Classifieds and rates anuncio in The Winchester Evening Star
The Winchester Evening Star lists classifieds pricing 2 cents per word with a 25 cent minimum and transient display rates at 45 cents per inch. Advertising deadlines are 9 PM the day before publication and National Advertising reps are Tenney Ward and Conklin Inc. Subscription rates shown include monthly and yearly options for mail and carrier delivery.
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Tenneyward and Conklin, Inc
New York
Detroit City
San Francisco
Chicago
Boston
Atta
Los Anges Angeles
Faith as Ground for Courage in Psalms Verse
A devotional note cites Psalms 135 1 to argue trust in the Lord yields steadfast courage. The message frames faith as Mount Zion that cannot be moved and endures forever.
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Mount Zion
Hull Neutrality Program Aims to Keep U S Out of War
The plan outlines measures to restrict belligerent trade and American involvement, including prohibiting entry of U S ships into combat zones, limiting citizen travel, requiring transfer of title for exports to belligerents, and extending licensing and funds controls. It also stresses maintaining a strong defense program and supporting the President’s foreign policy despite domestic disagreements.
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Hull
America
Athenia Sinking Sparks Talk of German Action
Passengers assert the Athenia was torpedoed and shelled while sinking, contradicting German denials that Britain caused the loss. The account questions the submarine commander acted without orders, arguing the act shows folly and impetuousness.
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Athenia
England
Hitler
Ancon Returns in Canal Milestone Return Visit
The Isthmus marks the Panama Canal's 25th anniversary with the Ancon sailing through the waterway amid cheers cameras and honors. The ship celebrated the 1914 first commercial transit and amid plans to expand the canal with a third set of locks a new airfield and a military highway in the Canal Zone. The canal has cost just over half a billion dollars with gross returns around 400 million.
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Panama Canal
Canal Zone
United State
Canal traffic shares by flag and investment returns
The fiscal year 1937-38 returns show 3 percent net investment. About a third of canal vessels are U S registered. Of the remaining 68 percent flying foreign flags, somewhat less than half are British.
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United States
Campaign to educate growers on avoiding sale of culled produce
The New York Packet editorial urges a broad campaign to educate growers and shippers about the ill effects of selling low grade fruits and vegetables to itinerant buyers. It argues such practices undermine higher grade markets, depress prices, and spoil consumer taste, urging officials agents and dealers to promote restraint and keep culled produce from market use.
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New York Packet
Michiga
Colorado
Quiz questions on rivers taxes and famous figures
A seven question trivia item asks: 1 the two rivers that unite in Pittsburgh to form the Ohio. 2 quarts in a peck. 3 which state first taxed gasoline. 4 define conscription. 5 which state capital is Bismarck. 6 Vanderbilt yacht name winning 12 of 17 events at Cowes this year. 7 whether alien children adopted by Americans become U.S. citizens. 8 Christopher Columbus brothers. 9 pronunciation of silicic. 10 which famed American aviator was accused by Soviet officials of giving Britain false Soviet air force strength information.
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Bismarck
North Dakota
South Dakota
Wyoming
Harold Vanderbilt
Cowes
England
United States
Christopher Columbus
Common error in comma before and in a series
The sentence illustrates a misplaced comma rule in a list. It shows the correct form is to place a comma before the conjunction only when listing three or more items, ensuring the final two terms are separated by a comma and the word and.
Wake resigns as principal at Middletown High School
One year ago W. Wake left Middletown High School to take a similar post at Gordonsville. Miss Margaret Jane Athgy was a finalist in a beauty contest at Berkeley Springs, with a Tomato Festival feature noted. Herman H. Hable and Dr. CLR Anderson were discussed as possible successors to Peyton J. Marshall as head of the council group.
Winchester names Arthur M Field as city manager again
Arthur M Field, first city manager of Winchester, is re elected by the city council to serve as city manager, succeeding P P Pilcher. L Glover, manager, is restrained by a masked robber at his filling station and cash is taken. Garland Baptist, Richard Crenshaw and Earl Sheetz are grounded in a Valley Airways plane at Greensburg Pennsylvania while returning from Cleveland races.
