Mrs Roberts and daughter visiting Brookyn relative
Mrs Carl Roberts and her daughter Miss Virginia Roberts of Brooklyn New York are visiting Mrs W A Pingley at her home on South Braddock Street. Mr and Mrs Ford Carper returned today from Washington where they spent the weekend with relatives and friends by motor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Roberts
Virginia Roberts
Brooklyn, N.Y
W. A. Pingley
Hlomeé
South Braddock Street
Mrs. Ford Carper
Washington
Markets Report Mixed Prices for Corn and Livestock
The markets show mixed retail prices for cracked corn mixed hay and oats. Live poultry prices cover chickens up to 1 1/2 pounds, spring chickens, hens and roosters with current ranges for corn oats hay and butter and sheep lambs hogs and calves listed with per unit figures and observed closing alignment to day prior publication.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia
Rape of Supreme Court Becomes Fall Campaign Issue
Democratic platform builders in St Louis discussed making the "Republican rape of the Supreme Court" a campaign issue Rep Full of Tennessee proposed a plank to bar any Supreme Court Justice from seeking or holding other government office The plan faces skepticism among Democratic leaders and likely final say rests with President Wilson
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
Supreme Court
Representative Fiull
Tennessee
Wilson
Mrs Clemmons Dies After Long Illness
Hannah Clemmons of the Hubbard family in Frederick county died at Grimes after a lingering illness tied to age. Born July 1832, she was 83 or 84. She was mother to Mrs James A Grimes. Funeral services set for White Halls Methodist Church with burial beside the church graveyard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hannah Clemmons
Hubbard
Frederick County
Grimes
Clemmons
James A. Grimes
Marchant
Jesse Hubbard
White Halls
State Embalmers Meet In Richmond This Week
Capt. George W. Kurtz leaves this morning for Richmond to attend a meeting of the Virginia State Board of Embalmers of which she has long served as president. He will also attend the Virginia Funeral Directors Association annual convention in the same city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George W. Kurtz
Richmond
Virginia State Board of Embalmers
Virginia Funeral Directors’ Association
Potts Family Visits Town From West Virginia
Mr and Mrs ff W Potts and their daughter Margaret Potts of town West Virginia motored to town today and spent the afternoon here with friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ff. W. Potts
Miss Margaret Potts
Town
W. Va
Sherman Given Two Year Term
A man named Sherman was indicted by a special grand jury in the Circuit Court at Hagerstown for robbing the Larrick and Larrick general merchandise store in Middletown on March 30. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced by Judge T W Harrison to two years of hard labor on the state roads, to be kept in jail until a convict gang guard arrives. Numerous petty thefts and robberies were alleged but not pursued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hagerstown
Luther Pannett
Larrick
Middletown
Sherman
T. W. Harrison
Virginia
West Virginia
Funeral Services for J H Stewart Held at Red Bud Church
Funeral services for James Howard Stewart, a Burnt Factory area carpenter, were conducted Saturday at Red Bud Church. The obituary notes his death by lightning while working on a barn for Charles Tanquary, with Rev. O C Lambert officiating and a large crowd from Winchester and Frederick counties attending. Interment followed in the church cemetery. pallbearers named John M Fishpan, John Carver, Harry Carper, Hugh Hardesty, Charles Gos, Po Williams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Bud
James Howard Stewart
Burnt Factory
Star
Charles ‘Tanquary
O. Co. Lambert
Brucetown
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Winchester
Frederick
John M. Fishpan
John Carver
Harry Carper
Hugh Hardesty
Charles Gos
Po. Williams
St Church Children Day Observed At Market Street Church
Children's Day was observed yesterday at Market Street Methodist Episcopal Church. Rev. G. Spencer preached in the morning and many children attended with their families. The evening program featured various numbers and a Sunday school orchestra with an attractive overture. The church was crowded with members and friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Market Street Methodist Episcopal Church
Language Barbs and Milkless Cows in Tiawatian Islands
A native speaker’s tricky English proves awkward and funny as a visiting missionary’s wife asks about cows. The man replies with a lexical clash showing he has no cows and cannot get milk, highlighting language gaps among island residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tiawatian Islands
Desolate region travelers encounter rented shack
Two travelers in a barren area stumble upon a rundown shack and discuss its emptiness. A forlorn boy rises, declaring with pride that the place is not theirs but rented, ending a stark vignette of solitude.
Countries with the fewest blind persons per capita
The list reports prewar and regional figures per 100000 people. Belgium had 43, Canada 44, Netherlands 46, Saxony 47, New Zealand 47, Western Australia 60, Hong Kong 51, Prussia 62, Denmark 52, Germany 60, New South Wales 60, and the United States 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belgium
Canada
Netherlands
Saxony
New Zealand
Western Australia
Hongkong
Prussia
Denmark
Germany
New South Wales
United States
English coffee houses housed large free libraries in London
Before free libraries, book rooms attached to English coffee houses allowed customers to peruse books with their coffee. Some libraries held up to a thousand volumes and even printed catalogues. Two such coffee houses reportedly lasted in London into the early 1880s.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Doom Species Harold Sips Buttermilk Backlash
Harold, recovering from typhoid fever, must drink ample buttermilk per doctor. He hates it yet dutifully complies. When a nurse brings a huge glass he laments wishing every buttermilk cow were dead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold
To Clean Hair Brushes With Cornmeal Method
Instructions advise cleaning hair brushes by filling them with cornmeal and rubbing. The meal absorbs grease and dirt, then shaken out and replaced until thoroughly clean. Claims cornmeal is safer than ammonia since no water can damage the brush back.
