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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1915
Page
4
A garbled column from Winchester Virginia mentions Morning News Weekly Times and advances, discussing public trees and municipal duties. It pivots to a surreal memory poem about ancestors swinging by tails and coconut-eating primates, ending with a chaotic personal reminiscence.
Readers confront a muddled cider yield discussion where analysts claim apple crop reports rely on an unspecified variable, implying variable fruiting potential across trees. The passage notes judgmental estimation and divergent interpretations limiting precise forecasts.
An Austin Dobson poem fragment reflecting on war and death with lines about a fallen soldier. The piece contrasts grief and the dead with muted sentiment, invoking battlefield imagery and distant echoes of sorrow from a leafy habitat.
London reports a German Deutschland class battleship leading the enemy line in the Baltic was sunk by two torpedoes from a Russian submarine during Friday’s naval engagement. The event comes as Soviet and Allied dispatches detail ongoing actions near Warsaw by the end of July.
RELIANCE Virginia July 5 The funeral of Mrs Rachel C Sargent who died at her niece Mrs James Reed Stephens City last Friday morning was held in Reliance Sunday conducted by Rev W H Carter Baptist Church Winchester She was in her eighty fifth year Six grandsons served as pallbearers John and Arthur Sargent of near Stephens City H W Chadducks and William Perry of Winchester Frank Sargent of Bunkers Hill Miller Sargent of Savage Maryland Survived by four sons and three daughters Mrs Sarah Carper listed among them
Cross Roads Va July 5. Pleasant Grove United Brethren Church held an ice cream festival last Saturday evening but a damp night kept attendance small. Harvest week last week yielded better grain than expected. Mrs Ann Oates visited daughter Ellen at Gore who has been ill. W V Carpenter recently operated on for appendicitis at Winchester Memorial Hospital visited on business. H D Miller who left for Maryland last fall is visiting relatives. G W Parish of Winchester spent Wednesday night with R C Fletcher.
A reunion of old-time friends occurred last evening at Mrs. John Stephenson's home on South Washington Street. Mrs. Shepherd, bridesmaid at Mrs. Stephenson's wedding fifty years ago in eastern Virginia, traveled from Fredericksburg with Miss Shepherd and Mr. and Mrs. Philip N. Stern to visit Winchester relatives and friends.
A group traveled in a handsome touring car after staying overnight at Hotel Evans and morning rest, proceeding to Fredericksburg by Berryville and the Blue Ridge mountains. Judge Thomas W. Harrison left this afternoon from his city home for Annapolis, Maryland, for a week.
A tale shows George insisting a claim is true to his aunt who doubts him. He repeats with unfamiliar grammar, declaring with confidence that when he says it is, it truly is. The exchange ends with the aunt left perplexed by his certainty.
A cautionary note warns against viewing certain images as they may harm mental health and influence behavior through visual exposure. It frames eye gravity as a risk to the mind and body, urging avoidance of troubling pictures.
A brief reminiscence from Uncle Eben about a child’s justification for swimming and the humor of saying only a kicker should be in the water. The piece captures local dialect and a warm, country tone.
The article describes the U.S. secret service using operatives matched to social classes to blend in and gather information in investigations. It explains covert communication methods, shadowing suspected counterfeiters, and the relentless pursuit from detection to arrest, citing the case of Emanuel Ninger a noted counterfeiter.
A meeting of the District TM Nurse Association is scheduled in the Council Chamber on July 7. The notice states gathering details and participation by association members.
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