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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1939
Page
4
Classifieds cost 2 cents per word with a 26 cent minimum. cash with copy. Display ads with borders due by 9 PM the day before publication. Transient rate 45 cents per inch. Contract rates available. Associated Press rights noted for news dispatches and local news.
On Tuesday November 7 1939 voters see a slate for State Senate B P Harrison Commissioner of Revenue Lee N Whitacre House of Delegates E Blackburn Moore Commonwealth Attorney W E Edwards County Treasurer Harry L McCann Sheriff J B Bywaters and Supervisors H M Foot Gainesboro H C Light Stonewall William Carpenter Shawnee G W Lemley Opequon C M Rosenberger Back Creek and Constable W E Oates Back Creek plus a quoted biblical verse about God as Father and potter.
Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia invites the motion picture industry to return to New York offering diverse locations and cultural perks. Yet Hollywood remains anchored in southern California where glamour, power, and market forces drive the industry, while New Yorkers remain skeptical and unimpressed.
Ten years after the 1929 stock market collapse experts recall the 16 percent share selloff on the New York Exchange and the ensuing wipeout of billions in open market value. The era’s shock reshaped policy, leadership, and American attitudes toward risk.
Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch weighs the risk of German warships like the Emden Deutschland and Admiral Scheer roaming the South Atlantic and attacking Allied and neutral shipping. It notes Britain's limited battle cruiser force and the likelihood that destroyers or cruisers would handle such missions with possible losses.
Reprinted note describes a lull on the Smith-Jones front with minor engagements. The Smiths deny air bombardment claims, while both sides trade petits offenses through pets, culled barriers, and pill box filled medicine cabinets as observers note stalemate.
Winchester physicians contribute ten thousand dollars to support a fifty thousand dollar Memorial Hospital fund as the campaign opens. C Vernon Eddy is elected president of the Virginia State Library Association in Williamsburg.
Sidney Moffett a famed traveling salesman died at Mount Jackson. Three Washington Times reporters jailed by Judge P Eyton Gordon for refusing to reveal sources of liquor purchases. Virginia Baptists annual convention scheduled here November 12 14.
Theodore Stopton of Louisville Kentucky and L E Calvert of Lockport New York, apple buyers, are badly injured in an auto wreck near Weverton. Miss Margaret Virginia Osborne invites the wedding of her sister Rosa Magnadier Osborne to Mr George Keller of Winchester. President Woodrow Wilson issues Thanksgiving proclamation.
A reader Q and A collection answers topics from publishing rates to roars of lions. It covers monthly book publication counts, animal roars, football game dates, royalties for a song, the pledge, Latin meaning of ecce homo, shad roe egg counts, tire air loss by season, the word robot, a dog's prayer, hotel rate plans, and the first Rotary Club in Chicago 1905.
Lorena scouts a distant Mexican camp led by Escobar from a cliff, watches Shot Rogers serve as a camp cook, and resolves to rescue him despite guards, hunger, and fatigue. She notes the camp’s fire, tents, and a flag, with about 30 to 40 people nearby, and the risk to her life if discovered.
A proclamation states observance on the last Thursday of November which falls on November 26. Community officials announce the date for the annual observance and related ceremonies.
Forty years ago Rev. J W Howe is to preside at the third quarterly United Brethren Church gathering at Mt Navvy. The item also notes British battleships and a Gold Leaf cigarette advertisement with sale notices for the J L Baker estate horses and other property.
A fragment notes a police car drew license plate 26 645 and lists the department phone numbers 26 and 645 for the police and detective division. The text is a coincidence linking plate digits to agency numbers.
Mrs Mary Henry, 72, told Judge Oscar F. Nelson that her husband George J. Henry deserted her in 1892 and never returned, and the court agreed with her that he was not coming back after she received a divorce.
A five color 21 by 28 inch map depicting old and new national boundaries, including Italy's absorption of Albania, with additional economic geographic and political data on reverse. Copies cost ten cents in coin and requests are mailed to Washington, D C using a coupon.
Dr Clendening discusses athletic efficiency as distinct from physical fitness and outlines tests for circulatory response and pulse recovery. He notes immunity to insect bites varies by individual and mentions flea bite antigens tested in San Francisco to desensitize reactions.
The danger lies in contamination of an open can not the metal. Processed foods are likelier to contain microbes and may be eaten without reheating, unlike raw foods which are cooked to kill germs. Ptomaine poisoning can result from eating food left in an open can.
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