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Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Oct 14, 1937

Page

4

Winchester Evening Star Subscription Rates

The Winchester Evening Star lists subscription prices for mail and carrier delivery. Rates include one year four fifty by mail and three dollars by mail for a year in advance, with shorter terms available.

Advertising Rates and Classifieds Policy Summary

Classifieds charge two cents per word with a minimum twenty five cent fee and memorials at ten cents per counted line. Display ads with borders due by 10 A M on publication day, otherwise transient rates apply at forty five cents per inch. Contract rates available. national reps listed. Associated Press rights noted.

Tenney, Woodward and Company, Inc New York Detroit Kansas City San Francisco Chicago Boston Atlanta Los Angeles Associated Press

Rule of Right Living Quoted Verse Micah 6 8

A short religious reflection cites Micah 6 8 on doing justly loving mercy and walking humbly with God. The text emphasizes ethical conduct and faithfulness as essential duties for believers.

Supreme Court Faces Core Constitutional Questions

Richmond News Leader analyzes anticipated Supreme Court rulings this term on freedom of contract and checks and balances in the U S Constitution. The piece argues against personal antagonism between the court and the President and emphasizes the court’s duty to decide laws against the Constitution, not political agendas.

Richmond News-Leader Supreme Court Justice Black United States Congress

Have and have not nations shape wartime imports

The piece argues that many nations differentiate between items they will have and those they will go without. It highlights Japan prioritizing war materiel imports over consumer goods and notes similar restraint in Germany, suggesting have not countries mobilize purchasing power for war while others seek to keep essential comforts.

Baltimore Sun Japan China Germany

There He Stands Sugar in Cornbread Sparks Editorial

Baltimore Evening News reports in Montgomery Asia that C Hall editor of the Advertiser confronted a recipe printed with three teaspoonfuls of granulated sugar. Hall, famed for anti sugar stance, demanded staff explain the sugar inclusion and ran an editorial Public Apology defending cornbread must not contain sugar.

Baltimore Evening News Montgomery Asia Rover C. Hall The Advertiser Hall Dred Poe

The Advertiser Stands Firm Amid Turbulent Times

A terse passage praises steadfast leadership in a changing world, lauding the speaker’s resolve to make a good fight on a solid foundation of basic values and unadorned corn bread, while nations tremble and empires waver.

Ten Horsemen of Death Highlight Poverty's Toll

Miss Josephine Roche outlines the ten leading killers and notes death rates rise with lower income. She cites tuberculosis and other diseases as disproportionately affecting the poor, urging anti poverty and public health measures to protect ill housed and underpaid workers.

New York World-Telegram Josephine Roche

Virginians urged to fund fireproof State Library building

The Petersburg Progress-Index laments the State Library Board insures volumes for 30000 though valued at 350000 and stores thousands of manuscripts in a non fireproof annex. It calls for adequate insurance and a new fireproof building to protect irreplaceable holdings and prevent further risk.

Petersburg State Library Board Virginia

Housing Need Calls For 6 Million Low Cost Homes

The Norfolk Ledger Dispatch cites the American Public Health Association estimating a need for at least six million new low cost housing units in the United States. The appeal links housing shortages to health and outlook, beyond economic demand and Brookings Institution estimates, implying many billions must be spent to alleviate the shortage.

Norfolk Ledger Dispatch American Public Health Association United States Brookings Institution

News Of Other Years A Look Back At Local Happenings

Rival political groups at exclusive and dignified Smith College mix it up during a Republican rally. Kiwanis Club luncheon speaker Coach Norman Ochs thanks members for the annual banquet.

Smith College Norman Ochs Kiwanis Club Martinsburg Bette Davis Warner Bros London Winifred C. Browne James P. Reardon, Jr

Gritty S. W. A. Gridders Defeat Eastern High 20 6

Twenty five years ago the S. W. A. football team defeated Eastern High School of Washington by 20 to 6 with W. Bunting serving as captain. The report lists local civic notes on a canning plant prospect and a railroad crossing safety push.

