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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1923
Page
7
Hubert, a notably fat man, adores Mary Bayliss who rejects him for a thinner future. He pursues rapid dieting to win her, then thins briefly only to return to fat. Mary remains engaged to Reginald Bogart, leaving Hubert devastated and revealed as unable to win her.
A man proposes aboard a drifting boat as the sun shines and the sea remains calm. The woman calmly explains that their boat on water deeper than fifty feet would capsize if she accepted, then asks him to row to shore and propose again, asserting she will make a good wife.
A Timberville Virginia peach sale shows growers Harry F. and Thomas B. Byrd earned $2.10 per bushel crate for high grade fruit, while transportation and railroad charges consumed much of the price. A Vermont buyer asks how much middlemen profited as a crate sold for $6 to $7. The letter from W C Raymond highlights the distribution, noting railroads took about 70 percent of the grower’s price and distributors claimed around 16 to 25 percent more than the grower depending on crate size.
Miss Alice Webber aged 58 of Charleston South Carolina suffered a serious neck injury in a car crash near Fredericksburg Virginia while returning from Washington with relatives. Surgeons performed a laminaectomy to relieve spinal pressure and today report she is well on the road to recovery and may leave Memorial Hospital in a week or two.
Commercial air pilots in relays race across the continent carrying the first motion pictures of the Japanese earthquake to New York. One fleet began in Seattle and the other in San Francisco with hopes to show on Broadway tonight.
Daniel Willard president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad urged a merger of several New England lines including Boston and Albany Central Vermont and Grand Trunk Canada Pacific before the Interstate Commerce Commission in Boston. He repeated his opposition to a plan requiring B and O to absorb the New Haven and Hartford Railroad.
A curious estimate claims that if every loaf cut by an average person in a year were baked together the mass would form a single loaf weighing 97 pounds requiring three strong men to lift and a horse to pull it.
Oklahoma City September 26 Associated Press reports Governor Walton authorized Adjutant General Markham to deploy all military forces to block the impeachment assembly of the Oklahoma Legislature. The governor warned troops may be ordered to use force if necessary and said he hopes no shots will be fired.
A Reuters dispatch from Riga reports rumors that masses of insurrectionist peasants surround Moscow and Petrograd, but there is no confirmation. The statement comments on treating individuals as mobs and the loss of personal value.
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