Postoffice Food Price List For Winchester Frederick County
The War Department foodstuffs allocated to Winchester and Frederick counties will be sold at fixed prices via the post office. Orders begin Monday with advance payment and parcel post charges. distribution occurs after enough orders are collected. Quantities include baked beans corn beef hash peas rice flour jam soap and more.
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Hese
Salem
Postoffice
Winchester
Frederick County
Star
Baltimore
Sibert
Fruit Prices and Packing Services at Winchester Depots
SAM HAINES of Winchester Virginia advertises buying all kinds of fruit at top market cash prices with packing at Cumberland Valley Depot and White Post Depot. Representative Mr David Reardon available after six pm. Also promotes Cordial Cherries at 49 cents per pound at The People’s Drug Co. on Friday and Saturday.
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Cumberland Valley Depot
Winchester
White Post Depot
David Reardon
The
People’s Drug Co., Inc
A Trescott Apple Grader Promises Lower Packing Costs
Massey Brothers advertise a Trescott Apple Grader designed to cut packing costs. The notice urges readers to order now, highlighting efficiency and cost savings for apple handling operations.
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Massey Brothers
Berkeley auto shop owner held on embezzlement charges
E W Collis of Shenandoah Valley Auto Supply in West Water street is held on embezzlement and grand larceny charges after forged checks of 116 and 320 dollars tied to a Miami bank. Miami sheriff seeks extradition as Collis claims innocence and repayment plans. Detectives Raymond and Burns agency assisted. bail set at 1000 dollars.
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Neil Harr
Miami
Oklahoma
F. B. Raymond
William J. Burns Detective Agency
E. W. Collis
Shenandoah Valley Auto Supply Company
West Water Street
Armel
Collis
Raymond
Omte
Winchester
Main Street
Indian Alley
North Braddock Street
Berkeley County
West Virginia
Martinsburg
W. Va
Auto Supply Company
R. Gray Wiliams
Pannett
Doran
American Bankers’ Association
Bahliman Lands Five-Pound Black Bass On Shenandoah River
A local angler Mr A Bahliman hooked and landed a five and a half pound black bass on the Shenandoah river and Winchester crowd gathered at his North Main street shop to view the monster catch. He plans to have a taxidermist skin and mount the fish.
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Shenandoah River
A. Bahliman
Winchester
Bahiman
North Main Street
Bahlman
For Sale 22 Acre Farm Near Riverton With Orchard
Small farm of 22 acres located 2 1/2 miles from Riverton features a good house stable and outbuildings. Orchard includes 600 apple trees, age 19 years. Price 1600 dollars. Contact Fred R. Jackson Home Bakery Front Royal Virginia.
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Riverton
Fred R. Jackson
Home
Front Royal
Many industries crippled by new walkouts and threats
The Associated Press reports broad labor unrest as strikes and threats sweep major industries in cities including New York Chicago Pittsburgh Columbus and Butler. Cigar makers claim about 120,000 on strike while others like car workers building trades postal workers and steel workers consider action amid non union contractor tensions.
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New York
Standard Steel Car Company
East St Louis Strike Hits 13 Cities St Louis Area
Motormen and conductors of the East St. Louis and Suburban Electric Company and subsidiaries walked off today, halting streetcar service in thirteen cities. City run wages ranged from 41 to 45 cents per hour, interurban 47 cents, with a demand of 80 cents city and 87 1/2 cents interurban. The workers had rejected a 12 percent raise previously offered by the Labor arbitration board.
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St. Louis
East
Copper miners walk out in Idaho eight hour demand
In Wallace Idaho on August 15 a near total walkout by copper miners in the Burke Mullen and Nine Mile districts of the Corne ad Aleene Corporation followed a vote by the international unions of mines mills and smelter workers to press for an eight hour day.
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Wallace
Idaho
Burke
Mullen
Corne Ad Aleene Corporation
International Unions of Mines, Mills and Smelter
Senate Lines Up for Ratification
Washington Aug 15 More than 20 Republican senators ready to back quick ratification of the peace treaty with reservations leaders of the reservation advocates say a poll shows up to 30 Republicans would support reservation. Democrats count on 44 votes. It takes 64 to ratify.
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Washington
Senate
Troops Man Walls at Londonderry
Londonderry Ireland August 15 troops manned the walls for the first time since the 1687 siege as authorities bar the nationalist Sinn Fein Lady Day procession. The British commander General Hackett Pain forbade the demonstration while Orangemen and unionists vow to block the parade as anti British.
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Londonberry
Ireland
Hackett-Pain
King George Grants Ratification of German Peace Treaty
London August 15 King George has given his assent to Parliament's ratifying bill making the German peace treaty law. The measure becomes effective immediately as the act is enacted.
