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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1923
Page
4
At the post office in Win-7 Ve. notices indicate edition distribution and newspaper branding from Evening Star Publishing Co. Virginia Morning News and The Weekly Mirror carried by Big doeed News.
Richmond news and Good Roads advocates clash over cost to finish state highways. They claim about 500 miles are usable, with 500 more needing building, arguing a $10,000,000 miscalculation in completed mileage. Valley Turnpike cited as historic main route to Grant and Lee.
The Missouri era debate ponders impeaching Governor Walton as a path out of political turmoil. Editorials warn such a move could illuminate corruption while risking broader instability and anger among factions.
A Tulsa military court investigator reports 121 cases of personal violence in the district with authorities failing to prosecute. The piece argues Governor exposure must continue the fight and warns that impeachment by the Legislature and publishers could halt progress, urging the people to resist Ku Kluxism.
A weary wag with a lorry laments relentless salesmen pushing stocks and schemes. His neighbor Binx ruins and resists the craved bargains as agents circle, while the speaker clings to hoarded shillings and a hopeful, costly pursuit.
President Coolidge signals tentative approval of forming an export and cooperative market body to assist wheat farmers in holding and marketing grain. War Finance Corporation funds and bank loans would back loans through private and government banks for market expansion, with Meyer and Mondell slated to study Northwest wheat needs.
Indianapolis reports Republican politics in Indiana roiled by charges and counter charges after a state central committee meeting on Governor McCray s finances. John Moorman says Coolidge ordered the meeting at Goolrich s instigation while Goolrich denies Coolidge involvement.
Moorman accuses a committee meeting of being orchestrated by machine politicians to seize control. He also claims Postmaster General New visited Indiana at President Coolidge's urging to review affairs. The Postmaster General present in Goddrich's office when the former governor spoke, later entered a denial.
A historical market listing shows wholesale and retail prices for butter eggs flour and feed. It lists country butter, hay baled, straw baled, corn meal and mixed feed, as well as Baltimore wholesale figures for wheat corn and live poultry with various unit prices and notes on closing values.
A reader notes that Indian names used for rivers lakes and states sound musical and meaningful while foreign names often seem awkward. Citing Henry Gannet 1905 the writer says many place names derive from Indian languages with smooth pronunciation and dignified meanings such as Shenandoah Daughter of the Stars and Mississippi Father of Waters.
William B. Campbell, one of the 1878 discoverers of Luray Caverns in Luray Virginia, is critically ill at his home from ptomaine poisoning. He ran a souvenirs shop near the caverns and is about eighty years old, son of former Page County sheriff William Campbell. He also served as deputy sheriff and Kenton Ohio police member in earlier years.
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