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Arthur M. Field
Winchester
P. P. Pilcher
L. Glover
Garland Baptist
Richard Crenshaw
Earl Sheetz
Valley Airways
Greensburg
Cleveland
Nelson Beats Weems in Open Round at Local Club Golf
In the opening round of the city golf championship at the local club LR. B. Nelson defeated Donald Weems. Mrs Rosa Emerson Emmert dies in Roanoke hospital. she was the wife of Allen Emmert, a well known local merchant. Victor Products Co. employees enjoyed a picnic at Jordan Springs.
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Donald Weems
Rosa Emerson Emmert
Allen Emmert
Roanoke
Victor Products Co
Jordan Springs
Winchester Public Schools Open With 716 Enrollees
Twenty five years ago Winchester shows public schools opening with total enrollment of 716 white students, up 100 from the prior year as the Great War in Europe rages and the Allies press Germany. Miss Belle Faulkner of Kent Street nearly drowns in Shenandoah while swimming with friends.
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Winchester
Europe
Belle Faulkner
I. H. Faulkner
Kent Street
Shenandoah
Captain Diffenderfer wins hotel improvement contract
Forty years ago Capt. E. H. Diffenderfer is awarded a contract for extensive improvements to the Hotel Evans. Also noted is N. K. Larrick killing an American eagle near Gore with a seven foot wing span, mistaken for a hawk. Miss A. H. Hobson is hired as music culture teacher at Fairfax Hall, the local girls school, to begin term soon.
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E. H. Diffenderfer
Evans
N. K. Larrick
Gore
A. H. Hobson
Fairfax Hall
Soldier Killed After Removing Flag at Marshall House
R. J. Scott reports an uprising in Alexandria Virginia where Colozze Ellsworth of the United States Army was shot after removing a Confederate flag from the roof of the Marshall House. The incident follows Civil War hostilities and deaths.
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Colozzez EllSworth
Marshall House
Alexandria
Virginia
Flight and Fate at the Fairground Lodge
Sarah Anne Melton faces control and tenderness from Bob Kennedy as she balances independence and love. He offers protection and an automatic parachute while she resists. Corrinne asks for support after a cruel note from Bob, and Sarah Anne vows to stand firm as life’s ups and downs continue.
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Sarah Anne
Bob Kennedy
Bob
Corrinne
Goodby
Lodge
Rhea
Miss Melton
Judy
Sally Anne
Bob Ransom
Sarah Anze
Answers to Questions by Frederic J Haskin
A reader’s quiz column answers a variety of trivia from moon temperatures to Nobel Peace Prize history. Facts cover moon extremes, World’s Fair spending, snowshoe speeds, tax exemptions for religious and educational property, U.S. numbers game history, Washington female population, refrigerators, library service, fur values, Father Damien, U.S. embassies, hyperbaton, and famous evaluators.
Get This New M Europe to Understeart The War News
The notice advertises a wartime information map of Europe including Albania. It promotes ordering by sending ten cents to Frederic J. Racks director in Washington with details on how to obtain the map and price.
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Frederic J. Haskin
Washington
B. Plase
Europe
Albania
Rts
Frederic J. Racks
Irector
Washington, B
Churchill reports sinking of liner by torpedo and shell
London reports Admiralty statements on the British liner sunk Sunday night after torpedo strike near the engine room on the middle deck. Churchill says 1418 aboard with 300 Americans, and that the vessel carried no guns and was not armed. The disaster occurred at 7 45 p m on September 1 northwest of Ireland.
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Sinston Churchill
Los
Admiralty
Shir
Churchill
Coe Fe
Mately
Arine
Loca
Sime
Oles
Ireland
Outbreak of Great War Comment from U S Press
A collection of editorials from major papers weighing the United States stance as war looms in Europe. The Baltimore Sun urges keeping out of war and tightening neutrality with Hull trade controls, while Chicago Tribune and others caution against war hysteria and defend cautious restraint.
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U.S
Chicago
Thribune
Europe
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