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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1916
Page
4
A poem by Walt Mason compares summer discomfort and body image, contrasting a fat speaker with a lean neighbor Wilkins. The speaker expects winter relief through stored grease as both anticipate seasonal changes and the sun’s intensity.
Gore Virginia notes report Asa Shanholtz John Wagner and Mrs Anastasia Shanholtz traveling to Rock Enon Springs for Mahlon Goode illness rehabilitation under doctor care. Rev Sims visits Rev Goode former classmate at Virginia Christian College. Community meeting at Rock Prow extends through Sunday with 11 am and 3 30 pm services and ground dinner.
The program featured a guitar and manuelin duet by Messrs John Stuart and Fred Nail of Winchester with lively encores. Elise Oldham performed a clever monologue A Woman In a Shoe Shop, showing notable acting. Tenor Wilhelm Snyder of Shepherdstown gave My Song To You with a strong voice, and sang The Land of the Sky Blue Water for an encore. Mrs Oldham and other out of town guests attended.
Philadelphia. Wendell Sooy, once a newsboy, demonstrates a new technique for extracting square and cube roots that drastically speeds up calculation. He uses a table of cubes up to nine and an internal numeric system to simplify division, impressing Prof. Yocum and university teachers.
In Georgia near Atlanta a newborn girl named Dixie was buried six inches underground in a cemetery after her mother placed her there for 11 hours. A crowd of men heard her cries, dug her out, and Rev. T. J. Noland delivered the infant to the Decatur orphans' home where she will be cared for and educated.
Mrs. Brown on a Delta to Redding train spotted a body by the Sacramento river bank. Frank Brown then identified the corpse as his 17 year old son Jesse, who had disappeared two weeks earlier. Relatives had searched in vain and no cause of death can be determined beyond a fall into the river.
A keeper in a zoological garden accidentally dropped keys into a cage shared with an ostrich and spent two hours trying to retrieve them after the bird swallowed the keys.
An advertisement warns against calomel and promotes Dodson's Liver Tone as a harmless remedy. It pledges quick liver cleansing with a spoonful at night and asserts no salivation or sickness, claiming it’s safe for children and offers a money back promise if unsatisfied.
County residents press for local use tax and fight railroad policies. A Winchester dealer reports seventy-five wagonloads of bark arriving in one day from west of the limestone belt, illustrating the impact of the current freight system on local business as the movement seeks action.
A regional push from Western Frederick outlines a measured campaign to secure a new railroad. A Gainesboro committee led by Dean Adams and peers coordinates the drive, while Gore supporters include Edgar Hook and local figures. Citizens pledge to tax themselves and fund parts of the project to benefit future generations.
Dr R E B Taylor announces a citizens meeting in Inesbore on Thursday August 10 at 7 20 pm and one in Gore on Friday August 11 at 7 20 pm. Mr W B Cornwell and associates plan to build a railroad from Winchester to Wardensville and will address the gatherings.
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