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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1918
Page
3
A collage of quotations on liberty, merit, faith, and perception from diverse thinkers. It links aristocracy of mind, humble terror, self-raise for liberty, the value of beauty, and the call to discern truth, with reflections on seeing, knowing, and guiding oneself amid life’s perils.
A compilation of famous lines on love from Southey Malletti Middleton Browning Browne and others. The excerpts praise love as indestructible bliss and the nectar of joy while contrasting Heaven and hell within romance.
Reports of new devices include shredding waste paper into substitutes for excelsior and antiskidding car chains. Switzerland tests compressed turf as coal substitute while Italian railroads trial lignite peat and peat mixes. A California inventor markets a suitcase that unfolds into a writing desk. Coal gas power for cars moves beyond experiments as the U S weather bureau sets a Honduras wireless station.
A rundown of fresh inventions includes a berry producing tree from Ecuador usable as soap. A railroad flagstaff with a torpedo compartment and wass waterproof gear. A compact dry battery for a French vest pocket lighter. A friction igniter for gas stoves designed like shears.
A cable from Copenhagen reports Americans being killed and property seized after Soviet orders to arrest allied subjects. Washington says no confirmation yet. The note notes Bolshevik ties to Germany and asserts most Americans have left Russia.
Colonel Robert H. Lewis, a Confederate veteran and former Winchester insurance man, removed a bystander’s hat at the county courthouse when the band played The Star Spangled Banner. The crowd followed suit, three cheers rang out, and Lewis bowed in acknowledgement, embodying old Virginian courtesy.
Mrs. Ruth V. Price of Brucetown received a card from her husband Harvey J. Price announcing his safe arrival in France with a unit of the American Expeditionary Forces.
Washington reports the War Department has decided that each member of overseas forces may receive one package from home this Christmas. Earlier talks suggested banning parcels to Pershing's troops due to shipping and mail delays. The compromise allows a single gift under certain restrictions, balancing calls for unlimited Yuletide shipments with a policy favoring letters and cards.
Lieut George H Grim formerly of Winchester and Company I who went to Camp McClellan and later France has been promoted to captain. He may return to teach trench warfare and modern fighting methods. He is son of Geo W Grim of South Kent street and husband of Mary Hammond of Alexandria Virginia.
A Berlin election meeting echoed antiwar slogans with crowds shouting Down with the war. Police disrupted the gathering as tension rose. Mrs. William Kerr returns to Chambersburg after weeks visiting relatives, accompanied by her niece Mrs. M W Kremer.
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