The Pearl and About a Man and a Door
Fragmentary excerpt mentions a pearl and a man’s entrance near a door. Text includes phrases about beauty and a warning to wipe feet, with garbled names and unclear context.
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1922
Page
3
Fragmentary excerpt mentions a pearl and a man’s entrance near a door. Text includes phrases about beauty and a warning to wipe feet, with garbled names and unclear context.
A Roanoke Times staff writer reports at Lexington on a June dedication of a new athletic field by Virginia Military Institute to memory of World War I hero Robert Young Conrad. The piece recalls Conrad leading men at No Man s Land and dying of wounds, with VMI honoring his supreme sacrifice.
Daily market listing shows prices for spring chickens creamery butter country butter eggs flour and middlings. Notable figures include spring chickens at 33 cents, hens under 4 pounds at 16 cents, creamery butter around 31 cents, local flour barrels at 1.65, 12-lb sacks at 0.75, and cotton seed meal at 2.90.
Readable items show various food prices and product names such as corn and butter with scattered figures. The legible elements include dairy prints and dairy products, with dates and percentages briefly noted amid garbled text.
Miss M Louise Montague of Harpers Ferry and New York displays a life size bust of her father Lawrence A Montague in a Martinsburg jewelry window. She carved a death mask of him before his December 1918 coal gas deaths. Her sister Sister Immaculate of Wheeling nearly died at the same time. Montague later founded the International Humanity League.
Advertisement for wallpaper patterns at 10 cents each in gilt 12.1-2 cents each for painting. window shades from 49 cents up. Company listed is Thomas & Messer Company located at 1015 W. Ral ted, Baltimsré.
Funeral services for John J. Walsh a Winchester England native brick-layer who died at Memoriad Hospital after a brief uremic poisoning were held at the Church of the Sacred Heart with Rev Father Thomas A Rankin officiating. Interment followed at Catholic Cemetery with pall bearers Bernard Sullivan Joseph Sullivan O L Jamison Lewis Trier Michael Lillis and J D O Connell. Miss Walsh a niece and Mrs Ambach from Newark attended serving as assistance.
The Ladies National Memorial Association will hold a meeting at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening at Mrs. W. R. Willis's home on South Market Street.
Mr and Mrs Palmer and their Derby child from Washington arrive to occupy Mrs Lewis H Hyde residence on West Water Street for the summer. Mrs Derby formerly Miss Hilda Partner of Waghinaeten Shaig 9 near View Henry D Flood summers with her children at Mrs Richard BE Byrd’s home.
Yesterday a large gathering traveled to the beach for a family outing. A 10 o clock wagon from J J Sullivan brought town youths who enjoyed games and sandwiches while Coca Cola bottling head John L Shine presided as the party host. Mrs Mo A Doran hit a home run in a casual baseball game and Father Meredith joined the guests along with Mrs Gavin Dhric and other attendees.
A Fort Loudoun graduate, daughter of Clarence Owings of No. foot litte avenue, wed Thor Hudgins of sou in a Walbrook Methodist church ceremony. The bride, a graduate of Loudoun Seminary in Winchester, was attended by Miss Louise from this city and Miss Katheryn of Vaucluse.
In circuit court yesterday afternoon Mitchell Barr sang a tune titled Sweet Marie during arguments. Sheriff Pannett arrested him on a drunk and disorderly charge. Bail was set at $10 for appearance in bonce court this morning, but a game was forfeited.
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