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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1921
Page
4
A satirical poem by Walt Mason laments taxes and debt as thrifty citizens bear the burden while paupers dance and the nation strains to pay its debts. The piece critiques income tax envy and calls for a better plan.
A wartime memorial from Virginia Military Institute in Lexington lists dying words and farewells from fallen VMI graduates across wars. The compilation records ranks, service, decorations, and acts of courage with notable lines from Lieut Amory Captain Atwell Lincoln and others as they faced death.
A 1920 notice quotes Baltimore and Ohio Railroad official W Galloway urging motorists to heed grade crossing warnings. He cites 4350 deaths and 12750 injuries across four years 1917-1920, urging drivers to stop look and listen rather than trust crossing bells or a watchful observer.
Mrs Thomas Painter and her young son visit the former's parents, Mr and Mrs J Few Brown, at their home in Deets Virginia during their stay with relatives.
Luray Virginia May 10 A surgical operation in which Philadelphia surgeons balked is the removal of a safety pin from the stomach of an infant child of Rose Rothgeb of Elon North Carolina now at the home of his father George W Rothgeb in Luray The pin was swallowed five weeks ago and X ray exam in Philadelphia showed the pin in the large intestines having passed through the stomach and small intestines The pin remains open as when swallowed reflecting the delay in care and the ongoing search for a willing surgeon
Heavy rains caused a large soils slide at White Cut near Happy Creek Virginia delaying trains on the Manassas Harrisonburg division. Workers loaded light gravel into cars to spread as ballast as the Shenandoah River rose ten feet above normal.
Catarrh is described as a focal disease influenced by constitution. The remedy is taken internally and works through the bloodstream on mucous surfaces. It claims to destroy the disease’s foundation, strengthen the patient, and aid nature. Available from all druggists. circulars free from F J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio.
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