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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1919
Page
4
The piece discusses the president's evolving practice of appealing to the public rather than relying on officials to decide policy. It notes past campaigns using this method, potential impacts on governance, and questions how this approach will be judged in retrospect.
A rustic verse by Walt Mason from Wheeling West Virginia urges motorists to share rides with weary pedestrians. He contrasts rich travelers with laboring workers and extols the moral uplift of offering a seat in a roomy car. An inserted note mentions a cholera quarantine near Langford, West Virginia.
Governor Westmoreland Davis proclaims September 17, 1919 Constitution Day in Virginia urging statewide patriotic exercises in schools. He notes the national observance, endorsed by the Virginia State Bar Association, promotes unity, justice, defense, and liberty as foundations of patriotism.
Danish critic George Brandes surveys Shakespearean women from Katharine to Desdemona. He notes Katharine's fiery defiance, Viola's understanding, Portia's principled self surrender, Cleopatra's raw passion, Isabella's purity, Desdemona's victimhood, and other roles.
The piece describes northern Siberia as the cold pole with Verkoyansk recording minus 90 degrees, a world record. It notes brief Arctic summers with temperatures in the 80s Fahrenheit and continuous daylight, highlighting the harsh climate and its effect on local vegetation and exile history.
A short item notes a farm near Dehaven involving two individuals connected to a dispute or incident. Names and exact actions are unclear due to fragmented text. Further details are not readable from the fragment.
A meeting of 24 affiliated steel labor groups, set for September 22, was called by AFL President Samuel Gompers in Cleveland to consider postponing the strike until after the Washington industrial conference in October called by President Wilson.
In Cincinnati on September 16 the Proctor and Gamble Company announces a plan to let employees elect three of their own to join the board of directors. The Ivorydale plant will implement this management by worker representation as part of the new structure.
In Albemarle North Carolina on September 16 striking cotton mill employees clashed at a mill gate with Sheriff Blalock of Stanley County. A striker and the sheriff were shot but not believed seriously hurt.
In Bruce Barton’s Best Educated Man I Know the subject’s wealth is not money but knowledge. The piece praises a man whose home holds books, whose Europe journey was built on learning, questioning, and friendships. It emphasizes time value, reading, curiosity, and, above all, an unflagging interest in people.
Silas recounts a New York City incident after a man posed as a friend and offered a counterfeit hundred dollar bill. The tale ends with a puzzled officer noting Silas faced no real loss and quips about his backwoods status.
A local legend among South Carolina communities tells of Captain Kidd and Captain Morgan burying treasure along the Savannah river swamps. A fortune teller charged $25 per person and named many stake points, then vanished after instructing followers to dig at their shadow ends.
Nichrome, an alloy of nickel and chromium, is now castable and used for crucibles and high temperature utensils. It melts at about 1500 degrees Celsius and can cut through the hardest chemical glasses when heated by an electric current.
Cornerstones are placed at the northeast corner where possible and serve as repositories for current newspapers and historical documents in municipal buildings.
A fragmentary item discusses a maid who described her eee as part of a course in Phat wala Joke. The noting text is garbled with unclear names and places.
The American Legion launches a national drive to reach one million members. Winchester and Frederick County host vigorous campaigning led by ward chairmen as local post executive committee urges nonmembers to join today. A prominent resident calls the Legion a major factor in national development and preserving constitutional liberty.
A rooftop poultry farm atop the Institute of Civil Engineers near Big Ben houses 36 hens in three coops. The birds roam the roof for much of the day despite shallow cooping, laying eggs and proudly recording their achievements.
Mrs. Sarah E. Dicks widow of Samuel Dix of the county died at the county home on September 15. The body was prepared for burial and moved Sunday to Pine Grove Methodist Church for services led by Rev. Kiraco fe of Gainesboro. Interment followed in the adjacent church graveyard. She leaves several children in the Greenspring neighborhood.
Ivy May Whitacre of Berkeley Springs West Virginia died September 12 after a long illness due to cancer at her parents George and Mrs Catlett home in Grimes Grimes County. Funeral services were held at Chestnut Grove Church officiated by Rev Thomas of Berkeley Springs and interment followed in the church cemetery. She was 34.
Mosby's Men, once the 43d Battalion of the Confederate Army, plan their fall reunion in Fredericksburg Virginia on September 22 and 23. Rev. F. A. Strother of Stephens City serves as chaplain. The event includes a business session, a sightseeing tour to Chancellorsville and other battlefields, and a principal address by Col. Robert E. Lee of Washington, grandson of Gen. Robert E. Lee.
Miss Julia Terrell of Charlestown West Virginia died last week and left an estate appraised at over $100000. The bulk is a 319 acre farm. Her largest bequest is the $35000 to the Protestant Episcopal Vocational Institute for the young.
In Martinsburg West Virginia on September 16 the Rev Roy M Schmucker tied the knot for three couples within 60 minutes at the Winchester Avenue Christian Church parsonage and home. Couples include Leslie V Pine and William A Rogers Clara Crim and Clarence Houston Cox Nellie Virginia Qunder donk and Luther Hays Wilson.
A compact quotation from Herbert Spencer on how right action resembles straightness in form and necessity, asserting there is no duality of right actions beyond the singular concept.
Funeral services for Mrs Mary Susan Miller who died Saturday at Grimes Virginia were held at her home at 3 PM. Rev R F Schmucker of Martinsburg officiated. Interment followed in Mechanicsburg Pennsylvania. Mrs Miller 79 is survived by husband William Miller and a large family in Frederick and Berkeley counties. She was a 60 year member of the Christian Church.
The article outlines methods to prevent rugs from sliding on polished floors. It suggests placing rough sheathing paper cut to rug size under each rug and also sewing triangles of corrugated rubber sheeting to rug corners as anti slip measures.
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