Classified Rates and Publication Details for Winchester Evening Star
The Winchester Evening Star outlines subscription costs for various terms, ad pricing, and display ad requirements. It lists a 2 cent per word rate for classifieds with a 25 cent minimum, and a 10 A.M. deadline for border ads, plus national reps in multiple cities.
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Kansas City
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Chicago
Boston
Atlanta
Los Angeles
Public notice on rights to AP dispatches
The notice states the Associated Press holds exclusive rights to republish all AP dispatched news and that earnings are not paid to this paper for local news items. It asserts AP credit for all such news content.
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Associated Press
Calling the Sinful: I Came Not to Call the Righteous
A brief quotation framing repentance from Luke 5 32 echoes a moral call about sinners seeking spiritual change.
Regulation or Taxation Debate Shapes Budget Plan
A proposal to tax corporate earnings to balance the budget shifts to regulation concerns. Senate Finance Committee flags that the plan would burden small businesses with debts, spurring talks of a compromise to raise taxes while pushing for earnings to be distributed as dividends. The mayor and city reporting push back against political interference.
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Sas
Senate Finance Committee
Harrison
Treasury Department
Congress
Washington
The Mayor Becomes Dictator
Martinsburg paper blasts Mayor Chris Dailey after a public clash over editorial control at a City Hall meeting. The piece argues his actions show a city led by clowns and accuses him of attempting to censor coverage of council actions.
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Martinsburg News
Chris Dailey
City Oil
Coun
Martinsburg
If Everybody Were Just Like Him Editorial Reflection
A local editorial laments a prominent citizen who dictated his community influence yet spurned the hometown paper. The piece notes his wife’s reception, his illness and funeral reports, and the family’s push for free copies while questioning what defines a true “prominent” reader in a home paper.
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Esee Assocon
Fawning of Gabbo interview kerfuffle sparks ship news clash
A Lynchburg News item notes a motion picture actress seeking publicity by granting an interview to New York ship news pages, provoking controversy over compensation to men and a rush of large sums for advertising.
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Lynchburg News
Ship News Rews
New York
Will Rogers Humorous Bank Tale From Jefferson Era
A Will Rogers humorous tale contrasts old bank practices with modern banking. A woman tries to cash a check by introducing an unidentified friend as her, then reveals her own name and the teller’s lack of recognition. The anecdote highlights changes in who handles finances.
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Jefferson
Mrs. Ann
Ace
Mr. Keller
Actress Snubs Reporters In Gracious Vogue Clash
A film star kept reporters waiting half an hour and offered no apology as she dismissed their questions. The pageant of delays and rude answers left the press rushing to publish in time, inspiring a critic’s jab at newspaper habits.
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Ship News
Scouting Praised For Preventing Youth Crime
Troy police chief J T Owens cites national crime and education data to praise Boy Scouts and similar groups for keeping children around age twelve busy with constructive activities before they reach adulthood. He argues such programs reduce youth court involvement by guiding youths toward responsibility.
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Waynesboro
Virginian
J. T. Owens
Troy
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Boy Scouts
Admiral Byrd disbands Antarctic crew in Boston
Relief drive remains 70 percent short of its goal with one day left. Star Cooking School plans opening in the area on May 21. Percy Greenwalt, formerly of Freeport Illinois, arrested near Stephenson on at least seven breaking and entering charges. Winchester District Young People’s Rally set for Edinburg on May 21.
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Admiral R. E. Byrd
Boston
Star Cooking School
Percy Greenwalt
Freeport
Ill
Stephenson
Winchester
Edinburg
Local Couples Wed and Crime Sparks City Arrests
Five years ago Miss Fannie Elizabeth Smith and Edward Ogle Kremer of this city wed in Richmond. W. J. Hines, reportedly from Richmond, is arrested here and found to possess 17 grains of morphine. Rev. Dr. F. T. McFaden to deliver Ascension Day address for Winchester Commandery No. 12 Knights Templar at Front Royal.
