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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1921
Page
4
Battered at the post office in Win Chester Virginia, second class matter. By mail one year in advance four dollars, six months two dollars, three months one dollar, one month forty cents. By carrier one year four fifty, six months two twenty five, three months one twenty, other rates noted. The Evening Star Publishing Company reserves republication rights for news dispatches.
The Roanoke Times declares the Virginia Military Institute board acted properly in dismissing Col Robert T. Kerlin, professor of English, after his open letter to the Arkansas governor. The paper argues the letter abused public opinion, bypassed courts, and discredited institutional authority, justifying the firing as a defense of state maintained systems.
The piece humorously contrasts two cars. One gleams with modern features yet fails to start and rouses costly repairs while the other, rough and noisy, promises laborious effort yet offers a stronger, more reliable tease of a ride.
A voice extols the essence of a car’s reliability over luxury features. The speaker mocks ornate refinements and mirrors, arguing that dependable performance, simple practicality, and endurance define the best vehicle.
Winchester resident Jacob H. Hillyard testifies Doan’s Kidney Pills relieved his back and kidney pain after a work injury. He cites damp weather worsening symptoms and repeated successful use over years. He first used them seven years ago and again in 1919. Sold for 60 cents at dealers. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY.
Cross Roads Virginia reports social visits from O F Marple family and Mrs Kiefer and daughters from Monessen Pennsylvania. Rick McKee recovers from illness and is active again. Lee Fletcher welcomes a newborn son. Frank Marple visits brother A J Marple. Jennie McKee and Lizzie Mason guest of Sam Kerns family.
Advertiser touts Freezone as a fast corn remedy available from druggists for a few cents. It claims to relieve hard and soft corns and corns between toes with no soreness or irritation. Also notes the Kennedy family ending a Winchester summer visit and Edward Zea returning to Washington after town visits.
Bank closing notices for Labor Day September 5 1921 advise banks will be closed that day and papers maturing then may be paid September 6 1921. Signers include H D Fuller cashier Farmers and Merchants National Bank Charles Summers cashier Union Bank of Winchester John Sloat cashier Commercial and Savings and William Hardy cashier Shenandoah Valley National Bank.
Mrs William C Werner of Camden New Jersey says after fainting spells and back pain she used Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills. She reports improvement enabling work, a healthy baby girl, and an easy birth. She urges others to build up their system with the standard women's remedy and invites questions to Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. Lynn Massachusetts.
Charles Clyde Merica of near Fur nace East Rockingham tried to evade the draft and reached Harrisonburg after fleeing home. He was arrested in Culpeper county and taken to Fort Myer for trial on the charge of failing to report to the Rockingham draft board.
By product firms in Martinsburg and Inwood acquired several crops on the run of orchard basis at about 2.50 per 100 pounds. Most sales involve York Imperial stock ready next month, with contracts for delivery to Inwood plant or local cars. Much stock bears hail pits yet buyers say byproduct firms can grade it for use. Growers report unusually high activity this year.
Mrs Wylie Moore of Charlotte North Carolina formerly Esther Lewis of Audley Clarke County is visiting Mrs Richard Evelyn Byrd at her city home. She is married to Dr Wylis Moore a noted Charlotte physician. Dr Edmund Pendleton Hunter assistant treasurer of the Southern Railroad has returned to Washington after a week at his Winchester home.
Five days beginning September 5 1921 feature a high class circus and vaudeville show with $5000 in acts and $4000 in premiums. Attractions include merry-go-round ferris wheel whip dancing and daily balloon ascensions. Farson's Celebrated Band of Baltimore provides two daily concerts with other features on Ag dates.
The article notes building material prices have fallen to fair and reasonable levels. Lumber has dropped to a normal basis, enabling customers to buy framing lumber for homes or barns at today or future affordable prices. Home Merchants offers complete stock and planning assistance.
Classified ads offer a 6 room proton on Main Street for 1500 dollars and an 110 acre farm near White Hall with special selling reasons, plus Haddox Terrace lots 650 by 150 feet at 350 dollars on easy terms. The notice also includes a 1921 timetable for trains 8 and 9 with morning departures from Wardensville to Winchester and back, led by General Manager D. H. Sencindiver.
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