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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1920
Page
7
A Montreal waiter bet a husky customer $6 that the man could not close his fist. the waitress pried the money free. The man then offered $100 in five twenties to the waitress to take more. The judge did not believe the man and ruled against him.
A brief dialogue unfolds at a summer resort where two women discuss the risk of being found out by a jealous husband. They consider moving their conversation to a different location and then to the casino as the tension grows.
A new worker is told to begin by catching flies and placing them on sheets of Sure Catch Fly Paper in the window display. The exchange shows a humorous onboarding scene with a pharmacist or clerk guiding the novice.
A jagged line of verse hints at a poet seeking a fair sprite and asking for the sprite's name upon returning to town. The fragment remains ambiguous but indicates a correspondence theme and a missing name.
The sisters laugh at the idea of killing a lady in the play and conclude the actors merely pretend. They remark that real death every night would be too costly, as quoted from the Wasp.
The funeral for William L. Wierman 91, a Shenandoah County native and noted millwright, was held at his home with Rev. J. H. Lacy presiding and interment at Hebron Cemetery. Turner Ashby Camp veterans attended. Survived by wife Anna L. McDonald and children Ma L. Bush, William W. Baldwin, Georgia and Emma Wierman, plus Misses Georgia and Emma Wierman. Pallbearers included L A Dettra and others.
In Paris talented painters are employed to design new dresses for leaders of fashion. If they tighten styles further, painters may have to apply the dresses with their brushes. A college graduate girl questions the value of parental approval before choosing a career.
An odd exchange features a dog named Oliwed-Well and a pair called Mr Newwed arguing over who holds the speaker’s chair. The dialogue humorously assigns governance to a pet and a couple.
A reflective brief notes a man starting the season with a content outlook as he pursues a goal described as a dozen raw. The dialogue hints at lineage with Yale and a past shave of side whiskers, suggesting nostalgia and personal history.
A quip quotes Ynibbs as always running for office with the punchline that his efforts yield only exercise rather than victory in public life.
The speaker notes they await an official notification about their daughter while acknowledging prior informal assurances. The dialogue hints at an impending delegation and formal acknowledgement yet to come.
Calotabs marketed as nausea free and effective for biliousness constipation headache and indigestion. One tablet at bedtime with water cleanses the system and leaves a hearty breakfast appetite. Sold only in sealed packages for thirty five cents with money back guarantee.
Mrs Bertram Fox formerly of Berryville and her three children sailed last week from Philadelphia to her home near London. She was joined by her niece Miss Carolyn Wattles of Alexandria who will study abroad eighteen months. Mrs Fox spent the year in Berryville and Alexandria. this was her first trip to America since marriage. Her husband is with a well known English engineering firm and has worked in Palestine this past year.
Marshal Wallace and Mary Burr both colored and from Rappahannock county were married Saturday evening at the minister’s home on North Kent street by Rev Washington Johnson. The ceremony occurred in a room described as a farmer’s gathering space. The couple expects to begin life together as married partners.
USDA guidance explains sowing in hotbeds for northern celery, transplanting, and double planting. It covers shallow seeding, careful watering, blanching methods, spacing for five hundred plants, and storing by earth covering or cold frames. Also notes uses of celery stems roots seeds and varieties.
The excerpt discusses livestock feeding and management. It notes cows and mules respond to vocal handling, hogs benefit from varied feed and range from farrowing to market, lambs can self-care, clover and alfalfa improve sows’ rations, lambs gain about a quarter pound daily on good grain, corn and tankage form a strong fall pig diet, and Iowa station trials show up to forty spring pigs per acre on rape, with poorer results on ordinary soil.
Classified notice seeking housing with three or four rooms for light housekeeping. Contact C. 8 Rice and notify Winchester Electric Co. Agent unknown. details incomplete due to damaged text.
The seventy third annual session of the Great Council of Virginia I O Red Men shifts from May 19 to May 26 in Roanoke due to the State Democratic Convention in session there. Albert M Tennis grand chief of records notes two day meeting with officers committees and 150 representatives from 130 tribes expected.
A fragment reports a Turkish court granting seizure relief for eight men and providing sufficient land to support a dependent, noting the property is exempt from seizure. The text is incomplete and unclear.
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