Winchester Evening Star Advertising and Rates Notice
Public notice page lists advertising rates 2 cents per word minimum 25 cents hourly deadlines 9 PM for display ads and national representatives with offices in New York Richmond Chicago Pittsburgh Philadelphia Rochester Atlanta and San Francisco. Local news credited to The Associated Press and other dispatches © The Evening Star Publishing Co Winchester Va.
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DeLisser-Boyd, Inc
New York
Richmond
Chicago
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Rochester
Atlanta
San Francisco
Associated Press
Subscription Rates List In Advance Details
The notice lists subscription rates by mail or carrier with yearly and six month options. It shows one year in advance four dollars and fifty cents, six months in advance two dollars and twenty five cents, and other period rates.
Bad Company Warning From Job Verse Quoted
A 1941 item cites scripture to warn against bad company and urges seeking association with the best. It quotes Job 34 8 and cautions workers away from ini quity and wicked men.
President Roosevelts Admission Acknowledges Error on Thanksgiving Change
An item notes President Roosevelt for the first time in eight years admitting he is not infallible. He called the moving up of Thanksgiving Day a mistake and credited the pledge to experiment and confess error from 1933. The record suggests he has kept that promise in this incident.
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U. S
Roosevelt
Ted
Herman Hable
Winchester Round Club
George Kurtz
Ee Airline
Coats and Gentlemen Debate From UVA Student Publication
A UVA student publication criticizes the notion that coats symbolize gentility in hot weather. The piece argues that true gentility is not tied to attire and reveals the author has discarded coats for the summer.
Barkley Says Convoys Unnecessary for Britain Aid
Senator Barkley of Kentucky argued that lease-lead equipment to Great Britain suffices and warned that convoying would mean war. He spoke after meeting with President Roosevelt, echoing Admiral Land on low convoy losses and noting U.S. unpreparedness economically militarily and in public opinion.
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United States
Great Britain
Senator Barkley
Kentucky
Roosevelt
Emory S. Land
Maritime Commission
Admiral Land
United Kingdom
Darden Calls for No Clemency for Drunken Driving
Reprinted editorial notes Colgate W. Darden Jr. would deny clemency to any drunken driver. It cites Virginia law: one year driving permit suspension, up to $1000 fine and six months in jail for first offenses, with second offenders jailed. It argues equality before the law and no executive mercy.
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Richmond Times-Dispatch
Colgate W. Darden, JR
White Stone
General Assembly
Darden
Japan Newsrooms Restricted From Full Freedom
The Shanghai Evening Post notes that Japan's Nichi Nichi and other Tokyo papers remain tethered by government pressure. It argues the press goose-steps to official policy, hindering independent analysis and mutual understanding with foreign nations.
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Shanghai Evening Post
Mercury
Tokyo
Nichi Nichi
Japan
Baltimore Sun
New York World
Manchester Guardian
Frankfurter Zeitung
Corriere Della Sera
Milan
Eis
Perkins criticized for handling of labor crisis in coal strike
In a Watertown New Jersey Times piece Senator Byrd of Virginia accuses Secretary of Labor Perkins of failing to act promptly on the coal strike, delaying mediation and provoking escalation between miners and operators. The author urges the president to intervene or replace Perkins to end the strike and protect defense industries.
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Watertown
N. J
Times
Perkins
Senator Byrd
Virginia
Miss Perkins
National Mediation Board
Byrd
John L. Lewis
Secretary of Labor
Roosevelt
Washington
Miss Perkin
Hitler
United States
Handiguals 19th annual senior book dedicates Virginia Boyd Barr
The 19th annual Handalian senior class book is dedicated to Virginia Boyd Barr the girls physical education teacher. Family members host a party for Mrs. D F Butsler of South Cameron Street on her 80th birthday.
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Paris
Handi
Virginia Boyd Barr
D. F. Butsler
South Cameron Street
Mass air power demo over Chicago marks a decade
Ten years ago the largest air power demonstration in the nation saw 659 Army and Marine planes perform over Chicago. The note appears in Reliance of the marriage last October.
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Chicago
Answers to Questions by Frederic J. Haskin
A digest from the Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau answers common queries. It covers Germany's wartime spending, Churchill’s CH initials, octopus eyes, US per capita money circulation in 1941, the fluid drive inventor, lines from Pope and L'Allegro, Pan American Union origins, ice weight comparisons, Vitamin A benefits, and Johnny cake origin.
Quiz on 7 Questions Page 2 Answers
Test asks about US lemon production states am bergris from whales Earhart solo flight Greeley journalist Ghen glue equals ring finger Wage hour laws overtime three largest US Virgin Islands Monroe Doctrine aide League of Nations US membership true or false
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United States
Florida
Texas
California
Amelia Earhart
Atlantic
Horace Greeley
Virgin Islands
Monroe
League of Nations
Do not say this about gloves
The note instructs to avoid phrases like they do not sell these gloves and to prefer the wording this kind or these kinds in related statements. It emphasizes concise guidance for describing glove types without negative phrasing.
Reading Character From Facial Features
An advertisement from the Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau offers a booklet on Fortune Telling including palmistry tea leaf fortunes dreams and playing card fortunes. Readers are invited to send ten cents and a coupon with name address and location to receive the publication in Washington DC.
Wheat loans and quotas dominate Kansas antiwar speeches
In Kansas, Alf Landon and Secretary Wickard urged support for marketing quotas and wartime aid to Britain. Wickard linked wheat parity to loan approval and warned that Nazi aims require armed intervention. The region resists foreign involvement but faces pressure from federal policy.
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Arthur Krock
New York Times
Washington
Kansas
Pilgrim
Plains States
Northwest
Alf M. Landon
Topeka
Mr. Wickard
Claude Wickard
Uni
Knox Y
Stimson
Landon
Wickard
Roosevelt
Latin America
Congress
Use of Autos Adds New Fracture Types and Dangers
A medical column discusses bumper fractures from autos, detailing severe forearm breaks, nerve and vessel injuries, and high complication rates. It cites 82 cases with an average age 27, notes left arm injuries most common, and urges early treatment and prevention.
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Howard B. Shorbe
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
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