This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 27 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1942
Page
4
The Evening Star warns readers about mail delivery and advertising deadlines. It lists office duties and rates, including daily distribution rules and an 9 P M submission time for ads. It urges subscribers to report delays to help maintain a perfect delivery system.
The May 7 1942 issue notes a review of Baal worship with a sermon referencing Elijah from 1 Kings 18 21 urging commitment to God. The piece frames religious contention and doctrine as a public concern.
Government anti inflation plans will alter spending more than war, squeezing families with no income gain and raising nonessential limits. Mid-1930s surveys show food near a third of income for middle earners, housing another third, and farm households facing different priorities. City households with $3,000+ income spent more on autos, education, clothing, and recreation, while food shares remained steady across incomes.
Dialogue reports a Berlin Rome press communique signaling perfect accord between Italy and Germany on wartime conduct after Tripartite Powers victories. The exchange implies unified political and military strategy with a radio broadcast from Berlin last Friday.
A New York Times piece argues wartime shortages will ban new gadgets for three months under WPB rules. It lists common items from razors to door bells and insists Americans must reuse or go without, citing Washington and Boone as examples of past thrift.
Staunton Evening Leader reports Premier Joseph Stalin, rarely speaking, stating Russia aims to free its territory from German Fascist aggression, to master Red Army fighting, and to wipe out invading forces in the rear. He condemns Hitlerite imperialism, notes civilian resistance, calls the winter war a fiasco, praises European will to resist, and charges Nazi leaders loot Germany while the German people see defeat.
The piece notes Edison as the first to utter hello on the telephone and contrasts this with earlier phrases. It mentions using the Winchester Evening Star Service Bureau in Washington, D C, for prompt factual answers, requiring a three-cent return stamp.
May 6 report from Washington notes Mr. Henderson froze prices on certain processed foods and some services, but bans on fresh items and many services leave roughly one third of the American diet and at least one third of services unregulated, with little impact on overall living costs.
The discussion argues that many cost components like labor, transport, and packaging remain unfrozen under price controls. It notes experts concede portions can be cut without detection, undermining ceilings, and questions whether public commissions can curb utilities or transportation rates. It casts doubt on Roosevelt's farm parity goal and frames price fixing as a partial, preparatory program.
Some species do mate in captivity but require a nest box for their young. The mating period runs from mid February to June.
Seven questions list from Star Quiz page two. Topics include Free China capital Roosevelt's terrier Seattle as Washington capital true false Eu gene Grace industry Plimsoll line Canada capitals founder of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard and Tam Brown's school attendance.
A language note explains plenty is a noun not an adjective or adverb. It contrasts phrases and offers correct usage by calling rain plentiful as proper English.
The Star's Washington Service Bureau provides free factual answers to questions. Submit a clearly written query with name and address and a three cent stamp. Medical or legal advice is not provided.
The excerpt covers strategic materials in juke boxes for artillery components, the WWI daylight saving schedule for railroads, a debt limit update rising to 125 billion, the poem Invictus connected to a photoplay, citizenship rules for American women married to aliens during wartime, and safety guidance on pouring sulfuric acid into water.
News items from another year note county measures aimed at ending the office of rural school supervisor. The U.S. Navy remains ready for Atlantic convoy duty. Secretary Greenberg discusses military policy as baseball star Diana enters the army at twenty one dollars per day.
Mrs John Nance Garner attends Winchester festival with Gretchen Thomson of New Orleans crowned Shenandoah 14th queen. News notes the annual Blossom Festival opening and mentions a disaster as thirty people perish in a German express crash near Lakehurst N J.
George Haines receives the National Boy Scout honor medal for saving Joe Long, a Troop Three camp cook on the Ca last year. Citizens reflect after the ninth festival, described as the best and most successful yet. Two men linked to bogus $10 bills tied to the festival are captured in Washington.
Twenty years ago Winchester Highee won the valley baseball championship by defeating Clifton Forge 10 to 1 in the clinching game. John H. Seal Jr president of Rouss Fire Co for eight years is given a grand party by fellow firemen before leaving Winchester. Walter Huntsberry to serve out his term. Jack Dempsey receives about 300000 to fight George Carpentier in Paris.
Government officials reveal the first draft will take young men aged 21 to 31. Snow covers the western county section as a northwest cold wave arrives. Thieves raid Rev. H. E. Richardson's chicken roost during his absence.
Forty years ago the plastering on the new Ghenandons Valley Bank building was completed. The north wall of Baker and Co. aided by a runaway freight car damaged the structure.
The Williamsport wire rope plant of Bethlehem Steel, a $3 million facility in Williamsport, Pa., shut by a CIO SWOC authorized strike. About 1,200 workers on high priority wartime orders halted production, threatening Army and Navy material supplies and other war production. SWOC cites wage differentials and rate increases for skilled labor as causes.
Scottish portrait painter Henry Raeburn is noted for a work titled Boy and Rabbit. The line between his portraits and genre scenes includes animals and children in domestic settings.
The National League standings show Brooklyn at 15 wins 7 losses for a .682 pace with a 1 1/2 game lead, Pittsburgh at 13 8 with .619, St. Louis at 11 9 for .550, and Boston lower in the table as games postponed. Last night s results included Brooklyn at Chicago postponed and New York at Pittsburgh postponed.
New York defeated Cleveland 3 to 0. Chicago won 1 to 0 after 110 innings, with St Louis beating eee 7 to 3. Washington routed Detroit 7 to 0.
Baltimore May 7 Shut Out the Derby winner faces a stern test in the Preakness at Pimlico as he and rival Devil Diver collide with three new rivals Sun Again Colchis and Domingo joining Warren Wright's pair in a bid to surpass the race purse and prove their mettle before Churchill Downs observers.
Governor Darden signed and delivered a reprieve for Odell Waller a black sharecropper in Virginia state prison awaiting execution for murder. The reprieve shifts his scheduled execution from May 19 to June 19 and authorizes his attorneys to seek a US Supreme Court rehearing on a writ of certiorari.
A Georgia doctor in 1842 used ether to render a patient unconscious during neck tumor removal, marking the first deliberate use of ether for surgical insensibility. Dr. Crawford Williamson Long pioneered this method, with early experiments among students and in Jefferson before public demonstrations in 1846.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.