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Newspaper

Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Jul 08, 1920

Page

5

Public Sale Notice of Lot C Frederick County Virginia

A deed of trust dated April 15 1917 records a public auction of Lot C containing 73 acres 1 acre 28 square poles in Frederick County near Winchester Virginia. Sale set for July 31 1920 at 11 am in front of the County Court House with one third cash and remainder in two equal annual installments secured by deed of trust and fire insurance. Continued to July 17 1920. Herbert B Larrick trustee. 7 6 2w.

Frederick County Winchester Peter S. Hyde Piedmont West Virginia Nellie M. Hyde Circuit Court Herbert Larrick

Social BREVITIES of Stephens City

Stephens City notes arrive with guests and summer visits from Rev Walter D Mitchell Mrs Mitchell leston S C Miss Francis Walton guest of James Carr Baker Newport News and a Baker lunch party. Various visitors from Martinsburg Mount Sidney Harrisburg Towson and Washington spend the season while others return home after visits.

Stephens City Walter D. Mitchell Mitchell Leston S. C Francis Walton James Carr Baker Newport News Baker Alberta Shannon Eulah Eloise “Trussell J. W. Miller Martinsburg Rachel Carbaugh Virginia Strode C. W. Cassell Mount Sidney Marian Douglas Harrisburg Virginia James Washington, D. C Clara Smith Grove Mary Gardner Emma Gardner Newcastle Harvey “Wiliams Thelma, Louise Mabel Meadley Laurel Lucye Dean Towson Geo. Sielick Ada Shryock J. A.baublitz Andrews N. C L. E. Baublitz H. A. Dinges Main Street John M. Steele Winchester Memorial

Confined To Bed In Burnt Factory Virginia

Local notes report Mr. William Grubbs is ill at his home near Burnt Factory from rheumatic complications and confined to bed. The item mentions church visitors, a children day service set for July 11, and a rescheduled Loyal Workers Bible Class meeting. It also notes Miss Helen Bowen's death in Baltimore and a stroke for Mr. Turner Sprought with hope for recovery.

Burnt Factory William Grubbs Grubbs G. W. Herrell S. G. Newcome Loyal Workers’ Bible Class W. T. Hoffman Newecome J. M. Fishpaw Helen Bowen Baltimore Winchester Mount Hebron Turner Sprought Dr. Anderson

Campaign course to be decided by Anti-Saloon League in Columbus

In Whsterville Ohio on July 8 the Anti-Saloon League of America announces its ex and re committee will meet in Columbus on July 22 to determine the campaign posture for the upcoming election.

Whsterville Ohio Anti-Saloon League of America Columbus Ex& Re Committee

Botanical relations of common foods and garden plants

The article explains surprising plant kinships linking kitchen staples to distant relatives. It notes potatoes near deadly nightshade, tomatoes peppers and tobacco in solanaceae, and beets to spinach, with lettuce linked to the daisy family. It also groups raspberries and blackberries with roses and herbs with celery, and that grains come from wild grasses.

Kitchen Garden

Music for Nervous People and Mental Wellbeing

The article argues music is a powerful tool for vitality and health, especially for nervous and low mood individuals. It suggests teachers and medical staff can use carefully chosen sounds to calm and uplift, noting nervous people are sensitive to noise and that the right music creates comfort as the wrong sound disturbs them.

The Subconscious Mind Controls Hidden Reminders

The subconscious mind works on tasks unnoticed, such as recalling a tune you gave up on. The heart clock guides waking time, beyond pulse measures, and nightly practice can turn it into a useful alarm. The brain watches this clock all night to wake the mind at the set hour.

Nutritional Guidance on Meats and Broth in Sick Rooms

The text ranks meats and broths by digestibility and strength. It favors chicken and veal for the sick room, cautions against pork for invalids, notes chicken breast can precede beef or mutton, and lists sweetbread and young pigeons as easily digested options while fish offers lower strength than meat or fowl.

Living Hunt Bats In Mexican Cave Regions

An odd class of Mexican prospector makes a living by hunting bat caves in Sinaloa and Sonora. Bat colonies breed in cliffside caves and guano deposits yield small fortunes. Bats are small with flat heads and distinct odor. Guano-hunters locate caves by dusk observation, then wait for bats to emerge.

Sinaloa Sonora Missouri

Seeing Within By McClure Syndicate 1926

Pauline Bainbridge helps an elderly couple in a dying patient case with Doctor Wheeling. Affected by the scene she confronts her own view of married love while the couple's devotion unfolds through the night.

Pauline Bainbridge Doctor Wheeling Pauline Jack Oak Street

Derivation of Current Coin and Abyssinian Funeral Customs

A column discusses coin etymology linking money terms to Moneta and historic English and French money names. It contrasts the origin of shilling, farthing, franc, thaler, cent, quarter, nickel, and dime. The piece then describes Abyssinian funeral rites where infants are buried under floors and adults undergo honey‑washed washing, shrouding, and public mourning before churchyard burial.

Hansa John England Thaler St. Joachim France Louisville Courier-Journal

Antiquity of the Smiths in American Society

The Smith surname numbers about a million in the United States and may trace earlier roots to a man named Smith in Egypt circa 227 BCE. The name is noted as unusually clannish in the U S with a historic banquet where all attendees were Smiths and the president was Captain Smith, governor of Virginia. Cooks waiters and a Smith gave grace, and a poem by a Smith was issued in book form.

United States Snes Smith Egypt Captain Smith Virginia

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