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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1915
Page
3
Goodyear touts a five million dollar lower cost to users this year via price reductions on Fortified Tires. The note cites a two year total 45 percent reduction and claims five premium features unavailable in competitors. It argues omitting extras could boost profits by 1.635 million while maintaining perceived quality and plans 100 thousand dollars in research to improve further.
The London foreign office supplement to the British note on the Order in Council has reached the state department along with a note on the steamer Hatcher. Berlin dispatches claim Germany awaits the coming American note text before answering. Germany may use 42 centimeter guns against Warsaw as Russians retreat from the Polish capital.
City Clerk J. B. Beverley issued a marriage license this morning to A. Adams of Winchester and Nez E. Brown of West Virginia. Grace Henry of Baltimore, daughter of the late Hugh Henry, is visiting her grandmother Mrs. L. H. Henry at the Shenandoah Hotel in this city.
The Star reports prompt market prices including wheat and corn from Baltimore markets. Wheat No 2 red spot is listed at 1.09 1 2 per bushel, with additional notes on corn and other grains and retail items such as hay, middlings, butter, and live poultry items in local store listings.
Market quotes show butter eggs vegetables poultry and hay holding steady from the previous day with minor shifts. Prices list creamery butter at 27 1 2 cents with other butter at 24 and eggs Virginia at 17 1 2 cents per dozen then down, poultry with chickens at 12 to 14 cents per pound and lambs and calves ranged by quality.
Average price for run basket apples remains 75 cents. Some lots sell for 1.05 dollars with poor quality lower and a few fancy grades higher. Market shows variation across transparency and size categories.
A Victorian era style piece urges prenatal care and stresses that pregnancy can be healthier with preparation. It touts Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a tonic for women, claiming it helps normal healthy function and offers confidential advice from the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co.
Special commissioners will offer for sale at public auction in front of the Court House the valuable city real estate directed by a decree in the chancery causes M. P. Ebert vs A. G. Rutherford et al and A. G. Rutherford vs M. A. Huffman et al in Frederick County Circuit Court.
News accounts detail the arrest of A W Brown, described as the leading man of a Kansas City hold up gang. Police say Brown confessed to numerous robberies since September 1914, naming victims, thefts, and a large jewelry haul, with recovery of about two hundred dollars in recovered items. Brown traces his moves to Texas prior to arriving in Kansas City.
A retired Wilkes-Barre hardware merchant and California investor died by inhaling gas in a lodging house room. Four notes describe his struggle with letters, his looming separation from wife, and a wish not to be sent to an asylum. The last message expresses love for his son Lyle and a partner named Helen. In Virginia, a court order references real estate matters in a Master Commissioner’s report for Lula May Anderson with notices for interest parties.
Kansas City officials announce Sunday paroles for inmates with families at the Leeds municipal farm. Trusteeship by J O Stutsman allows workers to go home after Saturday tasks and return by Monday morning. If successful the merit system may extend to more prisoners.
A cryptic reflection explores how silence can shape music and meaning, suggesting a paradox where quiet intervals become the basis for tunes and structure. The text muses on the role of restraint in creativity and perception.
Harry FE Brock of Seattle confessed to operating a seven month Chinese smuggling scheme, earning $200 per person brought from Canada. He admitted delivering two Chinese to the Hop Yick Co in Portland with Vancouver merchant Ching Chong Kee as Canadian agent, after moving them from Blaine toward the border.
Clarence nine and Harold twelve testified before Judge Hulbert that they tied a lit grass filled can to a dog's tail then threw a bone into a barn door. The dog ran in and gnawed the bone, causing the fire when the can ignited the structure.
A terse quip notes that repeated knocks on a man can elevate him to fame, suggesting notoriety grows from frequent confrontation. The line nods to public recognition born from persistent pressure or scandal.
A damaged OCR transcript shows bank assets and liabilities with items such as loans and discounts, overdrafts, banking house and lot, furniture and fixtures, cash from national banks, coinage details, capital stock, surplus, undivided profits, deposits, and cashier's checks. The numbers appear garbled, but indicate a mid‑century financial statement with totals and reserve figures.
A reader suggests wooden skewers as versatile cleaners and kitchen aids. They note their original purpose, plus use for cleaning other items or lining a sauce pan with cheesecloth to prevent crystals when sugar is boiled.
In the clerk's office of Erie County on 9th day Herbert 8 of Saleet v T M Barr and others a civil action is filed.
The article notes Henry Cheawick known as the Father of Baseball is buried at Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn. He is described as lying on the far fifth street side of the cemetery along Eighth Avenue.
The article describes a bygone English belief in special coal found under the root of a plant on one day yearly. The coal supposedly grants immunity from plague and burns and purportedly influences dreams of a husband. Believers thought it kept a family safe though the coal was likely just old roots.
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