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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1922
Page
3
Real estate ad lists rooms, lights, baths, gas, and prices from 1350 to 4500. Mentions Handley Schools, large lot, cellar, and a modern home. Also notes an apple orchard in the county and references Newlin & Co. leadership.
Star Tannery Va Sept 16 Carson Renner leaves Star Tannery for Wiggin ton s at Opequon to drive a truck during the apple picking season. Russell Gilbert Jr. son of Mr and Mrs Gilbert Gilbert suffers a fall injuring his elbow or arm in an untidy mishap.
Local residents report visits among neighbors and family. Mr and Mrs Hubert Hershman attend Lebanon Church and visit Charles Br ace tee family. A silo project continues with A P Stine and Mr Warth Brill involved. A large crowd attends a St James Lutheran Church picnic, with several families mentioned.
Three people died and two were injured when an Illinois Traction System electric train wrecked in a collision with an automobile near Edwardsville Illinois. One coach overturned and two sleepers derailed in the crash three miles from town.
A reader challenge asks to list all visible items starting with the letter P such as piano or pick. Fifty cash prizes are awarded for the fifty best correct lists, with prizes for first through lower placements.
The Star reports wholesale prices quoted by local buyers for spring chickens Leghorns hens roosters and young birds along with prices for flour creamery butter hay and other staples. Notable figures include spring chickens 26 cents per pound and local flour around 6 76 per barrel with various middlings prices and cotton seed meal at 2 75.
Disjointed text fragment shows mixed commodity terms like Corn and Eggs with stray figures and garbled names. Provides no coherent market narrative, making stabilization or price reference unclear.
The House Judiciary Committee announced the bill’s deferment today and scheduled action for December. No further details were provided on the reasons or potential impacts.
Philadelphia reports a new wage and working conditions agreement for Pennsylvania Railroad trainmen. Signed today by railroad officials and union representatives, the pact runs for one year. Impeachment charges against Attorney General Daugherty were reportedly put off as Senators indicated sufficient votes to sustain a presidential veto of the bonus bill following a Senate canvass.
A jumble of classified items including Watkins products ad offering free samples, land exchange near a town, rental rooms on Amherst and Kent streets, furnished rooms with baths, sales of a reel sulky and motor cars, poultry and livestock listings from Berryville, and job notices for women with experience in ready wear. A brief paragraph discusses the body’s tripod of life with organs, heart, lungs and brains.
Prize details announce fifty cash prizes for correct responses. Winners receive specified amounts as described in the contest terms.
An advertisement touts a free educational puzzle game claiming no subscription required to win prizes. It invites readers to start a list of "pP-Words" tonight and promises it will be entertaining and easy.
Open to any nonemployee or nonrelative of The Baltimore American or American staff. Entry costs nothing. Answers on one side of the paper with consecutive numbers and full name and address. Mail by midnight October 9 to Paul O. Sergent Puzzle Manager The Baltimore American 8. Only dictionary words count. hyphenated and obsolete forms count as errors. Singular plural mismatches invalid. Each word unique. same object named once. One point per correct word. extra for internet words. Judging by three Baltimore citizens using Webster’s New International Dictionary. final decisions binding. Prize amounts paid to tied winners. Winning list and correct list published in The American after judging.
Readers can win cash by submitting lists of P words and sending in subscriptions to The American. First Prize awards vary from 50 to 150 dollars depending on the number and type of subscriptions sent, with new and renewal counts affecting eligibility.
We thank friends and neighbors for kindness during illness and death of Charles W. Grim and family. Your support and beautiful flowers are deeply appreciated by us.
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