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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1936
Page
4
Franklin D. Roosevelt and John N. Garner run as presidential and vice presidential candidates with Carter Glass listed for U S Senate. This item presents a ticket style slate highlighting key figures and offices in a political ballot context. The text identifies goals of party alignment and regional campaigns.
A religious notice cites James 3 5 on the power of the tongue describing how a small mouth can ignite great things in spiritual contemplation and moral instruction.
The piece notes University of Virginia football coaches prep at a Norfolk naval training school for two weeks of drills. It singles out past standout players and questions whether recent backfields and injuries portend improvement, with captain Harry Martin’s fitness pivotal to any better-than-recent-years performance.
The remark questions President Hoover era promises of broad prosperity and compares the “chicken in every pot and a bag in every garage” pledge with Governor Landon’s six month job forecast for the unemployed. It frames a critique of GOP social promises during the election discourse.
The president of American Fruit Growers Inc spoke at a Chamber meeting in Martinsburg outlining extensive fruit holdings and a positive outlook for apples. The remarks emphasized growth potential and market demand for the company’s apple portfolio.
In Pottawattamie county farmers push private ponds on hillside springs to restore surface water lost to past drainage. The writer notes a shift from drainage to water conservation and compares highway tree planting to previous misguided efforts, concluding with cautious optimism.
Seven million pounds of rock salt were loaded on barges on Cayuga Lake and floated toward Boston New York and Maine. The scene notes this as the largest lake flotilla since a period of low mood and highlights salt's varied uses from food to industry and even humor.
This passage urges relentless weeding as pests flourish this month. It compares weeds to plants that seed at different times and stresses eternal vigilance. The advice calls for pulling, cutting, burning, and trimming to prepare for next year’s garden.
A quirky tale notes a child in New Hampshire who suffered an ear bug incident and mentions her father described as an awful man, captured in a humorous Will Rogers style narrative.
A man recalls a doctor, Dr Fordyce, guiding him into a dark room and lighting a match to coax a bug from hiding. The man pays two dollars and suggests a lower price since the bug emerged on its own.
A collection of sharp one liners and jokes from the Norfolk Ledger Dispatch and other papers. Bits reference a garden as a ship and a banana hold up in Chicago. Other quips note Battle Creek Michigan and a wary spy postcard line.
J. T. Watkins of the State Highway Department speaks at Handley launching a local drive on accidents. W. R. Legge becomes acting district supervisor of vocational agriculture in Northern Virginia, replacing D. J. Howard. Norman Ochs calls for football practice at Handley. Florida hurricane toll rises with five hundred dead. Mrs. Peter Yates Brinton returns from Boston.
Fred L. Glaize is reelected president of the city council with Charles H Harper as vice president and Frank Krebs as clerk. Timberville peaches priced at 3 25 per crate in England. Mrs Stewart Elting among high scores in qualifying rounds of the Womens Seen Golf Tournament at Farmington course near Charlottesville. Harry R Horner dies in Memorial Hospital. Engagement announced between Julia Meem Harrison and Dr James W W Watts. TEN YEARS AGO an army dirigible forced down at Washington Court House Ohio to refuel first inland flight since Shenandoah disaster. Eddie W Guest writes mayor of Atlantic City seeking a wife who prefers blondes. J M Bauserman Jr and wife of Woodstock narrowly escape injury when their auto is dragged by a team on Massanutten Mountain. Handley to resume classes September 13. isregard of a signal in herd ible for a disastrous wreck on the Baltimore and Ohio near Connellsville Pa.
F H Hack Sr presents his version of a Baltimore area crash where his son died. He denies the car’s speed was excessive. Political primary officers for September 7 include Major Holmes Conrad Major Robert W Hunter T T Perry and Col R P Chewdine with Capt and Mrs Rouss. Bowers buys Dr Frank property in Marion Center Pa and plans to set up practice.
On September 3, 1783 the Treaty of Paris formally ends the American War of Independence. Representatives of the United States and Britain sign the accord in Paris, recognizing independence and setting borders. The treaty calms conflict and establishes diplomatic relations and territorial terms.
Frederic J. Haskin directs an information service answering varied questions. The quiz covers topics from Irish rebellions to Taft’s physicians, York boats, logan berries, kudos, and Cosmoramas, listing brief facts and dates as read.
Washington reports that protecting tariffs keeps U S shipbuilding costly and inland trade rewarding. After World War I subsidies failed as mail contracts spurred misinvestment, with foreign fleets advantaged and U S yards unable to compete openly.
Dr Zadok Dumbkopf declares independence as a candidate for weather man. He denounces current forecasts and promises to end the haphazard handling of weather predictions, arguing the public pays for prophecies without real control.
Gay Elwell, working at a Detroit club, dines at Tabbs with artist Mark Vance who offers her a posing job. Wayne Adams arrives, clashes with Vance, and the pair recall a previous kiss. A quiet tea room scene follows as Wayne hints at a future together amid party plans and a Paris-bound Randolph.
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