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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1920
Page
8
Erich von Stroheim presents The Devil's Pass Key at the Empire Theatre praised for vivid realism of Paris life and Grand Prix race sequences. The film, hailed as among the best seen there in months, runs with two vaudeville acts and ends tonight.
Marriage licenses issued in Frederick County clerks office include Sir George Barrie from Winchester and Lou G Riley of Clear Brook set to wed at Christ Protestant Episcopal Church at seven. Albert W Stine and Iva Virginia Dodson of Star Tann, Marshall W Boone and Elsie R Knight of the county, with grooms noted as sons and farmers.
Mr Frank Campbell displayed wriggling snakes at The Star office this afternoon on Millwood road. Despite snow ice and freezing weather the reptiles remained lively. A few days earlier he captured a snake on the ice near town.
Mrs Juliet A McCaw a well known Winchester social figure and Virginia family member suffered a paralysis attack at her North Washington street home last night. She remains conscious but critical as her son Thomas McCaw arrives from Washington to be at her bedside. formerly Miss Atkinson daughter of Rev William Mayo Atkinson and sister of the late Judge William M Atkinson.
Thanksgiving services were held at Meade Memorial Church with corn, vegetables and fruit decorations. Elizabeth Lee and three school mates returned to Saint Hilda’s Charlestown after visiting the former parents in White Post. Mrs J F Sowers is visiting relatives in Baltimore.
If ever or never you've seen real human drama three lives hang by a slender thread come see this amazing picture. Don't miss it. Genius doesn't show every day. Admission 15, 20 and 30 plus tax. Sunshine Comedy Naughty Wife also News.
Wytheville visitors visited Sunday to extend a call to Rev G B Palmer as rector of the Episcopal Church in the village to replace Rev Craighill who was sent to another parish by Bishop Jett. Other residents travel to Lancaster North Carolina Guilford and Washington for family and social reasons.
Ton, a guest at the home of the Misses Kennerly. Mr. Baker a Shenandoah railroad inspector visited this week. J. C. Cross a railroad operator spent Thanksgiving in Hagerstown. Mrs. R. S. Bryarly hosted the Ladies' Bridge Club on Wednesday. T. E. Blackwell of Northumberland County stayed several days at Greenway Court.
Peter Treadway was slated today to face murder charges in the Henry T. Peirce case in Philadelphia. His girlfriend Marie Phillips known as Boots remains merely detailed after today’s action.
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