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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1917
Page
3
An Oklahoma woman in the Kansas Farmer describes ducks thriving in hot weather during midsummer. She notes ducklings forage, dive for water, and grow rapidly to six to eight pounds by fall, with profits from meat feathers stock and eggs.
Farm Journal notes white oats and middlings provide more nutriment than brown grains. Damaged wheat and cockle screenings are dangerous. Oat meal can loosen bowels if fed freely while barley feeds muscle and fat later, oats supply muscle, wheat feeds feathers, bran aids digestion, rye is poor fodder, boiled rye disturbs bowels, broom corn seed is palatable, corn supplies heat and fat, oats yield flesh forming material, barley is hard to digest and should be fed rarely.
This article describes limberneck in poultry as a paralysis from intestinal poisons often caused by rotten matter or musty grain. It notes non contagion, difficulty in cure, and suggests purgatives such as epsom salts or castor oil as treatment.
A compact notice from Star Want Ads highlights fast local results for buyers and sellers. Classifieds showcase small items, services, and opportunities with emphasis on accessibility and community reach.
Old time advertisement touts Dodson's Liver Tone as a superior, all vegetable remedy to calomel. It claims to detoxify sluggish livers, cleanse bowels, and boost energy without causing salivation or bone necrosis, promising a refund if not effective. It appeals to families and children with a pleasant taste and guarantees.
Mr W S White superintendent of the Presbyterian Sunday School asks that 11 children aged sixteen and under not attend Sunday school tomorrow due to board of health rules prohibiting such minors from public gatherings.
COPENHAGEN July 28 reports from Petrograd say numerous executions of mutinous soldiers continue on the Russian front. Traitors are being put to death as Russian officers, angered by desertions, band together in small groups and fight like common soldiers.
German artillery continues heavy bombardment along the Franco Belgian frontier from Armentieres to the north. In raids along the Ancre the British entered German trenches and inflected losses, according to the British war office.
Washington July 28 advices from Mexico City say the army and navy will retire all veterans aged 18 to 17 who fought in the recent trouble. The reports claim these men formed about 7000 soldiers, but their necessity is said to no longer exist.
Agricultural guidance on controlling potato bugs describes spraying with arsenate of lead and Paris green mixed with Bordeaux mixture and periodic dusting with flour or lime. Bordeaux formula and timing advised by the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station include multiple applications timed with beetle life cycles and vine growth.
A 19th century note from Moard's Dairyman explains that milk stays sweet mainly due to two factors: cleanliness of the milking machine and the storage temperature. It asserts milking with a well maintained machine can yield milk as clean as hand milking, provided utensils are clean and the milk is quickly cooled and kept cool after milking.
The self boiled lime-sulphur spray is a simple cheap treatment for fungous diseases on fruit such as rot leaf curl mildew and for soft bodied insects like the aphid on cherry and plum. The formula mixes eight pounds lime slaked with eight pounds sulphur and dilutes to fifty gallons of water. Fresh preparation is advised for best strength.
The Thet oninon Council passed an ordinance to condemn Bell Property at Masas and Water Street to widen Water Street. It authorizes hearings on condemnation and may appoint a commission to fix compensation. City offers total 10 500 including 7 000 to Stewart Ben and 3 500 to Misses Miter for strips along Water Street to Indian alley, funds to acquire title if offers are declined.
An ordinance to borrow 18000 to cover current expenses was placed on its third reading and passed final at a special Common Council meeting. President A. T. Jones presided with members W. A. Baker L. F. Cooper J. Fred Goss Robert L. Gray M. B. Murnan GC. W. Ramsburg W. B. Ryan and HeG Sheetz in attendance.
At the close of Baltimore wholesale markets this afternoon spot wheat was 2.85 and corn 2.20. Local dealers offered 2.35 for wheat this afternoon.
This notice urges buying Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy now to be prepared for summer colic or diarrhoea. It claims great value when needed and notes it is sold by all druggists. June issue line.
Wade Tinstan of Bluemont was arraigned in police court before Justice Fultz on a charge of dozing in the Friends churchyard at Washington and Piccadilly. He claimed he came to enlist for the Second Virginia Regiment but was turned away at age forty. After drinks, he wandered the green turf, woke in a dungeonlike room, and was dismissed with a warning to return home to Bluemont.
The article explains the origin of the dog days from Roman times, linking July 3 to August 11 with heat and disease. It notes the little dog Cunicula as the blamed omen, while people blamed the dog for the season's misfortune and rising fever.
The text recalls Benjamin Franklin being born on Milk Street in Boston and describes his family’s move to a small Gambrel roofed house on Hanover Street near Union Street. It notes the "Si of the Blue Ball" sign marking Mr Josiah Franklin’s soap and candle business.
The Jersey cow Jersey That Produced Over a Ton In Two Successive Lactations, Dosors Park Lily 2887S, shares with Sophies UX of Trood tart the distinction of achieving two consecutive years with over 900 pounds of butter fat. The first record was set in 1915, earning class AA production and a gold medal for the best Jersey record of the year. Lily began her second test 95 days after completion of her first.
Miss Sarah Beasie McKay daughter of Mr and Mrs Robert McKay of Nineveh Warren county Virginia died after a week long battle with liver cancer. Her funeral will be Sunday at 3 pm from Nineveh Presbyterian Church with burial in the village. Camille Capper recently returned from visiting relatives in Charles City. Mrs Harry A Funk and daughter Mrs Floyd Brewer are visiting in Washington. Mrs H C Brooks and children of Washington are visiting at Mr and Mrs Richard Brown’s home. Mrs Sarah Brooks of North Main Street was mentioned in the notice.
The Jersey cow Desorts Park Lily, bred and tested by Charles Pratt’s Glen Cave estate, produced a total 1800.5 pounds of butter fat across two tests with fat percentage around 50, earning recognition as a top milk cow. Lily is sired by Dark Golden Lad and out of May’s Thompson.
Miss Mary J Gray, a Charlottesville resident, was recently recovering after illness. She has fully recovered and resumed her teaching duties at the University.
A Saskatchewan reader endorses Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy as an exceptionally fine preparation. The note claims favorable results for personal use and family benefits and mentions general druggist sales.
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