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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1914
Page
4
A business message urges urgency in pursuing success as time shrinks opportunities. It argues that many failures come from ignorance of actual conditions and stresses systems, proper accounting, and knowing weekly profits. A bishop joke illustrates patience and perspective.
A New York dinner features Walter Morton recalling Civil War veterans and a grandson quip about grazing. The piece then shifts to an advertisement for Kickapoo Worm Killer highlighting safe relief from worms with a 25 cent price and drugstore availability.
H L Snyder and Co offer select parcels for sale in Jefferson and nearby counties. Listings include a 139 acre limestone farm near Engle’s Switch, Potomac cement works site with mill and water power, a Lutheran church property suitable for warehouse or residence, a 1 acre Jefferson county farm with orchard, and multiple 40 acre plus limestone farms with houses, outbuildings, and river access. Also offered are a 172 acre west of Shepherdstown tract, a 54 acre limestone farm with house, and a 44 acre tract with building improvements. Prices range from a few thousand to about twenty one thousand five hundred dollars, with terms limited and property under bold search. Contact Reidas Building, Shepherdstown.
Records of heavy production from individual apple trees span many years and varieties. McIntosh trees show wide yield variation with up to 95 bushels from one tree and lows around 17 to 20 bushels. Duchess and Yellow Transparent yields range from 17 to 67 bushels, while a Hamby tree reportedly bore 132 bushels in one year and a Blue Pearmain 30 barrels in 1897. An western Pennsylvania orchard reportedly exceeds 3 bushels per tree on multiple trees. Postmaster General Burleson reports postal losses from fires, burglaries, robberies, floods, and supply costs totaling significant amounts. Ohio’s Steubenville local option vote passed. drys win by 166 in 4,916 total votes, closing 50 saloons.
A Draper North Carolina reader credits Cardui the womanly tonic with ending years of pain and near death experiences. She reports improvement, recommends the medicine to others, and urges women to try it, claiming it has helped many and lasting for over 50 years.
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