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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1933
Page
4
The fragment lists The Evening Star Pub Co of Winchester Virginia and merged titles The Morning Item The Weekly News The Weekly Times plus Associated Press credits. It notes subscription rates by mail and by carrier and lists national ad representatives in major cities.
A religious verse from Psalm 34 assures fear of the Lord brings contentment for the faithful. The text promises that those who seek God shall lack no good thing, offering a devotional message of divine provision.
Mrs J M Hobbs president of the National Federation of Women’s Clubs and Lynchburg News oppose sex appeals in magazines citing vulgar content and harms to youth. The piece argues censorship is impossible as vulgarity has long existed from ancient times and even great writers like Rabelais embraced it.
The Petersburg Progress-Index notes President Roosevelt’s call to boost wages in line with commodity price increases. It argues a wage rise could widen purchasing power if prices and earnings climb together, boosting consumption and production, while acknowledging uncertainty in achieving broader gains.
The passage argues a buyers market exists as money returns to circulation, boosting prices and prompting purchases. It notes hoarded dollars eroding real value, which should spur industry and commerce, but bank closures keep much consumer power frozen, delaying full economic rebound while rising prices should release hidden funds.
The Richmond News Leader honors Mary Stuart McGuire as a matriarch linking the Stuart and Carter lines. Daughter of Alexander H. H. Stuart, first secretary of the interior, she influenced generations from the Sixth and Grace home and through her marriage to Hunter Holmes McGuire. Her 85 years showed steadfast vitality and aristocratic lineage.
The Palace Theatre extols its last night showing headlined by Soldiers of the Storm from Thomas Burtis. Regis Toomey Anita Page Robert Ellis and Wheeler Oakman star in this fast moving border patrol tale with Paramount News Events The Mutual Man and a color Silly Symphony Santa's Work Shop as extras.
The Pace Valley Trials Club is reorganized at Luray after droughts paused activities. The club trains pointer and setter dogs and has elected officers George F. Pollock president Dr. G H Long and R L Ronalds vice presidents H G Bradford secretary treasurer and directors John W. Mims Thomas Deford O H Ayler Col Carroll Menefee J B Johnson C B Stickley Leslie D. Kline Ernest Meade S M Colbert and Virgil Hawse.
In a moonlit garden at Blue Cove a secret affair unfolds between Pierre and Merta amid party lights and ocean sounds. A confrontation with Mrs. Parmely leads to a fatal crime as Merta confronts her own perilous costs of love and deceit.
Mrs Mary Ellen Simmons 81 died May 9 after ten days with chronic pneumonia at Capon Springs West Virginia She was the wife of John W Simmons and mother of Boyd George and Albert Simmons Also surviving are two brothers William Sechrist Capon Springs and Luther Sechrist Yellow Springs West Virginia The services were held at Hebron Church.
Funeral services for Mrs. Simmons were held Thursday at Hebron Church near Capon River with Rev. L B Williamson of Wardensville and Rev. C H Anderson of Winchester officiating. She was a Lutheran since girlhood and active in church work, leaving a legacy of courage and care for others. Interment followed in the church cemetery. Pallbearers included Fred Nesmith Grover Stevens Dan Brill Clinton Bland Carter Brill and William Kump.
Mrs. Mary Sickles of Triadelphia West Virginia endorses Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a powerful tonic for women passing through menopause and suffering from nervous headaches backache poor appetite and general weakness. Promotes fluid or tablets and claims free medical advice from Dr. Pierce's Clinic Buffalo New York.
Present and past rainfall figures show 24 hours ending 8 a.m. May, date not specified, with May to date 3.37 inches and year to date 15.90 inches. The Winchester Laboratory average annual rainfall over 20 years is 34.53 inches, with monthly averages ranging from January 2.36 to June 3.81 inches and other months noted.
Col Frank Hamilton of Liverpool Eng died at his home in England in his eightieth year after a long career in fruit importing. He had visited Winchester from 1925 to 1928 as directing figure for a group of British fruit importers with agents Sprint and Petley. Survived by son D. C. Hamilton of New York and daughter Frances Hamilton of Liverpool.
Mrs. Lucille F. Mc Millin of Tennessee poses at her desk in Washington as the new federal civil service commissioner, signaling a delivery of administrative leadership in the capital.
James Francis Thaddeus O Connor of Los Angeles begins his duties as the new comptroller of the currency. He faces the immense task of supervising the nation’s banking system from Washington.
A lively bill at Hable's Palace features Columbia airthriller Soldiers of the Storm with Regis Toomey and Eric Page along with Wheeler Oakman and Robert Ellis, followed by The Mutual Man and Santa's Work Shop cartoons plus Today We Live starring Joan Crawford Gary Cooper. Capitol Theatre marks Mothers Day hosting 300 seniors with remarks by Tom Baldridge and a bouquet for Mrs Nelmes.
Mary Pickford’s new film Secrets opened at the Capitol Theatre to enthusiastic crowds marking Mary as America’s Sweetheart. Leslie Howard shines as the romantic lead with strong support from Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians in a Vitaphone act. The program also includes McNamee News featuring the 1933 Kentucky Derby. showings run tomorrow and Thursday.
Paramount's engrossing story of the spirit world titled Super Natural is now playing at the Colonial Theatre. Carole Lombard Randolph Scott and H. B. Warner are featured in the production.
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