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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1920
Page
8
Secretary Houston told the Senate finance committee the soldiers aid measure would amount to about 2.3 billion dollars in added taxes and urged that the treasury not be required to bear more burdens. The estimate came as the finance panel considered the aid bill and related proposals.
Services were held at 10 o'clock Christmas morning for Mrs Rebecca Carper who died Thursday at her East Sharpstree home. The Rev Harold Smith of Carper's Valley Methodist Episcopal Church South officiated at the home service before the body was buried at Mount Hebron Cemetery. pallbearers were Edgar Carper Taylor Ritter Edward Grim Plank William Ritter and Ard Conner.
Dec 27 report says Mrs. Sarah Quinn, claimed 115 years old, narrowly escaped asphyxiation after a gas stove flame lit by accident. Neighbors and emergency responders aided her in the Chicago residence.
An hour after revived in a hospital a woman insisted on going home to do the dishes, showing resolve to resume daily chores shortly after a medical event.
New York reports belief that famed gangster Monk Eastman was killed in a gang feud. Detectives pursue about twenty associates once linked to his East Side turf and crime operations. The story notes Eastman’s wartime alias Postman and real name William.
Delaney, once linked to underworld activity, was restored to citizenship by Governor Smith after pledging to go straight. He was found dead at Fourth Avenue and Fourteenth Street, within a block of his former haunts, his body pierced by five bullets.
New York Dec 37 The condition of Enrico Caruso tenor who was stricken Christmas day with pleurisy was unchanged. He remains under care of five physicians at the hotel. Complete rest is prescribed and he may return to the stage within two weeks barring complications.
Mrs H Clay Krebs leaves this morning for Washington D C to visit Mrs A B Drum for a month and then proceed to Philadelphia. Mrs Mary Lee Russell of Washington is staying several days with her mother Mrs Florence Russell at her South Market Street home.
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