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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1921
Page
4
Disjointed OCR text mentions advances for subscriptions and carrier charges, plus a note on republication dispatches credited to Associated Press and Ster Publishing Company. It references local news publication processes and attribution rules for communications.
Fragmentary reflections on how fashion and social rituals evolve yet personal habits and expressions persist. The text contrasts evolving dress, hair, and manners with enduring feelings and shared human experiences across generations.
A fragmented verse and stray legal notice appear in the text. The poem by Walt Mason laments debt and high prices as a shopper negotiates credit and daily needs. A 1921 court notice in Virginia involves transfer of funds to Maryland in a Norris matter.
A compilation of light anecdotes and quips including a girl who miscounts numbers and a cat riddle, a quip from Senator Sorghum about brainy men, a fortune teller joke promising a rich husband, and a pun about a notion store for writers.
The scene features a clever parrot that remarks it is not worth talking when you have nothing to say. A playful line asks what Sally is called and a friend discusses Hamlet with Shakespearean admiration, ending with a light exchange about famous performers.
Excerpts show conversations about constitutional amendments on tobacco, social status among daughters of wealth, and a language lesson on the French word dot. The dialogue touches policy, lineage, and pronunciation with quips about money and industry.
A chorus notes food costs will climb across the country while consumers face limits on shopping within three miles. The exchange implies broader economic pressures and restricted local options for buyers.
Readable lines pivot on a failed marriage note with pride and reproach. The speaker admits folly in marrying yet refuses to let the partner bear blame, urging accountability and boundaries.
A humorous quip discusses zoo animals the panther and bear and their costly furs. A reader muses about gloves for children being expensive and notes the joke about kid gloves. The excerpt then shifts to a joke about rent increases and bonuses from Browning's Magazine.
A terse exchange reveals a strained relationship as one party insists on leaving an ongoing affair, declaring no future love while tension rises over financial or social costs. The fragment hints at damaged trust and a potential breakup.
The Shenandoah Valley National Bank presents its trust services as superior to individual trustees or executors. Benefits cited include perpetual existence, stability, daily accessibility, investment authority, impartial claim settlement, estate cost savings, and excellent accounting with safe deposit facilities. Officers listed: John W. Rice president and trust officer, R Gray Williams vice president, William G. Hardy cashier, J Few Brown, C G M Smith assistant cashiers.
Market listings show wholesale quotes for eggs butter chickens and corn products with sowing varied prices. Retail items include local flour corn meal cracked corn mule feed and horse feed with several figures for dairy and feed products.
Market listings show feeds and livestock with prices such as corn at 4.15 per barrel and calves 20.00 to 25.00, alongside a court order in Frederick County for Catherine Virginia Orndorff seeking an absolute divorce from Morgan A. Orndorff on desertion grounds. The notice requires the defendant to appear within fifteen days and to publish in The Winchester Star for four weeks.
A terse note warns against using weaker mixtures for a method described as careful and tiered, emphasizing adherence to the specified stronger formulation.
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