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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1927
Page
5
David SemxsON & Son announce arrival of a car load of mixed feeds after purchasing Hooks Mill at Gore. A word of thanks is also extended to banks, Robinson's Cold Storage, and W R Legge for premiums received at the fair, including three goblets and a loving cup.
City council appointed Dettra as city manager by unanimous vote. The report notes fines total $682 with contempt case at $5 and two drunken driving sentences with $0 fines each. Meat and milk inspector details livestock slaughter, milk licenses, and sanitary inspections amid a drought boosting water use by eleven million gallons year over year. Building permits through October 1 reach $234,050.
Parker Corning, grandson of the NY Central offeror, backs a tale that Abraham Lincoln refused a $10,000 annual general counsel position with the New York Central Railroad. Lincoln reportedly doubted the impact of such income on his family and said he should not consider it.
A Chicago report notes engineers at the American Gas Association convention say ironing a shirt requires a laundress to lift about 120 pounds per shirt, averaging six pound iron raised twenty times. Ten shirts imply more than half a ton of lift per wash.
The Frederick County Circuit Court grand jury indicted four siblings Thelma DeHaven Maud Dick Woodrow Dehaven and Gray Dehaven on possession of a still found on their mother's Gainesboro area farm. No mash or liquor was found and ownership remains denied. Arrests expected soon.
An aged sport questions belief in absolute equality of men and argues against friendly contests whether prize fighting or checker games. He says without equality he cannot perceive sense in such contests. The remark frames competition as meaningful only if equality underpins it.
A fragmented personal narrative follows Irene under a mother’s tutelage as she learns high ideals, then faces isolation in a harsh urban setting, exposing the dangers and consequences of innocence when confronted with cruelty and neglect.
Schedule fragment lists trains serving Roanoke and adjacent cities with connections to Williamson Norton Bristol Bristol Virginia and WV. Indicates dining connections to Chattanooga Nashville and Memphis and Pullman car service to Roanoke with local departures at 2 40 A M 9 15 A M 12 26 P M and 5 63 P M.
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