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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1920
Page
5
Reports from American Red Cross workers indicate Finland restored a distressed paper sector. In 1919 Finland exported 46 000 metric tons of paper despite eight months of shipping restrictions. Most shipments went to fifty major English periodicals as Russia market collapsed.
Invitations issued for the marriage of Frances Allen of Mount Jackson Virginia to Mary Lauck Walton Jr of Woodstock. The ceremony is set for Wednesday evening September 1 at Red Banks, the Allens ancestral home. Walton is a junior member of Walton and Walton law firm in Woodstock.
Manassas Virginia hosts events on Aug 18 19 and 20 Marshall hosts Aug 25 and 26 Warrenton runs Sept 1 and 2 The listing specifies horse show dates and locations in Virginia with three town events.
The Star reports a U S Department of Agriculture notice predicting good sumac demand this season with prices around two dollars per hundred pounds at shipping point. The season lasts three months from July to September with black sumac fetching higher prices. the industry once boomed here but is now virtually dead.
Dr Hoffman sold the Foreman farm in Inwood Berkeley county to Winchester Nursery Company and buyers P Massey C F Massey of Winchester Virginia and G F Hetzer of Mountain View Nursery Williamsport Maryland for 23000 dollars. Purchasers will start a nursery immediately.
The department of agriculture Raya notes the heaviest potato in their records weighs between seven and eight pounds. It is possible larger specimens exist, but no record of them has been kept.
Mrs E T Bish of Kitts Hill Ohio reports severe rheumatism left her unable to move hands and feet. After using Reese Formula R-11 her mobility improved and she endorses the product urging others to seek its relief through the company’s adviser department.
Susan Stephenson colored widow of Richard Stephenson died last night at 6 30 at her home 648 North Market Street after a long illness. She was 76. Survived by children Alfred James Stephenson and sister Mary Branson of Newport News Virginia. Funeral at St Pauls AME Church Monday with Rev J C Parola officiating. Interment in Orrick Cemetery.
Nervous shorts bid stocks against long positions with modest advances except in specials. Traders cited untenable beat positions, improving railway credits, and crop conditions as short lived factors. Profit taking hit Baldwin, United States Steel, and sugar shares as government war issues edged down. Close listed weak with about 125000 shares traded.
Rachel Cribley of Beaver Dam Ohio suffered two years with stomach trouble and constipation. She tried many medicines before using Chamberlains Tablets and reports several weeks of treatment cured her condition.
Extracted notices show an 1920 commissioner's order in chancery for M R Strode estate detailing heirs and reports, plus a Frederick County suit for sale of about 16 acres near Stephenson and notices to nonresident defendants and unknown heirs with publication and posting deadlines. Building Character on unity and restraint closes the fragment.
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