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Newspaper
Middletown Weekly
Location
Middletown, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1912
Page
2
The paper states a subscription rate of 1.00 per year in advance and that no issue will continue without subscriber order. Papers returned or received as notice of discontinuance. Advertising rates available on application. One rate applies to all.
The notice records that materials were entered at the Middletown Virginia post office as second class matter, indicating the mailing status of a publication or document.
The piece argues nearly half of law license applicants fail the State Board exam not due to curriculum or exams but because modern youths lack a serious vocation. It contrasts past diligent ambition with today's desire for quick status and immediate responsibility, questioning personal fit and commitment.
The article urges residents to form a town club to revitalize communities. It advocates monthly meetings, improving schools and roads, building a public library, creating parks, and installing water systems. It calls for attracting settlers, a strong telephone network, and a modern community center with reading rooms and entertainment space.
A column discusses the law profession as a field losing its old exclusivity. It notes many pursue law from easy circumstances, some fail yet gain resilience, and others are spared humiliation by early setbacks. The piece also urges municipal reforms and summer vacation ideas, urging cleanliness and pest control improvements.
Advice for Virginia growers outlines preparing well drained humus rich land, plowing in lime and phosphate with bone meal, inoculating with soil from a thriving alfalfa field, sowing 25 pounds alfalfa and 8 pounds red clover per acre, and providing a winter top dressing of barnyard manure to protect young plants.
A Great Apple Country will likely produce more apples this year in four counties across Virginia and West Virginia than the entire Washington and Oregon crop of 1910. J H Stewart, agricultural agent for the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, notes strong southern opportunities for apple growing and cautions against northwest migration for better returns. The piece also discusses a national apple shortfall relative to population despite growing home production. plus various moral observations.
The Weekly offers 200 copies of the Original History of the Valley by Dr Samuel Kercheval. A well bound 400 page cloth volume described as the only authentic local history. Price two dollars net with 15 cents postage.
Real estate offers show you property for very little cash that will pay handsomely in a few years. Many have become rich through buying property, and now is your chance to own a home. Come and talk with us about an interesting home owning proposition.
A real estate list describes multiple properties near Strasburg Virginia. Entries cover two story frame houses with metal roofs and 7 to 9 rooms, porches, gardens, city water, hot water heat, hardwood floors, and terms. plus a large farm with 140 acres, apple orchard, and farm buildings. specifies locations near Depot Street Cap on Grade and Woodotekk, with descriptions of land use and access.
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