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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1922
Page
4
The Evening Star lists publishing details for Win er Virginia with morning news and Weekly Mirror affiliates. Subscription rates by mail are 3.50 per year, 1.75 for six months, and 0.90 per month, with 80 percent of Associated Press content credited to the source.
A 1922 report from the state Commerce Commission analyzes railway danger. It notes travelers now ride more miles and more often yet face much lower fatality odds, citing figures from 1907 to 1920. The bulletin compares annual trips, total passengers, and per mile risk to show overall safety improvements.
A reader from Hillyard recounts kidney trouble worsened by damp weather. He credits Doan's Kidney Pills for relief, noting long use since 1909 and continued faith in the remedy as of 1919. The ad cites testimonial details from Winchester tests and FosterMilburn Co. of Buffalo.
Fragmentary handwriting describes a pursuit on foot with a suspect fleeing as officers, including a sheriff, close in. The garbled text hints at dust, a van, and a kick up of debris as the chase unfolds with the search ongoing.
Real estate ads offer 6 room house with light and water at 1800, 6 acre suburban tract with street frontage on terms 8000, desirable 66 acre farm three miles from Winchester at 4500, plus good lots. A client will lend 5000 at 6 percent and 2 percent bonus on first close security.
The verse laments Newlin & Company’s long decline as a once thriving shop. A narrator, using vivid imagery of fuel, tires, and oil, contrasts lavish splendor with aging hardship. The speaker recalls hard years, failed bequests, and a transit by foot to a bygone era under a sheriff’s gaze.
Obituary tribute recalling Rev. J Melvin McFarland's life as a pastor in Winchester Virginia and two rural circuits. It notes his precise ministry, heroism after a fatal wound, prayerful faith, and the impact on his flock and five fatherless children as his funeral closes in Old Town Cemetery.
Prohibition workers from churches Sunday schools and moral reform groups will attend a major law enforcement convention in Richmond February 1 2. National figures including Mrs Mabel Walker Willebrandt Wayne Wheeler Ernest Cherrington and F A Baker are among speakers to urge stronger Virginia laws. Delegates should contact Supt David Hepburn for accommodations as the General Assembly session and governor inauguration approach.
The Star lists wholesale prices for butter, butter fat, young chickens, roosters, hams, walnuts, and flour with ranges and figures. Also shown are corn meal, middlings, screenings, cotton seed meal, and livestock terms like fat steers calves and lambs. Prices reflect the day’s corrected quotes and prior day context.
Public sale under a distress warrant issued to R Gray Williams versus Holmes L Graber to be held at Graber’s West Piccadilly Street business on Wednesday January 28 1922 at 10 am. Items include a Vulcapizing Outfit a Air Comprapder a large Getty Tank several barrels of oil and other articles. Cash terms. no removal before terms met. Sheriff L Pannet Frederick County Va Auctioneers Duvall Dunn F H Krebs Clerk.
A brief note touts sulfur as a cure for rough and red skin including rashes and sores. It claims sulfur soothes irritation, heals skin, and removes embarrassment, urging sufferers to obtain a small tin of the product from a druggist and apply like cream.
Sofia reports fear that disbanding Bulgaria’s army under allied ambassador orders could leave the country militarily helpless and risk frontier security and internal stability. War Minister Constantine Tomoff warns the month deadline to disarm endangers the state.
Police probe suspected explosion after a fire partly destroyed the Swartz building at Seventh Street and Edgemont Avenue in Chester. Loss estimated at $100,000. The blaze followed a prior incident in which the Metropolitan Fruit Company proprietor, a building tenant, was robbed of $5,000 after a beating by bandits in Chester Heights.
William A. March, local agent of the Home Beneficial Association, Richmond, departs for Alexandria for the annual general meeting of agents. The gathering, ending with a hotel banquet, will feature remarks from prominent figures including A. J. Watkins, general superintendent, Lot, Richmond.
Decree in the chancery case of Sidney L. Davis vs Russell Brown leads to a public auction at 11 am on February 15 1922 in Winchester Virginia. Three parcels near Nain include 5 acres woodland 10 acre house lot and 4 acre timber tract with options to bid separately or collectively. Terms: one third cash day of sale, balance in one and two years with 6 percent interest, secured by deed of trust and building insurance. Special Commissioner Harry R. Kern. clerk C C Brannon.
For sale listing shows 267 acres at 65 per acre 194 acres at 100 per acre 94 acres at 125 per acre 150 acres at 100 per acre 60 acres at 90 per acre and 310 acres at 75 per acre plus 340 acres at 50 per acre 160 acres at 3000 on state road Various houses barns orchards mills and store properties with prices ranging from 8000 to 30000 and a busy Bailey Bros store listing in Winchester Virginia for sale opportunities and rentals.
By decree in Luther Lewis vs Rachael Lewis et al in Frederick County Circuit Court, a valuable farm on Hunting Ridge near Edgar Marple J D Clark R Luther Lewis Golf Miller and others will be sold at 11 am. Terms: one third cash day of sale, balance in one and two years with 6 percent interest secured by deed of trust. sale by C Brannon Clerk on January 17, 1924.
Classified notice offers 70 acre Clarke and Frederick counties farm with an eight room dwelling bank repay and outbuildings priced at 5000 dollars. 188 acre farm on the pike six miles from city offered at 2500 dollars. 30 acre orchard bearing and in good condition. Attractive prices on city lots and dwellings for quick buyers.
A 1922 notice states banks will be closed Thursday January 19 due to a legal holiday. Paper maturities dated January 19 can be paid January 20, 1922, with multiple bank cashiers named.
Bertha Lentz a 16 year old from Baltimore died at Bellevue Hospital after ingesting poison on January 3. She had registered under the alias Florence Sivell until a week later when authorities learned the name was fictitious. Margaret Lentz identified the dying girl as her sister.
Steph en City to hold Sunday afternoon preaching at St Stephen’s Episcopal Church as announced by Rev. Robert B Nelson. Color schemes for prisoners suggested by expert assign pink for boy thieves yellow orange for long crime convicts violet and black for burglars with blue ceilings advised and grey to be avoided.
Local advertisement for wallpaper patterns at 10 cents each with gilt wallpaper at 42 1-2 cents per piece and window shades at 49 cents. Thomas and Messer Company located at 1016 West Baltimore Street, Baltimore, Maryland.
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