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Tenney- Woodward and Conklin, Inc
New York
Detroit
Kansas City
San Francisco
Chicago
Boston
Atlanta
Los Angeles
Associated Press
Focal News
Tim Ed Vanes
Saturday October 21 1939 date phrase in a clipping
The readable fragment cites a church or religious text with a Bible quotation from First Chronicles and the date Saturday October 21 1939, indicating a religious observance or program page note without additional context or events.
Film cameras deployed to trap drunk drivers in California
California police use 16mm motion picture cameras mounted in patrol cars to film suspected drunk and reckless drivers. Fresno reports 86 of 100 suspects pled guilty after filming. costs are about seven dollars per suspect versus hundreds for traditional prosecutions. Sacramento and state police expand the program to collect admissible evidence of violations.
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California
International Association of Chiefs of Police
Fresno
Sacramento
Ameras
California State Highway Police
Sacramento Police Department
California Highway Patrol
Collapse of Ideologies and the Fall of Hitler and Stalin
The piece argues that Hitler and Stalin exposed the hollowness of their professed doctrines by personal ambition. It notes their pacts and murders as power grabs, predicting their downfall as followers see the fraud of their ideologies. The essay reframes Bolshevik and Nazi leaders as opportunists doomed by their own overreach.
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Hitler
Stalin
Lee
Communist Movement
Evey
Red Party
Burges
Russia
Germany
Mhen
Lucifer
Behind Roosevelt Parting With Elmer Andrews
The Richmond Times Dispatch editorial questions the reasons for Elmer Andrews leaving the wage and hour post. It notes strained notes with the President, mentions theories from General Johnson and Time magazine, and cites Andrews moving to a less prominent role with the RFC. The piece seeks the true rationale behind the personnel change.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Lucretia Borgia
Maddam Perkins
Andrews
Washington
New York State
RFC
They Can't Hate Anybody at Communist Rally
A Camden crowd in Union Square listened as a speaker named Chamberlain Dala dier and Hitler drew no reactions. When the exiled Leon Trotsky was mentioned the audience booed loudly, suggesting caution about future alignments and echoing street rhetoric.
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New York
Union Square
Chamberlain
Daladier
Hitler
Leon Trotsky
Stalin
Trotsky
Rasputin
Apples to the Fore in National Apple Sale Plan
Clifton Forge Daily Review notes a national apple sale planned in three periods October 26 to November 4 December 7 to 16 and February 1 to 10. The drive involves National Apple Institute, growers and mass distributors to push high quality fruit and spread variety information.
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Clifton Forge Daily Review
National Apple Institute
Europe
Middle town FFA teams win at Stephens City fair
The Future Farmers of America teams from Middle town High School captured first place in judging contests during the F. F. A. fair at Stephens City. P. H. Gold, Frederick County Fruit Growers Association chair, solicits funds to aid the government in the Japanese Beetle fight. Virginia Boyd hosts a dinner for Miss Anne Brooke Kern and H. K. Benham whose engagement was announced last week.
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Middletown High School
Stephens City
P. H. Gold
Frederick County Fruit Growers Association
Virginia Boyd
Anne Brooke Kern
H. K. Benham
Five Years Ago A Crash Ends In Leg Broken News
Five years ago Joe Jones sustained a broken leg and other injuries in a collision near Cooks garage on Valley Pike. Bruno Hauptman’s murder trial for the Lindbergh baby case will begin in New Jersey in about a month.
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Joe Jones
Aho
Cooks Garage
Valley Pike
Bruno Hauptman
Lindbergh Baby
New Jersey
Bickers Motor Co Advertises Ten Year Used Car Sale
Ten years ago a large must get rid of used car sale was advertised by Bickers Motor Co in The Star. A class of 126 candidates received top state Masonic honors at a conclave held at Memorial Temple in Alexandria. John Garland Pollard, Democratic governor candidate for Virginia, spent the day in Winchester on his campaign tour and attended Bautist Church.
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Bickers Motor Co
Star
Washington Memorial Temple
Alexandria
John Garland Pollard
Virginia
Winchester
Bautist Church
Berlin reports capture of French canal system and rapid Belgian advance
Twenty five years ago Berlin announced a French canal system capture and a swift German push in Belgium. Paris claimed the German attack repulsed as British warships shelled advancing forces in small Belgium. Harvey Franklin Carper and Miss Susan Carper, of Winchester and Carpers Valley, wed. A Tennessee firm ordered three carloads of apples after seeing a Star copy tied to the Buy and Barrel of Apples campaign.
