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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1927
Page
5
London reports a brisk fashion in women's hats with rakish, tight fitting designs. Styles include the apace style with one eyebrow exposed, helmet like forms, and a skull cap look with veils.
Miss May Jones, 20, wrote a song inspired by the rail line tales her father told after returning from a railroad run. The piece titled "Wondering If You Remember" impressed in London, but she plans to stay home to assist her mother with housework rather than pursue a career abroad.
Paris shops cash in on Lindbergh fame with Christmas novelties. Toy aviators must bear Lindberg faces and be named the Spirit of St. Louis. A candy box shows Lindbergh, and a cigarette cane features a relief of the aviator.
Ruth Wider serves as the model for the girls' Poupees de Vaviation mascot in a feature highlighting design and fashion aspects of the project. The article presents Wider's influencing role and the creative process behind the project.
Clarke County locals report a busy holiday period with visitors and returning residents. Miss Welford Smith sails to Bermuda after spending Christmas with her mother Mrs Robert Smith at Silver Spring. Capt J Baldwin Neill of the Marine Base Quantico and his family visit Mrs J B Neill on South Church street prior to reporting to Pensacola. Cadet Lewis Neil and several V P I cadets return home for holidays along with other students and families from St Hilda's, Sayre Business College, and Episcopal High School nearby.
The body of Jack Athey, 21, who drowned December 8 at Morgan’s Ford in the Shenandoah River, was found yesterday by his brother George Athey about a half mile below the bridge. He leaves a mother, six brothers and six sisters. His death followed a failed attempt to cross a submerged bridge as floodwaters ran high.
A rider leapt into the river in fright and the horse swam to shore while the rider, identified as Athey, drowned. Authorities did not release further details.
Mrs George W Schnibbe's mother, Anna M Day Keister, died at her Hanging Rock West Virginia home Sunday evening age 87. Born September 25 1840 in Middle Town Virginia she married Jeremiah Keister of Strasburg Virginia and had six children. Funeral at Mt Zion Church Tuesday at 11 o'clock.
In a Plain Dealer analysis cigarettes taxes are cited as the government’s major revenue source. The piece argues emancipation of winners boosts national prosperity as part of broader fiscal themes.
The Star reports daily market corrections and wholesale price quotes from local buyers with no responsibility for errors.
A fragmented catalog listing various feed and flour products including local four barrel items, 12 Ths flour, middlings, scratch feed, cracked corn, and butter products. The legible entries refer to grain and dairy goods such as flour, middlings, scratch feed, and creamery butter.
An advertisement extols Red Pepper Rub as a fast acting treatment for sore stiff muscles. It claims heat penetrates within minutes and promises lasting relief, urging buyers to purchase only the genuine Rowles brand with a Rowke name on each package.
The bulletin lists train times and connections from Berryville to Roanoke Bristol and Waynesboro with notes on sleepers Pullman cars and connections to Chattanooga Nashville Memphis Washington Baltimore Philadelphia and New York. It details departures at 2 45 a m 9 15 a m 12 26 p m 5 53 p m 8 34 a m 1 37 p m 6 32 p m and 11 29 p m with local and intercity services and notes Pullman reservations available from A I Burks Sinton and Se. Va. officials.
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