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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1923
Page
4
A 1923 Chesapeake dispute sees the Virginia Highway Contractors Association accused of using public funds and influencing press coverage. Woolley faces scrutiny while The News defends its independence amid cross accusations from state road build interests.
The passage urges Virginia newspapers to carefully monitor how the Contractors' Association pursues its mission. It demands railings on whether Woolley’s outlined objectives are followed and if deviations harm public interests, while insisting on full publicity and broad comment to ensure fairness. It challenges Woolley to align with this stance.
A verse reflection on charity and wealth from The Giver. The speaker contrasts the impulse to give with the realities of poverty and taxation, imagining how riches could ease hunger yet noting how wealth often changes the giver’s motives and outcomes.
A Winchester letter endorses R G Jones and urges administrative change after Cleveland schools cut 546 1000 for 1993. The note warns against public tax reluctance harming welfare, cites high salaries for Virginia superintendents, and contrasts with surrounding states while urging prudent school funding.
A series of testimonials from women in Cortland Hamilton and St. Louis praising Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for aiding fertility and strengthening women with female weaknesses. Women report successful pregnancies after use and improved health in later years. The letters urge other mothers to consider the remedy.
A town official argues against a 25 percent tax increase for schools, saying it burdens the poor more than the rich and urging fiscal restraint. He cites Carroll Barwin experiments, notes varied schooling outcomes, and questions funding efficiency while calling for voter decision at the polls. The piece also mentions a trip by A. B. Stacy and wife to New Mexico.
Pharmacists claim Joint-Ease helps sore inflamed rheumatic joints and promises quick results. The product is stainless and easy to use, priced at sixty cents a tube, available at Boyd Drug Co Frenth Baker & Son and druggists everywhere.
The prize drawing for the embroidered spread will occur at the Forpire Theatre Thursday night during intermission. A disinterested child from the audience will pick the winning number, with Mrs. M. A. Erle’s recent chance-off spread as the prize.
The sixty third annual Home Life Insurance Company of New York report shows mortality at 52.87 percent of the expected amount for 1922. Premiums received were 7 369 835 dollars and paid to policy holders 5 400 769 dollars with 2 206 762 dollars added to reserve funds. Net interest income from investments totaled 2 110 922 dollars, over 700 000 dollars above the reserve requirement. Insurance in force reached 222 162 052 dollars with admitted assets of 46 253 715 dollars.
Industrious capable person sought to start near Winchester selling Rawleigh's Good Health Food Products Spices Flavors Medicine Toilet Preparations and other everyday necessities. Largest company established 235 years invites training to run a permanent business with potential earnings of 3000 to 5000 dollars yearly. Send age occupation references for particulars to W T Rawleigh Co Dent 53 Freeport Ill.
Hope rises for thousands as influenza cause is isolated at Schenectady. Dr Simon W Filexner announces the Rockefeller Institute team led by Dr Peter K Olitsky and Dr Frederick T Gates credit the discovery. Isolation details are given with experimental notes and possible preventative implications.
Local advertisement promotes Quality Furniture at lowest prices from PC Neidemeyer and Co. highlighting value and home furnishings. The notice emphasizes savings and a wide selection for customers shopping on a budget.
The Bristol bound No 13 morning service offers a parlor car and Pullman sleeper to Williamson and Winston-Salem with Shenandoah and Roanoke connections to Memphis. Evening No 27 serves Shenandoah. northbound No 28 targets Hagerstown and intermediate stops with the Washington collection. Parlor car and Pullman sleeper available for other routes. fare and schedule details via Pullman reservations.
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