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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1935
Page
4
The Winchester Evening Star notes it is entered at the Winchester Virginia post office as a second class publication and published daily except Sundays by The Evening Star Publishing Co. of Winchester.
Rates show mall subscriptions by period and payment in advance. Carrier options include one year four fifty, six months two twenty five, three months one twenty, and one month forty cents. The fragment ends with cluttered spacing and stray characters.
Advertising rates list cents per word for classifieds with a 25 cent minimum, memorials at 1.50 for four stanzas, display ads with borders due by 10 A M, transient rate 42 cents per inch, contracts on application, and national reps in New York Chicago Detroit Pittsburgh Des Moines and Atlanta.
Mr Cooper argues US apple production will largely rely on foreign outlets for profit and notes 17 percent of the commercial crop was exported 1928 to 1933. He says nationalist foreign policies may intensify competition, while the apple industry remains on a sounder footing, though export prospects are uncertain. Eastern growers benefit from proximity to markets.
In a Culpeper Exponent front page feature signed Pro Bono a hostile look at Senator Byrd marks a tense view of Virginia politics. The piece likens ex Governor Westmoreland Davis to a rat as Byrd leads against anti Byrd opponents in the Roosevelt era.
United States Bureau of Agricultural Economics analyst Mr. M. R. Cooper described the shift from farm to commercial orchards after 1887, noting a halving of tree numbers since 1910 and a production drop from peak 1911–15. He warned of continued losses but a sounder industry, with capacity around 160 million bushels annually and 6 percent lower five-year average yields.
The piece mocks a Rapid City drug store ad “Special prices today, as boss is out of town” and praises advertising as the art that gets people to buy today what they might not have planned tomorrow. It claims newspapers are the greatest prosperity builders, driving more sales than any other medium.
The USDA is shifting focus to cut food distribution costs to reduce the consumer price gap. June 1932 farmer share was 31 cents per dollar, by August 1935 it rose to 45 cents. Ten foods tracked include beef pork poultry butter peas potatoes flour bread eggs milk.
Waynesboro News-Virginian notes Fire Prevention Week runs October 6 to 12. The piece urges thoughtful attention to fire safety and extols friendly fire under control as essential for warmth cooking and industry.
The piece argues that unfriendly fire inflicts indirect costs that exceed direct damages, harming property, jobs, purchasing power, and community progress. It warns that neglect and carelessness cause fires in homes and factories, urging personal responsibility to prevent future losses.
Norfolk editor notes Virginia's deep tobacco heritage tracing to Rolfe and Pocahontas and questions why the tobacco industry has long escaped festival attention while Apple Blossom and potato festivals garner focus. The piece frames tobacco as Virginia’s defining agrarian product with world impact.
Railroad freight traffic has surpassed four year highs with steady gains through August and September. Coal shipments and anticipated strike activity boosted volumes, while truck competition obscures full totals. If truck and rail freight were combined, overall business movement would appear even larger.
A. E. Baker of Hayfield is credited with trapping a chicken hawk using bare hands. The item appears in a local brief among other community notes.
Mr and Mrs John Hay Whitney spent their honeymoon at Llangollen. Miss Elizabeth Cougill and Els worth L Keller are married. George L Peacemaker 63 dies at his Cross Roads area home. Billie Dove stars in Sweetheart and Wives at Capitol Theatre. Great Lakes storm claims five lives.
Emory L. Coblentz returns from Europe and is hosted at a Frederick Maryland hotel banquet, with many prominent local citizens attending the event. A Sunken S-51 submarine is found to have a damaged bulkhead by divers. Arthur G. Jones Woolen Mill Corporation advertises 7 percent preferred stock for sale. Maxime DuCharme, operator of Hotel Jack, plans to keep the business open in Fort Lauderdale Florida.
The 56 father and eight thousand acre owner valued at twenty five thousand dollars seeks pardon from an eight year state penitentiary sentence. Miss Grace L Oglesbee twenty seven dies in Martinsburg West Virginia. Captain Hugh A Braxton reports Staunton favors city manager government. John M Steck introduces ordinance to inaugurate the system here.
A humorous collage notes Mrs. Howard Davis describing the cycle of buying new furniture on credit and defaulting, a New Britain fire crew finding a ham sandwich in a false alarm, and a Newark mechanic uncovering a five foot copperhead under a car hood. Other items include deputy dog Toyo’s quirky custody chain and a hospital mouse dying from panic.
The for sale column notes a tombstone described as slightly used offered at a low price. The brief item mirrors a morbid, offbeat classified listing in Philadelphia.
Virgil Wood refused to surrender his dog after his family moved to an apartment and disappeared while believed to be hitchhiking toward his grandmother in Meade. Police conducted a search for him as relatives urged him to return.
Lenox Iowa resident H E Holden cannot explain why he has received one driver license after another from the State Motor Vehicle Department. The agency also cannot explain the duplicate licenses and promised an investigation into the mix up.
Central Press reports national managers expect Huey P Long influence to disintegrate within weeks with new forces emerging in Louisiana and Washington. Rival strategists see heirs quarreling, while Roosevelt gains from the division. New Deal supporters seek independent lawmakers, not old guard figures.
CROSS ROADS Virginia September 27 Mrs Fannie Sirbaugh 65 widow of Uriah Sirbaugh died at her daughter’s home in Three Churches West Virginia. She is survived by one son Clinton Sirbaugh and three daughters all residing at Three Churches. The body was taken to Fairview Church for services conducted by the Rev Mr Snyder assisted by Rev S J Goode with interment in the adjoining cemetery.
The page features a quiz asking for a famous American author who left Yale for lack of study. It answers James Fenimore Cooper, famed for The Spy and The Last of the Mohicans. It also asks which state is called the copper state, Arizona, and explains the origin of the term doubting Thomas.
Present and past rainfall figures show the 24 hour ending 8 a.m. with no precipitation. September to date 4.43 inches and year to date 28.57 inches. The Winchester Laboratory 22 year average is 34.61 inches per year. Monthly averages list January 2.35, February 1.94, March 2.81, April 3.16, May 3.88, June 3.60, July 2.39, August 3.35, September 2.43, October 2.90, November 2.51, December 2.30 inches.
Oklahoma's Salt Plains present a 50 mile expanse with a salt crust too thin for commercial mining yet too thick to remove easily, describing the unusual geography and its commercial limitations.
On her twenty fourth birthday Carol Kennedy faces a lavish dinner where relatives press to control her wealth. She rejects the plan and announces she will move to New York to work, own an apartment, and live life on her own terms.
New York Sept 27 Dockworkers from Portland to Norfolk Va began voting on renewing last year's labor contract. About forty thousand longshoremen are affected. Joseph P Ryan head of the ILA said final results would be released at association headquarters by Monday. Policemen Carry House Keys In many Spanish cities a local officer carries keys to dwellings. When households return late they must locate the officer to enter.
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