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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1934
Page
4
An item stating that display advertising must be in the bord office by 10 A M on publication day. It notes transient rates at 42 cents per inch and mentions contract rates on application.
The Associated Press asserts exclusive rights to publish news dispatches credited or not credited to it and all material here in, with no reprinting beyond the paper’s entitlement. This notice governs republication and reproduction of content.
A brief devotional note centers on the contrast between a dry morsel and a house full of sacrifices built on strife. Proverb 17 1 underscores value of peace over abundance. The text invites reflection on temperance, harmony, and the virtue of simple sustenance.
A candidate for the Ohio state legislature proposes weekend meetings during the session and weekday gatherings for voters to reward future conduct. The idea aims to make representative government more meaningful and help communities influence state campaigns and policies.
An investigation by Dr. A. H. Ryn assesses how fatigue affects driving safety and accident rates. While fatigue and long trips may impair alertness, the study suggests impatience and haste are the main accident culprits, with excitable drivers causing many mishaps on trips and in town.
A brief note recalls the 1019 milestone of England to It flight, noting its modest beginnings and the sense of small achievement that followed.
A reader quiz asks who coined a famous line about every minute. The answer is Phineas Taylor Barnum of Barnum and Bailey. It also asks which river bounds the United States for the most miles and answers Rio Grande.
The article reviews dramatic progress in aviation linking long distance flight across a continent to near worldwide routes. It highlights leaps of over 2,000 miles, challenges like fog, heat, jungle, and sea, and predicts a future planetary airplane evolving from today’s racing motors. It notes renewed impetus since Lindbergh and suggests England to Australia flights could become regular.
One year ago plans were announced for the Episcopal Church Woman's Build entertainment to be held here October 31 through November 2. The first killing frost was reported. a feminist boycott of Huey Long's book Every Man a King was noted. Eckener brought the Graf Zeppelin to the World's Fair.
A five year old report notes Miss Marcia Estardus was awarded 75000 dollars in a suit against Harry K Thaw. The item also mentions rising Canadian apple harvests, no wheat shortage worldwide, and Mrs ee dying at her home in inne county as part of a mixed market and personal notice.
A New Englanders touring group arrives in Winchester today as the hospital facility meets the standard rating. Meanwhile the Shenandoah dirigible passes over the Ozarks with smoke filling its cabin, and Dr Edgar Seer Moore dies of paresis while treating a patient in Clarke. Firemen attend a union service at the Empire Theatre.
Mrs. Virginia Faulkner McSher ry of Martinsburg West Virginia is elected President General of the United Daughters of the Confederacy at the national convention in Houston Texas. New York motorcade heads toward Winchester and the Valley. Katherine Cover Glass buys the Charles A Heller property on Washington Street for ten thousand dollars. Rev T K Cramer pastor and Richard L Gray elder attend the Potomac Synod of the Reformed Church in Woodstock. Louis Pidgeon of Wadesville is named assistant clerk at a large Society of Friends yearly meeting in Baltimore.
The Amalienburg in the Schloss park Munich marks 200 years as Germanys oldest Rococo structure. Built for the WBlectress Amalie it houses fine wood carvings mirrors and chandeliers of cut glass.
Information line reads take you to the football games ordinarily unavailable to you and invites calls for details at 700-W.
A brief note explains reflected sunlight as light from the sun bouncing off other bodies such as the moon and planets. It cites Hero of Alexandria in the second century and mentions Euclid as having discussed the concept.
The term pamphlet traces to Pamphela a Greek woman whose short notes and essays inspired a new publication style. The text then cites seventeenth century shipboard orders such as Haul down the foretopgallant sail and let go the spritsail in stowing canvas.
JOEL CALTER sits as secretary to NATHANIEL GREENLEAF, head of the division of chemical supervision known as the Black Chamber. Countess OR LAND seeks to enlist Greenleaf as a spy, bringing Captain Andre Duval to the embassy. A coded letter arrives, hinting at a secret message inked to disguise a covert overseas development. Greenleaf and Blane plan to involve Whitey, a reformed crook, to imitate documents and seal a covert operation.
Present and past rainfall figures show daily 24 hour totals at 8 a m with overall year to date 69 inches. Monthly rain totals include October 3.00 inches February 1.97 inches March 2.82 inches April 2.21 May 3.94 June 3.65 July 3.42 August 3.29 September 2.34 November 2.33 December 2.34 with October data noted.
Gravel Springs pastorate led by B Seastrunk invites worshippers to Sunday School at 10 a m and Divine service with Holy Communion at 11 a m at Gravel Springs. St James Zepp holds Sunday School at 2 p m and Divine service at 3 p m. We welcome you to these services.
Rev. R. B. Campbell serves as pastor at Nineveh Presbyterian Church with Sunday School at 10 a.m. and church service at 11 a.m. The sermon will be delivered by the pastor.
In sad but loving remembrance of our dear husband and father John W Parish who departed this life two years ago today October 27 1932. Two years have passed Our hearts are sore As time flies on We miss you more. Peacefully sleeping Resting at last The world's weary troubles And trials are past.
Unmistakable evidence of rising use of electric refrigeration highlights more than five million dollars in excise taxes collected by June 30, 1934. Jim Miller and Company notes the figure is about two and a half times greater than the prior fiscal year’s two million two hundred eleven thousand eight hundred sixty eight dollars. The tax applied to sales of both refrigerators and radios.
A fragmented report indicates Creel withdrew from the Upton Sinclair slate in California yesterday. The move alters the election landscape as supporters react to the candidate’s stated plan to end a controversial policy.
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