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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1932
Page
4
Classified masthead fragment lists pricing and Associated Press note. Mentions subscription rates and national ad reps Frost Landis and Kohn with offices in New York Atlanta Chicago and Detroit.
A religious exhortation emphasizes divine power granted to believers to overcome danger and evil. The passage echoes Luke 10 19 promising authority over serpents and scorpions and protection from harm.
Charlottesville Progress reports the death of John Sharp Williams at his Mississippi plantation. A long career in Congress and the Senate highlighted by strong party advocacy and courteous opposition, Williams backed Wilsonian ideals, opposed Versailles, and urged unity. He studied at Virginia and Heidelberg before law work at Virginia. He is remembered as a brilliant, principled public servant who denounced sectionalism.
A veteran teacher, after 37 years in one district, notes healthier homes, supervised recreation, and science rooms in schools. She says today’s children develop lifelong interests and are more reliable, able to be left alone with greater trust.
The text praises a new freedom in classroom conduct emphasizing teacher pupil trust and pupil initiative. It calls for schools to be places of varied interests and pleasant activities where pupils act as originators and directors rather than mere followers. It hopes education will reshape civilization for the better.
Will Rogers notes voters have little else to do but vote in 1932 and are deeply engaged by economic issues. The observer sees growing popular interest and an unprecedented turnout on election day as politicians stay awake pondering how it will unfold.
The long time president of Lord and Thomas Advertising Agency in Chicago died at Spring Lake Michigan. Hopkins helped shape modern advertising and claimed to have written over 100 million dollars in ad copy. He praised daily newspapers as an effective media and finished his autobiography My Life in Advertising.
Precipitation over the last 24 hours ends at 8 a.m. and September to date totals are given. Year to date rainfall stands at 25.46 inches with 1.15 inches since September. Monthly normals are listed under the Winchester Research Laboratory record for 19 years.
A compact timeline highlights key events from 1909 to 1913 including the income tax amendment proposal, Payne-Aldrich tariff enactment, Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition, Peary reaching the North Pole, women’s equal suffrage in Washington, postal savings banks, interstate telecom regulation, Glacier National Park creation, Canadian reciprocity rejection, Roosevelts dam completion, Amundsen’s South Pole, Titanic sinking, parcel post rollout, labor department formation, great floods, and the 16th and 17th amendments ratified.
Katharine Faring, heiress to the missing Czarina rubies, pursues recovery as Paul Federoff is murdered and Severn kidnapped at Monksilver. Jim Wynter links Dr. Martell to Beggar's Court, discovers a hidden stair and a shadowed figure, and risks exposure while probing Martell’s loyalties.
Virginia Governor Pollard said he has no plan to call a special General Assembly session to raise revenue for unemployment relief. He argued against dole payments, supports federal relief funds for road projects, and noted Virginia bears a high tax burden from new federal taxes totaling about 100 million dollars. Stauffer’s table shows sources of the federal tax increase, including incomes, gasoline, oil, electric energy, tires, autos, and other items.
West authorities note swifts are the fastest birds worldwide. Observations from airplanes show they travel about 70 miles per hour, with estimates up to 100 mph when pushed. The text also mentions Harlem in New York City being settled about 1634 by Haarlem Holland settlers and named by Gov Peter Stuyvesant in 1636.
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