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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1917
Page
2
A German writer praising Hungary notes the enduring spirit of its history and medieval poetry. He says the nation’s heroes and traditions remain, even as names change, evoking deep tradition and timeless courage within its borders.
An old time advertisement promotes St Jacob’s Oil as a harmless rheumatism cure. It claims quick relief from pain stiffness and soreness in joints muscles and bones and says it soothes sciatica lumbago backache and neuralgia without burning the skin. The ad urges readers to try the product at any drug store.
In a frontier tale set around Medicine Bend, De Spain plots to win Nan Morgan’s favor by staging a display of restraint toward the Morgans. He bides his time at the Calabasas barn and inn as tensions with the Morgan clan rise, while Deaf Sandusky arrives ahead of a pivotal confrontation.
In a tense doorway scene Gale Morgan and his Calabasas allies bar De Spain from exiting. Logan and Sandusky join the impending confrontation as De Spain instinctively plans a close defense and questions their business, hinting at a perilous encounter to come.
An advertorial claims calomel makes readers sick and promotes Dodson's Liver Tone as a safe liver cleanser. It guarantees relief within a night and urges returning to the store if not satisfied, touting it as harmless and suitable for children despite health concerns.
A nitro glycerine plant disaster near Haskell results in widespread destruction of fusing and cap factory buildings. About 1,500 workers on the night shift were possibly affected, with estimates of 21 to 27 killed and hundreds of nearby dwellings demolished as chaos spread and rescue efforts began.
Berlin dispatch states Britain's new Somme offensive yielded ground as troops captured positions and 174 prisoners. The War Office in Berlin acknowledged new British attacks north of the Amere river with most repulsed and only minor eastern front action reported.
The flint pebble industry employs many women and children from Havre to Dieppe. Pebbles near Havre are chosen for their spherical shape and used for pulverizing in cement and copper pipe manufacture inside large cylinders.
Weldon H Wells of Kansas City Mo arrested in Huntington Ind will be brought to Columbus as a murder suspect in Mona Simon’s death at the Hotel Deshlat. Police seek extradition while noting the victim may be from Grafton West Virginia.
Trustees and commissioners announce a public auction of four farm tracts in Frederick County Virginia on January 20, 1917 at 11 a.m. in Winchester. Tract sizes range from about 10 to 934 acres with several dwellings. Sale includes rain or shine with terms: one third cash and remaining in two annual installments secured by bonds and deeds.
The Exchange warns that wholesale slaughter of valuable birds harming crops costs Texas farmers millions yearly. It argues nature’s balance once kept insect pests in check by birds and insects and parasitic species, and notes farmers and sportsmen have reduced bird populations, increasing crop losses.
The juice from nettle stalks and leaves yields a brilliant permanent green dye for woolen fabrics, used as a traditional colorant in textile production.
The widow of former American diplomat Luis D Antin secured a State Department request to exhume his body in Mexico for poison tests. Consul Williams was ordered to proceed, with efforts to ship the body to the United States despite a Mexican law restricting removals for two years. D Antin, long a diplomat in Mexico, died amid suspicions and conflicting accounts.
Daily quotations show Winter wheat flour retail at 9.60 per unit and Spring wheat flour at 10.50. Cracked corn retail 1.00 per bushel and middlings 2.00. No. 1 timothy hay 13.00 and mixed hay 12.00. Creamery butter wholesale and retail 42 cents per pound. butter fat and fresh country butter listed. Live young chickens 16 cents per pound. Potatoes retail price shown as 1.28.
Market quotes as of the day before publication list butter creamery prices two to three dollars, eggs at forty five cents, live poultry at nineteen cents for young chickens and twenty eight cents for old turkeys, hay timothy eighteen dollars, corn four dollars and twenty five cents, sheep and lambs five to ten cents per pound, calves thirteen to fifteen dollars, pigs around two to four dollars and fifty cents each.
The Golden Rule Bible Class of Braddock Street Methodist Episcopal Church South reports 215 members, with 120 active 74 associate and 21 honorary. New officers installed include Dr J L Whitlock teacher Rev W O Talbert assistant teacher E D Calvert president, R L Stickel vice president, C P McVicar secretary, Emory Larrick treasurer, Mrs William Herrel organist, S R Willey chorister, C E Hardy missionary committee chair.
A. F. Schauffler says progress comes from steady drilling into the bedrock of the world. This philosophy frames how we draft and pass ideas to others.
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