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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1921
Page
4
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For Governor E Lee Trinkle of Wytheville. for Lieut Governor J Be West of Suffolk. for Attorney General John E Saunders of Middlesex. for Lecy Commonwealth B C James of Richmond.
City voters head to the polls on Tuesday November 8, 1921 for local races. William T. Barr seeks Treasurer, J L Maphis runs for Commissioner of the Revenue, and James P Reardon is.name d Commonwealth Attorney.
Vice President Calvin Coolidge survived a platform collapse in Williamsburg Massachusetts while ten others were aboard. He delivered the prepared speech from a replacement platform for the town 150th anniversary celebration. The incident spares him and colleagues serious harm as political commentary notes collapsible platforms in Republican events.
Missie Alice Williams of Georgia will give a benefit recital for the Friendship Fire Company at the Empire on September 19. Known as the Entertainer of Presidents, she has twice entertained the White House’s presidential sons and praised for her faithful rendering of negro dialects and songs.
The poem Catalogs dead singers whose voices fade at death yet live on in phonographs. It imagines Caruso’s enduring fame through recordings and laments the loss of live song across ages while wishing for timeless music to endure beyond mortality.
The Associated Press reports the six men convicted of murder in the Elaine Arkansas riots face execution on September 23. Supreme Court writs cannot prevent or delay the hangings, according to court officials.
Anthony Meerpoal a saloon keeper and John Brady a former patrolman fought a pistol duel in Meerpoal’s saloon. Both men were dying as police reported the confrontation followed a free for all brawl the prior night. Also notes visiting guests in town from New Jersey Roanoke and Maryland.
A Warsaw Missouri reader credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with reversing a five year nervous breakdown. The letter praises improved health and urges others to consider the remedy, noting it helps women with nerve-related ailments. Readers are invited to write the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. for health information.
A Jersey bull gore killed Robert Suddith on a western Illinois farm. His body arrived in Canterbury and funeral services led by Rev. Frank Ridgeway at Fairview Church. He leaves parents, three brothers, and a sister.
For sale listings include a single dwelling on Pall Mall Street for 1000 dollars a double dwelling on Mein Street for 2000 dollars an eight room dwelling with bath for 5500 dollars an eight room brick dwelling with good basement and attic modern in every respect for 12000 dollars a 50 acre improved farm near the city for 4000 dollars and several large commercial orchards likely to interest prompt buyers.
Mrs. Pansy H. Wright of Welltown became the first woman named to the Stonewall District School Board after a unanimous election by the Trustee Electoral Board, succeeding Harry C. Light. Wright has long civic involvement including wartime Red Cross leadership. Also noted is Dr. John Peters visiting a relative, Mrs. Holmes Conrad, on Market Street.
Dr. W Amos Hadley charged with killing his wife whose body was found in the James river near Richmond He reached Richmond December 30 1918 and was lodged in Henrico county jail awaiting trial next month He was brought by Sheriff Snyder and Commonwealths Attorney Bever ly following arrest last week in New Mexico He said he communicated with his father C J Hadley of Friends Wood Texas and would await his arrival before employing counsel.
New York opening sees cotton fall 150 points on overnight selling, then shows uptick as traders react to initial prices and sentiment. Market activity focused on early bids and reactions from speculators and mills.
The report notes continued weakness in Liverpool with October prices at 48 cents. Prices later advanced about 60 points from the opening as trading and New Orleans market participants bought on the early break.
Mr and Mrs Loring A Cover of Baltimore have been spending several days with relatives and friends in Winchester and are being extensively entertained during their stay.
The fragment describes distances to Mexico with bearings from northwest to southwest and notes variations from 140 to 760 miles, indicating uncertain or altered geographic measurements.
With a new baler and tractor ROY R. BOYCE announces bale hay for the public in Winchester Virginia. Contact Bell phone 3706 for pricing and service details.
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