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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1923
Page
7
Nellie E. Curtis is not a resident of the state as an affidavit indicates. The court issues notice for her to appear within ten days after due publication to protect her interests in the divorce suit of Iettie 2 B. Curtis against her. Clerk J. B. Beverley signs. January 23.
A newspaper snippet discusses housewives and working women burdened by household duties and factory work, noting many suffer female weakness. It cites a claim that 98 of 100 women using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound find relief and urges others to try the remedy, claiming fifty years of use.
In Pocahontas Virginia on January 23 Charles G Prat der of Ellette and Froxter, weighing about 240 pounds, suffered from rheumatism linked to infected teeth. He reportedly pulled a troublesome tooth himself after a dentist had started extraction, and showed the tooth to colleagues upon their return. The operation was described as very successful.
Rev G T Love of Washington will preach at St Stephen's Church on Thursday January 25. You are invited to attend. Mr John W Harper, confined at home, is better and hopes for early recovery, friends entertain him.
A local storefront promotes clearance of winter apparel including sweaters under wear wool coats shirts army transport coats and pants along with army blankets wool socks knit gloves and corduroys. Prices are advertised as low to move stock.
Roanoke Times reports former Virginia State Highways Commissioner George Preston Coleman returned home for a few days, denying personal gain, pledging to inform the public about highway department affairs, and signaling upcoming remarks at a Roanoke Good Roads meeting while aiming to advance Virginia's road system.
Police enforcing prohibition in Washington said they were tracking a major source of embassy liquor entering the capital’s bootleg trade. Evidence tied to unspecified embassies prompted diplomats to seek State Department confirmation and Cuba’s Dr. Arthuro Pameida denied knowledge of any liquor sales at the Cuban legation.
Baltimore January 24 The State Board of Public Welfare will review the riot at the House of Correction where 18 inmates were shot with bird shot and guards hurt. Warden Langford cites unfit food with wormy plates and says Frank Morris sparked the unrest during a recreation period. Seven prisoners remain in solitary confinement as punishment is decided.
Attorney General Coco said he would seek murder indictments against Captain J. K. Skipwith head of the Morehouse parish Ku Klux Klan once grand jury hearings into parish conditions reach the panel. Governor Parker warned martial law could be declared if threats against witnesses arise during adjournment of the hearings and trials related to hooded outrages.
Sorrowful tidings report the death of Mr E R 8 on a Saturday in January. He was a good neighbor greatly missed by many friends in Wadesville where he had been a familiar figure for years. The bereaved family receives kind sympathies.
The State Bureau of Vital Statistics compares typhoid death rates in Virginia cities in 1900 and after, highlighting water supply, sanitation, and milk handling as factors. Dr. W. A. Plecker notes the data illustrate the of protection measures' impact on public health.
Mrs. J P Carroll of Westernport reports her husband Mr Carroll is slowly improving at home from a paralysis stroke suffered last November 18 at his vulcanizing shop in Pied Fort West Virginia. Friends in Winchester and Frederick County are glad to hear of his progress.
Mr Dabney Harrison of Boyce Clarke County features in a local notice. The fragment indicates a person associated with the county but lacks complete details.
Baltimore American highlights Miss Sara Venables Hughes of John Handley Foundation Schools Winchester Virginia as a popular teacher. The portrait, taken at Barr studio, accompanies praise for her kindergarten and primary teaching talents and social charm.
Secretary Frank E. Gerret told delegates to the convention that only three of 132 illness cases last year were traced to commercially tinned food. The report came from Atlantic City New Jersey in January 1924.
Dr. J Dc Geiger of the United States Public Health Service investigated illness cases attributed to preserved foods. He explained the remaining cases resulted from similar preservation issues.
Mrs Henrietta Farrar mother of opera singer Geraldine Farrar died at her home in New York City from pneumonia and heart disease. She passed away two hours before the scheduled start of Geraldine Farrar's divorce trial against her husband actor Lou Tellegen.
Fragmentary editorial notes discuss crime and rehabilitation via surgery, questioning if criminals can be restored to citizenship. It reflects on people of questionable paths and the difficulty in understanding evolving social conduct, with a digressive aside on women and housework wages.
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