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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1922
Page
4
The Evening Star edition details publication and postal affairs in Win Virginia. It lists subscription rates and deadlines for the Morning News The Weekly News The Weekly Mirror. Rates include one month in advance and annual options, with discounts for longer terms. Associated Press content is noted as exclusive for republication.
Henry Ford proposes supplying fertilizer at half price through a government plant at Muscle Shoals. His chief engineer testifies to a Senate committee that if accepted, a secret process could deliver commercial fertilizer to consumers at half current prices, revitalizing production and lowering costs.
A Virginia article defends motion pictures as art and notes moral debates around their display. It argues pictures can present classical themes and Bible subjects well and should be regulated by opinion rather than bans, with proper venues including churches as possible showing spaces.
Fragmented remarks from Lady Astor in Richmond praise courage and conviction among Americans. The speaker urges unity, duty, and idealism to sustain a nation that cannot live alone and hints at wartime resolve amid shifting social roles.
A reader reflects on postwar leadership and virtue in Virginia. The speaker urges league of nations support, humility of Christ, and civic reforms such as a municipal library while addressing race, patriotism, and American salvation through Virginians. The piece blends personal memories, political stance, and regional pride.
Verse by Walt Mason satirizes prohibition era morals as the speaker boasts quitting sins but keeps a smoking briar pipe. He mocks moral crusaders who condemn comforts and warns that banning small pleasures may ruin ordinary joy.
Capon Bridge notes arrivals visits and movements as families relocate with the Con Oats house switching for the Consolidated Telephone Co. Mrs. Wolford visits, Miss Ruth Kerns returns from teaching, and a garage rises at Capon Bridge. Weather, illness recoveries, and firings impact farms, with last week’s rains boosting gardens and crops.
A Wisconsin reader reports relief from sleepless nights and mood swings after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The letter describes middle age distress such as melancholia irritability headaches and dizziness and credits the tonic with calming effects and improved sleep.
Winchester visitor Mr Chas Boxwell stays with his sister Mrs H C Whitacre. Mr Wilbert Strother vacates the United Brethren parsonage for the former Mrs Wallie Whitacres home. Mr Harry Clark moves into parsonage. Charles Webster and Nellie Gardner newly married relocate to H J Bageants near Reynolds Store. A heavy 30 minute evening downpour followed Thursday showers.
Daily market list shows prices for wheat creamery butter live poultry hay flour and corn products from local buyers. Notable figures include spring chickens 43 cents to 60 cents per pound and flour middlings at 1.90 to 4.00 per unit with cotton seed meal around 2.78.
AP reports U S building operations rose 32 percent in 1921 from the prior year based on 140 city reports. Wholesale building material costs fell 38 percent in the same period as the survey noted. Also noted are social notices of visitors to local residents in Buffalo, New York.
The USDA urges two or more neighboring towns to hire a shared milk inspector and maintain a lab to ensure safe milk. In larger cities labs test samples from delivery vehicles and eateries, while small towns struggle with costs. The Oranges of northern New Jersey are cited as a long running successful example.
A dairy cow should show angularity and leanness with a feminine head and a calm dairy temperament. The chest must be full, the body long and deep, with arched ribs to allow feed and organ room, and a well developed mammary system with large milk wells and well placed teats for easy handling.
The Utah Farmer notes that dairy cows labor hard, yielding five to ten times their weight in milk yearly with significant dry matter. Energy required to produce 20 pounds of milk is comparable to plowing an acre, underscoring the need for good feeding and care.
Clover hay ranks among the best roughages for cattle. It provides high crude protein essential to milk production and is palatable. It also contains a rich supply of lime, which cows need.
A farm reports that removing a ton of butter reduces plant food value by seventy cents while selling seed stock would remove over 400 dollars in soil fertility. The incident highlights fragile farm inputs and high crop input costs.
The United States insists on formal guarantees from the Obregon regime before recognizing the Mexican government. Officials report only intimations of possible favorable dispositions and require a formal agreement from Obregon, keeping the situation as it was when U.S. views were sent on June 21, 1921.
Frederick County agriculture students argue smudge pots a costly but effective tool after the 1921 spring freeze. They note some varieties perish yet Yorks remain reliable and predict a larger 1922 crop, urging optimism over pessimism.
Rear Admiral Louis McCoy Nulton and Mrs. Nulton announce the marriage of their daughter Virginia Adams Nulton to Dean Dalrymple Francis of Flint Michigan. The ceremony is set for Thursday June first at six oclock at the Church of the Holy Trinity Philadelphia with a reception at the Commandants residence League Island Navy Yard. The bride is from Winchester and navy circles praise her. Francis a former United States Naval Academy graduate and former ensign left active duty to join his family business in Flint. The couple will reside in Flint Michigan.
A man at a Denver vaudeville show laughed so hard that he exited the theater. He later recovered his memory but could not recall the joke that caused his fit of laughter.
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