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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1922
Page
4
Sane Mogico is described as a cheerful country for travelers with bandits posing as strangers and government jailing the stranger for kidnapping. Diaz is portrayed as the only leader in a century able to rule Mexico with dictatorial authority, overthrown as idealists demanded real democracy, leaving a period of ongoing but restrained anarchy.
A fragmented outlook urges Democrats to participate in the Virginia primary while warning against abstaining. The piece emphasizes presidential principles and urges voters to cast a ballot, despite conflicting opinions within the party.
Fragmentary verse piece depicts a narrator reflecting on smoking, discipline, fate, and poetry. A pastor cautions against vice while a benefactor offers pipes and cigars, blending imagery of downfall, memory, and aspiration with surreal humor.
In Bin Virginia on July 31 Mrs Edith 8 and her daughter Miss Pauline of Morgantown West Virginia are not relatives or friends here. D. S. Mattison and Mrs R. L. Lewis of Ft PW Ocenne and Mrs Lela attended a picnic at Grove on Saturday. Mr and Mrs Russell Cather are near 2nburg Virginia visiting relatives and friends. Roy Cather of Winchester was in the village on Saturday. Miss E Florence Lancaster of Ashington District of Columbia is visiting Mrs Thomas on South Main Street. Lancaster is a lineal descendant of Peter Helphenstine of Revolu and is researching family history while in Winchester.
An essay on ancestry and blue blood contrasts Adam and Eve lineage with modern claimants to noble birth. It questions class snobbery and argues true gentility comes from character, not birth. The piece mentions Noah and a Mayflower link, then critiques easy divorce proposed by E. Phillips Oppenheim as a potential reform.
A columnist disputes the idea that sentiment is a universal gift in marriage. He cites E Phillips Oppenheim and asks why joyfully practical matches aren’t recognized. He notes love marriages can end in divorce and warns that even ideal partners carry risk.
The Star lists today’s local wholesale prices including wheat flour butter and various poultry items with ranges for spring chickens young ducks and hens. Markets are corrected to close of day yesterday with figures for crewe cattle hogs and fat steers and a Baltimore price table included.
Hagenbeck-Wallace circus, halted in Lancaster Ohio, delays two days and cancels shows at Chilloothe Portsmouth and Irronton due to railroad strike and fuel shortage. Norfolk and Western cannot move cars. Pennsylvania road will move circus to Washington Court House Ohio.
Rest Sunday school held its annual picnic in Clevenger's meadow with ideal weather and full baskets. Rev L L Lowance and family, formerly of the area, attended. Miss Ronk returned home to Hedgesville after staying with Rev Mr Wilson. Birth announced for a baby girl to Mr and Mrs J W Schlack at Memorial Hospital. Mrs Schlack and baby said to be doing well. Mrs J B Feagans visited Tablers Station. Mrs Harry Feagans ill. Mr and Mrs Harry Moulden and daughter Frances, and Mr and Mrs Walter Flowers with daughter visited Charles Jefferson home near Brucetown.
In Middletown Virginia on July 29 Miss Katherine Watson visits grandmother Mrs. J E Watson near Leesburg. Several residents travel visiting relatives across Maryland and Virginia including Mr Davis Memps with son Fr Manuel in Lansdowne and Miss May Booth in Alexandria.
Miss Nannie Walter returns to Baltimore after visiting her brother in law and sister Mr and Mrs J M Orndoff Mary Evelyn Wisecarver head home after extended trip to southwest PA to Marion Virginia Mr and Mrs Perkins Hazelgrove depart Roanoke Virginia after weeks with Dr and Mrs Walter Myers H B McCormac and family return from two weeks with friends on Long Island Vermont paper Ed Yoders owns two runabouts buys tires for one and attire for the other
Resolutions from R. E. Lee Camp praise Richmond and Virginia for hospitality shown during the United Confederate Veterans reunion. The Virginia Grand Camp meets in Winchester August 29 to 31 and hopes for continued citizen support. The notes commend the steering committee police Boy Scouts rail lines and city leadership for a successful event and extended thanks to all contributors.
A young woman muses that she will never grow old, fearing a future where changes in the laws of nature alter aging before the expected passage of time. The fragment conveys a tension between biology and evolving societal rules.
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