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Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Oct 22, 1937

Page

4

Winchester Evening Star Rates Advertisement

The Winchester Evening Star lists subscription prices for Mall and Carrier delivery. Rates cover one year six months and three months options with advance payment details and monthly pricing.

Advertising Rates and Fares Debate Weighs on Public

Classified and display rates listed with 2 cents per word minimum 25 cents. memorials lines and cards of thanks. National reps named. Also article discusses Interstate Commerce Commission potential fare increases and ripple effects on passenger traffic freight rates and wage bargains.

National Apple Week Drive Urges Wider Apple Use

The Packer calls National Apple Week October 30 to November 6 to boost use of the bountiful 1937 apple crop. It urges active support by producers handlers manufacturers cold storage operators carriers and consumers to promote health and enjoyment through increased consumption of apples.

Pine newsprint could cut costs and spark southern industry

Richmond News Leader reports progress in producing newsprint from southern pine. A $25 million uplift is expected as test mills expand, potentially lowering paper costs by about $20 per ton versus spruce. If successful, Virginia and other southern states gain a new cash crop and jobs while easing publisher burdens amid a 1938 paper shortage.

Richmond News-Leader America Daily South Virginia

Penalties of Increased Wages for Rail Workers

The Norfolk Ledger Dispatch reports a 6.6 percent wage rise for operating railroad employees reached by peaceful negotiations, avoiding disruptions. The accord may raise costs and lead to higher coach fares from 2 to 2.5 cents per mile as eastern railroads consider fare adjustments following the wage boost.

Norfolk Ledger Dispatch Anne Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Gynake Opera

Quaint Customs

Bristol News Bulletin describes an eastern country religious sect that shuns debt and installment buying, valuing simple living. The piece contrasts its old fashioned beliefs with a fast paced world, noting peaceful relations with neighbors and contentment.

Bristol News-Bulletin

Old home remedies for national ills urged by Kiwanis leader

C Harold Hippeler vice president of Kiwanis International urged Americans to minimize isms and recapture loyalty and patriotism. He spoke to the Capital District Kiwanis convention in Staunton and emphasized faith in our flag and traditions, urging rationalism and national defense. He noted wealth as a gift from a Creator and praised the spiritual strengths of the American system.

Newport News Times-Herald C. Harold Hippeler Kiwanis International Capital District Kiwanis Staunton United States Canada

FFA Fair Winners Highlight Stephens City Event

Ross Lillard wins first and Charles Cook second in a Stephens City High School FFA fair. About 50 000 dollars is slated to be distributed to county farmers by the soil conservation board through 1938. Rebel ships are ordered to sink Russian vessels aiding the Spanish government army. The Torch Bearers cast features Mrs Burr P Harrison Mrs Douglas Fuller Smith and Schuylar Larkin.

Ross Lillard Charles Cook Stephens City High School Soil Conservation Board Burr P. Harrison Douglas Fuller Smith Schuylar Larkin

Electric street railway plan moves to final Winchester Martinsburg survey

Twenty five years ago representatives for the Winchester and Martinsburg electric street railway prepared for the final survey with work to begin after. Mrs Edward B Jacobs of Clarke county is badly hurt when her horse falls at a jump and crushes her beneath him. Fire threatened a large stable behind the D R Eskey property as a boy dropped a match while playing in the hay.

Winchester Martinsburg Edward B. Jacobs Clarke County D. R. Eskey

Local incidents and crop woes in the region

Forty years ago James W. Hillyard, custodian at the Reuss Engine house, was badly cut on the face by a basket hurled into the air by a boy. Reynolds Store area residents discuss a growing school enrollment with Superintendent M. M. Lynch. The potato crop fails nationwide, selling up to $1.00 per bushel locally.

James W. Hillyard Reuss Reynolds Store M. M. Lynch

Metropolitan Opera House Opens in New York

The New York Metropolitan Opera House opens on October 22, 1883, marking a major cultural milestone for the city with a formal inaugural performance by leading artists and a grand ceremonial start.

N. Y. Metropolitan Opera House

Rollicking speech contrasts in democracy with totalitarian risk

The piece contrasts a President’s boastful pledge to never fear hunger or thirst with dismissive notes about Congress and political rivals. It then warns that similar characterizations of Hitler Mussolini or Stalin would invite swift suppression in Germany Italy or Russia.

du Pont Hearst Congress Eee Tal Germany Italy Russia Hitler Mussolini Stalin

Ford builds world largest plant at River Rouge complex

The Alexandria Gazette notes Ford Motor Company plans a gigantic expansion at its River Rouge Michigan complex adding a new blast furnace, tool and die shop, press and body shop, and an alloy steel foundry. The piece questions nationwide concentration and calls for broader industrial spread and control.

Alexandria Ford Motor Company River Rouge Michigan Ford Fords

New Broadway Musical Satirizes President Roosevelt

In Boston the show I'd Rather Be Right with Pyh M. Cohan in the lead opens amid fears of dictatorship. The plot centers on the Roosevelt administration with Cabinet and Supreme Court figures appearing. It offers pointed but good humored satire of the President and the New Deal.

Fredericksburg Free Lance United States Boston Pyh M. Cohan Roosevelt

Michigan City couple split over breakfast refusals

Oliver D. Ewing was granted a divorce by Superior Court Judge Russell W. Smith after testifying his wife Rachel refused to prepare his breakfasts during their marriage from July 11, 1936, and she abandoned him last March.

Michigan City Ind Superior Court Russell W. Smith Oliver D. Ewing Rachel

Answers to Questions by Frederic J. Haskin

A compilation of Q and A covering Pan American Airways clippers dates, Yukon River navigability, CCC daily ration cost, Vatican City flag, US school year length, tourist spending, Brooklyn Bridge clearance, farm fire fatalities, China egg production, Empire State ship, top apple states, Mann Act origin, braking speeds, succession of the English throne, average doctor bill, magnets, unmarried meaning, excelsior wood sources, tiny vases, milk in diet.

See the World Map Offer to Readers

An appeal promotes a large new world map 21 by 28 inches printed in five colors. It claims the map helps readers grasp world affairs and geography, urging homes offices teachers and students to order by enclosing ten cents with a coupon.

Request for World Map Copy by Mail

A note from Washington DC encloses ten cents for a copy of the Map of the World. The sender provides name, city, street, and state.

Number of Vitamins Still Is Subject of Research

In 1909 Pekelharing noted a mysterious substance in milk essential for nutrition. By 1912 Funk named vitamins and proposed several types. The piece discusses uncertainty about all required nutrients and cautions against relying solely on concentrates, urging a balanced diet from long-standing dietary patterns.

Pekelharing Funk

Dentist with a wartime rise in West Shilston

Tim Kennedy a London trained dentist rises from junior to senior in West Shilston during and after World War I. He builds a crime free practice, gains social standing, marries Esther Ashwell, and renovates The Wilderness near Merton Forest. Kennedy’s era ends with wealth under £4,000 after his death in 1926. Esther receives her late share as a gift to keep The Wilderness undisturbed.

Kennedy Ordnance Corps West Shilston London Esther Ashwell Esther Arkwright Captain Kennedy British Legion Taylor Evans Jameson Fiddian Harris Tim Kennedy High Street Adams Tim Merton Forest Newmarket Heath Neddy

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