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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1923
Page
7
A compact editorial style meditation on fairness and character. It contrasts how people treat others with how they are treated, warning that weak individuals cannot be heroes and that cowards expose themselves as bullies. It argues initiative and prudent finance separate from miserliness.
A reflective aphorism contrasts earthly distraction with grand horizons. Small wealth can obscure vast truths and sublime wonders, likening money to a veil that dims eternity and starlight.
A garbled report notes a proposed labor reform scheme paying a boy 50 cents in advance to remove rents from a machine. The Cincinnati Enquirer version mentions a novel but unclear plan tied to work effort and wages.
Stephens City Virginia January 3 Farmers fear a road bond will impose burdens on rural residents while mainly benefiting travelers in fast cars. The letter cites Governor Trinkle's drive for bonds, urges Farmers Union unity, and invites locals to form or join a county affiliate with guidance from L J McCartney.
William Carroll Alexander of Winchester has been unanimously elected president of the Kiwanis Club of New York City, the largest Kiwanis group in the U S and Canada with about 190 000 members. He is head of Alexander and Irwin Company hosiery at 151 Fifth Avenue and has served Kiwanis in various roles for six years. The annual meeting at the Hotel McAlpin occurred on Wednesday. The Kiwanis count many prominent members including President Harding and the Prince of Wales.
The First Christian Church schedules a 9 45 Sunday school session on Jesus Healing On The Sabbath. At 11 o'clock the pastor will speak on The Ladder of Life. The evening service features Slightly Soiled Greatly Reduced in Price. The Young People meet at 6 30 p m with Our Guide Board as the New Year topic. All services canceled for the Union week of prayer January 9 to 14.
Historic note recounts William the Conqueror’s kitchen from Normandy with feasts featuring boar head, venison, cranes, peacocks, swans, geese, kids, and hens. Meals spanned five courses ending with sweetbreads and sugar. Banquets followed jousts with trumpets, crust breaks, captive monster vows, and hours of entertainment.
Historic Barratt chapel in Kent County Delaware is described as the cradle of American Methodism. Built circa 1780 81 on land from Philip Barratt, it hosted Bishop Coke and Bishop Asbury in 1874 and helped spark Methodism across the United States. The piece also notes early minister Richard Owen and Father Joshua Thomas, famed itinerant preachers along the Chesapeake.
The Smyrna rug market has vanished as war severed supply. No rug over twenty years old is findable and sellers use tricks to hide age. Armenians and Greeks produced the best work. Turks made coarser, inferior rugs by contrast.
One Edinburg’s Drowning is described as the finest portrait of old Virginia by Thomas Nelson Page created to raise funds for buying his engagement ring for Anne Seddon Bruce. The heroine’s description mirrors his fiancée and the scenes unfold at the home of Mrs. Bruce’s brother, Seddon Bruce of Richmond, whom she visited in girlhood.
A Birmingham Age-Herald report quotes a pelligerent traveler who, within days of a continental flower trip, asks why another man rose up and struck him due to travel discomforts aboard a Pullman car.
For sale items include a sofa and storing car parts. Two new 32x4 Cord tires and a six volt battery are offered for sacrifice. Contact 11F22 in Berryville for details.
Train timetable from Berryville Virginia detailing northbound and southbound trains with routes to Bristol Roanoke Shenandoah Washington Philadelphia and New York. Pullman sleepers parlor cars and cafe connections noted with stations and contact information for fares and reservations.
Blurry and distressing vision? This ad urges a professional eye exam and provides eyeglasses to correct sight. It emphasizes a remedy through targeted eye testing and quality frames to improve clarity.
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