Classified Advertising Rates and Post Office Notice
Winchester Evening Star lists advertising rates two cents per word with minimum charge quarter. display ads due by 9 PM the day before publication. transient rate forty five cents per line. Rates and national representatives are provided for printers and advertisers.
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Tenney- Woodward and Conklin, Inc
New York
Detroit Kansas City
San Francisco
Chicago
Boston
Atlanta
Los Angeles
Reading of Subscription Rates and Bible Verse
The text lists subscription prices by period and method with a Bible verse quote. It states one year six months three months and one month rates for advance payments and carrier delivery. The fragment ends with a Bible verse from 1 John 4 19.
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Einsolateden
Emptying The Coffee Pots On currency hoarding and sugar hoards amid crisis
The piece notes 10 years since large currency was reduced and 10,775,173 old bills still hidden. It questions public hoarding in crises, citing sugar purchases as a trigger and suggesting psychology behind self preservation driving caches in trunks and jars. It predicts more such conversions as alarms of scarcity arise.
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Treasury
Romance and Railroading Meets Legal Setback
A Los Angeles suitor sues Union Pacific for 5636 claiming the railroad failed to deliver 18.34 sent to his beloved. He says he bought furniture and a lot equity to start a home, then spent 100 more to win her, but she never arrived and the romance collapsed.
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California
Los Angeles
U. P
D’amour
Communizing Poland and the Shock of Soviet Actions
The report describes Russia seizing Polish territory and imposing Soviet methods on peasants and workers, targeting landlords and small landowners. It condemns redistribution rhetoric as flimsy banditry, warning of chaos, devastation, and widespread suffering for Poles under Soviet occupation.
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Russia
Poland
Editorial on General von Fritsch Death and Nazi Power
The New York Times reprints an editorial noting the peculiar handling of General Werner von Fritsch’s death near Warsaw. It highlights his traditional Prussian role, clash with Hitler, and the 1934 purge of rival officers, questioning how his loss affects Hitler as war looms.
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New York Times
Werner von Fritsch
Warsaw
Hitler
von Fritsch
von Fritschl
Goering
Ernst Roehm
Boehm
Marshal von Blomberg
von Blomberg
Germany
World's Biggest Flowers Grow Eight Feet In Forty Days
Scott's Scrap Book notes a striking horticultural claim that a specimen reached eight feet in about 40 days. Scientific scrutiny and grower details are not provided here, but the feature highlights rapid floral growth and curious botanical records.
Word quiz from The Daily Quiz page two
Answers to seven questions are requested. Questions cover geography leadership and pronunciation with items on continents salmon after spawning stock market bull term Bavarian origin length comparisons state locations and a cabinet pioneer.
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Orinoco River
Stock Exchange
U.S
Hot Springs National Park
Hawaii
U. S
Nicobar Islands
Hyphenation Rules for Compounded Numerals in Text
The guidance notes that numerals when combined with other words are hyphenated, as in one-cent piece five o'clock tea or 100-yard dash. This rule applies to compound terms across style guides and editorial copy.
Armory funding decision hinges on government funds
Winchester voters pass a large bond proposal by 705 to 151 approving $33,000 for partial armory construction. The outcome reflects the community's stance while awaiting remaining funds. Separately, French and British recognition of Hitler's Sudetenland claims is cited as the path to peace. The Old Frederickstown Garden Club finishes second in Inter-Club Competition at Purcellville Flower Show.
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Winchester Pass
Hitler
Sudetenland
Frederickstown
Purcellville
Court Denies Receivership Plea for Valley Airways
Corporation Court rejects N. H. Car penter Jr plea for receivership of Valley Airways Inc. Two escapees from Richmond penitentiary, condemned for murder, shoot three guards during breakout. Miss Edna Kremer, a telephone operator at A. C. Oates Lumber Co. office, reports a man robbing the premises and curses her over the wire.
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Corporation Court
N. H. Carpenter, Jr
Valley Airways, Inc
Richmond Penitentiary
Edna Kremer
A. C. Oates Lumber Co
Florida hurricane injures many as damage mounts
Ten years ago a powerful hurricane battered the southern tip of Florida with numerous injuries and extensive property damage. In Baltimore the M E Conference warns new ministers under Bishop Collins Denny to avoid political campaigning from the pulpit. Four new handsome homes rise on Morningside Drive in a Winchester development.
