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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1923
Page
4
Local consolidation notes list Morning News The Weekly News The Weekly Mirror and Associated Press content exclusive for republication. Phone lines and credit details appear in the telegraph and newspaper masthead with local notices and news items.
Rates for subscriptions listed in advance include one year at 3.60 dollars ix months at 1.76 dollars and monthly options at 1.20 dollars each. The text appears garbled with missing digits but shows a pricing scheme for different terms.
A 1923 Virginia debate features The Good Roads Association and pro bond newspapers arguing over a proposed 000,000 road bond. Critics say the plan would raise interest costs, mislead taxpayers, and fail to reduce taxes, highlighting the long payout and confusing terms in a period of road funding controversy.
A verse piece ridicules park bench philosophers and the old graybeards who mock reform while praising refined dress. It contrasts shabby appearance with hidden worth and laments lost ambition, noting society’s preference for polished speakers over humble truth.
Finishing touches go to attractive brick residences along Stewart street near Handley schools. Richard S. Joniffe’s corner property spans from Stewart to Leicester with new sewer water and gas mains connected. J J Maphis and Elsie Maphis sold a lot on Pall Mall to A S Hott, while Donald S McFadden begins excavating for a new dwelling on Stewart street.
Andrew Bell Virginia Chamber of Commerce secretary and district deputy grand exalted ruler of Elks in Virginia depart to attend the Grand Lodge annual meeting in Atlanta. J Yost Winchester Lodge 867 past ruler also travels as local lodge representative. The convention is expected to attract around 10 000 Elks from over 1 600 subordinate lodges with special trains and a formal degree ceremony.
Winona Lake Ind July 7 An address to world rulers urged drying Christianity in international relations. Delegates from many denominations and over twenty foreign countries approved the text calling nations to unite under Jesus teaching to set new standards. It was sent to the sovereign heads of more than fifty nations including major powers of Europe and Asia. The plea cites love brotherhood and fair play as the basis to avert war.
Arch bishop Curley of Baltimore and Mgr Louis B. Stickney sail on the Franconia as part of the first American Irish group to visit Ireland since the war. Curley plans to see his mother in Athlone and may meet singer John McCormack. the Curley and McCormack families have long been neighbors.
The notice describes a finely built 1920 residence with ten rooms and modern conveniences in Winchester Virginia, including a cedar lined room and sleeping porch, and an option to buy adjacent Lot No 5 on Stewart Street for 3500 with staged payments. Sold by ward and barton bakern commissioners.
The Leiber company stars Miss Olive Oliver Louis van Hall and Robert Strauss in The Taming of the Shrew presented by Chautauqua on the Empire stage. Oliver reprises Katherine and Hall steps into Petruchio in this familiar Shakespeare comedy revival.
William Robertson toll collector on the Big Sandy River bridge near Huntingdon West Virginia was shot and killed by unidentified assailants. Police from Ohio Kentucky and West Virginia were alerted to watch roads leading from the district and authorities suspected toll evasion motive.
Trustee Brannon advertises a public auction of a two‑parcel farm near Cedar Grove, Frederick County, Virginia. The sale, at 11 a.m. July 31, 1923, in front of the Frederick County Courthouse in Winchester, follows a deed of trust default with terms: one‑third cash, balance in one and two years secured by a deed of trust and fire insurance, with six percent interest and homestead waiver.
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