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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1924
Page
5
A Grandmother’s recipe Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur Compound promises to turn gray hair back to an even dark color. It is applied with a sponge or brush, claimed to leave hair glossy and natural looking after uses.
Bartholemew B. Coyne, attorney for Harry K. Thaw, said he would file habeas corpus proceedings in a Philadelphia court next Tuesday or Wednesday as a step toward releasing Thaw from a Pennsylvania insane asylum. Coyne cited Philadelphia dispatches reporting the $650,000 damage suit by Fred Gump Jr. had been settled for under $100,000.
Bishop Thomas Nicholson of New York was re-elected president of the Anti-Saloon League and Wayne B. Wheeler of Washington was chosen again as general counsel in Washington on January 22.
Five bandits entered the Brighton Park State Bank in Chicago and fatally wounded cashier Albert Tanczar after he rang a burglar alarm. They escaped with about $200, wounding two bystanders a few blocks away.
Mr and Mrs John Nixon hosted a large dinner at their Amherst Street residence to honor the marriage of C J Nixon and Mrs Virginia Duff in the Metropolitan Hotel Washington on January 9. Guests from Leesburg Hancock Capon Bridge and Winchester attended as Rev Earle Wilfley performed the ceremony. After January 13 they will reside at Glenwood south of Leesburg.
By deed of assignment I will offer for sale at the residence of O A Ashton in Harris Addition near the Senseney road on Friday January 18 1924 at 11 o clock A M. Items include one Jersey milk cow three work horses four shoats about 100 pounds each one brood sow two spring wagons two two horse wagons a lot of harness a cache and a large quantity of junk and other articles. Cash. Luther Pannet t Trustee. Dunn and Duvall Auctioneers. 12 51 3.
Philadelphia leaders report nearly 1 000 of 1 200 saloons closed as Brig Gen Butler presses a crackdown on vice and banditry. Butler says he would not take the public safety post again for a million dollars citing loss of personal liberty while directing 20 officers to aid federal raids.
Daily market note lists wholesale prices for wheat flour butter eggs and livestock. Cattle calves lambs and chickens appear with varied price ranges and per unit or per dozen quotes drawn from the preceding day’s closing.
Woodstock Virginia January 14 the Shenandoah County Board of Supervisors asked the General Assembly to raise orchard land assessments from 1 to 3 dollars per acre for trees ten years old and from 50 cents to 1 50 for younger trees to fund cedar eradication They also sought raising the maximum annual pay for board members from 170 to 250 The requests will go to Senator Harry Byrd and Delegate N J Kelly for statute amendments.
Radio evening schedule lists programs across stations WJZ KDKA WBZ WRC WCX and others. The rundown includes concerts weather forecasts lectures soprano recitals organ piano broadcasts and time signals from stations in New York Washington Pittsburgh Detroit and other cities with meter allocations.
Clerks Office of Frederick County Virginia issues an order of publication in chancery to compel appearance in a suit by Laura B. Padgett guardian for James A. Padgett infant. The move seeks sale of a Martinsburg Turnpike parcel north of Winchester with reinvestment of proceeds and heir determination. Publication required weekly for four weeks in Winchester Evening Star and posting at the Frederick County Courthouse by January 7 1924.
Auction in front of Winchester Court House at 1 o clock on Saturday January 26 1924 offers a two story seven room pebble dashed residence at 320 Smithfield Avenue near a Carr's Addition building lot on Franklin Street 50 by 131 feet with alley access. Terms require one third cash day of sale and balance in two annual installments via bonds secured by deed of trust. Possession April 1 1924. Also includes neighboring building lot. sale notice appears in Frederick County Virginia court proceedings with master commissioner report and estate administration for Pearl B Everly and others. Sale overseen by M M Lynch executor and Duvall Dunn auctioneers.
Chinese soldiers in the first division fired on American Slayian Mullens and Arthur Benson at the Passionist Mission in Supu Hunan. They looted and wrecked the Passion school. Mullens and Benson were unharmed though bullets pierced Mullens’ clothing.
The American Farm Bureau Federation endorses Henry Ford's proposal for Muscle Shoals in a letter to Congress. It says acceptance would lower production costs, provide cheap fertilizer and electricity, and ease transportation challenges benefiting farmers and industry.
The undersigned will sell at auction at 20 Smithfield Avenue at 11 o'clock A M on Wednesday Jan 16 1924 all the household effects of the late W M Bayliss including cooking and heating stoves tables chairs buffet writing desk matting organ etc Terms cash M M Lynch Executor of W M Bayliss deceased
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