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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1920
Page
2
A terse record of Baltimore wholesale market quotes for dairy and poultry items plus livestock notes. Prices listed include butter dairy prints, eggs, creamery products, cracked middlings, and various livestock bids, with day-close corrections and multiple item codes.
A historical column discusses transportation as central to the economy. It notes mass production fever, idle machinery, and shifting focus to distribution. The author warns against conformity and stresses originality to advance transport driven growth.
Wholesale price quotes from local buyers include butter eggs chickens wheat barley straw and shelled corn with varied readings. The page shows fluctuating rates and typographical issues across items and markets.
RichmondVa Aug. 26 Fore stall and Robertson gas engineers were chosen by the State Corporation Commission to appraise the Petersburg gas plant. The commission had ordered a rate reduction and a refund of excess charges from months past after an appraisal was ruled incorrect. Findings will be reported to the commission.
Norfolk and Western Railway reports an 8 percent increase in total operating revenues for the first six months of 1920 compared with 1919, totaling 38,304,273.09 dollars. June revenue climbs 14 percent from the previous year.
R Getz and Lou Kennedy were each fined in police court for a fight at the Winchester Cold Storage bunk house where both worked. Getz faced a fine for insolent language after citing provocations and Kennedy for taking the law into his own hands following an attack. Both paid their fines.
At the Columbus state fair a phono graph of Senator Harding was shown as a stand in for his speeches on Presidential Day. Fair manager E. V. Waldron criticized the plan and said Harding should deliver speeches in person if he can. Harding responded via telegram that his schedule cannot permit attendance.
No-To-Bac claims to end all tobacco craving by placing a tablet in the mouth. It promises complete habit breaking and a money back guarantee if cravings persist, marketed as a reliable product from Cascarets owners.
This excerpt touts a universal remedy claimed to have cured nine epidemics of dysentery and cholera morbus. It asserts prompt relief for bowel complaints and colic, noting ease of consumption when dissolved in water and sweetened. It urges families to keep the remedy at hand.
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