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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1921
Page
4
Advertisement text shows pricing for monthly and advance subscriptions with various rates. Mentions Associated Press rights and republication rules. Contains garbled filler words and misaligned phrases from OCR.
The Virginia Roads Association promotes a $50 million bond issue for roads arguing it will finance a vast system through non taxpaying methods. Critics call the plan risky noting bonds run through 1948 with 5 percent interest and fear tax revenue would be diverted from other needs.
H F Byrd argues against road bond issuance in Virginia criticizing fiscal policy that shifts road funds to interest and sinking funds. He notes tax and construction growth from 1922 to 1948 and questions whether farm to market roads and overall mileage justify bond costs. He cites $90.45 million needed for interest and principal and warns tax burdens may rise without clear payoff.
Wholesale prices quoted by local buyers for butter, eggs, flour, meal, and farm produce. Markets show ranges for spring wheat flour, corn meal, hay, seed, and livestock including fat cattle and hogs, with notes of daily corrections and standard items.
A Philadelphia reader testifies to six years of suffering from bearing down pain and nervous spells. She credits Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a natural restorative after displacement or derangement of the system. She urges other women to try the remedy and writes to Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. for guidance.
For the summer months rooms and apartments available, furnished or unfurnished. Locations include 18 and 26 Peyton Street and 411 North Loudoun Street. Call 288 for details.
Chicago May wheat futures jumped as shorts rushed to settle contracts at month end. May delivery led the surge, raising prices to $1.82 per bushel, while other grains stayed firm within moderate ranges.
Edward Fritts aged 45 from Success Warren County Virginia died of heart disease Sunday morning after alighting at Success station. He traveled with a colored man and collapsed en route to his home. Funeral held, burial at Rockland. Survived by brothers Robert Bushrod and Charles W Fritts with a stepmother and sister in Winchester.
A fire destroyed the main building of Central City College in Macon Georgia. An undocumented person set the blaze after appearing on campus stripped and torched the structure. About 300 students were evacuated and the loss is estimated at $100000.
Hoarsely advertised medicine by F. J. Cheney & Co claims to treat catarrh and related deafness by a internal liquid that enters the blood and eases mucous inflammation. circulars offered free through druggists in Toledo Ohio.
Democratic primary candidate for Lieutenant Governor in Virginia speaks of experience in the State Senate in the House of Delegates and as Commonwealth's Attorney. The ad urges voters to support a safe sound experienced Democrat appealing to state interests with a Progressive but not radical stance. Senator Gunn plans to campaign and invites contact at Julien Gunn Campaign Com 701 East Grace St Richmond.
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