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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1921
Page
5
A 13 year old relative named Pearl Harding of Circay is invited by President Harding and Mrs. Harding to make her home in the White House. She is pictured holding a photograph of a distinguished king man in her hand.
In Armell Va March 30 Easter weddings unite John Armel Jr and Miss Meecagi of Muttiaté Warrencounty Va with Joseph Perry and Miss Lola White of Nineveh Va. The Armel ceremony occurred in Winchester Saturday afternoon and the Perry ceremony in Charles Town late Saturday evening. Nearby residents send good wishes as families host Easter gatherings and visits.
An advert promotes internal blood purifier S S S as a cure for persistent skin trouble. It claims external treatments only provide temporary relief and urges readers to obtain S S S from a local druggist and report their case to the Chief Medical Advisor in Atlanta Georgia.
The Civic League will hold its regular Friday meeting at Handley Library at 4 p.m. Superintendent E. Clerk will discuss the ideal home school relations and the home school partnership. Ladies from city and county are urged to attend. Mrs Harris signs.
Two marine corps airplanes en route to the Virgin Islands landed at Richmond Virginia yesterday afternoon and lifted off again at 9 30 this morning bound for Fayetteville South Carolina where they were to spend the night.
Attorney General Daugherty said the nation will settle into stricter prohibition enforcement within a year or two and see less bootlegging. He noted enforcement is a hard job with district attorney dockets crowded with cases awaiting action.
Several hundred workers at the Eagle and Phoenix mills in Columbus demand a 30 percent wage increase. They say current pay and hours fail to provide a living wage, while company officials admit wages are too low but cite losses preventing any raise.
Cambridge defeated Oxford in the annual boat race from Putney to Mortlake on the Thames. The winning time was 19 minutes and 44 seconds.
The stock market opened with profit taking and short selling spreading across the list in the first hour. Rails traded slowly while tobaccos and cheaper rails showed modest gains before noon, offset by weakness in textiles and chemical issues. Call loans stood at 6 percent as London exchange remained strong.
The Weeks Act spurs national forest purchases in Virginia to protect headwaters and water power. About 79,667 acres near the Potomac region and 163,074 acres in Shenandoah are under purchase or approved, with plans to add 125,000 acres north along Shenandoah Mountain and 50,000 more in Crawford Mountain.
Promoter Tex Rickard announced in New York that the Dempsey Arpentier heavyweight championship bout will be staged in the United States and site details will be announced on Saturday April 9. He stressed the event will occur within a reasonable radius of Greater New York and that offers from outside points were considered and rejected.
Harrisburg March 30 a bill in the Pennsylvania Legislature proposes a 212 percent tax on the value per ton of anthracite coal mined and prepared for market. The measure has the support of the state administration.
Mr. William M. Wagner, long time retired businessman, marked his ninety first birthday yesterday at the home of his son and daughter in law Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Wagner on North Braddock Street. He reported feeling well with good appetite and regular habits.
German competitors gain through American financial interest, with reports from consul Blohm at Frontera, Mexico, noting lower German prices and six months' credit. The piece also describes a silage feeding system with three long feed banks and connected carrier-tracks, designed for efficient feeding of cattle in the corn belt.
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