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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1924
Page
2
The firm of W. H. Baker, Inc., chocolate and cocoa managers, held a two day meeting at its general offices, reporting steady growth and bright prospects for the year. Officers reelected include A. L. Baker as president and M. Baker as secretary.
A fragment indicates L Wunder and Geer discuss Washington appointments for a League of America delegate. The text references Governor Trinkle and a trip to Richmond for a September meeting, with committee actions on Thursday.
Richmond January report says the General Assembly will choose a successor to Judge Joseph L. Kelly whose Supreme Court of Appeals resignation takes effect January 1. Many candidates attend the caucus with supporters from across the state for contenders including B. M. Fulton A K Morrison P W Campbell Floyd D T Clement Abraham P Staples and H C Tyler among Southwest and Roanoke interests.
Market listings show prices for creamery and country butter, local flour and spring wheat feed, middlings, screenings, shelled corn, mixed feed, meal, walnut kernels, and wheat and corn spot prices. The figures reflect closing values from the prior day and note irregular spellings and editorial gaps.
The Girls' Athletic Association will face Boyce in basketball at Handley School's new gymnasium. The game starts at 7 30 PM and admission is paid at the door with expectations of a large crowd.
Among the patients at Memorial Hospital on Friday afternoon when the building burned, Kinzel McMillan, son of Mr. and Mrs. William McMillan, was slated for an operation on Saturday. He was removed from the blaze to his parents home on National Avenue.
A Baltimore resident, Harry A. Burke of 1612 Clifton Ave, credits Tanlac with eliminating long standing indigestion and enabling a weight gain from 130 to 169 pounds. He reports four years of use with quarterly bottles and improved health. Tanlac is advertised as available at druggists with over 37 million bottles sold.
A seven year bird census shows just over one robin pair per acre in farmland north of Maryland and the Ohio River and east of the Great Plains.
Mrs. Lydia E. Hawkins announces the marriage of her daughter Stella Jane to Dr. Van Harold Fossler in Chicago on Saturday January 19. Stella Jane served in government Washington and in Chicago with the Department of Agriculture, recently as Secretary to the Chairman of the Board of Review, Federal Grain Supervision. Dr. Fossler, a graduate of the Chicago College of Osteopathy, has practiced in Michigan and will relocate to Chicago with his bride.
Cards from Winchester announce the marriage of Miss Nellie Eblye Gray of Baltimore to Charles Oscar Barr of Baltimore. The wedding occurred last Saturday at Wilson Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church South with Rev. Dr. Carlton D. Harris officiating. Barr is son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Barr. This followed another Barr wedding a week earlier for their daughter Lucille Virginia Barr to Joseph Vernon Puzicka. Mrs. Walter Huntsberry attended both ceremonies and has returned home.
Mrs Desmond Humphreys known as Rita has authored best sellers for over forty years. She began poetry at age ten and published her first successful novel at seventeen. Advertise In The Star, It pays.
Sheriff Pannett hunts Mick Sheris and John Sheris charged with robbing Joseph Clemis of 630 dollars while asleep in his shanty. The three Austrians, laborers at Stephens City Lime Works, vanished after an afternoon train to Pennsylvania. Clemis planned to return to Austria with his savings.
Pittsburgh firemen lost seven of their crew when they fell into an oil pit during a blaze at the Atlantic Refining Company on Butler Street. Captains Edward Johnson and Rudolph Bliske died alongside five shoremen. Several others were injured after slipping on icy tank tops as crews battled the fire. cause under investigation and losses unestimated.
A reflective line about how a man’s hidden truths are poured into the characters and months within novels, blending memory with narrative insight. The quote implies that literary time captures inner truth through fictional lives.
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