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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1926
Page
7
The Virginia Woolen Company of Winchester announces a brick addition to its West Stephen street plant, already under construction after months of planning. Company officials say the steel skeletal structure will form a large new building to expand production.
Tentative plans call for a modern factory type structure 160 feet long, 60 feet wide, and four stories high. Bids have been asked, with the new building approximating the same floor area as the present main plant and equal to the two new buildings under construction.
Inerwoven Mills plans a 40000 square foot addition at its J street plant increasing capacity by about 20 percent. The upgrade raises equipment rooms from 82 to 100 with extra storage space to be used. Project cost is estimated between 175000 and 200000 dollars and excavation is nearing completion. Work will push ahead to join the new addition to the main factory.
The article notes Pope Julius II reportedly began allowing facial hair, a trend quickly adopted by Emperor Charles V and numerous European rulers, shaping fashion among elites.
A French process powder called MELLO GLO is advertised to remove shine and perspiration marks, minimize lines and pores, and resemble natural skin. People's Drug Co. promotes it as a beauty must have.
Public sale will be held in Charles Town West Virginia on September 30 1929. A lone farm of one hundred five and one half acres features limestone soil in good cultivation nine acres of timber ten acres of bearing orchard a six room dwelling and outbuildings. The property lies about one and a half miles from Swimley Station and a short distance from Summit Point. George F Sowers Summit Point West Virginia is the owner.
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