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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1920
Page
4
In a park, a writer watches baseball artists who lift spirits amid daily worries. A pitcher’s form and warming arm momentarily ease creditors, hunger, rent, and poverty as fans cheer. The scene offers brief sanity before returning to grim concerns.
Washington week sees Secretary Daniels answer a Senate committee refuting charges against Admiral Sims. The defense lauds the Navy for ferrying millions of soldiers safely overseas and returning them home. Sims is denounced as vain and unworthy of respect for breaches of confidences.
The Massachusetts governor vetoed a 2.75 percent beer bill, arguing it was deceptive and criminally impractical despite legislative support. He rejected political games, insisting the executive branch protect the public from a misrepresented law, then left the fate to lawmakers.
Fragmentary verse references Miss Virginia Rehill and a youth theme. The text mentions beauty, truth, and fleeting daylight, with a line about the reader’s gaze and the dawn to night. It also oddly notes a man described as gray and a Paoli Salvation Army.
Daily market corrections show wholesale prices for hay, butter, cornmeal, potatoes, and livestock. No. 1 timothy hay and light clover hay quoted. fat cattle and calves priced. hogs and pigs recorded with ranges. butter and creamery butter with standard quotes.
A testimonial praises Milks Emulsion for reviving a pneumonia recovery, claiming restored strength, appetite, sleep, and health. The ad argues it builds blood and tissues, aids digestion, and offers a money back guarantee with six bottles, priced 60c and 1.20. Terre Haute firm markets the product via pharmacists.
Mr S Triplette, longtime owner of a restaurant on East Piccadilly street, retires after twenty one years in business. Ramsburg Auto Supply Company has leased the building for a showroom.
The document lists names from Stephens City High Senior Class for May 18 1920 and describes characters Letitia Willie Virginia Strode and others. It notes acts including a sitting room boarding house scene and a campus dinner with a dramatic association business meeting and vaudeville by Miss Elsie Lemley.
Invitation to a weekly Sunday morning session inviting all to join a live instructive study of the works of Christ.
Special Commissioners announce a public auction of a 36 acre farm near Clear Brook Frederick County Virginia. The land includes a residence and outbuildings in a good apple growing area near railroads and towns. Sale June 12 1920 with one third cash and balance in two yearly installments secured by deed of trust and insure buildings.
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