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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1922
Page
3
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An OCR fragment mentions Orkney Springs Virginia with a hotel and mineral baths, plus a June rate and a large scale description of Yellowstone National Park. It also includes lunar month terms, turpentin ing notes, pine resin content, and Wisconsin forest product laboratory quotes. The readable entities include Orkney Springs, Virginia. Yellowstone. Albetrohy mountains. June rate. pine turpentine. Wisconsin.
The item notes Mr. J. Micter Arthur traveling to Cumberland Maryland for several days on business. It also references Morocco customs where youths and maidens cannot see each other before marriage and describes a youth hiding during visits to a young woman’s home as part of visiting customs.
Capon Bridge notes report Kathleen Mskridge returning from Washington for the summer and plans to go back. Families from Hagerstown and Winchester visit Capon Bridge, including Mr and Mrs Daniel Sirbaugh and young Virginia, and Mr Brown Lovett and Miss Russell Lovett. A Ladies Aid festival drew a good crowd and Little Samuel Lee Hiett visits his aunt Ida Funkhouser.
Burnt Factory Va July 20 A for HM picnic was tendered Mr ettel recently in honor of his birthday anniversary at Spout Spring. A number of his friends were present including Mrs James Maphis son and daughter of Mt Jackson Va There will be preaching at Red Bud United Brethren Church on Sunday July 23 at 3 PM by the Rev Mr Shaver of the Progressive Dunkard Church of Maurertown Everyone is invited to the service.
A group of Boy Scouts from three troops departed Middletown this morning for a ten day camp along Gedar Creek. Scout Commissioner Graham Rosenberger and Scoutmaster McKee led the party. They will camp four miles west of Middletown and return after the stay, with another division of Scouts to follow. A girls camp will begin at the same location after the secondScout section finishes.
The birch figures prominently in European life and legend, with the fasces of Roman magistrates a birch bundle symbolizing authority that may have passed to schoolmasters. Primitive cultures used the birch as a symbol of power, while myths and education share this lineage. The article notes a study showing a horned toad surviving 119 days without water, challenging prohibitionist claims.
A puzzled word haberdasher traces to a seller of ribbons buttons and small articles who traveled to fairs carrying a sack. The name derives from yarer meaning oats and tascte meaning a sack, reflecting old trade terms.
A fragmented excerpt recounts the kiziuba palm with roots sprouting above ground, touches on the St. Lawrence voyage by Jacques Cartier in 1535 and Champlain in 1615, mentions French exploration naming Les filles antiques, references a Japanese courtship practice, and notes a French electric comb replacing scissors for hair cutting.
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