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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1923
Page
3
Readable items list prices for corn meal butter hay flour and various poultry weights. Includes figures for hens under and over four and five pounds and roosters, with unit prices and package terms. Mentions country butcher creamery butter and inland flour prices with scattered figures and abbreviations.
A garbled OCR passage lists numbers and phrases such as Baltimore wholesale and market corrections. The unreadable text mentions closing procedures and various figures, but no coherent events or names form a clear news item.
Richmond reports that the Pay-As-You-Go Roads Association says the gas tax plan will supply $20,000 per unreconstructed mile of the State Highway System and about $600 per mile for maintenance. It projects $16,000,000 for farm-to-market road improvements and argues bonds incur unnecessary debt. The plan compares Virginia with North Carolina and urges state action to avoid future indebtedness.
President Coolidge praised living under the American constitution as the greatest political privilege. He spoke at a National Security League event marking Constitution Day and urged public support to sustain rights. He warned that disrespect could erode orderly government and push toward tyranny.
The nineteenth session of Fort Loudoun Seminary opens Thursday September 20 with a full faculty and new equipment. It offers Junior College College Preparatory and Elective Courses in Secretarial Commercial Piano Voice Art Public Speaking and Physical Culture plus Primary and Kindergarten departments. Katherine Glass Greene serves as president.
D Ray Whitesel, returning Saturday from Woodstock, lost several items including two suits of clothes, a fountain pen, glasses, belt buckle, Elk pin and other articles from his quarters at the fair grounds. The total loss runs high and officials are tracing the stolen goods and seeking return. He reportedly held six seconds and six thirds in the event, titled grand champion age and prizes earned.
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