Display and Classified Advertising Rates Listed
The Winchester Evening Star notes advertising rates: classified at 2 cents per word with a 25 cent minimum, display ads 9 P.M. deadline the prior day, transient 45 cents per inch, and cross country national reps listed. Associated Press rights affirmed for local and AP news.
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Tenney and Conklin, Inc
New York
Detroit
Kansas City
San Francisco
Chicago
Boston
Adante
Los Angeles
Subscription Rates and a Bibled Verse
Advertisement lists carrier rates in advance for yearly six month and three month plans. The text ends with a biblical quote from 2 Chronicles 9 about God’s gracious mercy for those who return to him.
Senate Approves Favorable Action on Peace Measure
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee reported favorably the Administration's embargo repeal and cash and carry proposal. The piece rejects removing the ban on American ships ferrying goods to belligerents, arguing restraint protects non involvement and avoids war. The Hull-Roosevelt bill is praised and early passage anticipated.
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Senate Forign Relations Committee
America
United States
Senate
Dark view of allied prospects from Madison College speaker
Dr. Otto F Frederikson, Madison College professor, told the Rotary Club that Germany has superior industrial power and income, with a larger population and stronger air force. He argued the Siegfried line is impregnable, Poland fell quickly, and allies risk a long, difficult war, though the writer suspects underestimating allied strength.
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Otto F. Frederikson
Madison College
Rotary Club
Frederikson
Germany
England
France
United Kingdom
Harrisonburg
Siegfried Line
Hitler
Poland
West Front
Dr. Frederikson
Russia
Italy
Japan
Unemployment Term Baffling A World Group In Baltimore Map Makers
A Baltimore geographic society report notes unemployment as a rare term among a small group of workers in America. The piece highlights map makers who produce about 4 000 maps annually and work at peak skill levels during their careers in a highly specialized field.
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America
Baltimore
The Ever-Changing World of Map Making
Map makers face high standards and rapid color work as they produce daily maps. The industry thrives though today’s output may seem archaic tomorrow, yet collectors value even fleeting curiosities from early map presses.
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America
World champion egg layer hen scrappy sets record
A White Leghorn named scrappy topped the record with 376 eggs in 359 days. The piece notes poultry as a growing U S industry and contrasts egg output and industry gains with cattle hog and milk sectors. It cites progress from 65 eggs per year in 1930 to 100 in 1939 and forecasts 200 annually. It also recalls per capita egg production rising from nine dozen to 22 dozen over fifty years.
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Scrappy
United States
Seven Quiz Questions From The Daily Quiz Page
The reader is asked to answer seven test questions on page 2. Questions cover geography religion physiology and history including Polynesian habitation, a fast growing grass, rods to inches, origins of major religions, river directions, Mars versus Earth, the German shepherd breed, brackish water locations, US time zones, and the first White House occupant.
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North America
Mars
Earth
Continental
United States
U. S
White House
Washington
Common Error: Hyphen Use in Adjective Phrases
A note on hyphen placement in phrases like long distance telephone and up to date styles. It explains that adjectives before nouns should be combined with hyphens when they form a single idea, and gives examples of correct and incorrect usage to avoid misreading.
Tornado Destroys Charleston Area Slams City
A historic Charleston tornado causes extensive property damage and 25 deaths with many injured. Wilson Cranswell dies from injuries after a telephone pole crushes him when a guy wire snaps. Derek and Colin Hayley, Richmond freshmen, are pledged by Kappa Sigma at the University of Richmond.
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Charleston
8. C
Wilson Cranswell
Derek
Colin Hayley
Kappa Sigma Fraternity
University of Richmond
Hauptman denies complicity in Lindbergh kidnapping case
Five years after the Lindbergh child murder, Bruno Hauptman denies involvement. A Roosevelt speech at a Human Needs conference cites a unified business drive and mentions a sign on a drayman's wagon proclaiming NR A status. Minnie and her boss H. Swanson are noted in relation to the era's economic measures.
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Bruno Hauptman
Lindbergh
Roosevelt
Minnie
H. Swanson
Drayman
On With The Show Plays At Local Theatre
Ten years ago the first fully natural color vitaphone motion picture On With The Show is being shown at a local theatre. A miscellaneous shower is given for Miss Kath erine Orndorff of Strasburg who will marry A H Jackson of this city soon. Investigations show only a few Virginia apples clear for foreign ports via Hampton Roads Virginia.