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Associated Press
London
King George
Middletown Picnic Runs from Winchester Saturday Morning
Notice sets a busy W. O. W. picnic at Middletown for Saturday August 16 leaving Winchester at 8 26 a m. Mrs Frank J Lindergreen of Winter Park Florida visits relatives Mr and Mrs Meckim Diffenderfer on South Market Street.
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Middletown
Winchester
H.L. Gruber
Frank J. Lindergreen
Winter Park, Fla
Meckim Diffenderfer
South Market Street
Decoration supplies for Welcome Home Celebration sale
Decorative items for a Welcome Home Celebration offered for sale with samples on display. Contact G. A. Butler, 15-16-14t Electrical Contractor, for purchase details.
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G. A. Butler
First 100000 Recruits Secured for Regular Army
General March announced that the first 100000 recruits have been secured for the permanent regular army. More than 68000 of them are re enlistements and an estimated five in every hundred discharged from temporary forces have chosen to re join the army since the recruiting campaign began.
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Washington
General March
Ford libel suit ends with six-cent verdict
A jury in Mount Clemens Michigan awarded Henry Ford six cents in damages in his $1,000,000 libel suit against the Chicago Daily Tribune over an editorial calling him an anarchist. The trial began May 26 and costs fall to the Tribune. Foreman Orry Hulett said nine ballots were taken, the first 8 to 4 for damages. Ford’s attorney said he was vindicated and his American citizenship justified. Tribune counsel called the result a victory, noting lower damages would have been a defeat for Ford.
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Associated Press
Mount Clemens
Mich
Henry Ford
Chicago Daily Tribune
Ford
The
Tribune
Orry Hulett
Hulett
Alfred J. Murphy
Watermelons Advertised for Preseason Sale
Watermelons offered in advance sale by Sam Haines at the depot in Winchester Virginia. The note promises the fruit will be fine flavored and have good keeping quality and includes a contact phone number 467.
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Aepreregert
Sam Haines
C. Vv
Depot
Winchester
President Wilson vets vetoes day law reform
President Wilson today vetoed the bill repealing the daylight saving law, stating he acted with utmost reluctance but that national production by industry remains the pressing need. The brief notice appears among other classifieds and ads in the same column.
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Associated Press
Washington
Wilson
Stenographers To Cover White House Peace Talk
President Wilson will have a stenographic record of the conference with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the peace treaty. Senator Lodee, chairman, received a letter confirming the plan for stenographers to attend and produce a transcript.
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Washington
Wilson
Senate Committee On Foreign Relation
White House
Lodee
Senate Orders a Coal Investigation
The Senate interstate commerce committee was authorized to investigate the coal situation. The inquiry will examine coal production and marketing to determine causes of high prices. Mrs. J Albert Houghton of New York City visits the Eddy family on Fairmont Avenue.
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Washington
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Senate
J. Albert Houghton
New York City
Vernon Eddy
Fairmont Avenue
Mr. Houghton
Ohio Takes Steps to Curb Hoarders
Ohio Governor Cox and Attorney General Price announce 40 warrants against food dealers for hoarding and profiteering. They plan to confiscate up to 2,000,000 pounds of meat and poultry stored beyond legal limits. Warrants target Columbus residents and others tied to a major Chicago packing firm. federal action is being sought to bolster the case.
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Associated Press
Columbus
Ohio
Ernor Cox
al Price
Suy
United Palmer
Chio
Chicago
Federal
Sugar for Wit City offered at cost price sale planned
The Chamber of Commerce announces an order for sale of sugar at cost price to the city of Wit. Distribution and sale to consumers will be arranged promptly, with notices in The Star expected tomorrow.
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Wit
Chamber of Commerce
Star
Chicago Strikers Return to Work after Nationwide Dispute
The Chicago district council votes to end the two week strike and orders shopmen to return to work. The move faces disapproval from international officers as the stoppage disrupted freight and passenger service nationwide. In New Haven, shopmen on the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad are told to resume work Monday per system committee directive.
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Chicago
E Way
Alk Toe
Chicago District Council
New Haven
Conn
New York, New Haven
Auto Service Company Offers Reasonable Hire Rates
Good cars for hire at reasonable rates advertised by Auto Service Company located at 8 107 KE Piccadilly St with a phone line answered at Potts' Grocery.
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Auto Service Company
Piccadilly St
Potts
Wanted Girl for general rouze work with furnished room
Mrs. C. P. McVicar on Main street seeks a girl for general housework with a furnished room. Mrs. Marian Jenkins and her dancer Mrs. Adolph Kogelschatee visited Miss Kate Mc and other relatives and have returned home. tinsburg, W. Va.
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C. P. McVicar
Main Street
Marian Jenkins
Adolph Kogelschatee
Kate’ Mc
Tinsburg
W. Va
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