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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1922
Page
7
A terse ledger listing loans and discounts, overdrafts, bonds and securities, including premiums, banking house and lot, furniture and fixtures, cash and deposits with banks, revenue stamps, and an overall total. The OCR yields an asset-focused snapshot typical of archival financial statements.
In Bloom Virginia on a Saturday evening three year old Pauline Glynn daughter of Mr and Mrs P P Glynn was badly scalded after falling backward into a tub of boiling hot water a large kettle of hot water had been in the tub before the accident her left arm and hips are badly scalded and she will be confined to bed for some time.
Market notes show prices for creamery butter eggs country butter young chickens and various flours and grains. Listings include 12 pound sacks spring wheat flour local flour barrels and standard middlings with screenings and shelled corn among items.
A damaged OCR fragment shows cotton seed meal wholesale market notes in Baltimore with numbers like 717. 00 to 2100 and a stray phrase about marriage, leaving the core item unclear. The readable portion points to a trade listing rather than a full article.
Loudoun camp meeting in Bentons woods between Unison and Leighton Loudoun county begins Friday August 18 and runs ten days. Dr O E Goddard of McKendree Methodist Episcopal Church South Nashville Tenn will lead religious services with a singer and the Alexandria District presiding elder. H H Otley Bluemont is again the business manager.
Richmond July 17 The moving picture censorship law will become effective August 1. Pictures shown in the state after that date must bear the license or permit of the Virginia State Board of Censors. Permits cover works already shown. licenses apply to films after August 1. Some educational religious or technical films are exempt. The board’s salaries and expenses come from producers’ fees. The room cost and furniture were supplied by convict labor from the state prison. Board members include Eva R Chesterman as chairman among others.
Emma Speed Sampson now serves as chief clerk with R C L Monecure and Miss Martha Cunningham, formerly executive secretary of the Wolfan's Club, in leadership roles as secretary and vice-chairman.
A communication from The Star editor critiques political figures Westmoreland Davis and others, likening their actions to washing hands in a basin to please all sides. The piece argues such basins fail, predicting August will reveal political failures tied to compromise and public favor.
A reader from Mountain Falls Virginia recalls the early Republic era while noting Philadelphia’s Independence Square housed the first American zoo at the Peale museum in 1794. Charles Wilson Peale used the Philosophical Society building on Sixth Chestnut for portraits and began a living exhibit behind the bull statue.
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