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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1922
Page
4
The notice lists Barry Flood Byrd publisher at Winf Va post office as second class matter and details subscription rates by mail and carrier including monthly and yearly terms for Morning News The Weekly News and related publications. It preserves historic pricing and publishing affiliations.
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Richmond discussion on whether a 20 year old should marry a much older man. Observers note advantages of experience but warn of companionship gaps as a wife ages. ideal gaps suggested range from five to ten years with emphasis on mutual tolerance and forward planning.
The Roanoke convention is panned as dreary and perfunctory with critics charging the Republican platform is not kept in line by its leaders. The piece mocks Colonel Anderson and calls out perceived failures in foreign policy labor relations and industrial peace amid a tainted Washington administration.
A poem recounts Aunt Ophelia's death and a speaker's mourning shock. The verse notes crepe bands on hat lapel and sleeve, black letters, and a rosette on a shack door as grief overwhelms the narrator. The parson remarks grief is a comic blunder.
Feature on Dr. Pierce of Buffalo New York and his Golden Medical Discovery a tonic for the blood. It notes his early practice in Pennsylvania and success in alleviating disease before moving to Buffalo. The advertisement highlights the extract made from native roots with no alcohol and promises clear skin digestion and renewed vitality. It invites readers to write to the Invalids Hotel in Buffalo for free medical advice and to send 10 cents for a trial package.
The State Highway Commission accepted Robertson County loans totaling 425 000 dollars from counties and towns. An additional 85 686.88 dollars was allocated for ongoing projects. Hearings dates were set before final location decisions. Chairman Henry G. Shirley was authorized to advertise bids for a five mile route near Greenville and to rebid for the Halifax street completion. An Accomac county extension of under two miles to Onancock under the two and a half percent allowance was approved.
Dr. Meade A. Kelsey of Indiana and Near East relief executives from nine states viewed a skull as a grim symbol of Armenian deaths. He described the skull as representing the unknown dead of the Near East relief effort.
In a broad voluntary testimony across the United States and Canada, more than fifty thousand people claim that TANSAC is appetizing invigorating and strengthening and helps rebuild the weak run down system making them feel strong and well again.
Dr Kelsey described sending back a savage scene from Death Valley between Erivan and Aleksandropol showing 40000 men and children driven off cliffs. He recounted heaps of bones and rotten clothing seen by him and the investigation party as evidence of Armenian sufferings at Turkish hands.
Fredericksburg Virginia September 21 A movement proposes a government memorial or statue for George Mason of Gunston Hall author of the Bill of Rights. Led by Louis Herte and others in Fairfax County and Fredericksburg with Rep R Walton Moore backing efforts to win federal action for Mason on his 1925 bicentennial birth anniversary.
The Star lists daily wholesale prices for Wheat Butter Creamery and Country butter Spring chickens and hens Local flour and middlings and screenings Prices shown for various grades and package sizes across wholesale and retail sections with notes on typographical errors in listing
Bloom Virginia September 21 The Friendly Grove School opened Monday with Miss Grace Johnson of Winchester as teacher. Local residents include Rev H E Stoop driving with sons Ralph Roy and Harry to attend college there. Social events feature Daisy Williams birthday lawn party for Sunbeam class pupils with about twenty guests.
Temporary organization of the State Association of Highway Contractors formed in Richmond. R. Stuart Royer of Norfolk was elected temporary chairman. A new permanent committee includes J. A. Addenbrook, R. B. Airport, L. R. Colbert, and Mr. Page. They plan to appeal to the Interstate Commerce Commission to revoke a coal mine open top car order affecting highway material transport. H. H. Wilson of Philadelphia and Geo. P. Coleman, Virginia State Highway Commissioner, spoke.
129 acre farm offering a 7 room brick house bank barn two wells two cisterns two sheds three chicken houses small fruit and a 46 ft hog pen. Contact M. W. KIME at 127 W. Middle St Gettysburg PA 14-2.
A physical training expert urges people to adopt slow breathing inspired by the tortoise. He claims the slow breathing animal can live up to 1,000 years, encouraging readers to imitate the tortoise’s breathing to extend life.
Trustee Joseph B. Newlin will publically auction a twelve acre farm three miles east of Stephens City on the Dunkard Church Road. The property includes a six room frame dwelling, barn, outbuildings, artesian well, two acres of woods, good fencing, near a school, and adjoins Cadwallader. Sale conducted in front of the Winchester court house on September 30, 1922 at 11 o'clock.
The piece contends that idleness leads to failure in earning distinction and that the world expects work from every man. It asserts God created man for employment and urges embracing labor as the path to recognition.
A reflective quote exploring how music and roots define a man, with Carlyte’s meditation on the depth of attachment to soil and origin as a metaphor for growth and culture.
A fragment citing Cervantes on sleep as a universal blessing. The text praises sleep as a cloak that covers thought and body, providing nourishment, drink, warmth, and cooling effects for all—reflecting a luminous, contemplative tone.
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