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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1923
Page
4
The Evening Star in Winchester Virginia lists subscription prices for different terms both in mail and by carrier. It notes publication daily except Sundays and mentions consolidation with other local papers The Weekly Morning News Times and similar titles.
A notice states the Associated Press holds exclusive rights to republication of all AP credited news dispatches and all local news published in the paper. This legal directive confirms AP ownership of content and prohibits unauthorized reprinting.
Virginia respondees oppose bond issues for any purpose including roads and higher education. The editorial argues the 1902 Constitution prohibits state bond issuance and cites Dr Edwin Alderman and Homer Ferguson as proposing bonds for universities and port widening, but the public rejected bonds and tax increases, urging economy and efficiency instead.
The Cumberland Times notes a long line of curiosity about why men fund marriages to young divorced spinsters. The Philadelphia Record adds a brief item on the topic as editors ponder modern matchups and social expectations.
A dated editorial ponders why men often pursue light minded flirtations over capable women with beauty and character. It argues love is felt in the heart, not just the head, and notes social training may keep higher quality women in reserve while charm and look attract attention.
In Santa Barbara, archaeologists report a skull buried some forty cubits below ground. Walt Mason muses on the ancient owner a mock-epic lament about reckless drivers and the fate of those who sped beyond safe limits.
Local wholesale and retail markets list prices for flour butter eggs hens turkeys rabbits and walnuts with varied weights and pack sizes. Include includes butter fat creamery butter hay baled straw flour and middlings along with mixed feed and corn meal price ranges and notes on wheat and cattle values.
The Virginia page of The Baltimore Sun carries an excellent photo-engraving of Hugh S. Duffey, superintendent of the Handley Schools in Winchester, with a brief story by William McClennahan about the recent night session held for the benefit of patrons.
The new Santa Fe engines on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad pull immense trains. One recently moved 143 empties west from Brunswick to Cumberland and another 138 loads east from Cumberland to Brunswick. Empties limit is 12 for ordinary trains, 90 loaded cars seen as a full load. The Santa Fe engines are very powerful but rigid and harder to handle than Mallet engines, with several running aground on switches.
A druggist praises Joint-Base for swollen painful joints and states it is the top joint remedy with instant under the skin relief. The 60 cent tube is sold at Boyd Drug, Franck Baker & Son, and other druggists, with claims of quick absorption and rapid relief.
Henry Edwards of Edwards and Dunn says the Berryville Pike reconstruction to the Virginia state line through Rippon should be finished to Rippon by Christmas unless winter weather halts work. Travelers have asked for updates on road conditions and progress.
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