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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1917
Page
4
Fragmentary wartime lines describe a town’s decay as German troops advance, noting black ruins and a sense of past grandeur overturned. The voice laments destruction and questions moral cost, asserting aggression leads to ruined streets and cultural loss.
The Winchester Chamber of Commerce votes to not oppose removing the early morning train during the war. Major Hines of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad wants the service cut with a return train at night, and the chamber plans to telegram the State Corporation Commission in Richmond. The Shenandoah Special may run on a local schedule to Washington, with no guarantee of postwar restoration.
To the voters of Frederick County and the City of Winchester Boyd R Richards announces candidacy for the House of Delegates subject to the Democratic Primary on August 7 1917 R L Omps also declares candidacy for the same seat representing Frederick County and Winchester City urging support in the primary.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels denounces widespread reports of battles and losses as unfounded and states enemy agents spread them. He says no American battleship has been lost or sailors wounded, vows open policy and imposes a gag rule barring nondepartment discussion with reporters.
Former Premier James Balfour heads the British war mission home from the United States via Canada on May 26 aboard a fast battle cruiser. The government announced their safe arrival in England, seen as a morale boost amid submarine threats. The report notes the strange fact that few Norwegians can swim, with only about 12 percent of 12 to 15 year olds trained.
Mrs. Ellen Russell died after a weeklong pneumonia illness at a Dover Loudoun County home. Survived by two sons Johnson Russell and Bruce Russell and three daughters Kate Cromer E L Russell and C Russell. Funeral held at the Dover home with Rev Bivens officiating and burial in Middleburg cemetery.
A historical advertisement touts Dodson's Liver Tone as a harmless, vegetable-based alternative to calomel. It claims the product cleanses the liver and bowels, prevents salivation, and can be given to children with a pleasant taste, backed by a money back guarantee.
The Star lists daily local market quotations for staples including winter and spring wheat flour, corn, middlings, oats, hay, butter, eggs, chickens, potatoes and other farm goods. Prices shown reflect retail and wholesale rates as reported by local buyers.
Market notes show butter and creamery products priced at 41 to 40 cents. Live poultry includes spring heavy birds 23 cents, roosters 13 cents. Hay prices list No 1 timothy 21, light clover mixed 18.5, No 1 clover 17.5. Corn at 8.30. Sheep and lambs 7 to 8 for choice fat, spring lambs 16. Cattle quotes: steers 12.25, medium 7.75 to 10, heifers 25 to 10.25, calves 8 to 13.75, extra years 14. Quotations on cattle corrected only on Tuesdays.
The description portrays Blackmore, author of Lorna Doone, as resembling Horace Greeley with a tall, rosy face and twinkling eyes. He is depicted as sincere, English, outdoors loving, and devoted to writing, despising fashion, and finding fame unexpected for Beating Nature.
There is opportunity for almost everyone to be superior if superiority means performing useful service in an exceptional manner. There is almost certain to be a direction in which an individual or a race may be of greater service than in others.
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