Winchester Evening Star Advertising Rates and Contacts
The Winchester Evening Star lists advertising rates at 2 cents per word with a 25 cent minimum. It notes national representatives and display ad options with borders, deadline by 9 PM the prior day, and transient rate of 45 cents per inch. The paper is published daily except Sunday by The Evening Star Publishing Co. in Winchester, Virginia.
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Evening Star Publishing Co
Winchester
Acco
Boyd, Inc
New York
Richmond
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Rochester
Atlanta
San Francisco
Associated Press
By Mail and Carrier Rates Listed for 1941
A newspaper notice from May 19 1941 outlines subscription options by mail and by carrier with various advance payment terms including one year six months and three months rates. The ad presents pricing such as 3.50 for one year and smaller amounts for shorter terms.
Weeping May Tarry For The Night Then Joy Comes
A devotional saying quotes Psalm 30 5 urging patience through sorrow as happiness awaits with the dawn and life offers more happiness than sorrow through enduring faith.
Colgate Darden Seeks Firm DUI Policy as Virginia Governor
Colgate W. Darden Jr a Democratic gubernatorial contender pledges no pardons for drunken driving convictions. He supports restoring a Byrd era policy once common among Virginia governors to uphold strict DUI enforcement.
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Colgate W. Darden, Jr
Virginia
Colgate Darden
Byrd
Price
London Today lecture by Everts Scudder in Winchester
The Winchester Aid to Winchester England Committee brings Everts Scudder to the George Washington Hotel for a 8:30 pm lecture titled London Today. Scudder, a London representative for the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, has spent ten years in England observing the war effort.
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Winchester
England
Eng
Everts Scudder
London
America
Scudder
George Washington Hotel
New Wine War Ration Strains French Bottles
Le Matin reports French wine remains high quality but scarce bottles and barrels limit sales. War and German occupation cut bottle production from 135 plants to under 100, with coal shortages cited as a major bottleneck. Germans requisition French coal, restricting bottling while buyers must return empties.
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France
Paris
le Matin
Victory With Vitamins in War Time
Dr Herbert A Spencer senior surgeon with the United States Public Health Service argues vitamins influence wartime victory. He notes German civilians show vitamin deficiency due to scarce milk butter eggs and meat while American soldiers are well fed. The idea that nutrition supports defense echoes Napoleon on the army moving on its stomach.
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Germany
Herbert A. Spencer
United States Public Health Service
Draft Revisions Considered for Peacetime Draft Age Change
The piece discusses wartime like peacetime draft training and shows no trouble securing enough manpower for a large conscripted force. It notes the draft’s basis can be revised without harming its purpose prompting debate over aging limits.
Draft procedure revision urged to ease economic strains
General Hershey, national director of selective service, says exemptions for men over 30 should be considered. He notes older men are past their physical peak and struggle to learn new skills, a factor shaping the shift away from universal draft enthusiasm.
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Hershey
Selective Service
Out law strikes threaten U S defense effort in crisis
Reprinted editorial urges quick action against unjustified strikes that slow defense production. It criticizes Madam Perkins and the Mediation Board for delays, warns of inflationary risks from wage hikes, and questions administration resolve as war needs escalate. It highlights John L Lewis threats of wider mine shutdowns and the risk to England and U S defenses.
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Richmond Times-Dispatch
England
Mediation
Madam Perkins
John L. Lewis
Appalachian
Lewis
Leon Henderson
Defense
FCC clashes with radio firms over new order
The FCC pushes a sweeping reorganization forcing NBC to surrender one national network and loosening local station program control. Louisville publisher Mark Ethridge, a Roosevelt ally, resigns from a regulator panel and brands the move politically charged, urging further study before judgment.
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Federal Communications Commission
National Broadcasting Company
FCC
Mark Ethridge
Louisville
Ethridge
Courier Journal
Louisville Times
New Deal
White House
Roosevelt
National Association of Broadcasters
St. Louis
Invasion Plans Hinted for Moon Arrival by German Rocket
German scientists reportedly hope to reach the moon within years using a huge rocket. The plan includes a landing party entering the lunar region disguised as tourists and seizing possessions in the name of the Reich.
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Punch
London
Germans deepen their breakthrough beyond Antwerp in 194?
Germans drive deeper into the French lines and push past Antwerp while British withdraw some troops. Local notes report school official R. E. Ayler reelected president of the County Teacher, and several area firms suffer fire damage totaling $21,000 including Green Chemical and Shenandoah Valley Vinegar Co. Handley wins CVAL track events with Halford Baker and entin Flickinger setting records.
