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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1916
Page
2
A cluttered OCR notice markets a harvest sale with assorted prices including ten cent items and discounted hats and faces. The fragment lists items at 4 cents and larger prices like one dollar and three dollars, indicating promotional pricing.
Local ad touts Lots of Other Bargains with Whiting tissue paper and envelopes priced at 30c to 40c per 100 sample boxes. Also lists paper and envelopes at 10c to 20c per 100 sample boxes, with values up to 50c.
In a 1916 Chancery decree the court of Winchester appoints a Master Commissioner to ascertain the real and personal property of Fannie C Hull deceased and to determine interests among heirs. He is to collect creditor claims, settle executor Maurice M Lynch accounts, and report unpaid taxes with notices to interested parties. A. J. Tavener, Commissioner in Chancery, sets August 10, 1916 for action.
Public sale of the John Wotring farm in Frederick County Virginia scheduled for August 29 1916 at 11 a m in front of the County Court House Winchester. The 216 acre farm includes an apple orchard dwelling bank barn and crops including apples. One third cash with two annual installments secured by purchaser bonds and a trust deed. Herbert S Larrick trustee.
Mrs Rost of Washington Park Illinois writes that Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills cured her female trouble backache nervous spells and blues. She says frequent loud child noise made her anxious yet remedies restored her youthfulness and health and urges other women to seek advice from the company in Lynn Massachusetts.
In Coudersport Pennsylvania a farmer discovered an ice mine about 18 years ago. The 40 foot shaft yields ice from May to October with walls coated in frost and two foot icicles reaching to the bottom. Now owned by new owners local businessmen plan ads and road improvements to attract tourists and open a direct road past the site.
The remedy is described as a safe cough medicine for children with no opiates or habit forming drugs. It promises relief from summer colds and chronic coughs, with the first dose bringing comfort and is sold everywhere.
The department of agriculture warns farmers to prepare against the army worm. Keep pounds of arsenate of lead or paris green in dry covered containers to act quickly. A delay of hours can cause irreparable crop damage. Farmers' bulletin No. 731 explains the army worm and is available free from the secretary of agriculture.
The article explains the final celery planting should occur in early August with moist soil for plants and beds. It covers dipping roots, frequent cultivation, and late August to early September soilanking and staking. Blanching is done by gradually banking soil up to cover leaf tips, using boards and stakes as needed.
Wormwood ragweed known as ambrosia artemisfolia is a double pest harming crops and causing substantial fall hay fever. The weed overruns fields in the middle and northern states in late summer and early fall, and should be fought from now until frost to prevent seeding per Farm Progress.
Dr J H Merrill of Kansas State Agricultural College explains how to hive a swarm without tearing buildings or cutting trees. Close all openings save one, use a bee escape, place a near hive with brood, let bees move in weeks, then relocate after honey is removed. Also notes J J Hedrick of Lexington N C registered at Hotel Evans.
In this 1916 critique, M. P. Carter mocks Justice Hughes and President Wilson, debating merit and decorum while lampooning political clash. The piece parodies a speech by Hughes and jests about Panama's Colossus and a wandering moose, ending with a call to watch progressive Democracy's course and a nod to future political adventures.
A deranged kidney story from Okla. man Gary of Sulphur describes ten years of kidney trouble and severe rheumatic aches until Foley Kidney Pills gave relief from the first dose after three bottles. He says he feels like a new man and recommends the remedy. Sold everywhere. Try a want ad it’s pays.
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