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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1918
Page
4
The Evening Star is entered at the ice in Winchester Virginia. The notice records a 2 cent entry for the second day of the event.
A Walter Mason verse playful on fate and effort features lines about healing, wealth, and effort versus luck. It critiques those who blame fate while noting wiser souls work their crops and seek value, closing with a nod to persimmons and seasonal imagery.
Fragmentary OCR notes show discussion of league books on sale tied to wartime reading or training themes. The text mentions the recreation department and camp tasks, with unfinished lines indicating broader coverage of wartime education or organization.
Jan 30 notes from Chambersville reveal residents traveling for visits and relatives. Edna Legg Bertha Keckley Pauline Larrick and Lilian Cooper are mentioned with various others visiting family in nearby towns and states. Augusta area social updates include trips to Ohio and Pennsylvania and local visits around Winchester and Bridgeport.
A fragmentary and garbled text segment mentions illness and remedies but lacks coherent details or identifiable entities. The readable parts reference feeling run down and possible medical pills without clear dates or places. The text is too corrupt to extract a substantive news item.
A guide on building fences that save money while lasting long. Heavy wire fencing reduces replacement needs though upfront cost is higher, yet extended durability spreads expenses over time. A common North Central type uses ten line wires, four feet high, with barbed top wire and posts set about 40 rods apart, offering durability of about 22 years.
The best corn for a locality yields the greatest profit over years only if adapted to local conditions. Do not transplant southern varieties to northern regions like Minnesota or the Dakotas, as failure to mature is common. Focus on multiple factors beyond kernel depth or row straightness to judge seed corn properly.
Grain eaten and wasted by rats and mice on many farms would cost farmers their taxes, as noted in a rural agricultural report. The article links rodent damage to tax burdens and farm losses, urging actions to protect stored grain.
Ancient sources describe Spartans using a substance called olotment from a gutter or channel to treat injuries. The practice reflects early wound care methods and regional material use in classical warfare societies.
An old newspaper promo extols California Syrup of Figs as a gentle, safe laxative for liver and bowels. It contrasts harsh calomel and castor oil with a taste friendly remedy, urging mothers to seek the genuine product and beware of counterfeits.
A former subject of the Kaiser living near Winchester writes a verse ridicule of Wilhelm II. The poem imagines the Kaiser in heaven, hell, and at the gates where Saint Peter and the devil discuss his fate. The piece ends noting the writer’s support for the American Red Cross fund.
The United States Food Administration regulates the sugar market amid a world shortage. Hoover cites reduced refining profits and Cuban pricing to deliver 8.5 to 9 cents per pound to consumers, saving the public millions and supporting Allied supply.
A 1920s style advertisement touts Pape's Diapepsin as the fastest safest stomach antacid for indigestion gas and heartburn. It claims quick relief within minutes, harmless ingredients, and urges readers to stock a fifty cent case for household use. It says the remedy helps even when meals upset digestion and can be used day or night.
W Ray Smith long time dispatcher for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is promoted to chief train dispatcher at Brunswick. He will oversee trains between Brunswick Lexington and Hagerstown with 37 years of service and will be based in Brunswick while his family remains until school closes.
Medical experts endorse Calotabs as a preferred treatment for colds throat soreness and deep seated coughs. The refined formula claims to remove calomel risks and requires a single tab on the tongue with water. Next morning the cold is said to vanish and the system refreshed.
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