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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1923
Page
3
OCR sourced list shows wholesale prices for wheat flour butter eggs chickens and corn, with notes of variances and units. Retail entries include creamery butter country butter flour and various feed items, alongside inconsistent typographic notes and unclear values.
An ad touts St Jacobs Oil as a harmless back pain remedy for lumbago sciatica and stiffness. It claims quick relief from backache and sore muscles after a single rub and notes the product has 60 years of trusted use.
In Gainesboro Virginia residents share social notes. Bud Conner and family visited Asbury Farmer's home in the area. Willie Coe stayed with sister Mrs Samuel Braithwaite at Cross Junction. Mrs Asbury Farmer and Miss Jennie DeHaven called on Mrs Ernest Adams. FL M Bageant and Geneva Shade visited town. B F DeHaven and family visited daughter Mrs Luther Pannett in Winchester. Anderson of near Gore moved into Winchester and Western station building. Duloyd moved into Mrs Leota Moore's house. The note ends with concern for Rev Mr Stickley's wife.
The column notes Mrs DeHaven hosting with her son and daughter in law while Jennie calls on Mr Jackson regarding Mrs William De Maven who is ill with tonsillitis. William Lomax and Virginia Ritter’s child visits and other social events are mentioned along with relatives visiting and a planned event for Harry Stottier.
Arrangements are under way for a musical tableau program titled Living Songs In Living Pictures to be presented at 8 o clock tomorrow evening in the Sunday school room of the Estenary Reform Church. The program features folk and home songs with fourteen numbers including The Rosary Mother Macree Sweet and Low Annie Laurie and other familiar tunes. A donkey scene with a monologue and songs plus a children several dance will be part of the show. Participants include Margaret Hodgson Marshall Stryker Buzzella Henry Marie Recher Cornelia Gray Catherine Anderson Carter May Stryker Dorothy Kremer Dixie Mason and Mrs George Vanster Mrs Herman Lee and Mrs George Forney. Refreshments will be served after the program.
Approximately one million dollars in pensions will be mailed by the Virginia Treasurer to Confederate veterans and their widows between now and March 1. The annual appropriation was raised to one million dollars at the last session of the General Assembly, the largest pension payout in the state’s history.
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