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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1917
Page
3
Ground offered to Scots continues as civic leaders urge planting now. Boys and girls nationwide are starting gardens to raise food. Citizens gather at City Hall Auditorium Friday at 8 pm to hear George H. Arnold discuss food conservation and related topics.
The health officer urges typhoid vaccination after 63 local cases last year. State depots offer serum for 21 cents. H. L. Livick's Drug Store serves as the Winchester dispensing point for patients to obtain serum and have it administered by their own physician for the standard office fee.
Mr and Mrs Morton Harloe and family express heartfelt gratitude for the sympathy and acts of kindness shown during the illness and death of their son Samuel Simpkins Harlee. They remember the support with lasting appreciation.
In a New Era column from Leavenworth Kansas a prisoner nicknamed Red describes hearing excerpts from Il Trovatore Susies band and the prison band. He notes a Thanksgiving turkey sizzling on the plate sounded like real music to him.
Baltimore horsewoman Miss Colgate Cherbonnier married Edward Louis Pascal an automobile businessman in Baltimore in a quiet Belair ceremony on a Saturday. The groom is connected to Mrs. H. Flanigan whose husband serves in the U S Navy. The couple plans Atlantic City travels after the ceremony.
The article notes a Senate and House vote on the army conscription bill after Thursday sessions. Administration leaders say passage in the form requested by the President is assured, with supporters focusing on the size of the majority approving the measure.
Debate in the Senate considers accepting Colonel Roosevelt's offer to raise and lead a division to France while lawmakers push for speedy passage of the general staff bill. Senator Chamberlain plans extended debate and may seek a cloture vote if no agreement is reached by Thursday night.
Officials at the Navy Department rejected a Newport News report that the American battleship captured the German submarine U-36 and towed it to the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The official called the story absurd and said battleships do not chase submarines.
The French High War Commission led by former Premier Viviani has arrived safely on the American continent. The State Department issued a brief notice confirming the mission's safe arrival.
Local market quotations list retail and wholesale prices for grains butter eggs and live farm stock. Wheat flour spring and winter prices are shown with per bushel figures, plus corn middlings hay butter chickens potatoes and various cattle and sheep prices from area buyers.
Reports from the Forest Service show heavy losses of cattle and sheep in the northern Rocky Mountain region due to deep snow and late spring. Feed is exhausted, hay and grain scarce, and stockmen fear more deaths before warm weather relief. Coast regions report better conditions with lambings good and wool at average. Forest supervisors are authorized to open national forests to livestock in need before the usual date to prevent starvation.
Copenhagen April 24. The Russian steamer Zara was sunk by a German submarine with heavy loss of life. Among the dead were political exiles returning to Russia, including Nicholas Kartozich a noted socialist. His death is said to spur Russian democrats to persist in the war until victory is achieved.
April 24 report notes martial law imposed on munition factories across Germany with notices warning workers near firing lines. Berlin output described as normal, but military officials oppose socialist pressure for reforms and immediate peace. The Berlin Post calls some socialists anarchists in a military linked paper.
Fragmentary text discusses perception of others and empathy. It references points of view and a general call to understand human wholeness, mentioning Yonathy and Ben von in unclear context. The passage is partially indecipherable.
A fragment from a 1917 Frederick County Virginia court notice contrasts human time awareness with that of ants and bees. It cites a condemnation petition by Winchester and Western Railroad Company against several Hack heirs and unknown parties, seeking land for railroad use and appointing commissioners to determine damages. The notice, dated March 2, 1917, requires appearances within fifteen days and publication in The Evening Star.
Evaporation sifted salt piles are secured to prevent cave-ins and injuries. An electric digging unit penetrates above the pile to stabilize and extract sacks and barrels safely while workers stay out of danger. The piece also notes the forget me not as a noted historic floral emblem in gardens.
An unidentified excerpt explains the etymology of bank from the old money-changing bench. It notes the bench was a common term across languages, and a dealer who failed to meet obligations had his bench or bank ruptured, giving rise to the word bankrupt.
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