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Antwerp
R. E. Ayler
Stephens City
Green Chemical
Halford Baker
Entin Flickinger
Handley
CVAL
Turner Ashby
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Arabelle Clark
Zachary Taylor
Fairmont Avenue
Trader Horn Shown To Large Local Crowds
The film Trader Horn is drawing tremendous crowds here, hailed as a decade’s achievement amid strong audience turnout and ongoing screenings.
City council overspends amid heavy rainfall damage
Forty years ago report notes council spending more than usual as heavy rain floods North River near Capon Bridge causing damage to farms and camps along its banks. Front Royal suffers inundation as Happy Creek overflows. N M Cartmell named a second lieutenant in the United States Army.
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North River
Capon Bridge
Front Royal
Happy Creek
N. M. Cartmell
United States Army
Answers To Questions By Frederic J. Haskin
A reader can get the answer to any question of fact by writing The Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau Frederic J. Haskin director Washington D C Please enclose three cents for reply The exchange covers food guidelines daily government employee counts in Washington D C fuel allowances for soldiers and sailors petroleum exports to Japan postal stamp imagery plant care and word usage questions with concise factual answers and sources
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Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau
Frederic J. Haskin
Washington, D. C
Japan
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Postal Savings-National Defense
Minute Man of Concord
Daniel Chester French
Appreciation Messages Honor Gore School Leader
The Voice of the People thanks Prof. Alan DeHaven for his untiring efforts at Gore School Gore Virginia May 17 1941. A reader praises The Star cooking class with Miss Ferguson for instruction recreation and helpful tips amid national defense efforts and looks forward to the 1942 class.
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the Star
Alan DeHaven
Gore
Gore Gore
Miss Ferguson
Lillie I. Adams
National .Ave
Do Not Say Was Coming
Instruction to report speech changes: advise using tense proper form when quoting. Emphasizes replacing future intent with past or ongoing tense in narrative. Encourages precise grammatical rendering for clarity and accuracy.
Human Service Pioneer Works in Suffern NY
Anthony A. Cucolo of Suffern founded the Rockland Volunteer Aid Society to provide immediate aid with no red tape, addressing needs like school attire and health of children. The effort, highlighted by Congressman Merritt, aims to help local families quietly, with investigation afterward to guard against fraud. Cucolo, born in Naples in 1897, emigrated in 1913 at sixteen.
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Wendell Willkie
Haycock
Anthony A. Cucolo
Suffern
Rockland County
New York
Mr. Willkie
Sumner
Cucolo
Rockland Volunteer Aid Society, Inc
New York City
Congressional Record
Matthew J. Merritt
Builder Cresting Community Self Help Plan In Hudson Valley
Edwin C Hill profiles Coccolo a project founder who built the Storm King bypass and started a cooperative self help system in 1928. He explains his aim to create neighborly partnerships where people work for each other to improve towns and lives, aided by inquiries from across the country.
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Rand
Storm King
Hudson Valley
West Point
Cocolo
Forgotten Man Suffering In Silence In Suffern Aid Society
Dean Sumner describes the forgotten man as a hard working, tax paying citizen who suffers amid dental medical and clothing costs. Suffern’s society provides aid with no admin costs through member dues and in kind services from cobblers dentists doctors and coal dealers aiding families without red tape.
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Dean Sumner
Quiz questions test readers on baseball polemic and history
On page 2 answers cover several topics. Questions ask which team changed to Bees then Braves who said a kingly ale line who first polarly flew Byrd Wilkins Amundsen who is linked to Wimbledon rugby tennis or soccer greenbacks name origin which constellation resembles a letter and which herb cats crave which horse won the 1941 Kentucky Derby and whether all U S states require child vaccination by law
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Bees
Braves
Admiral Byrd
Sir Hubert Wilkins
Ronald Amundsen
Wimbledon
England
Greenbacks
Orion
Gemini
Casseopeia
United States
Frequency of Multiple Births in a Medical Column
Dr. Clendening discusses Hellin's Law on multiple births with data from U S and California cities. He cites twin to single birth ratios, triplets and quadruplets figures, and notes quintuplet occurrences since 1776, alongside brief Q and A and editor notes on pamphlets by Dr. Clendenning for readers.
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H. H. Newman
University of Chicago
Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc
Newman
Psa
Hellin
United States
Maysfield
Durham
N. C
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