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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1918
Page
3
The quote urges citizens to join the United States Food Administration and follow thrift in meals. Advice includes eating wisely, wasting less, buying less, cooking appropriately, and using poultry seafood vegetables while reducing wheat and sugar. It frames restraint as a duty of necessity humanity and honor under free citizen guidance.
The Star publishes daily market figures for creamery butter, butter retail prices, fresh county butter, live young chickens, and potatoes. Prices are incomplete due to worn OCR but indicate nearby creamery butter at 45 cents and firsts dairy prints at 35 cents, with daily closing figures for the preceding day.
Readable listing shows prices for poultry and feed including 24 old hens 24 old roostens 13 turkeys 10 pounds and over and 35 old toms. Corn at 8 dollars per bushel nearby on spot. Hay No 1 timothy 29 and light clover mixed 28 50. Cattle prices include steers 12 50 to 13 00 good butcher 11 25 to 12 00 heifers 9 75 to 10 50 calves 6 60 to 15. Hogs heavy 17 50 to 18 pigs 3 to 4 50 apiece.
An anecdotal utility piece questions a man’s value, contrasting a businessman’s annual earnings with a scientist’s framing. It cites estimates like 2.60 dollars daily, or 2.45 dollars for oxygen and essential materials, and notes components from blood iron to carbon and water, ending with a Popular Science Monthly line about gathering 1000 eggs to form him.
The article describes fur seals as highly polygamous with old bulls occupying breeding beaches and gathering large harems. Females, smaller than the bulls, are allotted to each male, and newborns are cared for on shore. Young seals playfully swim and dive, feeding mainly on squids and fish, while killer whales are noted as their chief natural enemy.
The local board of exemption will mail questionnaires to 1400 registrants in Winchester and Frederick counties. 69 names numbered 1268 to 1931 appear. most registrants must return papers within seven days after the satire is deposited in the malls. The advisory board is expected to meet at least seven days after tomorrow to process results.
Mr. Cushing recounts how a boy learned how Indians made arrow heads after finding a bone harpoon. Using a toothbrush, bone, and sandstone, he experimented with flint, discovering that rubbing bone against flint produced narrow furrowed edge patterns. He never finished a harpoon but repurposed the tool as an arrow cutter.
Dutch farmers are credited with early plow improvements that turned the furrow and set the stage for modern design. The first patent went to Joseph Folcamb in 1730, with later US patents following. Jethro Woot is noted as the inventor of the plow in use today, introducing a mold-board, a share, and a land side in three replaceable pieces.
The burro can move a family’s possessions, sometimes strapped with a cookstove, mattress, trunk, washtub, pans, Bible, and stovepipe. It climbs cliffs with a load seemingly buried yet supported, a sight to startled strangers in the Los Angeles Times account.
A health brief urges daily apple consumption to improve wellbeing and potentially reduce medical visits. The note cites general diet advice and emphasizes consistency over drastic changes.
Mrs. R N Mowers reports her weak emaciated boy improved after using Vinol the cod liver and iron tonic. The ad claims Vinol built him strong and cured a persisting cough, urging other parents with delicate children to try the remedy at Miller’s Drug Store under a guarantee.
An old advertisement from Potterville Pennsylvania promotes Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a remedy for women’s ailments including backache irregularities headaches nervousness and displacements. It features a testimonial from a local woman claiming renewed strength and health after using the product.
Stephens City notes report Miss Margaret honored in Monrovia on Christmas Day. Florence Guard visited Martinsburg for the weekend. W. M. Kronk of Strasburg traveled here on business. Miss Herrell from Marshall spent weekend with Mrs. H. L. Shryock. Louise Carney of Boyce guests Mrs. Mary Louise Barr. Frank Painter of Philadelphia visited Mr. and Mrs. W. in Stephens City. Mrs. Cadwallader travels to Wilkinsburg after holidays. Adelaide Peery returned to Harrisonburg to study at the high school.
Berlin circles warn that Germany's peace gambit may fail as Allies plan a joint note after the premiers speech. Berlin demands von Reussmann's resignation amid Russo-German talks collapse. Vorsiche Zeitung editor says Germany's aims were stymied at Brest Litovsk. Central powers will press peace talks at Brest Litovsk and Minsk.
A quotation from Justice Joseph Story urges American youth to remember their noble inheritance bought by ancestors’ toil suffering and blood. It calls on youth to wisely improve and faithfully guard this heritage to transmit liberty property religion and independence to future generations.
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