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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1915
Page
3
An old advertisement touts Resinol as a cure for inflamed skin and dandruff. It asserts the medicine soothes, penetrates the surface, arrests disease action, and restores skin quickly and easily, with Resinol Soap said to stop dandruff and scalp itching while keeping hair healthy.
Public sale of valuable city real estate directed by a circuit court decree. Special commissioners and trustees will offer the property for public auction in front of the court page, to resolve the title issues involving M. P. Ebert Rutherford et al and A. G. Ruteletons vs M. A. Huffman et al.
Saturday September 4 1915 at 11 oclock a m the sale of two parcels in Winchester Virginia including a brick dwelling on West Water Street fronting 138 feet and a Shenandoah Hotel property on North Main Street with a three foot eight inch wide passageway and terms of one third cash and balance in two annual installments bonds of purchasers 6 percent interest and deed of trust securing payment. Robt M Ward special commissioner and trustees listed in decree. Rep Clerk J W Baker Jr. Affidavit of bond with security filed. Frederick County Virginia.
A clipped Boston transcript shows a merchant telling an applicant he only hires married men, then asks if the applicant has a daughter, highlighting dated hiring attitudes and casual sexism in the exchange.
A fragment lists fruit flavors and canned vegetables with multiple items such as blackberries cherries corn crab apple cucumbers currants dewberries and damsons. It includes a note about display quantities like 50 60 and a mention of juice flavor and proportion clearness.
200 acre farm 20 miles north of Baltimore half mile from Penna R R Station with excellent buildings for all purposes including three dwellings and three barns. Natural water supply to all buildings. Bargain. Early possession. Call THOS. B. FULTON, Owner, Ewartstown, Pa.
Electricity is now generally used in blasting operations in mines and misfires are not frequent. Experiments show electric blasting yields greater explosive effect since the entire charge ignites at once. For reserve blasting an orderly firing cable detonator wires and explosive charges are placed in the bore hole.
Berlin reports heavy German activity with a promised stroke to astonish the world. Warsaw notes fleeing Russians pursued near the Vistula. Bavarian pontoon capacity suspected to bridge the river. Riga nearer fall. Novogeorgevisk approaching capture. Russians maneuver to avoid encirclement.
Front Royal Va August 16 The second day of the Front Royal horse show drew about 8000 spectators with no accidents. Fast five furlong races featured the favorite Huda Choice finishing second and numerous prize winners across divisions including foals of 1913 Henrietta One Step Clifton Hexagon and Day Star in saddle classes. Government mounts and remount depot entries dominated several events with top honors going to Miles O Connell Defeat Daisy and Rappahannock in various Cavalry and harness competitions.
First place went to Sophomore Lieut John Millikin of First Cavalry U S A. Second was Dan ny Captain Richards of Fifth Cavalry U S A. Third, Zeppelin of Royal Remount Depot. Fourth was Normos Fred of Bryan.
Markets brief lists daily local prices for wheat corn hay and butter with closing values. Includes butter eggs live poultry hay sheep lambs calves and other farm goods, citing Baltimore market telegraph readings and noting some figures fluctuate by grade and weight.
Seymour Deming writes in Atlantic Monthly about fears of change. Critics cling to tradition and wield the old wheeze a prop, muting reformers with hollow claims, until one man exposes the weapon as empty.
The quote questions self doubt and social perception, noting that many hide true thoughts while others ignore them. It reflects a cautious view of human vanity and suspicion in everyday life, characteristic of a Times style snippet.
When a bottle top won t budge insert the top between the door and the jamb and pull the door back to grip the cap. This holds the top tightly allowing easy unscrewing.
A note on using wood scrapers to clean diners and sauce pans. It describes covering with cheesecloth to keep surfaces free from crystals while boiling sugar and mentions the original purpose of scrapers.
A Pittsburgh Post reminiscence notes how growing older shifts priorities and nostalgically recalls youth desires for simple tools like a revolver and a mandolin. The tone reflects reflection on age and change.
The Old Fogy muses on the fate of the Cheerful Idiot who has vanished for months. The Grouch says he is busy with a get rich quick scheme. A quip about a queen bee laying 2000 eggs daily and fool’s attempts at mimicking it is shared.
A midsummer eve belief tied a coal found under the plantain roof to protection from plague carbuncle and burning and to visions of a future husband for a maiden. The coal likely was an old discolored root but believers insisted on its special nature.
A brief, quoted exchange features Jones claiming a literary bent and a companion urging perseverance over minor losses. The dialogue hints at ambition clashing with practical restraint in a casual, witty tone.
An expert correspondent explains the popular belief in chamois leather sold in England and the so called shammy underclothing loved by women. He notes Swiss hunters bag one chamois weekly and contrasts it with the sheep skin split into chamois leather. The writer describes curiosities from a London office and a hatter’s window polishing scene.
An old quotation underscores the burdens of business versus the dangers of continued vacancy and idle effort, contrasting harsh realities with unproductive idleness.
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