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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1923
Page
4
The Washington Post reports on May 15, 1923 about a powder politics clash in schools and courts. Mississippi authorities ban powder by girls while Maryland students face suspension for smoking. The piece likens the tensions to a wartime front with social change and contested femininity.
Historic boxing shock as Willard, over 40, returns to face Floyd Johnson and challenge East dominance. Spectators cheer wildly as the aging Kansan presses the pace and vows to prove skeptics wrong. Preceding fight lore notes Willard’s reputed resilience and enduring punch.
A broad US consumer movement to boycott sugar mocks speculative price raises linked to coming prosperity. The piece argues farm prices lag prosperity, warns profiteers, urges rehabilitation of agriculture, and cautions against profiteering that harms common people.
A northernward movement of the colored race is described as a long observed trend. The piece notes Southern perspectives on the migration, tracing the factors behind flight from the South and the implications of this rural to urban movement.
A historical argument warns that colored workers moving north will trigger industrial and racial clashes. It cites Illinois Ohio and Pennsylvania race riots where Black workers faced fatal violence after price competition with union labor. The piece predicts hardship for the negro as northern whites favor distant race but oppose nearby individuals.
In a junkyard a corny relic boat, old autog and brass rods, draws crowds from the village park. Twenty years ago locals praised the craft while today few would ride it, yet visitors grin and recall its pomp as Hull dee and Father Noah are joked about.
City officials bar Barkers and peddlers from the boardwalk and beach while allowing baby carriages. Dogs bicycles and roller skates are banned. Rolling chairs will be permitted on the promenade later, with concessions expected to bring revenue.
State Highway Commission proposes locating Route No 6 from Chambersville to Hayfield then Gore and Parrishville to the West Virginia line. Objections must be filed in writing in Richmond by June 20, 1923 at 11 o clock noon. Signed by Chairman H G Shirley and Secretary W H Massie and others.
A damaged market item shows prices for feeds and grains including shelled corn meal and mixed feed. Entries include 2.00 for shelled corn meal per sack and 2.20 for corn meal in 12 pound sacks with other feed components noted.
In Haiti wholesale and retail kerosene prices are typically equal, with profit mainly from selling empty cans. The observation notes distributors pad earnings through can sales rather than price spreads.
The Star reports today’s wholesale prices for wheat corn chickens butter hay straw flour middlings and related farm goods. Prices show variability across items and weights with figures including wheat around 1.26 to 2.20, corn near 1.16 to 2.10, butter about 4.2 and 5.0 per unit, and hogs and flour priced within local ranges.
Tomorrow and Thursday the Masons of Strasburg will host Con sistory No 2 of the Valley of Alexandria Orient of Virginia. They plan to confer 32 degrees of the Scottish Rite at Strand Theatre starting 10 AM, with 400 to 500 guests expected and 80 to 85 masons to participate in inside work, including applicants from Winchester.
Joseph Jolley left all his estate to his widow under a will probated in Fredrick County. He died recently at his Hinckle home. The will dated March 28, 1914 was witnessed by eeke and W. Bageant, with R. L. Omps named executor after giving bond in the specified penalty.
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