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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1921
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR text shows pricing and terms for BeOrmston circulation, with mentions of year and carrier subscriptions. The readables include a note about Associated Press usage and local news publication credits, but key details are unreadable.
Read article outlines a proposed merger of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co and Cumberland Valley Telephone Co. It discusses rate controls by the Commission, potential monopolistic concerns, service areas from Winchester to Stephens City, and the implications for subscribers and long distance reach.
A pasted column shows Mrs. George of Third Street Mounds and others discussing health woes and painful experiences. Drafters mention doctors or remedies and emphasize confidential advice amid rumors of exploitation and hardship among young women seeking relief.
The Bell exchange serves Winchester and nearby areas at standard rates with state oversight. Competition in the local territory has ended and rates are set by the State Corporation Commission. Eliminating Cumberland Valley Telephone saves money for dual users and improves exchange and long distance service for Cumberland Valley subscribers.
Women served as jurors in Philadelphia courts for the first time. The experience caused little disruption, with two female panelists challenged in a criminal case and verdicts rendered with usual ease. Advocates view the event as a natural consequence of enfranchisement and valuable citizenship training.
A poem portrays the peptimist as a cheerful, hardworking worker who stays positive during labor. It contrasts dull, dragging workers with a man who keeps pace, motivates others, and endures slumps without losing spirit.
It remains accessible every business day and acts as the recognized authority on investments. It offers perfect accounting and safe deposit facilities and saves estates the expense of bonds. Officers include John W. Rice president R Gray Williams vice president William G. Hardy cashier J Few Brown co M Smith assistant cashiers.
An itemized list shows farm products and feed prices including eggs butter flour corn hay and animal feeds. Items include creamery butter country butter shelled corn cracked corn milled flour and mushroom types of hay with varied prices.
Markets corrected as of the prior close show No 1 timothy hay and No 1 light clover mixed, cob corn per barrel, cattle and hogs pricing including fat steers, lambs, sheep, heifers, calves, and dairy butter. Readable figures indicate bid ranges for livestock and feeds with scattered decimal quotes.
The annual meeting of the stockholders of The Commercial and Savings Bank of Winchester will be held at Odd Fellows Hall at the corner of Market and Water Streets on Tuesday January 11 1921 at 11 oclock A M for election of directors and other business. December 10 1920. John L Sloat Cashier. 12-10-1m
Bellepoint resident E. J. Carper lauds Dr. Pierce's medicines as a powerful system builder and urges others to try the tonics. The advertisement invites readers to send 10 cents for a trial package to Dr. Pierce's Invalids' Hotel in Buffalo, New York.
An old feature touts a Western wild herb called Manpanita with healing virtues. It credits Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for over forty years in easing women’s illnesses, and notes Mrs. Bettie Thatcher’s recovery at her South Market Street home.
Local markets are corrected daily with price and quote updates. The Star disclaims responsibility for typographical errors while noting ongoing market coverage across commodities and financial instruments.
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