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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1923
Page
6
Prices list from Baltimore shows butter from creamery and dairy markets, flour and middlings figures, corn meal, chickens, steers, lambs, and hogs. Includes odd digits and fragmented OCR but indicates commodity rates and ranges by item.
The Metal Polishers International Union adopted a resolution at its Cincinnati convention urging repeal of the Volstead act. It recommends replacing Prohibition with a law legalizing the manufacture and distribution of light wines and beer in general.
A compact reflection notes that some are silenced yet unconvinced while others are convinced yet not silent, exploring tension between belief and vocal expression.
President Coolidge will send a message for the zero milestone dedication marking the Pacific terminus. The event, postponed from August 6 with the Harding dedication, may be broadcast by radio and delivered via amplifier in San Diego, per Dr. S. M. Johnson of the Highway Association.
City workers repair after a car struck a fire hydrant at Braddock and Piccadilly streets. Replacement cost estimated between 75 and 100 dollars. Police hold the vehicle's license details and will pursue legal action if a settlement is not reached.
Charleston county grand jury recommended indictments in a state charges case involving Wilson G Harvey president of the North Carolina Enterprise Bank of Chessea, and also named ex-collector Peters and H Lee Harvey former governor director, alongside ex bank examiner James H Craig for related actions.
Warden T. E. Thomas of the Ohio penitentiary urged vocational schools in every city and town to train boys in various trades. Speaking at a prison reform conference linked to the national W C T U convention in Columbus, he said boys are not bad if kept busy and advocated practical, common sense programs.
A fragment discusses the risk of youth delinquency and future prison populations. It suggests that current dependency on mothers’ guidance could lead to many boys entering the penal system twenty to thirty years later, urging stronger early intervention.
The Jewish New Year Rosh Hashanah began last evening and continues today. It marks a religious start to a new year focusing on duties to God and humanity, with ten days until the Day of Atonement. Rosh Hashanah falls on the first day of the seventh month in the Hebrew calendar, a solemn rest and holy convocation as described in Leviticus 23:24.
Juaso notes in Human Nature that faults and habits are like children. The writing compares parental pride to bias, suggesting people judge their own faults less harshly than others. Béstan Transcript attribution frames the line as a reflective social comment.
Announcement of the engagement between Miss Ernestine Hutter of Lynchburg Virginia and Captain Marshall W McDonald of Jefferson County West Virginia. Captain McDonald, son of the late Major E H McDonald of Media, is a World War I veteran and West Virginia University graduate.
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