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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1924
Page
3
President Coolidge issued a proclamation designating Thursday October 9 as Fire Prevention Day. The measure marks the Chi fire anniversary and urges public officials civic organizations and newspapers to emphasize fire prevention rules in schools homes and industrial establishments.
Frederick and Clarke counties publish a full teaching staff roster as high schools reopen next week. The list covers Middletown High School, Stephens City, Berryville, Boyce and many rural schools with numerous named teachers, plus note of the death of Boyce colored school teacher N. N. Baker and pending appointment after his passing.
The document lists parade divisions with marching routes along Market Piccadilly Main Cork and Rouss Streets, instructions for police and civilian units, and speakers including Hon T W Harrison. Exercises begin with the national anthem and prayer, conclude with a benediction and Dixie.
Harrisburg Sept 12. The state legislative board of the Pennsylvania brotherhood of locomotive firemen and engineers endorsed the La Follette Wheeler candidacy at a meeting. A resolution urged all members to support and work for the election of these candidates.
Prominent paraphrase notes that making oneself necessary to the world leads others to provide sustenance and resources, reflecting a philosophy attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson. The saying emphasizes usefulness as a path to reciprocal support.
The District Nurses Association seeks public help to fund a car costing about six to seven hundred dollars for the district nurse after five years of heavy use. They report 3,946 total nursing visits since 1923, including 2,499 bedside calls, highlighting the essential, widespread care across ages and conditions.
An early Pennsylvania Railroad Washington to New York express crashed into wreckage from a freight train near Elkton Maryland. No one was injured. The passenger locomotive crew jumped to safety as the emergency occurred before warning signals could reach the oncoming train. Trains were halted between Perryville Maryland and Washington Delaware while wreckage was cleared.
President Coolidge holds a brief conference in Washington with Chester W. Lengh of San Francisco and George E. Foss, former Illinois congressman, discussing internal California party strength and local questions amid minor differences.
A historical notice outlines school health rules mandating exclusion of children with listed contagious diseases and requiring diagnosis confirmation before readmission. It sets duties for teachers and nurses to report suspected cases and outlines home-exclusion criteria and timelines for diseases including chicken pox, measles, diphtheria, scarlet fever, and TB.
The conference notes Winchester district with 3 643 members and 12 306 enrollment across 83 schools, Roanoke district leading. Rev Best praises organization and teaching in many schools but only 9 of 1 116 officials and teachers are in training. Bishop Candler speaks on gaining knowledge of the Son of God in a sermon.
Leopold and Loeb left the interview room with reporters, smiling as they prepared to serve solitary time in Cook County Prison. Warden Whitman Hatfield said the boys are now entirely under prison authority and their contact with outsiders has ended. Guards noted their cooperative mood after a Defense Day program as 1,200 inmates watched.
The article explains that Arkansas hot springs originate from igneous rocks deep in the earth. Deep waters are heated by contact with this mass and rise through fissures. Upon reaching the surface they encounter cold springs heated by the vapors from the heated mass.
The 1924 25 session of the Valley Academy will open September 23 in the afternoon. Colonel Roggely the superintendent announced the event and noted Mrs el has returned from sea. Colonel Roszel made several trips during the summer. Prospects for a bright year were stated with the academy office showing a record boarding cadet count.
Miss Mabel Runton, shot in the hip, has left Harris Air Memorial Hospital and returned home under care. A policeman, Armel, mistook a mysterious object prowling the area, but Runton remains weak with the bullet still in her hip and receiving assistance at home.
Local column records visitors and calls in Mount Pleasant area including Miss Glenn White LeRoy and Virginia Snapp visiting Mrs Henry Shiley near Ste City. Names mentioned include Linton Snapp Carroll Day and Charley Lockhart with various calls to Mr and Mrs Peery and neighbors. Marriage in western region noted alongside reflections on social scenes and religious rites.
The text warns that cattle and other livestock have died after eating wild plants in pastures, notably giant cow parsley and hemlock. It notes the danger of hemlock resembling parsley but with a hairless stem, highlighting the Greek association of parsley poison as a fatal poison.
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