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Florida
Baltimore
M. E
Collins Denny
Morningside Drive
Winchester
New York A C runner sets world 600 yard record
Homer Baker of New York A C claims a world record in the 600 yard run at the club's annual games twenty five years ago. H Brooke Taylor of Grimes fractures his arm while cranking an automobile to start it. The Philadelphia Athletics and Boston Bees prepare for the World Series. Allied forces hammer the German right on the Western Front and may close on Kaiser's line as Von Kluck retreats. Germans begin siege of Antwerp and the Japanese threaten Tsing Tai in China.
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Homer Baker
New York A. C
H. Brooke Taylor
Grimes
Philadelphia Athletics
Boston Bees
Western Front
Kaiser
von Kluck
Serge
Antwerp
Tsing Tai
China
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Dublin
Warner Brothers
Hollywood
Lya Lys
Ina Loschi
Virginia Vale
Dorothy Howe
John Frazier
Gira
Vancouver
John Garfield
Barbara Reed
Donald Briggs
Ann Sheridan
Jackie Cooper
Medicos
Jackie
Gene Autry
Autry
Gene
Roy Rogers
Ilona Massey
Ilona
New York
Andrew Reiners
Budapest
Babs Johnson
the McNaught Syndicate, Inc
Philip Mackey Named Manager of Atlanta Telephone Co
Philip D. Mackey formerly of Winchester is appointed manager of the Atlanta Standard Telephone Co in Georgia. The 13th annual convention of the Virginia State Fireman's Association in Roanoke adjourns as the event closes. War rumors flare over Transvaal Britain tensions as conflicts near.
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Philip D. Mackey
Winchester
Atlanta, Ga
Standard Telephone Co
Virginia State Fireman's Association
Roanoke
Transvaal
South Africa
Britain
Lorena Hamilton Visits Phantom Ranch in Arizona Tale
Lorena Hamilton arrives to visit her uncle George Krazer at Phantom ranch where loyal cowboys Jerry Dale and Shot Rogers guard the cattle in a rain soaked landscape. Rogers stalks a Mexican outsider by the Ghost river while Lorena plans a dance at Blanco.
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Lorena Hamilton
Arizona
George Krazer
Phantom Ranch
Jerry Dale
Lorena
Shot Rogers
Rogers
Ghost River
Sally Brazee
Sally
Blanco
George
A Great Turkey State: Virginia's Turkeys Lead East
Progressive Farmer lauds Virginia as the largest turkey growing state east of the Mississippi. It argues favorable climate, seeds, and a 70 million consumer market support a growing turkey industry. It cites efficient feed conversion across ages and compares turkeys to rabbits hogs lamb and beef, noting higher price per pound for turkey meat.
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Virginia
Mississippi River
Old Dominion
Answers To Questions From The West Point And Beyond
A compilatory Q and A covers enlistment figures for Vincennes urban units at West Point, Bryan’s Cross of Gold speech origins, Death Valley naming by Forty Niners, early tea planting in the United States, New York World's Fair labor, Senate counts, tobacco markets, age unknown census figures, popular 1900 novels, the Maximilian death scene song La Paloma, and Alexander Winton’s 1899 long auto trip from Cleveland to New York with fuel efficiency notes.
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Vincennes
United States
West Point
Flower
A. B. Box
Monsieur Beaucaire
Regular Army
National Guard
Bryan
J. D. A. Mark Sullivan
Our Times
Missouri Valley
Maximilian
Sebastian Yradier
America
Alexander Winton
Cleveland
New York
Winton
Is there such a thing as a bird without wings
A New Zealand bird the kiwi or apteryx has no visible wings or tail only stumps visible when feathers are moved its long beak nostrils at the end used to dig for worms and its body adapts to burrowing lifestyle.
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New Zealand
An Excellent New Map of Europe
An up to date five color map shows changes across Europe under Hitler and Mussolini. It includes essential statistical information to help understand European news and offers a cost of ten cents postpaid. Mail to Information Bureau Washington D C with name address and encloses ten cents.
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Europe
Hitler
Mussolini
Atlantic
Roz Russell in My Girl Friday Sparks Hollywood Debate
Hollywood gossip notes Roz Russell as potential My Girl Friday star amid a history of refusals by Lombard Dunne Arthur and others. The column recalls It Happened One Night success after Gable and Colbert loans. It also covers stranded stars, travel, and industry chatter about marriages and other tabloids.
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Hollywood
Rosalind Russell
Carole Lombard
Irene Dunne
Jean Arthur
Columbia
Howard Hawks
Miss Arthur
Clark Gable
Claudette Colbert
Claudette and Clark
Miss Colbert
Gable
Roz Russell
Lombard
Dunne
Arthur
Jimmie Fidle
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