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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1923
Page
4
The Evening Star lists subscription prices by mail and carrier with rates for one year six months three months and one month. The Weekly News The Weekly Mirror Associated Press content is noted as exclusive for republication.
Fragments of Walt Mason verse from the July 6 1923 issue question Darwinism and humanity. The poem satirizes spendthrift folly thrift vs heedless haste and the value of simple honesty in moral progress.
More than 1000 men from both sides gather for joint talks in Pennsylvania to resolve a wage dispute for 155000 anthracite workers. The miners demand a 20 percent rise, a base of 2.00 dollars per day, union recognition, and an eight hour day. A one year contract is proposed with coal paid by weight rather than by car.
The Department of Justice and Assistant Attorney General Crim vow to bar a Dempsey Gibbons film from Montana and other markets. William Burns and federal agents will monitor for any attempt to distribute the footage and violate federal laws on moving pictures in commerce.
Ad text claims gas in the stomach causes inflammation and may involve the appendix. It touts Adlerika as removing gas and poisons from both upper and lower bowel, reduces obstinate constipation, and promotes general bowel cleansing with various herbal components.
Inventive promotion touts Calotabs as a de-nauseated calomel with no taste no nausea no griping and no salts. Manufacturers offer refunds if not delighted with Calotabs priced at ten and thirty five cents. One tablet at bedtime with water yields a morning clean liver and hearty appetite.
Marc Hurd of the Minneapolis Arc Club traveled to New York with 52 photographs of the Dempsey Gibbons bout. He will pause briefly in Chicago to drop off some pictures before continuing.
The advertisement proclaims strong female endorsement for Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It claims 98 of 100 women with ailments improving to health and urges sick women to try the remedy, citing letters of recommendation published in the paper.
In Winona Lake Indiana this day the World's Christian Citizens Conference unanimously approved participation in the world court. A resolution urging America to join the world court was adopted during the session.
Washington minister Daniel Batchelor is expected to attend Friends' meetings in Winchester on Sunday morning at 11 and again in Hopewell in the afternoon at 2. The schedule positions Batchelor to lead or participate in both gatherings.
Special service for Children day to be held at the Methodist Episcopal Church in Greenwood at 2 30 on Sunday afternoon. Pastor F I Mumford announces an attractive program and invites the public to enjoy the children’s entertainment. The Immortal Novel notes mark immortality by triumph of good over evil. Bees occupy Henry Clay statue head in Lexington cemetery. Australia reports 80 000 000 000 rabbits descended from cotton tails introduced seventy years ago.
A remark on where to place a printed country legend in books. Phelps notes that printing "Printed in the United States of America" on the reverse of the title page prevents anti climax at the end. He cites examples where final page lines disrupt reading.
A motivational maxim from Sydney Smith urging action over hesitation. The quote emphasizes choosing to engage despite fear or risk, comparing inaction to waiting on shore while cold and danger loom. It frames courage as essential to achieving anything worthwhile.
Mrs Frances Elizabeth Trotter daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles Trotter of Washington married Samuel Higginbotham Baker formerly of Winchester now of Philadelphia in St Johns Episcopal Church Washington last Saturday June 30. The ceremony was performed by Rev Dr Robert Johnston. The couple will reside in Philadelphia after July 20. Baker is son of Mr and Mrs Henry Baker of Winchester with many local friends. A portrait of the bride appeared in last Sundays Washington Star. Chitageans Visit Here A H Symons and family from Chicago on automobile tour stopped in Winchester to visit Miss Mary Anna Griffith and other relatives before continuing to Chicago where Symons has patents to market.
Mr. James Boyd Haines formerly of this city married June 26 in Montreal to Miss Golden of Hawkesburg Ontario. He is son of Mrs Ellasraside who lived in Winchester and now resides with Mrs Lawrence Fansler in Knoxville. They will live in Knoxville where he works for the National Biscuit Company.
On a trip to Canada Mr and Mrs Clark M Smith and Mr and Mrs Harry Schmidt travel to Niagara Falls and nearby points of interest in Canada before returning home. During Mr Smiths absence his teller duties at Shenandoah Valley National Bank are filled by A S Henkel of the bank staff.
Mrs. Alfonso Hicks leaves for Rocky Mount N C from the Valley pike to visit her brother in law I W Hicks. Isabelle Noonan and niece visit William Sen at Niagara Falls. Miss Mary Leesene travels to Charte pW Wa to visit Miss Ela Holloran. Philip Klompus and family return from Baltimore. H Spencer Edmunds and Melvin Green with son register in Roanoke and New York respectively for trips to France. Others head to Weston West Virginia, Gore Valley Home, Baltimore and Elkins West Virginia for visits and health treatment.
Mrs L H Sothron daughter of Prof Archibald Magill Smith arrives for a visit with Mr and Mrs William C Marshall at their South Stewart street home. Also Mrs A M Baker and Mrs W Nelson Page visit Mr and Mrs Peter Vredenburgh in Mantajoking New Jersey.
Mary Nicholison addressed a mass meeting in Nova Scotia on July 6 supporting striking coal miners. She said miners’ tactics were accepted and challenged the Dominion government over the conflict. The event underscored the unresolved dispute between miners and authorities.
A morning fire in Goldfield threatens several blocks in the old Tenderloin district. Firefighters use water and dynamite to fight the blaze that consumes the Masonic Temple Montezuma Club and nearby frame buildings along Main Street from Cronk to Ramsey. The fire spreads rapidly through the district once home to saloons brokers and the promoter's early venue.
Paris reports the death today of Vice-Admiral Ferdinand Jean-Jacques De Don longtime head of the French naval general staff and former head of the naval advisory body at the Washington armament conference after a long illness.
H E Honeywell and P J McCullough of St Louis landed at Brocton Chautauqua County after a 29 hour 11 minute flight in the national balloon race that started in Indianapolis on July 4.
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