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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1915
Page
3
The report lists steady butter eggs vegetables and poultry values. It notes price levels for creamery butter eggs Virginia markets and live poultry including chick prices and hen roosters. Hay prices are given for timothy and clover, while sheep lambs and calves show per pound and per head ranges.
Henry Chadwick known as the Father of Baseball is buried at Greenwood cemetery in Brooklyn on Twenty fifth street near Highth avenue with his grave marking noted in the local cemetery records.
A Boston Globe item notes a Boston cat will eat beans if turkey gravy is added, suggesting nationwide papers may be intrigued by the quirky pet news.
An American hospital in Che-Foo sits on four acres of ground on Temple Hill overlooking the city and harbor. It ranks among the best in China’s larger cities and cost $50,000 gold to build.
Jagged OCR lines reveal a truncated dialogue about literary talent and ambition. The garbled exchange references Jones and a friend urging persistence, ending with a tease about being “broke” and a stray note of writing.
Elaine prepares a June masquerade as rivals scheme to steal Kennedy's torpedo model. Del Mar and a gray friar spy on the hiding place while Bertholdi lies in wait with a trunk marked E. Dodge as plans to smuggle the device unfold through the library and attic rooms.
Readable parts describe a stray scene where Rusty digs up a torpedo from a weapons stash. Mentions Blaine and Mar as linked figures. An explosion and a revolver are referenced, with unclear sequence and aging participants in a war relic setting.
This excerpt discusses creole identity in Spanish America and the West Indies, a Granada legend about Boabdil known as the last sigh of the Moor, a quoted remark about deception, humorous bits from Tit-Bits, a domestic scene about a stable hand, and a note on transporting a three and a half ton bronze statue by motor truck in France.
Uncle Eben notes a distant kind of smartness needed to obtain a political job, contrasting it with the effort required to till office creditably.
The Youngstown Telegram notes a quirky trend of embroidering a fiance’s name on a wife to be’s stocking ankle with a playful fear of vows. Separately, excavations near Liege reveal coal fragments in a Roman villa, suggesting coal mining in Belgium since early Christian times.
Article describes heavy petroleum oils mixed with oxidizing materials such as hydrogen peroxide to create a clean burning, odorless motor fuel with increased power. Various oxidizers including napthalene picrate reportedly double energy output. notes experimentation by G B Selden and methods of atomizing oxidizers into fuel or air inlet.
A Buffalo Express fragment records Mrs Nurich defending her husband who pays cash for clothes while a man remarks he lost his suit on a technicality, reflecting sharp local dialogue in a social column.
The sea otter is currently the most valuable fur with the Russian sable following and the silver fox close behind. When skin size is considered the sable holds infinitely greater value.
In the clerk's office of Frederick County on July 9 1916 Herbert B Larrick trustee sues T M Barr and others. The record shows court action filed and noted in the clerk's office with official stamping and case identifiers.
A clipped exchange from Houston Post and Boston Transcript presents a wry remark about a poet’s apparent longing for wings and a jab about a chicken neck. It notes belief of overpayment to a man who saved a life, and the man’s partial acceptance with a penny shortfall.
In a brief quoted exchange the Philadelphia Public Ledger questions how weather forecasts are determined. A weather bureau official replies with a concise reply about the method, emphasizing uncertainty and the process behind predictions.
The article notes that a Punch and Judy style show appears in Persia, Japan, Kamechatka, India, Egypt, Syria, Nubia, Siam, Pegu, Ava, Cochin China and Tartary. Egyptian performers mimic officials and police in a version that ends with Punch’s hanging. The character spans ages and regions, from Atellan farces in ancient Italy to hieroglyphic recognition in Egypt.
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