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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1933
Page
4
A brief item notes that the publication is issued daily except by The Evening Star Pub Co of Winchester and is consolidated with Morning Item, The Weekly News and Weekly Times. It mentions Associated Press dispatch rights and exclusive use of news.
Subscription rates and pricing appear in a garbled telegraph of mixed figures and phrases. The page lists by mail and carrier options with various annual and monthly amounts, followed by a religious motto and a Bible verse. It also includes fragmented advertising references and unrelated commentary about business leaders and policy debates, all severely obscured.
At Yale a wing of Sterling Memorial Library houses a room for reading by two undergraduate societies created before the American Revolution. Old rules ban studying while allowing smoke and limit presence, now filled by students choosing self motivated reading over formal study, a sign of college community and inquiry in action.
Chicago May 17 Wheat No 2 red reached an all time high of 82 cents a bushel for immediate delivery, 10 cents above May with the strongest premium of the season as consumer demand outpaced speculation. Wheat futures closed firmer, corn and rye also rose. Provisions climbed with hog values, lard for Sept at 7.00, highest since 1931.
The page lists bids and quotes for Liberty Bonds and U S Treasuries with prices and changes. Notable entries include 31-28 and 102.1 for Liberty Bonds and varying 4s 33-85 prices around 101.16 to 105.14, reflecting a mixed bond market.
Local markets list daily prices for flour shelled corn screenings and corn meal. The Star cautions it cannot guarantee against typographical errors in the notices.
A fragmented OCR excerpt lists dairy feed and butter items including 24 percent dairy feed, country butter, 5 20 creamery butter, mixed feed, middlings and scratch feed, with unclear spacing and spelling. No full facts or events are present.
Mt Pleasant Va May 18 Mrs Will Lamp and daughter Vivian Milhon and son Clayton visited Mrs Lula burg and family. Rev and Mrs F G Senger and child and Eva Perry of Winchester called on John Perry and family. Evelyn Rosenberger has returned from Memorial Hospital and is able to be out. Sunday School and preaching at United Brethren Church planned for next Sunday. Ladies Aid met at Venner Milhon’s with June 10 set for next gathering.
In Annapolis Maryland during an auction of furniture and old silver Virginia Oliphant resists selling the candlesticks to aid her mortgaged family estate. Tony Bleecker notices her as Michael McMillan and Rickey Oliphant react to the dramatic scene in the attic.
Mr. and Mrs. Venner Milhon and children and Miss Pearl e calling on Mr. and Mrs. Asa Racey last Sunday evening. Miss Pearl Cochran was calling on Mrs. Oliver Hamilton one day recently. Mrs. Asa Racey spent Saturday with her daughter, Mrs. Emmett Copenhaver and family in Winchester. Mr. Solen Meadows and family have moved in Mr. Roy Brill's house.
Rainfall records show 24 hour total ending 8 a.m. at 0.78 inch. May to date 3.37 inches. 20 year average 34.53 inches. Monthly averages list January 2.36, February 2.70, 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 inches.
Grimes Virginia notes social visits including Rev and Mrs Sapp Clyde Sibert and families visiting Walnut Springs Winchester and Orchard Glen. Monthly Woodbine Community League meeting held at Orn dorff home with good attendance. Local residents ill with carbuncle on neck and White Hall Mite Society gathering at Vernon Hutton’s. Tea making tips included for readers.
A historic note highlights Dr. R. V. Pierce of Pennsylvania who moved to Buffalo New York to market his Golden Medical Discovery. The tonic is described as aiding digestion acting as a blood tonic and improving complexion. Readers are invited to write for free medical advice to Dr. Pierce's Clinic in Buffalo New York.
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 decd. Duvall Dunn Aucts.
Washington news contrasts veteran parades with calm reception in 1930s era. The piece notes White House caution about veteran faction tensions and Capitol Hill’s hard line on war debt. New York discusses empty floors, skyscraper trends, and steel industry activity.
Democratic officials express rising impatience at the administration's slow pace of federal appointments. Officials say a new explanation about rigorous checks into candidates' qualifications does little to quell the demand from job seekers.
In 1998 the Capitol District bar closed, a year also marked by Vice President Garner's arrival in Congress. The note links the bar's disappearance with Garner's first year in office.
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