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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1933
Page
7
The ad promotes a tonic to boost red blood cells and hemoglobin to improve skin health and resistance to infections. It claims clearer skin, better oxygen delivery, and general vitality, urging readers not to be swayed by detractors and noting two size options from a drug firm.
A Marian Martin pattern promotes a youthful frock with a neat collar and sleeves, available in sizes 8 to 16. The pattern kit includes recommendations for fabrics, a Sew Chart, and separate book with styles for fall and winter. price 15 cents for pattern, 25 cents for book and pattern together, sent to the Winchester Evening Star Pattern Department in New York.
Six room and five room apartments available in a brick veneered building with hardwool waxed floors tiled bathroom automatic oil heat and many bedrooms with lavatories. Washroom in basement with washing machine rinsing fires and soft water heater. Electric refrigeration and range optional. Rent at low price. Contact N J Wigginton 21 Clark Street Winchester Virginia Phone 688.
Newark officials moved to clear a last minute obstacle that could stop the New Jersey Stock Exchange from beginning trading at Centre Market on October 2. Untermyer defended stock transfer levies and argued the move risks a national warning against law evasion and autocratic powers. He called the exchange a necessary evil if taxes fund relief, while city leaders warned of punishment to the metropolis and urged lawful authority.
Sergeant H T Smith announces the local recruiting station will supply about 54 CCC recruits for Virginia. Applicants from Winchester Frederick Clarke Shenandoah Warren and Loudoun counties may apply soon with Miss Hurst arranging the application blanks. A form announcement is due in a few days.
In Morgantown West Virginia on September 25 the Associated Press reports panhandlers and beggars staging an invasion and a house robbery near City Hall after police demobilized when City Council suspended pay due to a Supreme Court ruling on old debts. Firefighters remain on duty. debris lines streets as layoffs hit workers.
A vintage ad asserts water with meals aids stomach juices and digestion and mentions Adlerika for bloating. It claims a dose cleans out poisons and washes both upper and lower bowels, promoting Baker's Drug Store in Stephens City by Steele and Brother as the druggists.
The Bear sails from Boston bound for the South Seas as part of Richard Byrd's second Antarctic expedition. Lieut. Robert A. F. English takes command after a last minute change, with Captain Terrence Keough remaining in Boston. The Bear will join the Jacob Ruppert at Panama Canal then head to Wellington New Zealand.
Reports detail increased liquor transport across the Potomac after enforcement officers left bridges and ferries. Small boats from Terrapin's Neck to Harpers Ferry shuttle jugs and kegs, with most traffic stemming from Frog Hollow near Harpers Ferry to Sharpsburg.
Dr. Fred C. Howe, consumers' counsel for the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, urged the American Bakers Association to explain bread price disparities in several cities. He released August 29 price data showing some cities above the national average and demanded clarification.
Roanoke September 24 An airplane crash and a separate automobile wreck killed three people near Roanoke. A small biplane piloted by Hurton Hayden of Lewistown Pa crashed after a spin, burning both occupants. In the roadster crash Burt O Stanley of Nashville Tenn died beneath the wreckage after a 5 15 p m collision west of Roanoke. The other driver W T Nichols of Salem faced manslaughter charges and O N Nichols of Salem was charged with drunkenness.
The Winchester Temperance Committee argues neutrality aids the liquor trade urging voters to oppose moderation and press for plans to curb alcohol use. They quote Dr. Thomas N. Carver of Harvard urging retention of the eighteenth amendment and discourage indifference.
Closing quotations show Chicago September 88.54 December 92.45 May 96.40. Baltimore spot wheat 92.14. Winchester spot wheat 80.0. Prices supplied daily to The Star via Winchester Milling Corporation and Stickell Sales Corpora tion dealers in cash grain and futures.
The Sun in New York announced a $500 000 order for new high speed printing presses as its contribution to the National Recovery movement. The paper has just observed its one hundredth anniversary.
Thomas Price 65 a retired New York business man and Union Pacific official was shot to death on his mountain estate in Waynesville N C Potter a mountaineer surrendered after fatally shooting Price and wounding Virgo Williams and Charlie Buch anan Williams said Potter plus several others blocked their path and opened fire on a mountain trail Williams and Buch anan were wounded Price previously filed a trespass charge against Potter who surrendered in Waynesville.
Clarke county grand jury returned eight indictments. Fred Cooper Jr a a colored man faces charges for shooting killing Ben Layton Jr and assaulting George Mills and David Jackson as well as carrying concealed weapons.other defendants include Houston Jenkins manufacturing liquor Frank Wood stealing from J H Locke and Company Edward Jones assault with an iron pipe and Horace Blunt charged with killing Sherman Jackson and placing body on railway tracks.
Walter M. Shade in charge of the Winchester branch of the U S Department of Labor announced open positions for skilled and unskilled labor. Women can register as housekeepers, with work partly sent to shipyards and a high demand in automobile mechanics.
Vice-Chancellor Stein denied City Center Corporation’s bid for a permanent injunction preventing Newark from leasing the center market to the New Jersey Stock Exchange. The ruling clears the path for market building work to prepare use by the exchange on October 3.
Veteran radio figure W. E. Henderson of KWEH Shreveport will sign off as the Radio Commission orders license transfer to International Broadcasting Corporation. Henderson sold to the new outfit for $60,000 with an option to repurchase, and his 6 pm to midnight broadcasts attacked chain stores politicians and various subjects. He has been a constant voice on the station for years and his departure marks a major change in local radio.
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