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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1923
Page
5
April is called lucky for young people and for lovers with the 15th especially favorable. The text urges a charm involving a silver coin and green attire, plus a firm departure from home for good luck. It also quotes Buckle on discussion overcoming inertness and truth emerging from error through conflict.
Americans spend 16.6 percent of their income on clothing, with silk shirts highlighted in consumer spending figures.
The United States Department of Agriculture and Wyoming officials will use the thoroughbred stallion Glaisdale at a Buffalo Wyoming horse breeding station to develop a utility horse type suited to western range and farm conditions. Glaisdale, a three year old brown stallion, comes from a prestigious English lineage including Rosendale, St Frusquin, Acclaim and St Simon. Maj. Henry Leonard selected him for the remount service breeding program.
Doomsday Book records show only two Johns among England's medieval inhabitants with one Dane among them. An English critic ranks Wordsworth Tintern Abbey line dwelling is the light of setting suns as the finest English verse, while Tennyson calls it nearly the grandest capturing the sense of the abiding in the transient.
A brief note urges readers to fill their days with action, quoting a Boston transcript about turning emptiness into purpose through constructive work and deeds.
The Associated Press reports Senator Glass urged President Coolidge to appoint Alexander W. Weddell of Richmond as secretary of the U S embassy in Athens. A unrelated jailhouse anecdote follows about a man named Jimmy who avoids the dark but dislikes a neighbor’s color.
Public life divides into outsiders and officeholders as the San Francisco Maronicle muses on taxation and public service with a wry, era tone. The piece contrasts those without jobs and those in office, hinting at public perception and civic duty.
A Cincinnati Enquirer item quotes a man saying he is content to find his wife serving a simple salad with lettuce sandwiches rather than a large meal, noting his appetite is like a horse.
A century ago New England residents opposed gas street lighting arguing artificial illumination interfered with the Divine order of night darkness and would disrupt the natural course of day and night.
A girl explains her sister is not schooling yet and is waiting to be old enough to begin lessons, saying she is “waiting to get enough olds so she can think lessons.”
Miss Marpotte Whaples guest of Miss Elizabeth Steeck returns to New York. Mrs Dodson returns from Wiston visit. Mrs Duval Ark returns from Blue Ridge trip and joins Dr. I son at 1010 North Calvert. Misses Evans and Striker back from Harrisburg and field tour with Mr. Plank. J I Bases roison of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in town for a day. Mr Courtney W Weems leaves for Mexico to study a sugar plant. William T Gore of Ohio arrives for business and to see old friends. Group of young ladies headed to Harrisonburg State Normal School with Carolyn Kackley Greenwalt and others. W R Talbot returns from Akron. Mrs Parrish of Salem motoring in the region. Commander Richard Eve Jr of the United States tion service arrives from Boston for a short visit. R E Byrd at Amherst street home. Mrs Louis Grimm leaves for Washington after joining friends party to Charles Town.
Capt Hunter B Grimm, a first ward councilman and longtime fireman, visited City Hall yesterday afternoon after a long illness confined him to his South M Street home. He was warmly greeted by many friends who congratulated him on his steady improvement.
Berlin reports the German government, in a formal proclamation, was compelled through bitter necessity to end the Ruhr battle. The document warns passive resistance would have caused economic collapse and threatened German livelihoods.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railway resumed payments on its common stock with a quarterly dividend of 1.25 percent. A quarterly dividend of 1 percent was also declared on preferred stock.
Kent Coolidge rejected a New York citizens’ invitation to attend a memorial meeting on November 2 for the late President. He said honoring Harding best by staying in Washington and carrying out policies, then traveling to New York to deliver an address.
A brief card notes Robel Ingersoll quote about happiness, placing the place time and action of happiness in the present and linking personal joy to helping others. It reads as a concise aphorism.
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