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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1937
Page
4
An essay praises editors who challenge writers to improve. It argues that harsh, brutal frankness helps prevent loose writing and overconfidence. A quoted student recalls a professor who warned him he wrote the sloppiest English of any pupil.
The article argues the United States, a paradoxical sporting nation, has become a nation of onlookers driven by radio, cars, and movies. It urges a government supervised national campaign to promote real sport and outdoor activity to counter sit-down leisure and restore active public engagement.
The Fredericksburg Free Lance Star discusses how many factors shape a newspaper whether large or small, highlighting the craft, ethics, and community role of reporting.
A Takoma Georgia Record editorial urges editors to speak honestly even against prevailing sentiment. It cites the Montgomery Advertiser on intellectual honesty over pandering, noting editors must bear responsibility and defend honest opinions regardless of agreement.
The Richmond convention nominating J Powell Royall for Governor, S A Reynolds for Lieutenant Governor, and Gerould M. Rumble for Attorney General reflects a hopeful, if forlorn, effort by Virginia Republicans to sustain momentum despite national setbacks. The piece urges national party peers to draw courage from the state's renewed activity.
Kenneth Fansler takes first place in the horse shoe contest at Harris Addition playground event. About $2,000 in state funds have been approved for a new airport in the city. Property of late Anne Lewis on Buff Lick road may be used. Miss Jessica B. Davidson marries Mr. Elliott MacSwan of Boston at her mother's Clarke county home. T Henderson Maddox of Marshall Fauquier county leaves an estate valued at $155,000 to wife and four children in a will.
Dr. C. R. Anderson takes office as mayor while Hable and Henry are sworn in as councilmen for four years. Claude Dick remains hospitalized with a bullet wound in the stomach. Police seek James Hardin, alleged assailant. Riley Herman Ritter, Civil War veteran, dies at his Clarke County home. coffin to be draped in the old Confederate flag.
Winchester Fruit Exchange reports a 25 cent reduction per barrel on barreled apples sold to Germany. Walter B. Barr leads the poultry department at the Winchester Fair agriculture display. Police round up ten colored men for shooting craps in a racetrack box stall at the fairgrounds. Miss Frances Beverley, executive committee member of the American Legion Auxiliary, will sail to Paris with fellow members to attend the organization’s general convention.
Twenty five years ago motorists in Virginia were warned they must pay the annual license fee or face court action. The Valley region reports higher tolls on the Valley Pike and several Main Street stores closed for a Temperance meeting in Stephens City.
The receipt sheet compiles trivia Q and A covering demographics, actors, exams, gas use, deaf actors, hippopotamus teeth, Gainsborough portraits, historical societies, Schubert, osteopathy, the Ferris wheel, Attila, Lady Astor, European roads, tea plants, The Heavenly Twins, gentlest art, mayonnaise fixes, Williams College and Palestine. Includes names, places, dates, and numbers from the era.
Washington reports that W. O. Douglas is being favored to succeed James M. Landis as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Officials expect swift action on the death sentence for big utility holdings, though litigation over the act may delay decisions until 1939.
Mary Barrett, an aspiring dress designer from New York, seeks work in Paris after meeting Tony Castle. She enjoys Parisian nights with Mark Sutherland while concealing her past with Tony, hoping to become a world woman, but finds little room for her talent.
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