Eastern High School Washington W. Bunting Business Men's Association Wisconsin Wilson Col. Roosevelt Taft Cumberland Valley Railroad A. C. Slonaker

Ware and Allamong Weds at Braddock Street Church

Forty years ago John Edward Ware and Ada May Allamong marry in the Braddock Street Methodist Church parsonage. Winchester and Frederick county residents totaling 427 ride the train to Hagerstown for the annual fair. Circuit court clerk Cartmell opens bids for painting the courthouse. John Kerr School girls in the top grade plan to edit a small school paper.

John Edward Ware Ada May Allamong Braddock Street Winchester Frederick County Hagerstown Cartmell Court House John Kerr School

Historic October 14 1774 Rights Declaration Passed

A historic event on October 14 1774 marks the passage of the American Declaration of Rights. The document signals early colonial efforts toward framing fundamental protections and liberties.

Answers to Questions by Frederic J. Haskin

A compilation of brief Q and A covering figures in Congress poets and writers daily life. Notable items include caisson disease in Roebling, Zeppelin factory date, Leopold Stokowski marriage, and counts of cities over 100000.

Frederic J. Haskin

San Franciscans Offer Million Dollar Cash Gimmick

A San Francisco group at the 1938 Golden Gate Exposition proposes a stunt to display a million dollars and sell a tenth of a dollar admission to see and claim the million, hoping many will pay to boast they saw the sum.

San Francisco

Housing Incomes Tie To Depression Era Housing Problem

The data from the National Health Inventory shows in 1935 eight American cities had 45 percent of families earning under $1,000 and 82 percent under $2,000. It argues private enterprise and low cost housing plans struggle without higher incomes, noting 6,000,000 poorly housed families threaten public health and that 4,575,012 Americans reported net incomes of 14,909,8 on tax returns.

Congress Treasury

Dietrich sparks German sympathy row over American citizenship

An anti Nazi weekly accused Marlene Dietrich of treachery after she naturalized as an American. The piece blames her expatriation on her Hollywood ties with Jewish filmmakers, highlighting German and American tensions during a period of trade talks and domestic policy debates.

Marlene Dietrich Ded Stuermer Julius Streicher Berlin Germany

Mari of Paris Opens Palace Showroom in Rue de Lubeck

Mari Barrett hosts the opening of her vast Paris estate with a press of staff and a new fashion atelier. Manager M. Barlac confirms latest mannequin hires as Mari prepares a three day debut world showing amid dinners, guest lists, and preparations for Ellin Verlaine and Tony Castle's attendance.

Larry Paris Maribarat Mari Mary Barrett Brooklyn New York Rue de Lubeck Madame Ellin Verlaine M. Sutherland Madame Todd England Barlac Ellen Biarritz America

The Ducal Visit

The Duke of Windsor and his bride visit America seeking respite from snubbery and a reoriented life. The piece notes American hospitality, reduced royal scrutiny, and less rigid royal expectations compared with Europe. It suggests he seeks to understand democracy’s currents away from royal tradition and press glare.

Duke of Windsor America Wallis Simpson England Europe

Fastest Thing on Earth Believed to Race at Sound Barrier

American Museum of Natural History researchers claim a fuzzy botfly Cephenomyia is the speediest life form, fleeing at about 1200 feet per second or over 700 miles an hour. The insect’s sake of speed remains unclear as its host deer species cannot outrun threats.

American Museum of Natural History Earth

Harnessing Speed of Fuzzy Botfly for Hauling Aided Flight

A speculative note suggests leveraging the remarkable speed of the fuzzy botfly. The writer questions whether a flock of these insects could be harnessed collectively to pull or haul objects, envisioning a novel use of their velocity.

Wedding Gifts St Paul Man Faces Speeding Fine

A Minneapolis man described as H. L. Jones was marr ied one day then fired from his job and ticketed for speeding in municipal court. The court reduced his speeding fine to five dollars amid sympathetic remarks.

St. Paul H. L. Jones Minneapolis

Honey Path 8. C Bert Martin Hair Turns Dark Again

Bert Martin had dark brown hair that turned white with age. Physicians advised tooth extraction and he followed the instruction. After the treatment his hair began darkening once more.

Honey Path 8. C Bert Martin Himm

Beacon Bluffton Woman Injures Arm Falling From Bell

Anxious to start a meal Mrs Rufus Glen denning rang a dinner bell 60 vigorously and broke her arm when the bell wire parted and she fell backwards striking a bucket.

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