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Newspaper

Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Oct 05, 1920

Page

4

League of Nations and 1922 U S political stance

Local discussion probes whether a Harding or Cox victory would affect U S entry into the League of Nations. The piece cites Republican opposition led by Senator Johnson, Lodge reservations, and argues Cox’s election would push prompt league membership and world peace with honor.

Jon King League of Nations David Law California E Hi Johnson Johnson America Harding Lawrence Errot Harding Senate Chicago League Ohngony Prestle E League Lodge Cox América

Autumn’s Approach and Winter’s Threat, a Walt Mason Verse

The poem laments autumn fading into a harsher winter with pleads of melancholy mood. It personifies October as mild and pensive while forecasting winter’s loud, ferocious song and long cold nights.

Winter Walt Mason

State printer dead in Annapolis at age noted

George T. Melvin, Maryland state printer, died at his Annapolis home. He held this office and other Maryland posts and also served for years as a post office inspector.

Associated Press Annapolis, Md George T. Melvin Maryland

Markets Reported Wholesale and Retail Prices

The Star lists today’s wholesale and retail prices for staples including country butter, creamery butter, eggs, poultry, ham, bacon, wheat, barley, oats, timothy and clover hay, straw, corn meal, middlings, bran, crack feed, scratch feed, molasses horse feed, and dairy feeds with specific price points for each item. Distinct entities include country butter, creamery butter, No 1 timothy hay, spring wheat flour, and Local Flour varieties.

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Autumn’s Seal of Winter Echoes in Nature’s Refrain

A fragmentary reflection links gray October to the cycle of seasons. The speaker recalls a refrain that winter approaches as geese cry overhead and leaves fall, signaling the farewell of autumn and the oncoming cold.

Baltimore Wholesale Market Price Snapshot

Market closing corrections list various items with prices including No 1 timothy day at 33.00, No 1 light clover mix, young chickens, eggs, roosters at 21, dairy butter at 39, fat steers from 11 to 14, heifers 11 to 12, calves 7 to 16.25, pigs 12 to 16.

Baltimore Goveeeersees

No-To-Bac Tobacco Habit Aid Claims Easy Break

Advertises No-To-Bac as an easy way to quit tobacco with tablets placed in the mouth. Promises the habit ends and money-back refund if cravings persist, noting the product is made by Cascarets owners for reliability.

Circuit Court County of Frederick D. M. Dillard A. L. Slonaker Dillard Jesse R. Bailey Virginia Winchester City of Winchester Nxt Brannon Ward & Larrick

Mount Williams Personal Notes

Mount Williams Ya Oct 5 opening of Mount Williams graded school with William White as principal vacancy in primary department. visitors and residents share updates on local families and social visits including Clowser Giese Kibler and Timberlake households.

Mount. Williams Mount Williams William White Milton Sager Middletown Winchester W. A. Clowser Walter Clowser Clarence Clowser Oswald Giese J. M. Orndorff Edward Clowser A. L. Brewer Ethel Mildred Kibler Washington Benjamin Keeler Buchanan Fauver

Birds and Traps and Other Oddities

A column notes birds often seek traps for feed during migration, aiding ornithologists, and explains removing lead from gun barrels with nitric acid and oil. It covers shark teeth as jewelry material and sea mammal byproducts for waterproof glue, then ends with reflections on life’s discipline and a theater quip and a voter puzzle remark from Houston Chronicle.

Houston Chronicle

Various Quips and Observations From Early 20th Century Papers

A collage of short notices and captions presents light humor and social snippets. Topics include perfume and starch in flowers, a child about baths, woodlot economics, misdirections of time, and pithy lines on manners, coin mutilation, opera etiquette, investing puzzles, toys, economy, and advice. Contains multiple newspaper-voiced quips from Boston Transcript St. Joseph Gazette Detroit Free Press Chicago Daily News and Boston Transcript.

Lemon Bleach for Cheaper Beauty and Cough Remedies Ad

Squeeze juice of two lemons into three ounces Orchard White to make a quarter pint lemon bleach for facial use. Promoted by stage beauties for lighter skin, it claims to remove freckles sunburn and tan. Advertisement offers trial package of Foley remedies for 5 cents by mail order from Foley & Co Chicago Illinois.

Foley & Co Sheffield Ave Chicago

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