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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1931
Page
10
Rev J C Hooks extols Nathan Bedford Forrest as the supreme cavalry commander praise from Grant and others. The piece details Forrest's raids in Tennessee Mississippi and Arkansas his captures and battles his chivalry and religious faith and devotion to wife and church.
The city dedicates a park in Memphis to General Forrest and his wife, with a grand monument. A caretaker guards the site while a veteran questions the condemned man’s salvation, and a sentinel defends that if he seeks heaven none can block him.
Dr Clendening notes that diet balance is key to prevention and cites a Labrador survey showing high calories but low vitamins, calcium, and iron leading to scurvy rickets and dental decay, undermining Hutchinson's advice. Vertigo reader query and editor’s note promote pamphlets by Dr Clendening for health guidance.
New York April 22 The steamship Ile De France flagship of the French lines was searched by 125 men acting on an authoritative tip that 1 000 cases of liquor and narcotics were being smuggled into the United States.
A brief note asserts that a hoax is not something used for chopping, clarifying the misinterpretation in a concise, pointed line.
President Hoover presided as James G. Ray landed an autogiro on the South lawn amid a ceremony awarding Harold Pitcairn the Collier trophy for 1930. The second craft to touch the White House grounds, Ray ran 20 feet after a brief pass in a southeast wind.
Owen D. Young argues in Collier's Weekly that economic society owes the faithful and efficient worker three things: the highest possible wage, security of employment, and retirement provision. A worker lacking these cannot function at full efficiency.
A terse reflection on wealth and friendship where prosperity gathers many friends, yet loneliness greets the storm. The line attributes the shift to fortune isolating a person once surrounded by companions.
Notice of sale of The Haddox Terrace Grocery to Samuel L Boyles. Seller disclaims responsibility for any bills after April 20, 1931. Thanks patrons for their patronage.
Cross Junction Virginia residents hosted visitors from Berkeley Springs Winchester Capon Bridge Bloomery and Gainesboro. Eleanor Braithwaite Gladys Adams and others attended gatherings at Braithwaite DeHaven and Edwards residences. A Band Hall performance of My Dixie Rose drew large crowds Friday and Saturday.
The piece lists World War I armistice signers on both sides including Marshal Foch and Vice Admiral E Weymss for the Allies and Mathias Eroberger General Von Winterfeld Count Alfred von Obendorff and Naval Captain von Salon for Germany with Weygand and Von Helldorf also named. A correspondent notes a weary refrain and mentions the earliest steel production in the 1840s.
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