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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1913
Page
6
The passage of the currency bill moves to the Senate, signaling a forthcoming law. Virginia figures, led by Mr Wilson, supported the measure, while Wall Street bankers and Virginia bankers opposed it, defending their control over national credits in Richmond.
A narrator laments ongoing rain and mud harming merchants farmers and travelers. Gales and torrents flood streets while horses splash mud onto faces. The speaker urges patience, recalling hotter months when drought ruled and suggests finding resilience in tough, damp times. Narrator Walt Mason signs the verse.
Long Meadows Va December 22 There will be no Sunday school session for a week due to plasterers in the schoolhouse. Christmas presents will be distributed at 2 30 p m on December 24 with scholars asked to attend. Gifts not claimed by Christmas day will be given to children lacking other means. School reopens January 4 at 2 30 p m for elections of officers and teachers. Mrs Nettie Brill has returned home from Star Tannery after caring for her daughter. Mr and Mrs Hite of Baltimore visited Samuel Coffelt Sunday.
The passage envisions an ideal republic that upholds civil and religious liberty, natural rights, and government by consent. It declares the republic as a global beacon, surpassing empires in wealth, influence, and moral progress, inspiring universal brotherhood through example rather than force.
Rain lashes the area causing ongoing floods and muddy conditions. Citizens fear rising waters and hazards as storms continue, complicating travel and daily routines.
Brief advert seeks a married man who can fill a bill and be paid good wages with furnished accommodations. Respond by mail at P. O. Box 164 Berryville Virginia, November 22, 1aw for-4ws.
Dec 22 note list from Mest Virginia reports a birth of a baby girl to Mr and Mrs William Huyett. Jefferson Taylor of Martinsburg visits W M Jefferson. Mrs Martha Bishop moves to Harrisburg Fla with kin. Mrs Dor Francis Pine from Winchester visits. Edgar van Derkerville WV visits family. Rest Sunday school Christmas program planned. Winth Ewan returns from Greensboro. Snapp family from near Charles Town and Martinsburg area guests at Snapp home.
Rev W T Walters returns from Timber Mountains where a series of meetings drew 81 converts. He plans to return next week to continue services. A note on perpetual frost and a quip about misers ends the fragment.
The article explains using concrete for silos barns and other structures as a cheaper safer option than wood. It details material ratios with cement sand and gravel, selection of clean sand and gravel, screen sizes, water content, mixing order and methods to avoid air pockets and achieve proper consistency for reinforced and non reinforced concrete on farms.
Instructions detail building a hand powered drill on a farm using a large wheel a 2 by 4 frame gas pipe pulleys and a lever weighted drill rod. The note contrasts with Navy policy abolishing berths names on gun decks per Chicago Record-Herald.
Paragraphs list Rev Roy Schusucker from Downs ville Md and many others visiting in this city for Christmas. Names include Mrs Mothel Yost of Baltimore Mrs Maglin Clendening Washington and Miss Ella Jenkins Boyce plus families from Roanoke Va Martinsburg W Va and Winston Salem N Y among others.
Mr F C Hubbard and Mrs E H Long of Muskogee Oklahoma tour Witchester as guests of I Charles K Bowly. Hubbard is business partner of United States Senator Robert J Owen of Oklahoma the currency author.
A testimonial from Mrs. M. Estep of Luray Virginia praises Dean's Kidney Pills for back pain and kidney trouble relief. The ad notes the remedy has over fifty years of use and urges buying from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo New York as sole US agents. Remember the name Doan's.
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