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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1935
Page
4
The Winchester Evening Star issue dated Monday October 7 1935 lists publication details rates and ad policies. It notes subscription and delivery prices for mail and carrier options and outlines classified memorials display advertising and national reps. The page includes a biblical verse Ezekiel 34 12 and identifies editor H F Byrd Jr.
The League of Nations is criticized for weakness as Mussolini attacks Ethiopia. Despite July Geneva conferences, secret and open sessions, the body shows inaction as five days pass without decisive steps. A united, swift front is urged to avert a wider world crisis.
Charlottesville residents see an acute apple harvest labor shortage while 400 people work on WPA relief projects in Albemarle county. Some farmers report 25 to 30 percent fewer harvesters and unemployment applicants rise as relief jobs pay less and offer job security, raising questions about the relief system's effect on labor incentives.
The author questions relief policy and argues for intelligent management. They suggest unemployed registered for work should seek private sector jobs such as apple picking, noting transportation gaps and criticizing reliance on government aid as a permanent function.
A newspaper column mocks WPA allotments across cities from Cleveland to New York noting funds for rat extermination golf course sprinklers candlewick beds and a circus in a park. It argues for frivolous uses of federal money while suggesting tongue in cheek ideas for Christmas shopping and free road services.
Staunton News Leader reports from an official New York health statement noting sharp declines in polio mortality and stronger medical understanding. Virginia data is referenced though official local statistics are not yet released.
The report notes polio as a summer illness with June cases, a peak around August 30, and a fall in September. About eleven percent of reported polio cases were later found not to be polio. Fatality fell from 27 percent in 1916 to under four percent this year. paralysis rates and serum results remain uncertain and pending.
A collage of witticisms and quips on aging, marriage, work, and manners. Notes include self made men, social tact, dieting tomorrow, eggs in hard water, destiny, life’s origins, and clever wordplay about brains, adverbs, and greatness.
One year ago the Detroit Tigers defeated the St. Louis Cardinals 3-2. A panel of 150 people was drawn to select a jury for the Bruno Hauptmann trial. Frederick County farmers supported ongoing corn hog curtailment programs. A plan to kidnap Betty Bloch in Wheeling was thwarted. Religious services drew large crowds with Rev. E. T. Clark preaching.
Five years after Hoover praises active citizenship as peace’s best guard, the Virginia agriculture department backs ongoing experiments here. The Star carriers glow with a 25 24 win over the junior, flagged as a key local note.
Ten years ago the German press criticizes the address by President Coolidge at the national legionnaires convention. Winchester physicians prepare to attend the Virginia Medical Association meeting in Richmond. Walter Johnson faces the Pittsburgh Pirates in a World Series game. The Virginia League of Municipalities backs a planning law. Joe Harris homers in Washington versus Pittsburgh yesterday.
Twenty five years ago George N. Herbert, agent for Adams Express, adapts to the agency’s new Faulkner building office. Edward Lupton displays a radish weighing 12 pounds.
Central Press reports on Republican strategists in Washington weighing the 1936 platform and the party’s path to defeating Roosevelt. Debates include whether to denounce the New Deal or offer a constructive program, and how to raise funds amid internal divisions. The New York dispatch questions neutrality and propaganda’s impact on public opinion during possible war mobilization.
George W. Hardy named superintendent of building and grounds at Handley high school. John Massie resigns as special policeman to devote time to farming.
Dr. Logan Clendening discusses why cooking improves flavor and digestion, noting starch gelatinization by moist heat, protein coagulation, and easier digestion of boiled milk and cooked eggs. He warns cooking destroys some vitamins and promotes nudist colony anecdotes for context. He advertises six pamphlets available for ten cents each with self‑addressed envelopes.
Carol Kennedy, newly wealthy, moves from Connecticut to New York seeking freedom and romance. At Isobel Bronson’s, she buys couture with a $750 splurge and encounters Gary Crandall, a charming homme fatale, while her cousin Kathy’s engagement to Dr. Owen Craig adds tension. Isobel warns that Gary’s past has left broken hearts, and Carol ponders true attraction as the story continues.
A trivia card lists three Q and As: Samuel Johnson's remark on arithmetic, Jupiter turning into a heifer to elude Juno, and a question about the birthday of poet James Whitcomb Riley (1853 1916) with the supplied answer.
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