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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1921
Page
3
An extensive sale advertises drastic price cuts across clothing and household items. Voiles, gowns, skirts, vests, aprons, towels, scrims, and handkerchiefs are reduced to a fraction of former costs. Green trading stamps promised with purchases andWednesday closing time noted.
Mount Hlatams Va July 27. local social notes list Miss Ossie Ashwood visiting Kernstown relatives. Mr and Mrs GF Dyke and others visited Lebanon Church. Several residents, including Miss Marie Beck and Miss Zella Spiller, are mentioned with illness and recovery. Families like Orndoff Williams Himelright and Brewer are noted visiting and staying with relatives.
Misses Aspen men Elsie Ashwood noted on a Sunday after tea about Mayind Smoke recently.
A boy was struck unconscious after a bolt hit his back where a photograph of a cedar tree was pinned. The incident left a round hole in his cap and the family recalled the minutes of the event as the shock passed.
In York limited reports describe a physician at the Tombs attributing cases of alcoholic insanity to poisonous substitutes used during prohibition. He told a lunacy commission that such substances create toxic conditions and degrade the nervous system, leading to psychosis.
Mrs Knight wife of Dr at who recently underwent appendicitis surgery at Memorial Hospital is recovering well and expected to return home soon. Friends are pleased by her improvement.
Rumor from Frostburg Maryland describes a bootlegging plot involving a Pennsylvanian buyer who ordered twenty five Penwick cases from a Frostburg saloonist. Delivery used two Uniontown autos, with cellar stash found and a dramatic confrontation as authorities investigated missing cash and a missing organizer.
Jann Haun, a local mail carrier between Woodstock and Miema, was frightened by two wild cats during a routine route on July 27. Neighbors reported the incident and advised caution near the usual mail stops.
Mr Haun returning to Woodstock descends a mountain side when two wild cats sprang from brush and crossed in front of the horse causing it to lunge over a precipice near Devil at Weather Bed. The mail carrier jumped unharmed though the buggy toppled down a steep slope. The buggy and horse were found later below the crash site.
Legal notice in Frederick County Virginia proceedings for sale of 166 acre tract owned by the late Jo Neamith. Case seeks distribution of sale proceeds and relief. defendants to appear by late May 1921. Brannon, clerk, orders publication in The Evening Star for four consecutive weeks in the City of Washington.
The Evening Journal reports the death of Paul Hertang of Shinnston years years, with a son and several brothers surviving. The city man reportedly succumbed after injuries in an incident in Pew.
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