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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1924
Page
3
A Scholl Mfg Co representative will judge a footwear contest by taking pedographs of stockinged feet. Entry costs nothing and obligates nothing. Prizes are promised for near perfect feet, though standards may differ from scientific ones.
A vintage advertisement touts Joint-Base as a quick remedy for swollen joints across the body. It promises two seconds of rubbing to reach bone and ligaments and urges readers to buy via Boyd Drug Co Franck Baker & Son or any druggist.
Jan 23 notes show Oliver Terault's sale on the 15th attended. Bern Miller and Mrs Miller visited Jacob Burkhart. Herbert Smoke and Paul Clowser left for Cumberland MD for work. Williams and Brewer families hosted by E R Clowser. Charles Robinson family moved from Harry Ondorf’s farm to Opemption. Marie Orndorff, stenographer at Marshall National Bank VA, visited parents. Delilah Sager and Ashwood girls to Forest Glen MD for employment. Walter Brill family moved to Eddie Snapp's farm at Fawcett's Gap.
A fragment notes the link between poverty and marriage strain. It suggests financial hardship can lead to separation, portraying how economic stress tests relationships and may prompt divorce decisions. The language hints at literary themes rather than a full report.
Frisco plans call for Hetch Hetchy water to flow by gravity 156 miles into San Francisco reservoirs within four years. The $200 million project will provide about 460 million gallons daily for 4 million residents and generate over a billion kilowatt hours annually. The aqueduct requires 8 miles of tunnels and 69 miles of large steel pipes, with the salt marshes under San Francisco Bay crossed by a submerged conduit.
Daily wholesale and retail prices quoted by local buyers and Baltimore wholesalers include butter eggs corn meal flour and hay with varied rates for hens ducks young fowl and walnuts and a note that figures reflect closing values from the prior day.
A Pittsburg Automatic Instantaneous Water Heater in perfect condition is offered for sale. The listing notes the seller as Miss A M Hopkins and provides contact location in Charles Town West Virginia dated 1931.
A detailed rundown of tonight’s radio lineup across stations WBZ KDEA WCX WOR WJZ WWJ WiGAKO WOT WBZ WVIZ WCAD WOC KIDICA WIZ KDKA WOC KYW and more. Includes dinner concerts musical programs lectures stories and various recitals with corresponding time slots and broadcast frequencies.
The Reformed Church schedules conferences on evangelism in 25 centers during January with six regional teams of four speakers each. In Hagerstown Maryland on January 24 pastors and lay workers are invited to participate, with morning afternoon and evening sessions and open public evening programs.
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