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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1922
Page
5
An old advertising feature promotes Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur Compound as a ready to use hair coloring mix. Dampened with a sponge, it darkens gray hair, restoring natural color and lustre by morning with another application. It states no disease cure.
Notary public S D M Fadden announces commission expiration for January 26 1925.
Dialogue shows one prisoner admitting theft and another defending it as finding jewelry before the owner lost it. The exchange reflects a wary, humorous tone in a jail setting.
In a courtroom exchange a stock salesman boasts about wealth while a customer vows to earn his own fortune. The judge prompts an example of the word grand used in its sense of splendid or noble, with a student’s reply invoking grand dukes and grand larceny as a joke.
An exchange notes a boy asking how a girl earned a black eye after saying she kissed him. She confirms the kiss occurred but then admits she lied about it, turning the claim into a humorous test of honesty.
A humorous exchanges scene mocks prohibition era troubles and economic woes. Characters bicker about drinking, work and fate while quips touch on hope for the future and skeptical views of infant sin and debt.
The piece recounts a purported abstract sent to Congress during Jefferson’s negotiations over the Louisiana Purchase. It describes a gigantic salt mountain 180 miles long and 45 miles wide near the Mississippi, with a salt-water base, and a prairie free of trees, claimed to be north of New Orleans.
Tommy studies a dictionary while his mother asks for a stick of wood. The boy answers with a humorous grammatical tirade about proper address and old fashioned phrasing. The piece pokes fun at language education and pretentious wording.
Quote reflects fondness for those who dare to grapple with tough tasks, noting charm in the challenging undertakings as valued by Mine Swetchine.
An aged perspective on life emphasizes friendship and parental tenderness as value grows with thinking. The quotation attributed to Doctor Johnson highlights how experience shapes appreciation and moral lessons about care and human bonds.
A short note urges daily oiling and cleaning of steel blades to maintain sharpness and usefulness, stressing consistent upkeep and safe handling for longer life.
Silk nests about the size of coconuts are woven by Amphie caterpillars found in central Africa.
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