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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1915
Page
3
Fragmentary ad copy describes a woman suffering severe pain and mental distress and endorses Cardus as a remedy. The text mentions a druggist selling the product and urges readers to try Cardus for relief. The tone mimics period medical advertisements and claims the remedy helps various ailments.
A historical score card lists proportions for preserved fruits including apples apricots crab apples pineapple plums currants damsons gooseberries grapes raspberries strawberries quinces and tomatoes. It records items like beans corn cherry and other fruits with numeric ratings shamefully showing flavor and consistency notes.
The Star prints local market quotes with Wheat No 2 red and Corn prices as of closing day. Butter eggs poultry hay and live stock are listed with ranges and per unit figures for stein retailers and wholesale.
A list of arrivals and brief visits spans from Capt James B Taylor and family at Jack to Mrs Elizabeth Horsey in Winchester. Notables include Dr J Randolph Graham and guests in town for extended stays at the Ward home, plus motorists from Roanoke and Moundsville registered at local hotels. A New York feature notes wom en seeking laughter and sunrise porches as a public need.
Special Receivers announce public auction rent of the William Pannett tract of 154 acres five miles from Winchester. The lease runs to October 31 1915 with crops, pasture rights, and fall wheat planting included. Payments: one half in six months and one half in twelve months, secured by bonds. Special Receivers Herbert S. Larrick, R. Barton Jr., Warren Rice sign.
The listing shows price ranges for baskets of apples by quality: average run at 75c, good to fancy at 1.25 to 1.50 for transparent and larger baskets, other varieties 1.00 to 1.25, fair to prime 60 to 1.00, and small to poor 25 to 50 per basket.
A customer asked for a remedy for diarrhoea and was given Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy with a promise of no charge if it failed to cure. The man returned claiming success. Obscure local arrivals include Mrs Rober Chamblin and Migs Bianche Spai from Odessa Mo visiting Mrs John W. Davis at North Avenue.
A tale from the Boston Transcript notes a man who saved a life was offered half a dollar by Miserly. The rescuer accepted the offer but returned 20 cents as change indicating dissatisfaction with the payment. The piece also discusses the pronunciation of Greenwich as Gren-ich per British usage.
A description explains the “Rose of Hell” as a flower growing on a large tree along the rugged slopes of Mount Abua in Central America. The passage follows a dialogue about insomnia and self talk among Uncle Ebe and Uncle Eben, hinting at a broader moral about vanity and conversation.
20 miles north of Baltimore. halls mile from Penna Railroad Station. Excellent buildings for all purposes including 3 dwellings and 3 barns with natural water supply to all structures. Bargain for quick buyer. early possession possible. Address FHOS B Fulton Owner Stewartstown Pa.
Henry Chadwick known as the Father of Baseball is buried in Greenwood Cemetery Brooklyn on Twenty fifth street side near Mighthavenhue. The note places Chadwick among notable baseball pioneers in a historic Brooklyn grave site.
A quoted line from Tit-Bits reflects on surface appearances versus deeper truth. It notes skepticism toward public figures and includes a jab about officials buying a barrel of apples as a symbol of hidden motives.
The Indianapolis Star hints Eve tested other fruits in the orchard after tasting the apple and learning the consequences.
A reflective note asserts most people deem themselves virtuous though they are tame and offensive. It argues temeness is not virtue but the absence of vice, attributed to J. 8. Blackia.
The Buffalo Express report mocks a Mrs Nurich’s husband for losing a suit on a technicality while defending cash payment for clothes. The exchange shows a boastful line about paying cash and a confrontational tone in the clipping.
A female ladybird beetle becomes a grandmother to seventy five billions of her kind in six months. She lays eggs on melon vines and the grubs hatch and feed on aphids. In late autumn the mature beetles migrate to the mountains to overwinter among fallen leaves and pine needles.
The Atch man seeks to amass enough property by age fifty to retire. He plans to save a week’s salary in his pocket when he collects wages next week, according to the Atchison Globe.
Under a decree of the Cir ginia a public rent sale will be held at Middletown depot on Wednesday August 1915 at 12 80 p t. The parcel known as the farm lies about three miles from Middletown and includes fields in wheat and corn. It will be offered in crop share and cash rent options with terms subject to confirmation by Frederick county.
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