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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1933
Page
4
The Evening Star is published daily in Winchester Virginia with consolidation statements and Associated Press rights. Subscription rates are listed for mail and street delivery with regional advertising representation noted.
A cryptic OCR fragment references a biblical verse about better a dry morsel with quiet than sacrifices with strife from Proverbs 3 14, paired with unclear phrases about Christ and an eatery. The readable fact centers on the proverbic contrast and religious phrasing.
The Harvard Business School study reviews global attempts to lift prices in thirteen commodities valued at over 15 billion dollars in 1929. It notes governments and private groups failed to raise prices long term, with cotton, wheat, coffee, silk and others underscoring limited success under stabilization, tariffs, and exchange controls. The report finds governments pursued contradictory policies, aiming to raise prices while restricting demand.
The piece quotes Dr. Hugh Latimer Burleson on Native speech avoiding sacred terms and using English words. It discusses Indian religion, campfire rites, graves, and the happy hunting ground, plus theories on origins and Mongolian connections, with notes on prehistoric bones and settlement patterns.
The text notes non-picture que reservations relying on Federal funds, government-owned lands returning for delinquent taxes, and a push for reforestation and park development. It also mentions Indians not swearing in their own language and feeling provoked in America.
The Magazine of Wall Street notes life stages of men from age thirty to beyond fifty. It says early in life men take chances, then grow conservative, accumulate, but most lose gains. after fifty recovery becomes rare, and by sixty-five most rely on daily earnings or their children.
Precipitation in the past 24 hours ended 8 a m amounts to .78 inches. May to date records 3.37 inches, year to date 15.90 inches. The 20 year average is 34.53 inches. Monthly averages: January 2.36, February 2.00, March 2.70, April 3.11, May 3.73, June 3.81, July 3.45, August 3.45, September 2.15, October 3.06, November 2.25, December 2.37.
Madge Bellamy and Gilbert Roland star in Gigolettes of Paris a musical comedy of modern femininity opening for a two day engagement at Hables Palace with a stellar cast including Molly Oday Natalie Moorehead and Theodore Von Eltz. Also showing Harry Langdon in A Vagabond Adventure and Spirit of the Campus to balance the program.
Joan Crawford and Gary Cooper made their first talking film appearance together in Today We Live shown at the Capitol Theatre this afternoon. The story follows an aristocratic English girl who cannot stay home while her brother and two lovers face the front, amid a wartime backdrop featuring the legendary Skeeter fleet torpedo boats.
Frederick March and Claudette Colbert star in Noel Coward's Tonight Is Ours at the Colonial Theatre in Winchester. The Paramount picture also features Alison Skipworth and Arthur Byron with Fox News and a Joe Penner comedy Her Prince as added hits.
Colonel Henry W. Anderson of Richmond spoke in Birmingham stating that abandoning the gold standard and Roosevelt’s currency policy will restore domestic price levels. He argued deflation endures unless prices rise and urged stable currency to revive business, employment, and farm incomes.
In Annapolis on an October day three travelers attend a garden auction for the Kent Oliphant estate. Tony Bleecker and Mart y Van Duyne mingle with dealer chatter while Virginia Oliphant, a famed local figure, enters the scene and stirs interest as bidding opens.
Arrangements for Buddy Poppies sale in the city by Winchester Post No 2123 Veterans of Foreign Wars run May 27 to 30. Poppies are registered, labeled, and sellers carry VFW credentials. Proceeds aid relief work and the National Home for widows and orphans, with one cent per poppy to the Eaton Rapids home.
Millwood Virginia May 17 The Blue Ridge Country Club opened for the 1933 season with the golf course in fine condition and brisk patronage. Officers listed include President Kenneth N. Gilpin and Vice President Courtney B. Jones with a slate of committees for Golf Tennis House Pool and more. Roy Rutherford is the golf professional and caddies are available by phone.
The undersigned will sell at auction in front of Court House Winchester Va at 12 o'clock on Saturday May 20 1933. Thirty shares of six per cent preferred Potomac Edison Co stock and 10 shares of Union Bank stock. Terms cash. M M Lynch Executor of John H Myers deceased. Duvall Dunn Auctioneers.
The Stephenson Social Club records heartfelt sympathy and loss for beloved member Mrs. S G Newcome. Resolutions express bereavement, extend sympathy to her family, and arrange copies to the family The Winchester Evening Star and minutes of the club. The note ends with a hymn line about passing to join the Lord.
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