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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1921
Page
4
The text lists various subscription terms in advance ranging from one month to ten years, with prices like 3.50 for a year, 1.75 for six months, and 0.90 for one month. It also notes Associated Press copyright and republication rights and directs communications to The Star Publishing Company.
Watertown Times records the death of Representative Henry D. Flood at 56 in Washington. Flood served in the Virginia Legislature, joined Congress in 1901, and chaired the foreign affairs committee during World War I debates. He was a staunch advocate for Allied victory and U.S. involvement.
Fredericksburg Star reports the Democratic State Committee will select a successor to a lamented chairman. It backs Virginia State Senator Harry Fyg of Winchester as the party leader, calling Byrd young and active but favoring Fyg for unity and steady service.
A Virginia General Assembly session opens in Richmond in January with an unusual situation as two brothers seek to represent a single constituency in the same assembly.
Real estate notice describes a six room dwelling with two basements, porches, running water, and a good lot on N Market St with values increasing by 3500. Includes a 40 foot street front lot in a desirable area with water sewer sidewalks and a $700 investment. Builders seek buyers for medium sized properties and offer best results for city or country property transactions.
The Jeffreys brothers of Mecklenburg county win legislative seats. W H Jeffreys Jr. serves in the State Senate while R L Jeffreys is elected to represent Mecklenburg in the House. Voters favored the Jeffreys as capable men of high standing.
Dr. B W Fletcher of Pennsylvania Agricultural College urges conservative planting and cooperative packing and marketing. He cites standardized cotton as a model and points to Virginia’s Eastern Shore as a usable example where labeled barrels ensure buyers know product quality. He warns that without standardization cooperative marketing remains theoretical.
Poet Walt Mason notes a lively building boom with painters, carpenters and blacksmiths at work. He revels in the end of hard times and the return of cheerful labor, reflecting on improved fortunes and a hopeful mood.
The speaker recalls landlords storming in to seize a small stack and describes tenants rebuilding with simple three cornered sheds. Grandmothers and aunts will sleep under rooves while planting flowers as construction booms approach. Plumbers and tinmen are promised, cottages for every man emerge amid rising rents.
A birthday dinner was given in High View on December 20 for Mrs. W. A. Johnson as she celebrated her ninety first birthday. Family members present included James Johnson, George Pugh, Ed Hicks, Davis Johnson, Lee Johnson, Walter Johnson, Maynard Pugh, Cecil Pugh, Owen E. Anderson, Eva and Mamie Hicks, Eva and Elsie Pugh, Elmer Good, Mahlon Good and John Good, and Ed Eaton with several friends joining in wishes for many more birthdays.
New Haven authorities hold three officials responsible for nine deaths in the Rialto theater fire of November 27. Coroner Mix says incense burned to create atmosphere caused the blaze and that proper duties by the building inspector could have prevented it.
Socialist leader Rugere V. Debs, whose 10 year sentence was commuted on Christmas, spends a day in Washington before returning to Terra Haute Indiana. He planned calls on President Harding and Attorney General Daugherty and then announced he would devote his future to freeing all prisoners.
Mr and Mrs George Bierach who had been visiting relatives here for several days returned to Washington this afternoon.
In Passaic New Jersey Thomas Brand 18 and Matilda Rist 17 lovers unable to marry because of poverty chose to end their lives. The mill worker and the stenographer had been inseparable since meeting a year ago. They decided to marry but believed they were too poor and died within two hours of each other at a hospital.
An involuntary bankruptcy petition was filed in federal court against Robert H. Ingersoll and Brother, New York makers of the Ingersoll watches. Liabilities are 3 million dollars with assets 2 million, exclusive of goodwill. Robert H. Ingersoll originated the dollar watch and Waterbury sales near 100 million.
Miss Florence Lee Feltner 21 died Sunday at Memorial Hospital after a brief diabetes illness. She lived with sister Miss Hattie Feltner at 30 Southwark street and worked as a clerk at McCrory’s on North Main. Survived by five brothers and four sisters, funeral at Mr. Anderson’s home Wednesday at 11 with burial in Mount Hebron Cemetery.
A special prayer meeting will be held at 7 30 o'clock tomorrow evening at the First Christian Church in preparation for the revival campaign. Mrs Boyd R Richards will lead the service and all members and friends are urged to attend.
Employees of the Clowe jewelry store on North Main street were treated to a turkey dinner yesterday afternoon at Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Clowe's home on North Washington street. Guests included Miss Elsie Snapp and Messrs. Samuel Johnson and Fullec Bowman.
A businessman asserts no real man reaches true success and no high ideal is ever satisfied with achievement. He says every peak reveals another beyond and that Evyon, the desert mirage, mirrors a distant real goal awaiting beyond.
Desirable building lots two blocks from Handley School offered through W. G. Hardy Trust Officer Shenandoah Valley National Bank. Contact details are incomplete.
Lost imitation pocketbook with money inside at Star office. Lost dog Bos ton Bull Dog from Fair Play Store, reward offered. Lost brown leather hand bag with $11 and change and Leader tickets at 501 Highland Ave, reward. For sale Ford delivery truck and purebred Guernsey bull calf. George P. Kern, Senseney Road.
The article surveys ancient weights tied to cultures Cain Egyptians and Hermes. It notes a Nimrud copper weights set shaped as lions spanning a foot to an inch. It then defines altitude in astronomy and distinguishes true versus apparent altitude. It closes with Garfield on justice and progress.
The rule is to use fewer with countable nouns and less with uncountable quantities. For numbers or items you can count, use fewer, as in fewer than 100 apples. For bulk amount or mass nouns you cannot count individually, use less, as in less water. Saying no less than 100 bushels is grammatical if the context emphasizes the measured quantity.
An archival line from Nora Kent's The Quest of Michael Harland praises silk stockings as a remedy for sorrows at age 21, reflecting period sensibility and literary tone. The remark highlights fashion as emotional solace in early 20th century fiction.
In London more than a dozen streets were named after characters from Charles Dickens novels honoring the famed author’s work.
Public auction in Winchester on December 24 1921 at noon offers the William Cather farm Frederick County Virginia containing 183 acres with 25 acres of apples and 60 acres timber. Improvements include a ten room house a barn and a Willys Knight seven passenger touring car. Terms require one third cash day of sale and balance in two annual installments secured by bonds and an insurance policy on buildings. Trustees A B Richards and R Gray Williams lead the sale.
The notice proclaims lower prices for building materials led by lumber returning to normal levels. Glaize & Bro. Building Material Wholesale Merchants offers complete stock and planning help to supply affordable materials for homes and barns.
The More the Merrier Pyle Inn and Twable Inn are two hotels operating in New Jersey.
Trustee will sell at public auction in Winchester Virginia a 184 acre farm in Frederick County nine miles south of Winchester near Wardensville Grade. Improvements include a frame dwelling barn and outbuildings with orchard and timber a fine spring and about 75 acres cultivated. One third cash with the balance in two equal annual installments secured by two bonds and a deed of trust plus building insurance. Auctioneers Dunn and Buvall.
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