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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1915
Page
4
A Pittsburgh professor’s eugenics theories frame race improvement and family planning. The piece surveys global shifts in navy strength, British dominance, German expansion, Japan’s rise, and Mexican civil strife, contrasting them with America’s lagging naval position and cautious foreign policy.
A speaker rails at hollow wartime philanthropy and evasive aid. He argues real help requires action not words pledging comfort while shortages bite. He mocks those who offer sympathy while avoiding real sacrifice and condemns half measures and graft.
Collier's Weekly editorials in support of President Wilson's naval build up claim the United States will become the world’s richest after potential war. The piece notes possession of the Philippines Hawaii Porto Rico and U S control over pacific trade and arms restrictions on enemy ships.
A Peruna ad promotes use for stomach distress and loss of appetite. Emma Bell of Fort Pierce Florida describes severe swelling and pain, three doctors failed, she consumed five bottles and regained strength and weight.
In Winchester Virginia on January 4 1916 a chancery sale advertises the Greenwood Mill farm two and a half miles east of the city. The property includes an orchard of about 2500 trees and a strong 1915 apple crop with substantial barrels sold. The sale is by trustees and special commissioners under Union Bank of Winchester a court-ordered auction.
An 130 acre farm known as Greenwood Mill Property along a reliable water stream offers creekside bottom land and timber. Immediate possession with crops, terms include one third cash, rest in two bonds over one and two years with interest secured by deed of trust and insurance. Special Commissioners James P. Reardon Harry H. Lynch Warren Rice R Gray Williams R T Barton Jr trustee M M Lynch. December 4 1915.
Laughter is a healthful exertion aiding digestion and a dose of Chamberlain's Tablets is described as an even more effective help. If indigestion occurs, a trial is advised. They cost a quarter and are obtainable everywhere.
Thos Price, about 65, arrested by Inspectors J Lemen and Saffell in Baltimore yesterday, followed to Stephenson on train No 7. A handbag with burglary tools and maps was seized. Price faced federal charges for robbing the Vaucluse post office and was held on $5,000 bond awaiting potential trial in North Carolina.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad moved 3 055 carloads of apples from its three northern natural sections Indiana Illinois West Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley. Flora Illinois sent 1 286 cars Olney Illinois 285 cars Louis Louis? with further details incomplete.
Refuge brief notes death of a man from heart disease while visiting son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs William Welch. Body to be buried in Maryland. Mention of John Cadwallader moving his saw mill from Riverton to the Dinges property now owned by Mr Law. Mrs Henry Jen and daughter Miss Lona Jenkin spent severe days recently with Mr and Mrs J I Conner.
Miss Annie Printz seamstress and ten year old Harry Shenk were involved when a horse drawn carriage skidded on Mechanic Street near Main Street. The horse fell, pinning Printz between its hooves while Shenk was thrown opposite direction. Passersby rescued Printz as the horse struggled.
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