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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1923
Page
4
A narrator recalls a salon day with a tailor who mocks his ragged clothes. He laments unsuitable garments and social jinx while recounting failed efforts to secure work and a proper coat. The piece SRs a melancholic travel of verse through humor and hardship.
A Washington Times obituary tribute highlights a man praised for patience gentleness integrity and balance. It notes his compassion for children and the needy and his calm under burdens while pursuing success.
A fragmented political letter urges farmers to stay hopeful after a recent defeat. It stresses organizing, fair play, and persistence, praising a just cause and urging support for a preferred candidate, while vowing continued effort and engagement.
Washington and Marion Ohio reel in mourning as Warren G Harding’s funeral path marks a somber national farewell. Veterans, crowds, and officials honor the late President with solemn rites from the Capitol to his Ohio home, where modest services precede final interment.
A new chemical named Pesky Devila Quietus or P D Q is priced at 36 cents and claimed to rapidly rid houses of bedbugs ants and roaches. It is promoted as safe and quick and said to be used by hospitals and railroad companies. Sold in seven bottles as double strength liquid by Franck Lakers and Son and other druggists.
The nation honors President Harding with simple rites and child choral verses as his coffin arrives on the funeral caisson. Citizens recall him as wholesome, genial, and dutiful, a man whose life rose from printer to president amid republics’ respect and sorrow.
In Washington on August 8 a crowd on Pennsylvania Avenue and Twelfth Street witnessed President Harding’s last ride in the White House to the Capitol. General Pershing and a military procession moved beneath bands as mourners filled the heat of the city. The scene reflected a nation in silent grief for a leader who died in exalted station.
The State Highway Commission proposes locating Route 7 from Double Toll Gates west to Winchester then east over the Winchester Berryville Turnpike to Berryville and northeast along State Aid Highway 25 to Baxters and near the West Virginia line intersecting WV Route 50. Objections must be filed at the State Highway Commission office in Richmond by September 10, 1923 at noon.
The university outlines free departments for Virginians and minimum expenses. It lists courses in fine arts architecture business chemistry and more. A loan program is available for students and women and includes the summer quarter offerings.
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