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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1917
Page
2
The Star lists current prices for Winter and Spring wheat flour, cracked corn, middlings, timothy and mixed hay, butter, creamery butter, live chickens, potatoes, and bacon. Baltimore markets show fresh and wholesale butter, eggs, poultry, corn, hay, cattle, sheep and lambs with specific price ranges.
Mr. B. R. Leach of the Bureau of Entomology in the United States Department of Agriculture announced that the mid summer spray should be applied now to control the second brood of codling moth. The spraying should be completed by July 15.
The National avenue ladies hosted a Thursday lawn fete at Mr and Mrs Lewis Pearson's home at 305 National avenue to benefit the Red Cross. Net proceeds totaled 36 dollars with refreshments and music by Miss Gertrude Higgins Mr Harry Pearson and Miss Hilda Dean on piano. The committee thanks the Northern Virginia Power Company for free electric lights and the Friendship Fire Company for Japanese lanterns.
An old black woman living with a Southern family vents in the kitchen after a rebuke. Her shouting and banging pans alarm the mistress as she insists she is not talking to anyone, but that she won’t tolerate any intruder in the house.
Maynard Owen Williams notes Tokyo slows to honor imperial processions while farmers in Hokkaido move ahead in progress. Officials curb business during ceremonies once tying whole districts, though Osaka remains more modern in spirit.
A speaker rejects combat due to size and age and advocates returning to farm labor. He imagines cultivating squash artichoke and mallow while defying calls to fight. He urges all to find useful service, from portly civilians to veterans, and to honor the nation through peaceful work.
A testimonial from BG Schaaf of Creston Ohio praises Foley's Honey and Tar as the only relief for years of asthma. The product reportedly loosens phlegm enabling sleep and contains no opiates. Sold everywhere.
William Grim a well known young plasterer and father fell from a scaffold while at work and landed on a hatchet cutting a severe gash in his right cheek.
An exaggerated drug advertisement touts Dodson's Liver Tone as a safer, child friendly alternative to calomel for liver and bowel issues. It claims the product is entirely vegetable, non irritating, and guarantees relief within a spoonful with a money back promise.
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