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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1918
Page
4
Rates listed for one year in advance at 3.00 dollars and six months at 1.50 dollars. Three months cost 0.75 and one month 0.25. Compiled with Morning News Weekly Times.
The Evening Station reports mail matter enters the Winchester Virginia Post Office as second class case mail.
The piece argues against disclosing wartime details to counter attacks on the War Department. It states the government cannot fully reply or vindicate without harming national interests, urging supporters of the national cause to accept partial explanations over risking greater damage.
A fragmented report describes a sunken vessel and alleged German wartime loot including field guns, howitzers, machine guns, rifles, shells, bombs, carts, armored cars, and motor equipment. The piece notes reader interest in the cargo and ship’s identity, with references to a London Times summary.
Allied airmen carried out raids over German towns in December including Karlsruhe where bombs hit munition plants and war stations. Reports emphasize legitimate targets and a restrained retaliation under international law despite German violations.
Mount Williams Virginia notes Maud Wright and Bessie Orn Papen visiting Mesers. Wilton Sager and B. C. Keeler travelled to Winchester for business last Wednesday. H. W. Orndorff and son spent several days recently with Mr. and Mrs. J. M.
Miss Marm Orndorff spent time with her aunt. Mrs. G. F. Moore visited daughter Mrs. H W. Orndorff. Miss Cleo Moore of Kernstown visited cousin Miss Emmy Moore. Harden McMore visited relatives near Kernstown. Lewis Hodgson of Minebank visited brother Hubert Hodgson. E R Clowser and family spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs I Smith near Chambersville.
An old promotional plea extols Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root as a universal cure for kidney liver and bladder disorders claiming tested success and urging readers to request a sample bottle by mail while noting availability in drug stores and a local Winchester newspaper mention.
A passenger train between Greenspring and Petersburg, W V A, faced severe delays last week. The conductor hired a bobsled and horse to reach Romney for a relief engine after the train ran out of water at McNeill. On the return trip the train stalled in a drift for days, with crew and passengers abandoning the route and no mail arriving at Romney and other stations for several days.
The excerpt lists retail and wholesale prices for commodities such as Winter wheat flour 11.50, Spring wheat flour 12.50, corn 1.59 per bushel, middlings 2.80 per hundred, bran 2.20, No. 1 timothy hay 27.00, mixed hay 24.00, creamery butter wholesale and retail, butter fat, live young chickens 22, turkeys 25, potatoes 1.50 per bushel, among other items. It reflects a 20th century market listing with multiple farm staples and livestock prices for local buyers.
Closing prices show near terms for poultry and cattle. Corn and hay futures are steady with numbers for creamery and Virginia markets listed. livestock prices range from calves to pigs with varied per head values across categories.
Advertises a home made cough syrup using Pinex from The Pinex Co. Fort Wayne Indiana. Claims it relieves throat pain quickly and markets the product as superior to store bought remedies. Mentions Pine resin base and a money back guarantee for satisfaction.
By authority of a trust deed dated May 5 1913 and nov 1913 two parties, the Wm W Copen haver interests, offer a two thirds payment plan on 40 by 75 foot parcel on Bas Lane Winchester Va. The sale occurs March 9 1915 at noon in front of the County Court House. Terms require one third cash and two bonds for the balance, 6 percent interest, secured by a trust deed and fire insurance on the buildings. R Gray Williams, Trustee. 2-7-4w
There will be preaching next Sunday at Pleasant Valley at 10 30 a.m. Firview at 3 p.m. and Mount Olive at 7 p.m. if roads and weather permit. W H Sampselis, Pastor.
No preventing providence there will be preaching at Lamps at 11 a.m. Paxton Chapel at 2 p.m. and Round Hill at 7 30 p.m. E W Brubaker pastor.
The piece recounts the 1641 siege of Bapaume during the Thirty Years War. D Artagnan, a young cadet, proposed a weak point in the walls and led a force to breach it. The assault, ordered by de la Mellleraye and backed by Richelieu, captured the town. Bapaume was a strategic fortress near Artois, later held by Spaniards and Austrians before returning to France.
Birds with square short wings such as king birds quail and ruffled grouse sprint while those with wide wings are distance runners. Gallinaceous fowl sprint with bullet like takeoffs. quail and ruffed grouse rise fast covering up to sixty feet, while wingbeat rates run five to seven per second. Ruffed grouse wings roar audible to two hundred yards.
The holograph will of Handel with four codicils sold at auction in London. Bequests include to Christopher Smith the large harpsichord and five hundred pounds. The collection features relics of Lawes Morley Carey Playford and a Sir Arthur Sullivan MS score from his Chapel Royal choirboy days.
A banter about a nighttime wager ends with confirmation that the man won his bet regarding getting the chickens from his wife. The exchange shows playful memory and a humorous domestic dispute.
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