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Fannie Elizabeth Smith
Edward Ogle Kremer
Richmond
W. J. Hines
F. T. McFaden
Winchester Commandery No. 12
Knights Templar
Front Royal
Coolidge Defense Theme Echoes in Williamsburg Address
Ten years ago Coolidge defended state rights in Williamsburg. Two escaped Amissville camp convicts are surrounded in Highland county. one is sought for robbing Kernstown post office. Amundsen North Pole party reports sighting rocky isles atop world. Pilsudski urged to assume dictatorship. Mrs George Newlin dies suddenly at 64.
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Coolidge
Williamsburg
Happy Chord
Amissville
Kernstown
Highland County
Amundsen
Winchester Land officers named after charter grant
Twenty five years ago Winchester Land Corporation received a state charter. Officers listed are John L. Wissler president E D Newman treasurer and H H Booker secretary. First of Nemo civil war articles lists dates of secession of southern states. Miss Beulah Florence Anderson wed to George H Miller of Fredericksburg. Captain W B Colston marks 75th birthday in Romney West Virginia. Elizabeth Donaldson two died by scalding near Romney, daughter of Mr and Mrs M B Kuykendall.
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Winchester Land Corporation
John L. Wissler
E. D. Newman
H. H. Booker
Nemo
Beulah Florence Anderson
George H. Miller
Fredericksburg
W. B. Colston
Romney
W. Va
Elizabeth Donaldson
M. B. Kuykendall
Halley’s Comet Earth Approach Noted in 1881 Entries
Historic notices record the revised New Testament published on May 17 1881 and a looming Halley’s Comet flyby affecting public sentiment and calendars on May 18 19 10. The brief items anchor date stamps and astronomical expectations in the period.
Questions and Answers from Frederic Haskin's Almanac Panel
A reader asks about meanings of terms in games and the party line on various curiosities. The column provides factual responses on topics from horse doubt to the Philadelphia and Baltimore station, St Martins Summer, Leagues, Mauna Loa eruption dates, Homewood Carroll House, and the Center for Fine Arts.
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Homewood
Carroll
Baltimore
Charles Carroll
Carrollton
America
Johns Hopkins University
Francis P. Garvz
New York
Maryland
Roosevelt plans to end emergency programs if re elected
Washington report outlines fears of a 25 percent PWA staff cut and broader relief funding battles. It notes 9 000 workers and dependents fear loss, while New Deal factions seek allied Republicans and Democrats to back Roosevelt in the Cleveland convention and congress.
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Washington, D. C
Roosevelt
Washington
Interior
Harold L. Ickes
PWA
Ickes
Congress
Harry L. Hopkins
WPA
Cleveland
James Couzens
Michigan
Couzens
William E. Borah
Borah
Ohio
C. Ben Ross
Idaho
Ross
Murder at the Warrrington ends in a morgue clue
Detective Keyes and Gary Maughan probe the murder of Margalo Younger an actress at Don Van Every’s home. Laura Randall maid to Joyce Van Every lies dead with a needle wound and the Camden ruby found among her effects as taxi driver Jerry Knox recounts the fateful ride and leads to further questions.
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Gary Maughan
Margalo Younger
Maughan
Don van Every
Camden
van Every
Joyce
Allan Foster
Laura Randall
Bryce
Roy Barrimore
Margalo
Manuel Gonzales
Missa Randall
Joyce van Every
Central Press Association
Jerry Knox
Gov’nor
the Warrington
West Seventy-fourth Street
Warrington
Mystery of Margalo murder unresolved after key clue untapped
The narrator recalls Laura Randall departing in a taxi as Miss Randall might have solved Margalo's murder. Don Van Every reports the Camden ruby has vanished from Seon's idol stash, blaming Keyes' failure to secure a vault. The detective plans to locate Keyes and pursue the lead.
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Laura Randall
Miss Randall
Margalo
Don van Every
van Every
Maughan
Seon
Keyes
van Every’s
Flashes of Life A collage of odd wartime style vignettes
Series of brief items from a newspaper page recounts a dramatic hospital transfer thwarted by a child with a wooden sword, a jail escapees drink tainted by a caustic bottle in evidence, a medical convention moment spurring a call for a doctor in the crowd, and pigeons nesting amid wreckage at an Los Angeles courthouse site.
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