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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1921
Page
4
The piece Ripp ling Raymes by Walt Mason extols buying locally and supporting hometown craftsmen like Jinks the tinsmith. It celebrates staying in Punktown with neighbors helping each other and boosts the value of home commerce over distant imports.
There will be two socials at Painter Hill school on Wednesday December 7 offering pies lunch boxes candy and other items for sale. A percentage will be rendered by the children for the school. Welcome Miss Florence Clem returns from Washington D C after Thanksgiving holidays. Mr C C Bauserman business caller in Winfield. Mr and Mrs Fred Ridings and Mrs C C Bauserman visited New Market on Sunday. Alfred Rinker purchased a new car. Agnes Ramsburg teacher at Pisani spent Thanksgiving with her parents in Arden West Virginia. Ruth Manuel was a caller in ster Saturday.
An old advertisement touts Olive Tablets to brighten olive colored skin and clear a coated tongue. It promises relief from poor appetite and bad mouth taste with small daily doses and claims millions of boxes sold yearly at 15 and 30 cents.
Real estate ads show six room brick dwellings on S Braddock and N Kent streets with prices 3250 and 3000, two new six room houses on N Main Street from 2700 to 2900, a six room house near Handley Schools and other lots. Also mentions a house with large lot renting at 25 per month and a brick dwelling priced at 12000, plus various country property and business propositions.
Richmond reports higher average teacher salaries than Winchester and other cities. The Staunton News Leader notes Winchester spends about 105000 on a school system serving about 1500 students yet pays teachers 1288 on average while Richmond averages 1337. The Handley fund is credited for Winchester’s high local-fund share and overall ranking.
Advertises Halls Catarrh Medicine as a tonic and blood purifier that acts through the blood on mucous surfaces to reduce inflammation and restore normal conditions. Claims to aid those in a run down state and notes availability from all druggists with circulars from J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio.
Mrs A G Carter of Crow Agency owned the ceremonial pipe used by Marshal Foch and Chief Plenty Coups at Crow Agency Montana. The pipe linked to peace was displayed in Billings after being brought by Richard Krossel and attended by Mr and Mrs Hoover and Mrs Conner. Cemented by reports of the quarry near Pipestone Man the stone’s soft stage made carving easier before air exposure hardened it.
The Star lists current wholesale quotes from local markets for butter, young chickens, hens, roosters, turkeys, rabbits, corn meal, rye, barley, hay, and other staples. Prices show wide ranges across items including eggs, country and creamery butter, and assorted flours, with notes of corrections and potential typographical errors.
A 68 acre Frederick County Virginia farm owned by the late Fred M Carver to be sold at public auction in Winchester on December 10 1921. The property features a six room house barn silo well water peach orchard and timber. Possession April 1922. One third cash at sale and balance in two annual installments with bonds and deed of trust. Special Commissioner M M Lynch. Clerk C C Brannon. Auctioneers Duvall and Dunn.
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