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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1923
Page
4
The article discusses gasoline taxation and road funding in Virginia, emphasizing the pay-as-you-go plan versus bond financing and the impact on motorists. It also explains the dangers of writing bad checks, detailing resulting bank losses and reputational harm.
Roanoke Times advises readers to avoid overdrawing accounts and to manage funds carefully. It discusses occasional small overdrafts and the teller’s discretion in honoring checks, emphasizing prudent banking habits.
Henry Ford warns in The Dearborn Independent that rising public debt risks future taxpayers as states and municipalities float large bond issues. The piece cites The Daily Bond Buyer showing 1922 as a peak year and 1923 near that total, with June 1923 at 160 million dollars and first six months totaling 600 million. It notes long-term trends of high municipal and state borrowings and calls the bond problem a national crisis driven by public spending and rising taxes.
A light verse note from Walt Mason on trimming excess and cutting out bits and pieces. The playful prose teases literary excess and urges simplification with a wink. The piece riffs on squeezing language to essentials and the humor of pruning writing.
A Washington D C woman Mrs Ina Hewitt reports relief from female trouble after using Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. She claims the remedy gave her energy and improves her household chores.
Lausanne July 30 The Turko American treaty may be drafted in three languages with French as the official text if an agreement is reached. Representatives wrestled with the claims question last night but planned another meeting today. A clause may be added to have two appraisers Turkish and American examine American claims and decide settlement methods. Turkey promises fair treatment of Christian populations in Turkey.
A speaker recounts ignoring warnings about excess, clinging to tobacco. He recalls visions of hearse passes, padded cells, and drling drling gents who quit smoking, arguing some condemn pleasure while others indulge.
Market notes list prices for spring chickens under and over four pounds, creamery and country butter, hay baling, flour middlings, corn meal per bushel, and cotton seed meal. Includes livestock items like lambs and hens, and local retail notes for dairy and feeds.
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