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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1917
Page
4
Rates listed for subscriptions in advance include one year three months and six months options. The Evening Star is entered at Winchester Virginia Postoffice as second class mail matter.
A Leagues of Elks delegation met with President Wilson and Herbert Hoover to adopt food conservation measures. Winchester Lodge plans immediate action requiring members to pledge to serve wheat and meat free meals, limit butter use, slice bread as needed, and repurpose leftovers. The drive aims to support the war effort with widespread civic adherence.
A Winchester Star letter urges delaying the Winchester Fair due to infantile paralysis risk. The writer Melvin Green pleads the event could spread illness, calling for caution while a period piece poem by Walt Mason reflects wartime anxieties.
The district board will review exemptions refused by the local board and all appeals. Every man will have a square deal, with honest claims discharged and zealously fought when needed. The piece also mentions biblical fables and the historical use of fetters.
Questioning readers are invited to write to the Chief Medical Adviser at Swi Specific Co. Dept. D Atlanta Ga for remedies claimed to extract a germ causing rheumatism from the blood. The ad argues liniments and potions fail to help permanently.
Market report lists prices for flour, corn, hay, butter, potatoes, poultry, hogs, cattle, and lambs with retail and wholesale figures, followed by a Chancery court extract from 1917 in Frederick County Virginia detailing a Master Commissioner’s duties, notice requirements, and upcoming August 10 execution.
Instruction advises using a small paper strip to grip and guide a tack when fingers cannot hold it firmly. It suggests pushing the tack through the paper strip to keep fingers free from the hammer and to prevent injury.
The article explains wireworms and their underground life, urging careful tillage, drainage, and crop rotation to reduce damage in corn and cotton. It recommends plowing after hay cutting, rotating to noninfested crops, deep cultivation, and timely fallow practices, plus drainage and lime to improve soil. It notes regional methods for dry-land wireworms and directs readers to Farmers' Bulletin 725 for details.
Most bacteria in milk come from dirty utensils such as cans pails strainers coolers and separators rather than from cows. In winter confinement leads to dirtier cows but in summer utensils are the main contamination source.
The article argues mares should be bred to superior sires given rising gaps between prices of good and inferior horses. It notes last year’s market favored horses and mules capable of doing work, while lower quality stock sold poorly and caused losses for producers.
Instructions on preparing and applying hen manure as garden fertilizer. Crush manure, mix with equal dry earth, then apply around tomato plants. Use about two handfuls worked into soil per plant. If adding to the hill before setting plants, mix thoroughly to protect roots.
Skim milk for all kinds of chickens is a comparatively safe feed. It should be fed to young chickens with more care than to old hens. Do not let skim milk stand in drinking vessels where young chicks can access it as they may contaminate it.
A Chicago nurse recounts personal health struggles displacement and childbirth then credits Lydia E Pinkham s Vegetable Compound with recovery She invites other women to seek guidance from the Pinkham company noting its offer of confidential advice from Lynn Massachusetts
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