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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1935
Page
4
Classified advertising costs 2 cents per word with a 25 cent minimum. Memorials priced at 1.50 for four stanzas of four lines. Cards of Thanks 75 cents. Display ads with border due by 10 A M on publication day. Transient rate 42 cents per inch. National reps Devine Tenney Corp listed.
The Associated Press states exclusive rights to use for republication all AP credited news dispatches and locally published news in this paper. This notice reserves rights for reprinting in other outlets and reinforces the paper’s ownership of the content.
A biblical verse from Psalm 68 20 is quoted praising God as a savior and source of escape from death. The text frames divine deliverance as a central belief and presents Jehovah as the Lord who provides salvation.
Richmond News Leader urges county boards of supervisors to purge land books of tax delinquent and clouded titles. C. H. Morrissett argues accurate records would return thousands of acres to private care, enabling reforestation and public use while conserving resources for settlers and avoiding future waste.
Professor Jacob Meyer argues war is population robbing each other and Christians robbing Christians as they fight. Newton Baker urges peacetime strategy not walls or grabs but fair play and built peace, stressing youth leadership and understanding others.
Frank Lester, a Marshfield Wisconsin print shop owner, endures seasonal disruption as a pair of robins nests above his transom. Each spring customers must use the side door to avoid disturbing the birds, a ritual repeated for four years.
A quiz style item lists questions and answers about a dromedary, Lady Godiva, and Lazarus. The piece presents trivia on animals, medieval taxation, and biblical resurrection in a schoolhouse context.
Observations on how people respect bird habitats and the side door rule. The piece notes varying kindness to birds and people and contrasts present behavior with that of previous generations.
Organized labor calls for a general strike amid labor tensions. N. B. Hawthorne dies at his home. A Boy Scouts court of honor is held as Clarke County schools plan an annual pageant. Mrs. Gertie Perrry dies from a heart attack in her home.
Two American nurses perish when their vehicle crashes near Ronta Italy. The article notes fatalities in other local incidents including Roy Legge killed by a forge blast near Culpeper and R F Baldwin Sr dying after illness. Dynamite rocks a house near White Hall.
Funeral services were conducted for Mrs Annie Hack with a brief service reflecting on her life. Local residents attended to pay their respects as officials prepared the obituary details for publication.
The gas company announces a declared dividend as the Odd Fellows plan a ceremony in Middletown. Henry C. Stuart and his wife clash with customs inspectors while a Fort Loudoun commencement program is inaugurated. An auto driver evades local speed traps using stop watches.
Fea Hable's Palace presenting The Wedding ht with Gary Cooper Anna Sten closing tonight. Ralph Bellamy Helen Vinson Siegfried Rum ann headline cast. Fox news reel and Second Hand Hus and supplementary. Ann Sothern appears Thursday and Friday in Eight Bells with a Fox News Reel.
Warner Bros presents G Men at the Capitol Theatre with James Cagney as the federal agent leading an all star cast. The thrilling drama is based on sensational newspaper headlines and promises a dramatic, action packed screening. Star of Midnight features William Powell and Ginger Rogers in a separate new release. Powell plays a brilliant attorney while Rogers plays a society beauty skilled at winning her man.
Present and past rainfall figures show no precipitation in the last 24 hours ending 8 a.m. May totals reach 2.56 inches for the month and 13.85 inches year to date. The 22 year average is 34.61 inches. Monthly averages range from 1.94 to 3.88 inches with May the highest at 3.88 inches.
Val helps Miss Lia Garenne, niece of Stephen Garenne, find a new life in Shanghai. She reveals a longing to escape old ties and indulge in fashion, while he weighs the risks of growing affection and plans to arrange support from Sue and Laure Morross. He suspects Lia's aunt and misused funds loom as potential complications.
Lieutenant Valentine Preston, stationed in China, meets Lia Garenne in Shanghai after a chance encounter in a ricksha. They share cocktails and dinner, talk of loneliness, and embark on a moonlit drive, while Val contemplates Janice and Kent Townley aboard the same liner.
Lia, an English descended ward of Aunt Julia Lee Garenne, reveals her mother died in childbirth and she has lived at the Garenne place in Ashley. Her father, an anthropologist, is abroad in the Gobi desert, while Lia is in Shanghai with relatives awaiting spring return.
Karloff the Monster stars in The Bride of Frankenstein at the Palace Theatre. The reanimated menace escapes a burning mill to terrorize the countryside as Henry Frankenstein and Dr Pretorius pursue new life forms in this Universal sequel.
Funeral services were held at Aldie in Loudoun county for Frances di Zerega a member of a prominent local family. She died Monday morning at her home from a heart attack and her body was sent to New York for interment. Surviving are her brother Augustus and sister Miss Emily A di Zerega both of Aldie and aunt to William L diZerega of this city.
Clara Mohler of Akron Ohio won the national grade school spelling title after her opponent Paul Mc Cusker of Buffalo New York misspelled intern ing by inserting two Ns in the final.
Juliette Henry Jones details Old Chapel Cemetery in Frederick County, noting veterans from every war, early founders like Col. Nathaniel Burwell, and the 1856 act uniting two graveyards. The piece links the site to Cunningham Chapel, Lord Fairfax era, and Bishop Meade’s 1861 remarks on war and self defense.
Mr. T. F. Jackimier departed yesterday morning for New York City to be with his sister, who is seriously ill.
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