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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1917
Page
3
Daily market update shows retail and wholesale prices for commodities such as Winter and Spring wheat flour, corn, middlings, bran, Timothy hay, mix hay, butter, potatoes, and live chickens. The column notes price listings from local buyers with stated reliability caveat and mentions slight variances in figures.
As of the prior day’s close, butter and eggs quotes appear with creamery listings. poultry figures show ranges for chicks, hens, roosters, and weights. Corn, hay and cattle prices follow with steers, heifers, cows, and calves noted, while hog and lamb/sheep pricing is reported and a local visit by Mrs James Rotrigan and Mrs Lapence Mackay to Wahlington is mentioned.
Miss Jennings left Virginia after spending several days with Miss Alice Orndorff at the home of her parents on North Main Street. She has completed an extended trip through the Eastern States with her father, Mr Irving Jennings.
The Kerensky cabinet, pressured to stay in place, shows signs of collapse. Widespread belief holds its days are numbered as factions push to form a new government.
Dr Dutton returned from Middlesex county Virginia with his family. He holds a commission as lieutenant in the Medical Reserves of the United States Army and expects to depart for the officers training camp at Fort Oglethorpe Georgia around the tenth of the month.
The exemption board of wine r and Frederick county announces exams for the first sixty men at 9 a m Monday in the Court Hall. Dr W P Boyd and Dr S C Stuart will pass on fitness with 180 men called next week for 89 city county quota. additional calls possible due to unfitness or exemptions.
A 1900s style ad promotes Calotabs as a purified calomel tablet for constipation indigestion and liver cleansing. One tablet at bedtime with no taste or griping promises a morning of improved appetite and well being. Sold in sealed packs of twenty doses for thirty five cents with a refund guarantee from druggists. Miss Opal Martin and Miss Ethel Harmer head to Baltimore to visit Aunt Alice Vivian until September.
A reflective line argues wisdom grows with age through looking backward, suggesting learning comes from past experience rather than present youth. The quotation emphasizes patience and earned insight.
Department of Agriculture urges sheep owners to save ewe lambs for breeding while market for non breeding stock remains weak. Experts note high breeding stock prices but advise starting small wool production now and selling excess stock through country agents. Watering the horse often urged especially in heat. five drinking opportunities daily keeps livestock healthier and avoids water colic. Keep hogs healthy with sanitation and oil spray. disinfect sheds to curb scarf pug nose and white scours.
Lightning causes stock losses from unfounded fences. A ground wire every few rods improves safety and reduces losses. Bulletin 766 advises early cabbage worm control with arsenate sprays. Mix two pounds arsenate of lead plus four pounds arsenate of lead with Paris Green to fifty gallons, spray as plants set and repeat as needed. Apply as a fine mist to prevent leaf runoff.
Instructions urge farmers to butcher and pack pork and beef next fall to provide eight months of family supply. Emphasizes home preservation and self sufficiency for rural households in the coming season.
An agricultural note urges swine farmers to rely on cured alfalfa and other roughage to reduce feed costs. It notes legume crops to be planted in spring for hay and stresses expanding meat production on roughage. For potatoes a rich mellow soil and ample plant food are essential, with commercial fertilizers offering the best cost-effective help.
No farmer should delay building a shed large enough to store all farm implements. Teach the boys and hired help to bring in tools when no longer needed in the field.
Scrub the spots perfectly clean and then wet them at five day intervals with a solution of two pounds of copper sulfate and one gallon of water. Pure iodine applied twice daily is also effective. Clean, disinfect and whitewash the stable.
Alfalfa and sweet clover praised as prime pig pastures. Well meal deemed unsuitable for horses. Regular hoof trimming advised for sheep. Small amounts of soft coal suggested for hogs. Lamb profits urged as main income source to cover ewe costs.
The piece recounts Sarah Curran daughter of Joan Philpot Curran and sweetheart of Robert Emmet. It notes her beauty and literary ties, mentions Washington Irving and Henry Tow Moore, and recalls songs and poems that kept her memory alive after Emmet’s execution.
An irascible man at Wesley ear tells a companion he would rather give him the paper than have him read over his shoulder. The passenger responds by saying he won’t read the headlines, citing a tramp in his stomach as the reason for not leaning toward the paper.
A New York artist updated a family portrait to reflect current fashion after a wealthy widow demanded a recent gown for her mother's portrait. She insisted on timely style changes, threatening to seek another painter if not carried out, and the artist complied by painting the latest dress and keeping the likeness current with fashion shifts.
A scrambled note mentions Matrimontal Felicity and a man named Lucky involved in a culinary dispute. It references a wife and pies, with unclear context about a veto or maternal influence on food. The fragment hints at domestic tension around baking.
The readable text presents garbled phrases with no clear event or names to base a factual summary. It does not provide identifiable persons, organizations, places, or dates to construct a coherent newspaper card.
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