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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1916
Page
2
A Winchester edition satirizes political vanity in a brisk verse, lampooning whiskers versus razors in high places. The spoof contrasts shaving with staged moral lecturing, urging readers to care about public image and factional rhetoric amid aging leaders.
A garbled OCR line presents a jumble of numbers and monetary values such as 1,000, 865, 1990, 91,919 and 10,000 with scattered digits like 73.546 and 64 170 00. The text lacks coherent context, names, places, or dates to identify a specific event or item.
Recent guests at the Winchester Inn include Mr and Mrs Charles Bliss of Arisonia Conn Mr and Mrs W H Pierce Waterburg Conn Mr John E Baker York Va Mr and Mrs Bechtell Pittsburgh Pa Mr Harry Barnhart York Pa Mr S D Affleck Westfield N Y Mr and Mrs Zimmerman Wooster Ohio Mr J J Ulmer Philadelphia Pa Mr and Mrs J A Reed Pittsburgh Pa Mr J Dalzell McKee and Mr Earl Winburg Pittsburgh Pa The Cumberland Valley Railroad inspection led by President M C Kennedy of Chambersburg will depart Harrisburg early Friday and arrive in Winchester in the afternoon with dinner planned in the city.
The term billion has two conflicting meanings based on geography. In the United States it denotes a thousand millions, while in some historical British usage it meant a million millions.
George Borden Guthridge and Bessie Mae Strosnider, both from prominent Middletown families, married Saturday by Rev. Dr. J. H. Lacy at the Presbyterian Church manse. They left for a wedding trip to Washington and eastern cities and will reside in Middletown upon their return.
President Wilson discussed British interference with American mails and the blacklist with Walter Page at Shadow Lawn New Jersey. The talks focused on pressuring Britain to change its stance after Page’s planned consultation with the British foreign office.
In a witty scene a man claims the pony expert is a college graduate proving knowledge of horses. Greene retorts that the graduate is from a veterinary college, highlighting the joke about expertise and credentials at the track.
A witty exchange between Mrs Wederly and her husband in a domestic vignette. The pair banter about idealism and realism as they discuss courtship and their married life, ending with a feline interruption.
A collage of quips and short sketches includes lines about soup kitchens, a launderette, a jealous daughter in the stage world, a widow and her lords of the Smart Set, and jokes on marriage, appearances, and the absurdities of money.
Roy W. Rinker son of William Rinker and Miss Della L. Good of Frederick County were married Saturday at the Presbyterian Church manse on North Braddock Street. Rev. Dr. J. H. Lacy officiated. witnesses included relatives and friends. The couple plans to reside in the county.
A group of young ladies from Frederick County departed this morning for Forest Glen Maryland to take up roles with the National Park Seminary management. The party includes Cora and Lola Snapp from Opequon Mary Lockhart Neta and Lela Richard and Eula Moore of Mountain Falls and Myrtle Liggett of Wardensville West Virginia.
The quote suggests that understanding happiness and sorrow deepens empathy for others. As we learn more about human experiences we become kinder and more willing to help those in need.
N a Punishment Sure. Sickness is punishment for breaking one of nature s laws and ignorance of the law is no excuse. Nature is kind but she knows no pity for ignorance unless we are willing to pay years of penance for a day s negligence. Man is the creature of habit and some ruin themselves by drink or other vices yet succeed at it. Emery is the best natural abrasive shipped from the island of Naxos in Greece, supplying more than 15 percent of the world s annual output.
A Baltimore American quotation notes a debate over an eldest son’s fit and future, with remarks about judgment and fore sight and a suggestion that he be made a weather sharp.
Dialog captures a minister's sermon prompting a husband to reflect he could be worse, while his wife asks if he found consolation. The exchange ends with the husband admitting the sermon’s message of humility and self awareness.
The Winchester Presbytery, previously meeting in Burlington, West Virginia, has adjourned its faN session and will hold the regular spring doom in Moorefield, West Virginia.
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