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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1924
Page
5
Secretary Weeks approved a bill to award medals to governors adjutant generals district and local draft boards appeal agents and legal advisers who served in the selective service system for the World War. The bill authorizes thanks to non military service contributors and appropriates 25000 to fund medal production and distribution.
Miss Leslie Gaylord and Miss Beverley are back from Europe and expected to arrive with their brother and in law Mr and Mrs Pat Gay. The party has spent the summer abroad and will be welcomed at home in a social note from the era.
Miss Beverley will stay with Mrs. Howard Field Jr. at Point O'Woods Long Island for several weeks before turning to Agnes Scott College where she is professor of mathematics. The plan follows her stay prior to resuming duties.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad contracted the Richmond Car Works to build one thousand 70 ton cars with new bodies. The railroad also placed a 10,000 ton rails order split between Inland Steel and Illinois Steel Company.
Berlin reports that Germany today paid on its debt to the United States with officials confirming the transaction. The payment reflects ongoing financial arrangements between the two nations as postwar settlement terms continue to evolve.
The initial payment of twenty million gold marks under the Dawes plan was received by Leon Frazier, assistant to Owen D. Young, who serves as general agent and interim for reparation payments.
James M. Schenck announced a 137 million dollar program by California film concerns for the coming year. About 72 million will fund 680 pictures in production, with the rest allotted to new building and equipment.
A Martinsburg party touring yesterday faced a heavy storm and a fire on the Payne farm at Big Spring. Lightning struck the barn four miles south of Martinsburg on the Winchester pike destroying seven horses and livestock and crops. Loss estimated at $5000.
The Virginia Bankers Association announces the Bankers Committee on Federal Legislation. Winchester's John Sloat, cashier of the Commercial and Savings Bank, joins others including E. B. Spen ident of the National Exchange Kir, Roanoke, Moa D. A. Payne of Lynchburg Trust and Savings Bank, and W. M. Addison of Planters National Bank, Richmond.
A reader letter extols Kellogg's Bran as a cure after three years of constipation. The note claims all bran is needed, praises natural action on the intestine, and guarantees refunds if salts are not restored. suggests two tablespoons daily and versatility in serving.
Robert Williams died at his home near the Northwestern Grade at seven Friday evening from a complication of diseases. He was eighty and feeble from illness. Survived by his widow and three sons all of the county. Burial at Lamp School House Cemetery Sunday at 1 p.m.
Valley tourism peaked over Labor Day with thousands of city residents touring the Shenandoah Valley. An estimated 20,000 cars passed through Winchester over the weekend, many taking trips into the Valley, said C. B. Organ of Overland Sales and Service Co.
An excerpt notes that 80,000 to 190,000 visitors passed through Winchester over three days. Mobile dealers and repair shops thrived, stations stayed busy pumping fuel, and hotels filled every night. Locals offered spare rooms to lodgers as visitors slept in tents and camp gear.
Henry J Case aged 85, inventor of harvesting machinery and pioneer in agriculture, died at his Poughkeepsie home. His name graced farming implements used for fifty years, from his early automatic rake introduced in 1865 to his later designs.
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