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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1934
Page
4
The notice lists subscription prices by mail including one year 3.50 in advance and weekly 10 cents, plus advertising rates at 2 cents per word and a 25 cent minimum. Memorials priced at 2.50 for four stanzas and cards of thanks 75 cents. Display ads must reach the office by 10 A.M. on publication day. National reps Divine Tenney Corp in major cities.
A fragment echoes Psalm 42 6 urging remembrance of God amid a cast down soul. The text frames spiritual comfort and faith as remedy.
The Darrow committee report on NRA codes condemns monopolistic practices and harms to small business, urging socialism as a remedy. General Johnson rebuts, framing the choice as fascism versus communism and arguing the NRA remains a middle course in a crisis. The piece notes the public seeks practical paths to economic recovery.
The seadrome system has withstood the most laborious engineering tests in gradual development going back about 18 years. Caleta is described as a pig tail worn by a bullfighter. The next line after the quoted verse is "Who never to himself hath said," from The Lay of the Last Minstrel by Sir Walter Scott.
The speaker argues for personal liberty in business and personal affairs, claiming citizens should act freely without prior permission as emergency powers are temporary. He urges the National Recovery Administration focus on major industries and fair, impartial code administration, citing the Darrow report.
A Los Angeles hospital built with no screens above the sixth floor faces a new cost of $29,500 to screen 1,850 upper-story windows as flies are seen entering through sixteenth-floor openings. The piece questions fly behavior and urges a floor by floor anti fly campaign.
The piece argues true smartness means delivering real results not flashy talk. It warns persuasive but unproductive leaders mislead the public and fail to provide tangible goods or political outcomes.
The text asks how many Immortals sit in the French Academy and who Zoroaster is, then names author James Frederick Marryat as the writer of Jacob Faithful Masterman Ready and Midshipman Easy, followed by a miscellaneous, numerically numbered quiz style passage.
Present and past rainfall figures show 24 hour total ending 8 a.m. at 0.30 inches. May to date 1.96 inches year to date 9.11 inches. Twenty one year average total 34.71 inches. Monthly averages list January 2.41, February 1.97, March 2.82, April 3.21, May 3.94, June 3.65, July 3.41, August 3.29, September 2.34, October 3.00, November 2.33, December 2.34.
Delbert Light of the city, keeping a dog in northern county, was fined by Magistrate A J Tavenner for no dog tag. The court imposed the usual 9.25 dollar fine plus the cost of a tag.
A trustee sale in Gore Frederick County Va enumerates the sale of an unimproved lot on the North side of the Northwestern Turnpike with terms of payment including one third cash and two annual installments. In Winchester a divorce suit Violet Bevans vs Clifford Bevans proceeds by desertion after notice by publication in The Evening Star and postings at the courthouse with service by mail.
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