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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1922
Page
7
Disjointed OCR fragment refers to the Eighteenth Amendment and organizational power. The readable text is unclear but hints at oversight or representation issues within organized groups and constitutional action.
A set of clipped exchanges includes bootlegger propaganda versus home brewers and a scolding father about a son's fashion bill. Other snippets touch on marriage suitability and a wife staying home to save money, with light innuendo about finances and distance.
A wry exchange on when a honeymoon ends cites a wife asking for something and a husband replying he cannot afford it. The text then discusses the suffix ard as a Saxon personal name ending signaling character, with examples like Goddard Giffard and drunkard, sottish, lazy.
A fragment from a party transcript shows a quip about the coxswain of a crew preferring steering eight men to one woman. The exchange highlights social tensions and gender dynamics reflected in the gathering.
A 1922 letter from 180 Class II railroads rebuts President Harding on strike settlement terms. It argues loyal workers must keep seniority and employment rights, and warns concessions to strikers would undermine the Labor Board and disrupt railroad operations.
Shenandoah Valley National Bank of Winchester announces a public sale of three contiguous farms in Frederick County Virginia under the Gore will. The August 26 1922 auction offers each tract separately and then as a whole, with possession after reserves and terms requiring one third cash and two year notes with six percent interest.
The Shenandoah Valley National Bank of Winchester Virginia as trustee under Walter T Gore's will reserves the right to reject all bids. Auction committee members named Roy P Duvall A B Richards M Lohr Capper Stewart Bell W Hiett with counsel R Gray Williams. Dated 7-25-4wks.
Mr Meekton explains his wife objects to his smoking not for him but for the smoke that harms the geraniums. He notes exhausting weather as a chat topic and apologizes for his frayed hat worn on his knee. Her pointed question prompts a light domestic moment.
Tommy calls the visitor April Showers to cue May flowers, a playful nickname explaining the joke as he greets May’s beau.
Gladys wrote to his father that she would make no more dresses until the account was settled. Helen asked for his response and Gladys relayed that he sent a letter of thanks.
A quip from Literary Digest puns on a wife’s spending and her dog Fido. The line mocks a husband who calls her extravagant for insisting on monogrammed dog biscuits.
A conversation questions entrusting a large sum to a young bearer. One asks for an armed escort to prevent holdup, while the other worries about appearing eccentric for proposing such protection.
A brief note indicates a bird of passage will depart the area tomorrow. The exchange records a light, humorous farewell to the departing creature with a playful tone.
The verse critiques early football lore and a halfback described as distant or sidelined, noting shifts in position and the changing view of players and strategies within college teams. The concise poem reflects on tradition and the evolving game.
A man seeks balance yet admits bias toward friends his view of them is harsh. He fears that others justify misdeeds by proximity to those friends and reflects on how loyalty skews judgment, revealing tension between fairness and personal loyalties.
Madge asks about thoughts as Marjorie worries that bobbed hair may fade before her own hair regrows, reflecting fashion anxieties in a light dialogue.
Rev Dee D D appointed pastor will preach at 11 o clock Sunday morning. Rev W J Miller of Waynesboro Virginia will preach at night. Sunday school organized at 230 pm. All invited.
Mrs Wall and her son William Walter depart for Warrenton Virginia to visit Mrs J Maurice Rowzie the sister of Mrs Wall. Mrs D L Sampson and Mrs Mary S Taylor of Winston Salem are visiting at Forest Glen the home of Mrs H W McVicar. Mrs M E Sampson of Staunton is visiting at Forest Glen the home of Mrs H W McVicar.
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