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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1917
Page
6
Two youths from the area who left home to see the world were traced to Martinsburg West Virginia where they had been employed by Security Lime and Cement Company at Four Mile Woods. Their father, present during arrest, escorted them back home after a search by officers.
The star in Intolerance wears a jewel encrusted ostrich plume costume costing 7000 dollars with imitations for jewels. The skirt uses 145 ostrich plumes dyed in variated tones and over 5090 jewels adorn the ensemble. A cape of 60 yards of chiffon velvet features solid gold embroidered butterflies. total cape cost 940 dollars. Seats are on sale and rapidly selling.
Report says 30 000 tons of coal are stalled in cars on Baltimore and Ohio tracks at Brunswick yards. No orders to move it, fueling export speculation. Mines claim they cannot obtain cars for shipment, causing a hard hit to coal supply.
Mr. Ralph Fansler, who went to Salem to attend Roanoke College and spent nine weeks as a patient at Shenandoah Hospital with typhoid fever, has returned home and is rapidly recovering. His friends are glad to see him out and about again.
Pearl of The Army No 4 thrills with secret foes and Pearl Care following dangerous clues. In reel one a tent rope entangles officials as stolen defense plans loom. Reel two shows Pearl fighting a villain in a tower and escaping on a parapet.
The musical comedy The Little Cafe returns to the Empire next Tuesday night after a long Manhattan run. The show credits include Tristen Bernard’s Le Petit Cafe origin, C M S McLellan adapting the book, Irvin Caryl adapting the score, Klaw and Erlanger producing, Herbert Gresham staging, and Julian Mitchell handling song numbers. A company of seventy five with its own orchestra performs, with ticket prices from 35 to 2.00 dollars.
A proposed 5 to 16 percent pay increase for postal employees was eliminated from the post office appropriation bill, delaying any new wages for workers.
Chicago News notes in the want column a proclamation on a House appropriation bill, zone system recommendations, and postal rate increases. The remark quips that turkeys should focus on meat rather than feathers, highlighting a playful civic-press tone.
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