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Berlin
Belgium
Paris
Harvey Franklin Carper
Susan Carper
Winchester
Carpers Valley
Tennessee
Freight train nearly hits sleeping man on Clearbrook tracks
Forty years ago a passenger train narrowly avoided striking a sleeping Megra on the rails at Clearbrook. Misses Gertie and Nannie Hattle host a taffy pull for friends while Tom Keating still advertises Cumberland Brewing Co with the claim of the largest glass of beer in town for a nickel.
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Megra
Clearbrook
Gertie
Nannie Hattle
Tom Keating
Cumberland Brewing Co
In Vienna 1873 Dynamo Reversed Sparks Axe Invention
Reportedly during an 1873 Vienna exhibition workers linked a Gramme machine backwards and created a working electric motor later dubbed the axe motor. The anecdote links early electrical engineering trials to a pivotal invention.
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Vienna
Gramme
Axe
Ghost river mystery sparks midnight planning on cliff
Shot Rogers and Lorena Hamilton adapt a covert spy plan to counter Escobar. Lorena persuades Shot to feign a Blanco trip then trek the Ghost river forks at night to uncover Escobar’s hidden forward scouts. The ruse aims to outmaneuver spy networks and gain crucial intel.
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George Brazee
Escobar
Shot Rogers
Mr. Brazee
Shot
Blanco
Lorena
Ghost River Forks
Rogers
Ill-mannered British attack on Col Lindbergh criticized
The Baltimore Sun reports British papers ousted harsh epithets toward Col Lindbergh over his neutrality address. While noting his good faith, the paper criticizes British editors for undermining American debate on Canada and the war, urging circumspection in their critique.
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Col. Lindbergh
Baltimore Sun
Associated Press
Lindbergh
Germany
Canada
United States
Hitler
Great Britain
Answers to Readers Questions From The Inchester Star
A reader information bureau column lists questions and concise answers on topics from university enrollment in 1938 to heat lightning and autograph values. It covers figures on crops in 1939, breast feeding, Great Britain employment, and the Crypt of Civilization preservation plans.
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Inchester
Evening Star Information Bureau
Frederic J. Haskin
Washington, D. C
O— Q
Great Britain
Gambling Boss Carrollo Sentenced to Prison
Charles V. Carrollo, Kansas City's 240 pound gambling overlord, was sentenced to six years and a day in federal prison. Judge Merrill E. Otis imposed four years for mail fraud and three years for income tax evasion, with the three year term potentially reduced to one year upon delinquent payment.
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Kansas City
Charles V. Carrollo
Merrill E. Otis
Hollywood gossip and industry notes from Jimmy Fidler
Hollywood column notes a mix of clashes and endorsements surrounding Constance Bennett including calls for adding her to film projects, mentions of her son Peter Plant's riding championship, and satire about ongoing studio publicity, censorship efforts, and other stars. It covers Sid Toler Charlie Chan impressions, Gail Patrick hospitalisation, Eddie Albert maritime feud with Warner Brothers, and Don Ameshebe and Katherine Cornell updates.
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Hollywood
Constance Bennett
Connie
Joan Crawford
Greta Garbo
la Bennett
Myrna Lou
Mary Brian
Miss Bennett
Janet Gaynor
Constance
Peter Plant
Janet
Sidney Toler
Sid
Lyle Talbots
Gail Patrick
Eddie Albert
Warner Brothers
Eddie
Warners
Catalina Island
South
Dent
Catalina
Robinson Crusoe
Dorothy Lamour
Detroit
Bob Preston
al Jolson
Don Ameshebe
Katherine Cornell
Doris Bowden
Louisiana State
Inter- Praternity Council
Mary Healy
Jane Withers
Boston
Bill Boyd
Elmer Waters
Colorado
Waters
Bill
Sally Rand
STAPF
McNaught Syndicate, Inc
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Luis Escobar
Lorena Hamilton
George
Windmill Tower
By Frederic J. Haskin
William Jennings Bryan University
Dayton
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Sir Malcolm Campbell
Lake Coniston
England
Emily Post
Somme
Alfred Krupp
House of Krupp
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Crosley Field
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Georgia
Jimmy Fidler
Jimmie Fidler
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