Witness Objects To Lawyer Question In Damage Suit
A witness in a damage suit faced an objection when one attorney questioned the witness and another attorney argued about the validity of the inquiry. The justice of the peace interrupted to admonish the objection and demand clarity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Justice of the Peace
Amateur Photographer Seeks Farmer’s Daughter In Courting Scene
A touring amateur photographer asks a farmer for permission to photograph his daughter as she is. The farmer grants consent with humor, telling his daughter to watch the suitor while he fetches the parson. The scene captures small town wit and courtship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmer Green
Sal
Hardship Better Than Poverty
A fragmented quotation credits Horace and contrasts a merchant’s fear of rough seas with retirement to a rural hometown. The text notes a shattered bark and a caution against enduring poverty, reflecting ancient wisdom on adversity and contentment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horace
Life’s Never Ending Vortex Reflections
A philosophical reflection compares life to a ceaseless vortex from start to end and end to start. The piece quotes MacMillan on death and birth linking graves to new beginnings in a cyclical view.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Macmillan
Office Boy Says Back Alimony Requested After Honeymoon
A terse note from Life quotes a man in a domestic dispute: a husband asks to be given part of the back alimony he owes his wife, claiming he has just returned from a honeymoon trip and needs funds.
Aged Woman Fractures Limb Near Red Bud
Mrs. Shimp aged resident living with son-in-law and daughter near Red Bud east of Winchester fell in the kitchen suffering a severe leg fracture. Daughter Mrs. Elliott heard cries, helped, Dr R M Glass set the bone and Mrs Shimp rested easier today. The family mentions the elderly condition of Mrs. Shimp. Dr and Mrs A D Henkel and daughter Miss Virginia Henkel have returned from a two week trip to New York City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. D. Henkel
Virginia Henkel
New York City
Banana yields far surpass other crops per acre
A statement asserts the banana provides far more food per acre than other staples. It notes banana yield is forty times that of potatoes and 133 times that of wheat, highlighting its high productivity relative to these crops.
Not Likely to Be Done
A pacific water removal idea is deemed impractical as it would require daily filling of a tank a mile wide a mile deep and a mile long for 440 years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pacific Ocean
Suit to Foreclose Interest in Frederick County Farm
In the Circuit Court of Frederick County on May 13 1916 Hudora Orissa Keyser sues Elmer Elsworth Keyser and unknown heirs of Elizabeth H Keyser to obtain settlement of a partnership and to declare Elmer Keyser's one half undivided interest in a 165 acre farm near Bartoneville as subject to a judgment in favor of the complainant. The court orders unknown heirs to appear within 15 days and publication of the notice in The Winchester Evening Star for four weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia
Circuit Court
County of Frederick
Hudora Orissa Keyser
Elmer Elsworth Keyser
Elizabeth H. Keyser
Eudora Creek Keyser
Elmer Eligg Keyser
Pee Gt Geben
Coster
Elmer A Worth Keyser
Carson Keyser
Elmer Elsworth
Apaort
Bartoneville
Frick County
S. R. Atwell
Elmer’ Hisworth Keyser
Elmer Wisworth Keyser
Atwell
Wiichester Evening Star
J. W. Baker, Jr
Gray Williams
Col J C Baker Visited Town On Stephens City Business
Col J C Baker of Stephens City spent the day in town on various business matters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Col
J. C. Baker
Stephens City
Lola’ and
Matile- Hale
Trieias
Where English River Rises
The Duddon rises from mossy bed near the summit of Wrynose Fell amid a desolate landscape of crags and vivid moss colors watered by the stream.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duddon
Wrynose Fell
Worth While Quotation
A quotation reflecting on aging notes the tragic appeal of a woman who resists growing old. The remark underscores social pressures about youth and beauty in contemporary culture.
Longest Telephone Line Reaches San Francisco
The longest telephone wire in the world spans from New York to San Francisco covering 3 390 miles connecting major cities and services across the nation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
San Francisco
Lewis Heads to Scranton for New Business Venture
Optimistic note states Hugh Lewis left this afternoon for Scranton Virginia where he plans to pursue business. The fragment hints at a shift from labor to potential enterprise and cautions about temptations of idleness versus diligence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hugh
Lewis
Scranton, Va
Trustfe's Sale of Valuable Real Estate in Virginia
A deed of trust dated November 23 1909 prompts a public auction of three contiguous farming tracts near Stephens City Virginia on July 8 1916 at Winchester County Court House. Tracts total 41 acres with orchard and barn, crops reserved, possession August 2 1916. terms require one third cash and two equal installments with interest at six percent. CADWALLADER Trustee Ward and Larrick Attorneys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elia M. Cadwallader
County
Winchester
Stephens City
White Post
George W. Cadwallader
Frederick County
BE. Cadwallader
Ward & Larrick, Attys
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