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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1935
Page
10
Halifax, the capital of Nova Scotia, is described as the most strongly fortified city in North America with over a thousand guns ready in 11 forts. The peace time batteries are among the heaviest known calibers.
The Painted Desert received its name as early as 1858 due to a wide range of colors from the sandstone shale and clay. Bright sunshine enhances the hues including red pink chocolate purple lavender pale green and gray.
Longtime Little Theatre volunteer Miss Georgia Conrad will lead in Private Lives at the Capitol Theatre, Friday November 1. Newcomer Robert McKelvey joins as Victor while local talent brings sharp characterization and lively repartee to the production with tickets at Baker’s Boyd’s Rhodes’ Spillman and Alexander drug stores in 35c 50c and 1 price tiers. Reservations via Mrs Burr P Harrison 772 or Capitol Theatre.
The article notes fatal sunstroke is more common in the north of the East, while the thirty-ninth parallel near Washington divides the eastern states into North and South. It explains southerners’ acclimation to heat and lower daytime activity, and how the North experiences extreme heat waves causing prostrations.
Washington sources said the Agricultural Adjustment Administration tentatively set the 1935 corn loan at 45 cents a bushel. Final announcement expected within 48 hours amid strong referendum support for a new production control program next year.
The word tram may come from Outram a man who ran vehicles on stone rails in 1800. An alternative link ties tram to the German word traam meaning balk or beam used for wooden rail tracks in coal mines dating to the sixteenth century.
A person who betrays an economic secret to a foreign country faces imprisonment from one to five years under the new law. The statute targets economic treachery and foreign influence with harsh penalties.
GC. H. Schutte reports from Baltimore where Chevrolet conducted a large convention in which the 1936 line was showcased to about a thousand dealers and salesmen. The event, part of a nationwide series, precedes November 2 announcements and promises ample stock for prompt deliveries.
Warner Bros presents Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler in Shipmates Forever a Cosmopolitan drama with music showing at the Capitol Theatre today and tomorrow. The film uses Annapolis Naval Academy as background after over a month of location work amid sea and shipboard scenes.
Hables PALATE presents The Affair of Susan with Zasu Pitts Hugh O Connell and Walter Cortlett at the Palace for last showings tonight a side splitting yarn of two lonely hearts and a million laughs. Edmund Lowe and Ann Sothern in Grand Exit arrive Wednesday and Thursday with a dramatic showcase described as the finest entertainment of the year.
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