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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1923
Page
2
Readers are urged to consider aid for orphans and refugees, a long-standing need highlighted by a local charity. The appeal requests donations of essential items and financial support to assist vulnerable groups during hardship.
Mayor W. W. Glass declares Monday June 11 as Bundle Day to aid Near East Relief. Winchester residents are urged to bundle old clothing for collection by Boy Scouts at 10 am, supporting Virginia's effort to care for 5000 orphans and refugees harmed by war.
A speaker argues the Civil War was a constitutional clash over state sovereignty, not slavery as the sole cause. He notes Virginia might have freed slaves earlier, contrasts northern anti slavery sentiment with southern resolve, and honors generals and soldiers while lamenting the war. The piece includes poems praising Confederate leaders and soldiers.
A reflection on honoring Confederate generals and Civil War sacrifice, noting reverence for the fallen and the duty to teach future generations. The piece mentions Fort Sumpter Appomattox and displays three pictures of Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee to teach truth and patriotism to children.
Daily market roundup shows quoted prices for wheat, butter, flour, feeds, and livestock. Entries include best wheat, spring chickens, hens under and over four pounds, roosters, creamery and country butter, hay straw, flour middlings, mixed feed, corn meal, hogs steers lambs calves, and retail specials for local flour and butter.
Market listings show butter eggs wheat corn turkeys young chickens fat steers lambs calves sheep and hay with varied prices and closing figures for the preceding day at the Baltimore wholesale markets. The snippet lists dairy butter eggs and livestock categories with per unit values and totals, indicating daily pricing activity at the Baltimore markets.
The Yale Harvard freshman crew race set for June 22 may be cancelled if participating students confess their roles in the Monday night riot between freshmen and sophomores. Over fifty police and several fire units responded to quell the outbreak in New Haven.
An old-fashioned idea is challenged as Joint-Ease soaks claim to reach the cartilage and ligaments in the feet. The ad urges stopping powders and baths for three days and applying Joint-Ease, priced at 60 cents a tube, via Franck Baker & Son and Boyd Drug Co. (adv).
In Woonsocket Rhode Island on June 7 reports indicate Clinton Mill of the B B R Knight Company and Anza Company cotton yarns have halted operations amid ongoing industry strain leaving workers uncertain about future production and layoffs.
Train times show parlor car and Pullman sleeper services from Roanoke to Bristol Williamson and Philadelphia with connections at Shenandoah and Washington. Parlor cars to Bristol and Jegerstown, sleepers to Philadelphia and New York. Agents H. H. Burks and W. C. Saunders list fare and reservations.
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