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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1917
Page
5
Notices show daily train arrivals to Winchester stations at 11 45 am and 7 22 pm except Sunday. The fragment mentions Toros and F A Ripore Gen P as related names in the schedule or notices.
Schedule fragment notes Pullman sleepers and dining car service to Roanoke Bristol Shenandoah Pocabontas Welch Norton and intermediate stations. Mentions Washington Baltimore Philadelphia New York connections at Shenandoah Junction. A Memphis special and a Roanoke linked service appear with the Shenandoah line.
A vintage ad touts Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Compound as a home remedy to darken gray hair naturally. It describes applying the preparation with a sponge or brush, claiming hair becomes thicker and lustrous after one or two uses, with no disease treatment implied.
Tomorrow night at the agity Hall Auditorium Mr Edmund Vante Cooke delivers his lecture at 8 o clock on In Nineteen Hundred Years and Now. The event is part of the Handley lectures and is free. Cooke is a veteran platform speaker and poet with works in major magazines and several poetry volumes in Handley Library.
An old remedy recommends Hamburg Chest Tea as a safe inexpensive vegetable treatment for colds and grip. Drink a teacup full daily or at night after steeping a tablespoonful in boiling water and straining. It claims to open the skin pores relieve bowels and drive the cold from the body.
An ad touts St Jacobs Oil as a cheap remedy for backache, lumbago, sciatica and rheumatic pain. It claims rapid soothing relief after a single short application and assures the product is harmless and non skin burning.
The Star lists daily local market prices for farm staples and dairy products. Retail and wholesale quotes cover winter and spring wheat flour, cracked corn, middlings, bran, hay, oats, barley, butter, eggs, live chickens, turkeys, potatoes, and bacon with figures varying by product and unit. Prices reflect local buyers' offerings for the day.
Market figures as of the day before publication show live poultry prices for various fowl, hay prices per ton, corn price per bushel, sheep and lamb rates by weight and grade, calf prices by size and condition, and pig prices per animal. Notable entries include No. 1 timothy hay at 17.50 and corn at 4.65, with calves ranging from 8 to 22 dollars per head depending on size and fatness.
Testator Thomas Dehaven of north Frederick county divides estate equally among Sarah Whitacre William D Lamp Nora E Dehaven and Mollie R Parlett. Lamp and Parlett named executors, qualified with $2000 bond. Will dated May 25 1915 heirs of Annie Shade and May 1915. Col John Keating returns to Cumberland Md after days of business in town.
Fragmentary text notes papyrus reed as usable for paper and hides trade secrets in papermaking. It mentions Oxford India paper never divulged and first made at Clarendon Press England in 1875 used for printing a Bible edition.
A reflective passage lists famed explorers and truth seekers from Christ to Columbus and Cook, praising their daring. The narrator cites Winkler James and criticizes the uncountable, restless drive that propelled figures like Livingstone Stanley and Scott through history.
The text traces Colmar’s fate from the Thirty Years War to Swedish control, then French occupation in 1672 and razing of fortifications. Louis XIV later annexed Colmar to France, making it capital of the Haut-Rhin department, and it remained French until 1871 when it joined the German empire with Lorraine and other adjacents.
The Star newspaper launches a subscription drive inviting readers to sign up for home delivery. Officials cite reader demand and a push to broaden access to local reporting with new pricing options and digital access bundles.
Reports say Italy may send a strong force into Greece to neutralize King Constantine's army as two Balkan factors loom. Constantine's possible war alignment and Entente prestige after Mackensen's Balkan advance shape policy, with Lloyd George taking a hard line toward Constantine.
The article notes ten nights of clear skies with the moon shining after dark and before dawn, a rare period of simultaneous bright day and night. It mentions Miss Mary Lewise Glass visiting The Barracks with Mrs Virginia Carr and Thomas Cover traveling to Philadelphia to visit his son and daughter in law.
Two suits for four thousand dollars each have been filed against Standard Lime and Stone Company of Strashug Virginia by the estates of Harvey Nesselrodt and James Henson. Attorneys Pifer Wyant and Judge F S Tavenner represent plaintiffs. The men were killed when a trestle collapsed letting 200 tons of stone fall two days after a windstorm damaged roofs. Nesselrodt aged 29 and Henson 41 were married. seven other workers escaped.
Mr. Harloe of this city organizes an evangelistic group after recent successful meetings in county towns. The Harlee evangelistic party aims to reach neglected country churches with dates booked between now and May 15. Harloe, who worked with William A. Sunday and Bowery missions, will be aided by his daughters as workers. pastors may contact F. A. Shryock or J. L. Whitlock in Winchester, Va.
The last will of Richard P. Flowers died near Welltown is probated in the Circuit Clerk office. Dated July 12, 1916, the will was entirely in the testator’s handwriting and proven by Charles Summons and Luther Pannett. Executor named is W. M. Racey, with one-third to wife Minnie Flowers and two thirds to daughter Mary Kathleen Flowers. Estate valued at $1,071.20. Baltimore businessman L Geetzinger of Baltimore arrived in town for his firm and is registered at Hotel Evans.
Carle argues with his mother about a rifle matter as he persistes in presenting his view. The text shows a tense exchange with his younger brother present and intensifying discussion. The fragment ends with an ad line for the Want Columns.
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