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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1923
Page
2
In a county home dispute, Maclen Jackson's wife swore out a warrant alleging her husband Lucien Jackson chomped her arm during a quarrel over supper. A bystander used a shotgun to force the man to release his bite, then the couple and the son were ousted. All parties are described as colored. The case goes before Justice Tavener.
Fourteen eastern railroads report receipt of requests from engineers and firemen brotherhoods for conferences on the general wage increase demand. No group action by contractors or brakemen. Each line will assess the request separately, officials say.
Alvin Taverner Holliday, son of Page Holliday of Gollinsville, nearly drank turpentine while seeking near beer on a trip home. He fell ill and was treated at Memorial Hospital. A crate containing six bottles of turpentine was found at the store. whether accidental or deliberate remains unclear.
Local retail markets list creamery butter country butter flour oats shelled corn and mixed feeds with prices per unit. Wholesale prices include wheat corn young chickens hens butter and lambs with daily corrections at market close.
An old advertisement offers Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy and Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets in exchange for a name and address with 5 cents, promising trial peckages for coughs colds croup bronchial tickling throat indigestion and related ailments for five cents. It urges readers not to miss the promotion and mentions Des Moines Iowa as the origin.
Miss Elsie Barthel a 28 year old nurse was fatally attacked by Alonzo Savage described as a voodoo practitioner after she refused to pay $395 for a supposed cure for her love ills. Savage confessed detailing the attack near a deserted east end mansion and the fatal blows struck with a brick and a heavy marble weight.
Portland Oct 9 The trade union movement shows unyielding hostility to communism and all revolution doctrine, as summarized in the report from the AFL convention's committee on education.
Brockville Ontario Recorder notes scientists can magnify the human voice twelve thousand times yet cannot improve the voice of conscience, a commentary on limits of science versus morality.
Norfolk and Western timetable lists Berryville route No 11 and 14 details with Roanoke Bristol Washington Hagerstown and Philadelphia connections. Parlor cars and Pullman sleepers offered to Brisa Williamson Shenandoah New York and Philadelphia with stopovers at Pocahontas Welch Node Stop and Shenandoah. Fares and reservations available from agents H H Burks Berryville and W C Saunders Roanke.
Money to lend in sums and larger at 6 percent interest on a long term amortization basis. Loans made only on improved land and without cost to the owner. 281-40 Smith & Wray, Va.
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