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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1919
Page
4
A reflective piece recounts early career failures due to chronic lateness. The narrator admits repeated firings for missing deadlines and missing pay, then vows to reform after learning the value of punctuality and time discipline in work and life.
The Baden-Powell style scout camp will camp seven miles north of Bloomery and seven miles from the Capon River site. Troops assemble July 8 at 5:45 am in Martinsburg and travel to Paw Paw by 1 pm then hike to camp. The site offers bass fishing, two canoes and six row boats, with daily mail to Camp Governor Cornwell Bloomery WV.
The schedule lists a Sunday service by Dr W D Smith on July 13 with communion for church members. Rev F M Richardson and Rev A A Kelly to speak on other Sundays. Daily routine includes reveille at 6, flag raising, meals, drills, swimming, campfire, tests, and baseball with various times. The article also notes a Christian Herald quote about electricity and grace.
Telegrams report the marriage of Miss Virginia Foley daughter of Mr and Mrs James W Foley of Winter Haven Florida formerly of Berryville to Mr Channing Delaplane of Delaplane Virginia announced in Washington.
Mexico City report shows the United States absorbed virtually all Mexico 1918 oil production totaling about 7.5 million tons. U S exports credited at 6,405,731 tons, with England 434,184 tons and Chile leading South American importers at 630,886 tons.
Dorothy asks her father if a ruby ring would help her remember better to stop biting her nails. He promised the ring on her birthday as an incentive.
An old advertisement promotes mixing juice from two lemons with Orchard White to create a skin whitening lotion. The formula promises a quarter pint of lotion for gentle use on face neck arms and hands to reduce redness sallowness sunburn and windburn and improve complexion at low cost.
The U S Department of Agriculture announced southern farmers, including Virginia, will pay about 30 percent less for mixed fertilizers for fall 1919 than spring prices. Prices vary by bag size and delivery point with cash discounts offered for early payments and different add-ons for interior points and smaller lot sizes.
Daily local market report lists wholesale quotations for corn rye barley and oats hay and feed ingredients. It notes butter creamery and country varieties with per unit prices and measurements and lists potatoes bacon flour and grains with current tagged rates.
Market closing figures for the previous day list spring chickens old hens and old roosters with per pound prices. Eggs and butter sections note dairy prices and produce terms, reflecting corrected commodity values at Baltimore wholesale markets.
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