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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1922
Page
4
The fragment lists newspaper affiliations and a jumble of wholesale and farm market prices. It mentions Associated Press usage rules and several agricultural items including butter, eggs, flour, corn, wheat, hay, and cattle. The text includes stray pricing figures and market terms.
An August 3 1922 Kansas City Star column discusses how girls names have shifted from traditional terms like Jane Ellen Emmy Lou and Mary Rose to more romantic options. It notes generational patterns and cites western names such as D Arlines and Nadines while contrasting with Pilgrim era names and Eastern traveler impressions.
A verse by Walt Magen mocks dietary zealots and meat eaters. The speaker parodies medical talk about disease and diet, blasting fruit philosophy while lamely praising meat heavy living and arguing health comes from indulgence. A humorous critique of dietary fads and medical cant.
The Star republishes a garbled market listing with wholesale prices and middlings categories. Readable items include figures like 09 1,05 6.75 and 3.25, but many words are corrupted, leaving an unclear pagination of commodities and values.
An ad-style notice proclaims Allenrho dissolves uric acid deposits and relieves rheumatic pain within 24 hours. It offers a full money back guarantee through Boyd Drug Co and urges readers to try the pint bottle, claiming dramatic results in severe cases.
The Hagerstown Maryland reward for the gang of masked attackers who tarred and feathered Walter Thompson of Baltimore and Dewey Batt of Winchester, railroad car inspectors, and Bruch Etter, a railroad employee, has been increased to 3000. The Dickson Construction Company and the County Board of Commissioners each added 1000 to the fund, with citizens offering up to 1000 for arrests or 100 for each offender. Three organizations work with county and city officials and the Western Maryland Railway to catch them. state attorney Wolfinger expects results within hours.
A Chesapeake and Ohio Railway clerk was kidnapped in Clifton Forge Virginia between 9 and 10 PM by unidentified assailants. He was stripped tied to a tree and later freed by a farmer and returned home, none severely harmed. The incident follows local strike unrest and police report few arrests despite an injunction against such acts.
Mr and Mrs J D Scully and family return to East McKeesport Pa after a trip through the Valley of Virginia. They visited J D Lakeman of Opequon and were joined by Miss Anna Lanham. Mrs C D Baker Miss Grace Rater and Mr Blanton Braithwaite accompany at Dr and Mrs W M Janney home in Albin as guests.
We announce a series of afternoon and evening demonstrations of cooking with gas at the new Gas Office 21 West Piccadilly Street. Callers will be served dainties made on the premises and ladies will receive useful souvenirs. Gas cooking offers more for less money even at current rates, come and be convinced.
A surprise birthday dinner was held at Mr. and Mrs. Charles DeHaven's home near Angers Store in Gainsboro Virginia. DeHaven was 73 and Mrs DeHaven 53. Family members from Martinsburg Berkley Springs Winchester Ridge and Angers Store attended.
Mr Percival proprietor of the merchandise sales system bearing his name died in a Montgomery West Virginia hospital after his automobile plunged over an embankment. He was thought to have fallen asleep while en route to Montgomery from another part of the county where he had been conducting a sale. He leaves a widow and four children and was well known in the lower Shenandoah Valley as a sales manager.
In Martinsburg Virginia Miss Myrion Gianakos wed Stephen Julias with over sixty guests including the Greek minister to the United States and the mayor of Martinsburg. The ceremony was in Ellis Hall at 4 30 p m conducted by a Greek Orthodox priest from Washington followed by a feast featuring roasted lambs and more.
The account notes a Greek wedding rite where guests kissed the bridegroom after the ceremony, while the bride was exempt, and mentions abundant edibles including a dozen chickens.
George T. Lynn of Kansas City, Missouri lauded Winchester’s Star special edition calling it wonderful and city worthy. He praised the ads indicating locals need not shop in big cities. Lynn, son of the late George Lynn of Winchester, shared the compliment during a motor trip in the area.
A state requisition for 22,400 dollars covers witnesses transport and other costs for the Blizzard treason trial and the Wilburn murder case in Charles Town Jefferson county. Trials resume August 7 with John Wilburn facing a murder charge before Judge Woods and a jury. Walter Allen’s treason trial will begin after the Wilburn case concludes, about a week later.
The Rev Dr H W DuBose of Danville Virginia has accepted an invitation to preach at morning and evening services in the local Presbyterian Church next Sunday August 6 at 11 and 8 o'clock. He pastors the First Presbyterian Church of Danville and is regarded as a leading Virginian Synod clergyman. The public is invited.
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