Winchester Evening Star publication rates and masthead note
The Winchester Evening Star announces advertising rates 2 cents per word with 25 cent minimum, display ads by 9 PM prior day, transient 45 cents per inch, and contract rates. It identifies F Byrd Jr as editor and notes Associated Press rights and national reps. Local publishing details follow for Winchester Virginia.
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Evening Star Publishing Co
Winchester
Associated Press
Tenney and Conklin, Inc
New York
Detroit City
San Francisco
Chicago
Boston
Atlanta
Los Angeles
Vote slate listed for county offices in 1939 election
The notice names candidates for State Senate B P Harrison Commissioner of Revenue Lee N Whitacre House of Delegates Blackburn Moore Commonwealth Attorney W E Edwards Board of Supervisors H M Foot Gainesboro H C Light Stonewall WM Carpenter Shawnee G W Lemley Opequon C M Rosenberger Back Creek Constable W E Oates Back Creek. cites election date and scripture verse about a merry heart.
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Commissioner of Revenue
Lee N. Whitacre
House of Delegates
Blackburn Moore
W. E. Edwards
Board of
Supervisors
H. M. Foot
Gainesboro
H. C. Light
Stonewall
WM. Carpenter
Shawnee
G. W. Lemley
Opequon
C. M. Rosenberger
Back Creek
Installment fines could ease unequal punishments
The author argues for paying fines in weekly installments instead of jail time for those who cannot afford $100 penalties. Citing Prince George county’s Francis W. Binford, the plan has operated for nearly a decade to let defendants work, keep jobs, support families, and repay fines, reducing jail and welfare costs.
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Prince George County
Francis W. Binford
Lord Baldwin Smokes Cherrywood Pipes Socially
In a vivid portrait, Lord Baldwin, Britain's former prime minister, casually smokes fourteen cent pipes at formal events. He travels with a steady supply and ignores etiquette’s foibles, while Countess Barbara Hutton Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow returns to a country she left behind after stepping ashore in New York.
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Lord Baldwin
Britain
New York
Countess Barbara Hutton
Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow
Dane’s citizenship dispute and wage policy review
The piece notes a Dane who renounced citizenship and won’t say if she will seek it again amid rumors of another marriage. It cites wage hour data showing 2,382,500 workers in shorter weeks and 690,000 getting raises as the law’s second year starts. It mentions Earl Browder’s passport indictment and ongoing un-American activities debates.
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United States Justice Department
Earl Browder
Mr. Browder
Browder case calls for fact based passport probe
Reprinted editorial argues that constitutional government must apply penalties impartially. Earl Browder, chosen as Communist Party leader, is barred from law by allegedly using a false name on an American passport. The piece insists the issue is factual, not political, and notes Browder testified to traveling abroad under a false passport.
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Mr. A
Earl Browder
Communist Party
United States
New York
Fish ladders urged for Augusta streams
Staunton News Leader commends Augusta county game wardens for enforcing the fish ladder law. The piece argues enforcement was neglected due to the former commissioner, urges removal of the law from the books’ dead letter status, and stresses free fish passage as essential for aquatic life amid state and federal stocking efforts.
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Augusta County
Augusta
Game and Inland Fisheries
Game and Fish
Twice or Two
A doctor attends a yoking misunderstanding when a husband believes his wife has appendicitis after an earlier appendectomy. The doctor corrects the mix up then discovers the second wife has appendicitis, illustrating a darkly comic misbelief.
Plans for Route 7 dedication and 1938 CVAL game
Plans outline dedication events for Route 7. Curtiss P-37, a new army plane, is described as a six mile per minute capability. The Judges are set to meet Fort Hill in the second 1938 CVAL game tomorrow.
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Fort Hill
Local Woman Fractures Wrist In Accident
Mrs. Hunter Kern sustains a painful wrist fracture in an accident. Arthur M. Field announces a new housing program aiming to raise $100,000 for construction. Mrs. Martin Williams of South Cameron reports finding a gold coin in a rooster's craw.
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Hunter Kern
Arthur M. Field
Martin Williams
South Cameron
Rooster
Handley Judges Rout Charles Town 7 0
Mr and Mrs Burton Mountcastle of Rich mor spend days visiting Winchester historic sites. A tablet near Carlisle Pennsylvania marks the furthest west point north reached by Confederate forces.
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Handley
Charles Town
Burton Mountcastle
Richmor
Winchester
Carlisle
Zeppelin warships bombarding Warsaw in night raids
Twenty five years ago Zeppelins attacked Warsaw with bombardments as night raids marked a battle against Belgian defenses. Air units joined the assault, reporting heavy fire and smoke over the city while military leaders evaluated the threat to supply lines and civilian areas.
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Warsaw
Battle
Belgium
Caution Echoes In Arizona Drought Plot Twist
Shot Rogers and Lorena Hamilton deepen their escape plan at Ghost River headwaters using a dam to redirect water flow and conceal the cows’ trail. Lorena endures fatigue while Shot scouts threats from Escobar’s camp, and back home the Brazees discuss Lorena’s bold daring and potential matches, as town rumor grows.
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Shot
Lorena
Ghost River
Arizona
George Brazée
Mexico
Escobar
Brazee
Lorena Hamilton
Shot Rogers
Allies Repel Invasion Near Lens as Moltke Falls Ill
Reports say Allied forces hurl back invaders in the Lens region while German chief of staff von Moltke is ill. Postmaster G H Kinzel advertises a list of unclaimed letters. Mrs Waldorf Astor writes from England about war atrocities she witnessed. A Brooklyn resident is sold to satisfy a dentist bill. The Star aids in recapture of a notorious horse thief at Cumberland Courthouse, and a colored woman throws lye. A trunk with Mrs A K Wood’s effects is linked to John Kerr school.
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Lens
von Moltke
G. H. Kinzel
Mrs. Waldorf Astor
England
Brooklyn
W. F. Hutchinson
Cumberland Courthouse
H. C. Shenk
A. K. Wood
John Kerr School
Answers to Questions Q World War Poems and More
A quiz of WWI era curiosities covers poems like In Flanders Fields and I Have a Rendezvous With Death, plus figures on car use for business, average eye use, Niagara Falls illumination, Mark Twain's War Prayer, and other trivia.
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Flanders Fields
John D. McCrae
Alan Seeger
Rupert Brooke
Mark Twain
Injection Treatment For Varicose Veins By Dr Clendening
Dr. Logan Clendening explains varicose veins form from weakened leg valves failing to push blood upward. Modern injection therapy destroys the vein lining to obliterate it, is office-based, quick, and allows return to work with minimal pain.
Medical Q and A on diet hair cough and remedies
Reader questions cover caloric value of vegetable water and buttermilk calories, yeast and hair color, permanents and hair health, throat drip and risk of bronchitis, aspirin with soft drinks. Dr Clendening notes seven pamphlets offered for ten cents each.
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