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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1922
Page
2
A report from Swashington notes a potential new potash discovery in Reagan County Texas with Geological Survey details presented as part of a Senate consideration on potash developments. The announcement indicates significant potash deposits and exploration interests in the region.
A cautious geological note reports potash cuttings at depths from 1150 to 1326 feet near Odessa Texas. It warns that thickness and richness remain undetermined and calls for core drilling to confirm the potash prospect and the potential for a major American industry.
The New York Central Railroad proposed reinstating former employees at Hobson repair shops near Middleport on a piecework basis. Negotiations proceed with the union while current repair work is done in private Columbus shops. Several hundred workers are affected by the policy shift.
Mrs. Diana Dovel of near Luray, Page County, died at Honeyville on April 28 at age 102 years, 6 months, 11 days. She left four children, 40 grandchildren, 152 great grandchildren, and 21 great great grandchildren. Her longevity is unmatched in the county except perhaps by her brother William D. Shuler of Kansas, who is 90. Mrs. Dovel married Adam Dovel at sixteen and had many children, including a daughter who died at 82. She could recount early county history and was seven when Thomas Orson died.
Revival message scheduled at Valley Chapel on Sunday at 8 oclock led by Rev. Yeakiey with the subject The Resurrection.
Policeman G W Haynes, a Richmond police veteran on special duty at the capitol, says ten years of stomach trouble vanished after taking Tanlac. He reports a 28 pound gain, better sleep, appetite, and energy, calling Tanlac superior to other medicines.
The Wall Street Journal recounts how a Belgian saver deposited $45 at Sea mefi's Bank for Sayiar in 1855 and, without additional deposits or withdrawals, watched interest grow to $1 017 by the time executors closed the account after his death. The tale notes the unusual longevity of the deposit and its record stability.
Wean of today rely on the modiste and cosmetics but often suffer beneath it with pain from feminine illness. Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound offers relief and renewed health for nearly fifty years as a trusted root and herb medicine for women.
London Sones notes that the custom of throwing rice at weddings is condemned as dangerous and questions whether any single danger is worth considering in marriage rituals.
Florence Elridge and Arthur Hayden, tenants in a four story mansion turned rooming house, connect by a stairwell romance. An Easter egg from Hayden and Florence’s new hat spark a comic, awkward confrontation ending with a kiss as the stairwell notes their budding love.
Sixty years ago Buckie in Scotland earned the nickname the holy town for its theologians. Fisherfolk studied abstruse volumes, teaching themselves Bible languages and delivering rival authorities on page and verse. Nearby Jamesville lake in New York is described with steep cliffs and a gorge, evoking dry Niagara in its features.
The text describes Japanese expertise in decorative articles and alloys. It notes sinchu as a brass copper zinc mix of ten parts copper and five of zinc, and shadko as a gold copper alloy with gold from 1 to 10 percent, enhanced by acid treatment.
The Star lists daily corrected local wholesale prices for farm goods including wheat, butter fat, spring chickens, flour middlings, hay, straw, and cotton seed meal, with retail notes for spring wheat flour and creamery butter. It also includes Baltimore wholesale prices for young chickens and livestock categories such as fat steers, lambs, sheep, calves, and hogs.
An advertisement warns that kidneys and bladder suffer from clogging and sluggishness causing pain headaches and rest disturbance. It markets Dr Carey’s Prescription No 777 tablets or liquid from Boyd Drug Co as a remedy to purify and flush toxins with a ten day trial and money back guarantee.
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