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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1923
Page
5
Ladies coats priced at 80 and 85 dollars listed at 49.60. Bolivia garments show 35 dollars value cut to 17.75. Children’s dresses and coat suits offered at 25 and 30 values with discounts to 15.95. Short phrases emphasize genuine markdowns across a value-driven promotion.
Citizens Gasoline and Oil, recently approved by the State Corporation Commission, opens an electric filling station at the Collis Wagner building on East Water Place. The plant serves three cars at once with 18 cent high-grade gas, tires and accessories, and vulcanizing services. E. W. Collis remains general manager while on a business trip and visiting family on South Washington Street.
The First Christian Church hosts a week night service with Odd Fellows and Rebekah lodge delegations. Rev. J F Morgan delivers a message on standing before the judgement seat of Christ and the necessity of faith in Jesus for salvation. Tonight's message asks what if Jesus should come to Winchester, with a large expected attendance.
The report notes that high incomes shrink while tax avoidance rises as estates shift to exempt securities. It argues a 25 percent top surtax would increase revenue via volume, and calls estate tax reforms to curb capital taxation. It cites farm credit trends, drought in agricultural gains, and urges careful, nonpolitical federal building planning with rentals at $20 million yearly.
Durant coach and local Standard Oil distributor manager Arthur Streit escaped a late Monday night car fire near Hupp's Hill while returning from Winchester. Gasoline spilled from a loosened distributor ignited by exhaust sparks, burning upholstery and floor boards but not the gas tank. The engine fate remains to be checked. the car was insured.
Capt. P. M. Walker and Kenneth N. Gilpin with Admiral Cary T. Grayson joined Harrison Nesbit of a Pittsburgh bank at his Han cock Maryland hunting lodge. The party bagged 12 wild turkeys and 20 pheasants. Mr. Gilpin later judged hunter classes at the Cincinnati horse show, now regarded as the second largest in the United States.
GnnHummer of Mount Williams Frederick county was released after claims against him were adjusted. Sheriff Pannett said checks cashed at the Commercial and Savings Bank by Raymond Long Middletown Wright Keffer local merchants Maynard Bayliss Chambersville and Roy Cesk Savage and service-station manager on the valley pike near town were part of the warrant case.
James Lee Catlett a local resident employed at Jones' Creamery on East Piccadilly street is reportedly returning tonight from the West Virginia interior where he has hunted bears for several days He went equipped with a long double-barrel shotgun and heavy ammunition Friends say he has not been heard from since leaving for the wilds and expect a report on the bear hunt upon his return
Mrs James L Robinson and Mr and Mrs Ray Robinson have returned from a visit with friends in Washington.
Several groups advance as speculators push long side in early trading. Automobiles, cement, and tobacco lift prices to new 1923 highs. Erie railroad shares hold near peak after profit taking. Call opens at 4 12 percent. Foreign changes tumble on British pound and continental markets follow the slide.
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