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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1934
Page
4
Advertising details include 3.50 per inch rates and 42 cents per inch for transient ads with a minimum 5 for memorials four stanzas of four lines each. Cards of Thanks priced at two dollars, notices due by 10 A M on publication day, with national reps listed.
Fragmentary note cites a Bible verse John 4 7 with a call to love one another. The text appears as religious exhortation and includes garbled phrases likely from a torn source. It emphasizes divine love and being born of God.
A 1930s safety article argues pedestrians rely on drivers and urges motorists to yield. It cites 1933 data showing pedestrians made up 30.83 percent of injuries and 44.95 percent of deaths, warns deaths could rise, and notes court rulings protect pedestrians under lighted crossings. It urges drivers to accept personal responsibility for pedestrian safety.
James G Callahan of Metropolitan Life Insurance praises life insurance as building and stabilizing society. He argues it comforts dependents, provides retirement income, educates children, and preserves estates while weathering economic turmoil and market losses.
The questions discuss the basis of law in Louisiana as the French code revised by Napoleon and define an odometer as an instrument to measure the quantity of rain. The Garden of Gethsemane is recalled as the place where Jesus prayed before his death and was found by enemies.
The passage argues that thrift, foresight, and wisdom are typical of Americans and that every policy guards citizens against future hardships. It asserts life insurance and American ideals are inseparably connected, building a bulwark against depressions.
News that Japan and Russia settled the Manchukuo transfer deal ends a major friction trigger in the Far East. Both powers remain wary of the East Asia seaboard while internal needs and Siberian rail limits keep war unlikely for now.
National Brewing Company of Winchester with 200000 capital is being organized here. Mrs Jane Ellen Dearmont 89 dies at White Post. Fire at Kenilworth Harry K Thaws home stains oil over residence. President Roosevelt asks steel rails price reduction. Mrs E O Larrick dies at niece’s home Laurel Md.
Henry F Seal to close music instrument store November 1 at the West Virginia fairgrounds. Fritziae opens Empire Theatre season. Winchester and Virginia featured in Cook Tours of See America. Leo Woodward, federal agent, shot in Baltimore during liquor raid, claims frame up. Twenty five years ago Rev Osborne Ingle dies. Winchester fair prize winners named. Judge Mann opens campaign for governor. Plant specimen shown at George Hardys.
Present and past rainfall data show 24 hour ending 8 p m none for September to date 2 57 inches year to date 23 46 inches. Average monthly totals across 21 years list January 2 41 February 1 97 March 2 82 April 2 21 May 3 94 June 365 July 3 41 August 3 29 September 2 34 October 3 00 November 2 33 December 2 34.
The Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Board announces relaxed rules allowing beer and wine licensees to display advertising posters and placards. Up to four posters may be shown, each under nine square feet, plus one illuminated sign up to 216 square inches without brand names. Menu cards and similar items may bear ads if compliant. novelties may be distributed. Exhibits at fairs may show wine and beer only in closed containers with no sales or future delivery orders.
Baltimore Sun reports police and Federal Secret Service weigh the Lindbergh case as the work of one or more amateurs rather than organized criminals. Bruno Hauptmann appears as a German carpenter with a prior record, not linked to gangs, and his capture came simply from attempting to use a gold certificate at a filling station.
Funeral wreaths of flowers were commonly used in Egypt around 1200 aC. The practice reflects ancient burial customs and floral arrangements tied to ritual offerings and mourning traditions. Ancient sources indicate varied plant selections and symbolic meanings in funerary contexts.
Wanted 25 progressive men or women for enrollment in autumn flying courses starting September 10. Phone 700-W or call at Airport Winchester Virginia by Valley Airways Inc seeks eager applicants for flight training.
The City of Brotherly Love refers to Philadelphia. The famous war correspondent who wrote Soldiers of Fortune is Richard Harding Davis. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow was written by Washington Irving.
Tim Saw learns from Dr. Wilson that a fellow student claimed ownership of Reeves's thesis material. Reeves was cleared after university inquiries, but the accuser's motive could fuel a possible murder plot. Tim plans to wire the dean for the accuser's name and report to Inspector Lee.
Jack O Neal through his father Samuel Dennis O Neal of Stephens City compromised a $2,000 damage suit against John Willis in Frederick County Circuit Court for $240. The settlement appears in the court entry.
H K Benham as Receiver seeks to attach real and personal property of Job H Cunningham and Bessie Cunningham in Frederick County Virginia to satisfy two notes totaling 353 dollars with interest and 50 dollars with interest. The defendants, nonresidents of Virginia, must appear within ten days after publication. Publication ordered in Winchester Evening Star for four weeks and copies posted and mailed to defendants.
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