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Katherine Orndorff
Strasburg
A. H. Jackson
Virginia
Hampton Roads
Winchester Ministers Call Prayers for Peace Across City Churches
Twenty five years ago Rev G W Stover returns to Winchester U B Church at Virginia Conference. Seventh District Republicans name no opposition to Rep James Hay for reelection. Following President Wilsons recommendations, prayers for peace will be offered in all city churches this Sunday. The 17 day battle of the Aisne River nears climax as heavy artillery shells the front. carrier pigeon carries report of two British ships sunk by a German submarine off the coast.
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G. W. Stover
Winchester U. B
Virginia
James Hay
House of Representatives
Wilson
Winchester Ministerial Association
Aisne River
Florida
Dance at Star Fort Ends With Several Arrests
Forty years ago a lively dance at Star Fort erupted with police making several arrests amid heavy fighting. Local store Horsey and Atwell advertise top hats for men. Bad weather and muddy roads hinder Rev. Julian Broaddus from delivering his sermon at the Baptist church.
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Star Fort
Horsey and Atwell
The
Star
Here
Berryville
Julian Broaddus
The Phantom Valley cattle theft stake widens
Shot Rogers and four Phantom riders divide to track thieves after four men are killed. They pursue clues via riverbeds where cattle traces vanish, while Lorena Hamilton and Jerry Dale mingle at the Brazee ranch as rain intensifies and tension rises.
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George Brazee
George
Shot
Mr. Brazee
Lorena Hamilton
Mexico
Shot Rogers
Fellows
Luis Escobar
Lorena Hamilton Visits Phantom Ranch on Rustler Quest
Lorena Hamilton comes to Arizona to visit her uncle George Brazee owner of Phantom Ranch. Shot Rogers leads an expedition from the ranch to track down cattle rustlers after three Mexicans attempted to kidnap Lorena. Jerry Dale, a college bred new comer, found her.
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Lorena Hamilton
Arizona
George Brazee
Phantom Ranch
Shot Rogers
Lorena
Jerry Dale
Shot’ Rogers
Answers to Questions By Frederic J. Haskin
A quiz of trivia covering etiquette stagecoach drivers Mohair from Texan Angora goats faith of coin forgery and famous firsts. It includes Emily Post on dinner timing Charles Schwab as a boy and the origin of the Pekingese dog. It cites Panama Canal lock sizes and the oldest U S race track at Saratoga.
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Summer Palace
Peking
England
Hollywood Parade on Photo Tricks and Star Characters
In this Hollywood Parade column the talk centers on photographers using lights filters and makeup to alter faces creating standardized beauty. Joan Crawford and Gloria Swanson are cited as examples of individuality that popularity survived. Other notes mention Mickey Rooney tribute and Cesar Romero in the Cisco Kid role with humorous costume antics.
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Hollywood
Spte
Ace Camelman
Beauty Brigade
Camerman
Joan Crawford
Joan
Gloria Swanson
Gloria
Crawford’s and Swansons
Cesar Romero
Cesar
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Susa
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the Daily Quiz
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Black Midnight
Rogers
By Frederic J. Haskin
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Cresson
Pennsylvania
Samuel Pepys
Texas
Antonius Stradivarius
Romulus
Remus
Tiber
Saint John the Divine
New York City
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Panama Canal
Secreot State
Secretary of the Treasury
Saratoga
King George
John
Princes John
John Jacob Astor
Astoria
Oregon
North Carolina
Great Smoky Mountains
Cherokee
A Childen
Otranto
Horace Walpole
Charles Brockden Brown
Edgar Allen Poe
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Jimmy Fidler
Ann Sheridan
Mickey Rooney
Brice Smith
Spencer Tracy
Frank Albertson
Cecil B. de Millionaire
Dorothy Lamour
Henry Davenport
Arthur Rankin
Arthur
Tess
Bonita Granville
Miss Granville
Johnny Weissmuller
Mr. Weissmuller
Ida Lupino
Gilbert Adrian
Central America
Janet Gaynor
George Raft
Warner Brothers
Jersey City
Joe Allen, Jr
Paramount
Susan and
God
Memphis, Tenn
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