0.30. No extra details on publication name or currency context provided.
A religious reflection cites Luke 1:53 noting God fills the hungry with good things through a benevolent fatherly figure. The text emphasizes divine generosity and gratitude for blessings received.
The piece reflects on spring’s transformation from gloom to activity. It notes how sunshine and warmer days revive gardeners and readers, turning lazy observers into eager laborers. It invokes Arnold and seed catalogs to illustrate renewed faith in growth and cultivation.
The article argues for outdoor and home-based hardening activities through Boy Scouts Girl Scouts Camp Fire Girls and similar groups. It asserts these organizations supplement parental life by teaching character citizenship and practical values to prevent softening youth amid modern complexities.
A Cleveland investigator notes that eight hours of steady typing exhausts nerves and muscles more than a full day of ditch digging. He argues light strokes with a million repetitions sap strength, challenging beliefs about easy work and gender roles in the industrial system.
The Lexington Gazette commemorates the Rockbridge settlement of Virginia by Scotch Irish pioneers. A 1735 land grant of 100000 acres required settlement, letters patent were issued by King George II via Governor Gooch after European advertising. The piece highlights early life, routes like the Great Path, Staunton travel, Presbyterians and tolerance in Anglican Virginia, and notes a second century of memory.
Reading of Howard Carter's Tutankhamun tomb expedition reveals the so called curse was a modern media creation. Egyptologists dismiss it as superstition while the Canary incident sparked a legend built on a nonexistent inscription. The piece notes the idea echoes in popular culture and biblical lines.
State officer George Miller is moved to his home after hospital treatment for wounds inflicted by George Pingley. The Star announces by church council that Rev. C W Lowe has resigned as Grace Lutheran Church pastor. Mrs Randolph Scott rides Battleship to victory in the Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree England.
A gulf coast storm causes heavy property damage in New Orleans with many fatalities and injuries. Five Harrisonburg youths are injured in a crash on the valley pike south of here but none are seriously hurt. The new ABC board struggles to issue beer and wine licenses, reviewing each applicant.
Ten years after their ceremony, Dorothy Clark and Andrew Kater married in a pretty service at Braddock Street Church. A 1,200 foot steel and concrete bridge will be built over Berry's Ferry east of Millwood on route 50, according to the highway department. V. P. I. may send their band and a festival float this spring for the first time.
A former pastor Rev W H H Joyce faces trial at the Baltimore Southern M E conference for immoral practices. In Brucetown, Robert Lee Rutherford and Ida Lillian Cooper wed at a ceremony conducted by Rev F A Strother.
Forty years ago Samuel R. Atwell topped The Star poll as the city’s most popular firman. John Sartelle of South Market Street keeps a hen famed for laying in regular intervals, more than one egg at a time. C B Rouss is reported ill at a Winchester benefactor's New York home. A $1,500 organ will be installed in the Braddock Street Church after remodeling.
A reader can obtain factual answers by writing The Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau directed by Frederic J. Haskin in Washington DC, enclosing three cents for a reply. The notice explains how to request information.
A compiled Q A list covers topics from depth bomb origins to Germany’s pension law the Old Dominion nickname and Hamilton Burr duel directions and more. It includes figures like W T Unge Horatio Alger Earl Browder and Horatio Alger with dates places and institutions across multiple countries.
The Natural Quiz in the HASKIN QUIZ BOOK covers topics from history and biographies to science and geography. It promises curious readers answers to questions about water in watermelons, ant strength, reproduced by animals, and zebra coloration. Information Bureau, Frederick J. Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C. Order by enclosing ten cents.
A 1939 McNaught Syndicate column promotes American Youth Hostels as a low cost summer option. For 25 cents nightly plus memberships, travelers join groups of teens and twenty somethings to hike between hostels across the United States, sleeping in a sleeping bag and doing light chores.
In the courtroom the jury returns a verdict of willful murder in the cases of Mrs. Horace T. Witherspoon Sr. and Jr. plus Eliza Williams, while the murderer is named as persons unknown. Elsie and Mac McIntyre await a mysterious signal as rain patters outside the Manor.
The Martinsville Daily Bulletin notes Ann Sheridan named America's Umph Girl amid evolving fashion icons from Gibson Girl to Flapper. A committee presented her the title and a bracelet, symbolizing the era's playful praise and shifting beauty standards.
The Cumberland Evening Times notes a Federal report showing Class 1 railroads plan about 717 million dollars in maintenance and upgrades over three years. Upgrades aim to cut handling costs, boost efficiency, and revive traffic, employment, and business activity.
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