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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1917
Page
5
London reports Germany and Austria-Hungary fear a steel shortage due to scarce railroad cars for coke delivery to blast furnaces. The Rhine provinces see deliveries cut by half at the Essen Company, threatening production.
An old promotional snippet touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as a cleansing remedy for humors and sickness. It claims the product purges impurities and prevents disease more effectively than any other medicine, urging readers to use Hood's.
The infant Master M H C Lowe Jr arrived Tuesday at 4 p m weighing six pounds. Parents Mr and Mrs Mimfin B Clowe receive congratulations on the advent.
The 1917 New York World almanac and encyclopedia covers almost 1200 pages with wide topics from pugilism to president making and politics to preaching. It preserves tabulated facts annual news, mortuary lists, millionaire items, population figures, government directories, and reference features for general readers.
Owing to infantile paralysis epidemic along interior West Virginia towns the B and O railway will not allow any person with the disease to board passenger trains. An order requires a physician signed certificate for passage at Wheeling division points where the illness is present.
The 965 pound pure bred Poland China hog, from Unger’s Store in West Virginia, was killed by T J Dick with a 32 calibre rifle after walking from its pen. The hog measured eight feet long with a girth of seven feet twelve inches and yielded 40 gallons of lard. Mr Funkhouser, a top hog raiser, led the effort with assistants.
Among 94 candidates at the United States Military Academy West Point 42 passed including Cadet George Bryan Conrad of Winchester This first year cadet is son of Fidelmes Conrad Jr and grandson of the late Major Holmes Conrad of this city He graduated Shenandoah Valley Academy of this city.
Funeral services for Mrs. Annie Cooper Boyce wife of Charles E. Boyce were held at the family residence conducted by Rev George W Stover United Brethren Church member for many years. Burial followed at Mount Hebron Cemetery with pallbearers James Brown Joseph Brown Harry Potts Hugh Houchins Silay Cather and Edward Fries. Death resulted from pneumonia after a long typhoid illness. she had been at Winchester Memorial Hospital fourteen weeks.
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