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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1926
Page
5
City notes reference to the Chatham Phoenix National Bank and Trust Co in the Singer Building area. No further details provided.
The First Brethren Church on Berryville Pike in Harris Addition will dedicate its new four unit house of worship with services Sunday May 23 at 10 45 am 2 30 pm and 7 30 pm Rev E L Miller from Maurertown Va will preach morning Dr J M Tombaugh from Hagerstown Md will speak afternoon and Dr G C Carpenter from Hagerstown Md will speak evening A basket dinner will follow in the basement and Winchester ministers are invited to attend the afternoon service Attendance has grown and public access is encouraged. The piece also notes Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus features including trainer Herman Kloske and acts with forty girls on horses and the famous Yellow Jacket and Atta Boy horses.
Robert Mace Pherson performs with 16 tigers in the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus. Three baby tigers born in Lynchburg Virginia include Sunday Byrd Carter Glass and another named Byrd opening its eyes as crowds marvel at a providential event.
Captain Thomas J. Betts, an American Army officer attached to the American Legation in Peking, is reported held by bandits in Yunnan Province. Betts, a Baltimore native, was on a inland journey authorized to study language, entering Yunnan from the south near the French Indo China railroad.
A promotional pitch claims Kotex 8 in 10 women prefer the new sanitary pads. It promises greater protection, easier disposal, and no laundry or embarrassment. The pads are said to be five times more absorbent, deodorizing, and suitable for long social activities. a package of twelve costs only a few cents.
John Smith 74, found lying under a tree in Riverside Park near One Hundredth Street, says he came from Pittsburgh last fall and slept in parks during winter. He was arrested on a vagrancy charge after declaring no honest man can afford a room in New York.
Mr Frank Beck is spending time in Fairport New York on business affairs.
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