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Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

May 11, 1922

Page

2

Word Origins and a Childs Rough Play At Party

The text traces currency of the word sinecera to sine cera in Roman times and notes a playful misadventure at a children's party where Cyril was injured during hide and seek with a cloth tearing noise heard and him hurried off for repairs.

Cyril London

Century Debate On First Hundred Years

Opinion piece weighs whether the first hundred years are the longest or hardest and favors the view that the early century is most plausible. The brief considers historical progress and challenges in early periods.

Absentminded Bridegroom Ends In Secret Wedding

Davis and Doris marry in a quiet ceremony after a ruse at Mrs Barker's boarding house. Ed Barrows schemes and Doris fears aunt Fanny but the couple elope with four witnesses at a parsonage.

Jerry Green Davis Dave Jerry Doris Aunt Fanny Ed Barrows Derry Barker's Thiat Expressman Mrs. Barker

First Steps in Photography

A historical note on early photography credits Niepce with securing the first permanent photographs on bitumen of Judea. It recalls 1802 experiments by Wedgwood, and 1829 Niepce joining Da guerre, with a monument in France marking 1822 as the year photography was discovered.

Judea Niepce Tom’ Wedgwood Daguerre France Chalons

Protests Over Government Radio Rule Limit Sending to Designated Stations

Eastern radio clubs condemn a ruling that bans broadcasting music concerts or news except by designated stations. Amateurs fear corporate interests seek air monopoly. supporters say the rule reduces clutter and preserves life saving wireless lines at sea. Amateur photographers gain from new sensitized paper for direct prints with rapid development.

Chicago Post

Pretty oil camp in Tampico district charms visitors

A U.S. fuel oil company boasts its Salya such camp near the Panuco river in orange groves is among the prettiest oil camps. Lush lawns gardens a swimming pool water gardens and flowering hedges create a nonconformist welcome contradicting the hard boiled image of oil camps in the Tampico district.

United States Fuel Oil Company Tampico Salyasuch Panuco New York Evening Post

Lost Chord Misidentification Snafu Cited by London Telegraph

Customer seeks The Stolen Rope in a music shop and mishears a line, prompting the assistant to identify the real tune as The Lost Chord. The exchange underscores a misremembered lyric and the Telegraph’s attribution.

London Telegraph

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