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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1921
Page
7
John Hirschberg the state labor commissioner has asked Richmond's finance committee to investigate the actual cost of gas in the city. He says the price could be reduced from 1.30 to 1 a thousand feet.
Dr C B Harlee returned Saturday from Richmond where he attended the annual meeting of the Virginia State Dental Association last week.
Barbara Dorr discovers a hidden stove pipe hole behind Napoleon had a man peering through from the adjoining room. The man is Jerry Lane returning from France and former betrothed to Barbara’s friend Agatha Denslow. Barbara plans to replace the Napoleon photo and invites him to call on Mrs Wilson.
Dr Eimner B Hagley of Des Moines says there are more than 300000 Indians in the United States with 57 languages. A census shows increases among full blood and mixed blood Indians due to better homes and medical care as Protestant and Catholic missions expand, but two thirds lack gospel privileges.
American universities study ambidexterity as Professor Wilder at Cornell shows students drawing with either hand. Yale’s Professor Scripture notes right hand training boosts left hand skill. The ape and early humans exhibit mixed hand use, suggesting a habit forming from shield and spear use in ancient times.
Instructions describe resurfacing with emery paper to remove old silver wiring, then melting lead tin and bismuth in a hot iron ladle with a thermometer. Mercury is added at 212 degrees and the mixture is stirred before being applied warm with a brush.
Local grain dealers announced they would pay $2 for new corn and $2.50 for corn harvested last year in Winchester, noting Summit Point West Virginia offered $1.75 for new corn last week. Dealers said offerings were near average for the season and moving fairly well, with hopes prices would hold but no guarantee of staying at current levels.
Mrs. George F. Norton and her daughter Miss Asther Norton travel to Mount Vernon New York to visit son-in-law and daughter Mr and Mrs Harry Cook and other relatives. Accompanying them are Mr and Mrs Charles B Greene of New Rochelle. Greene, visiting Winchester for first time in 17 years, praises municipal improvements and street work and regrets not staying longer.
Former West Virginia governor John J. Cornwell will be a principal speaker at the American Mining Congress annual convention in Chicago. He will address the West Virginia labor issue from the public and general principles stance during the mining expo.
Miss Mary Carr of this city will marry Irving Elliott son of Mrs Mildred Elliott of Cambridge Mass at the Greenwich home of Mrs Leslie C Bruce next Saturday October 22 The ceremony will be private with only family and close friends present Mary Carr is a granddaughter of the late Lucien Carr of Harvard and was a Mary Wheeler School classmate of Mrs Bruce's daughter She will reside in Cambridge after the wedding
A marriage license was issued Saturday by the clerk of the Corporation Court to Lewis Menifield and Annie Tracey, both colored. Miss Anna Briggs departed this morning for Baltimore to visit friends.
The Charley Rouss Fire Company sold the Orrick property on South Braddock Street to Garber Manufacturing for 4500 dollars. Garber plans a 15 to 20 tons daily capacity ice cream plant with output over 1000 gallons daily and three new refrigerating trucks to distribute from Rochester to the Shenandoah Valley.
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