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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1919
Page
3
Real estate notice listing multiple farms and properties for sale. Properties include 100 to 310 acres with orchards, running water, and road access. prices per acre range from $65 to $150. Also includes 16 city properties, houses, suburban homes, timber tracts, and grazing tracts.
Dr Fahney offers free consultations for chronic diseases in Hagerstown Maryland listing conditions such as anemia appendicitis arteriosclerosis asthma biliousness bladder and blood disorders constipation consumption diabetes dropsy nervousness indigestion rheumatism skin and stomach troubles headaches heart disease and other ailments.
Methodists from across the United States and several foreign countries arrived in Columbus Ohio for the Centenary Exposition at the state fairgrounds starting June 20 and running through July 7. Organizers planned opening ceremonies and events across multiple days.
The Handley estate funded Winchester schools and a library after Judge Handley's death in 1895. The Handley Library opened after a twenty year accumulation period, drawing over 50 000 visitors in 1918. A board guided by the General Education Board shaped a joint private endowment and public school plan for the city.
The community envisions a vast reform of Winchester schools led by a progressive superintendent. A great building on Equity would honor Judge Handley with a heroic statue, aiming to educate children and uplift civic virtue through disciplined, healthful living.
Mrs J B Boyce of Morgantown St City reports rapid health gains after one bottle of Nerv Worth from Nerv Worth Druggist Uniontown Pa. She says digestion improves heart action stabilizes and sleep returns. Miller's Drug Store sells Nerv Worth in Winchester. 17-20
Senate committees indicate higher aviation appropriations than the House in the annual bill. The naval committee backs raising the House total from 15,000,600 to 25,009,000 as urged by Secretary Daniels. A military sub-committee also votes to lift army aviation from 15,000,000 to 55,000,000.
London dispatch reports the Russian cruiser Oleg was sunk on Wednesday by a British submarine. The loss was confirmed via a Russian wireless patch received in the city.
a United States Department of Agriculture representative reports a serious sugar beet seed shortage in Europe compared with prior years, risking European beet production and demanding U S growers stockpile seed for 1919 and 1920 planting. Dutch stockpiles and high Dutch prices push urgency for US seed production.
An Indiana Farmers' Guide writer describes bolting four by two inch strips into a wheel to measure fences or field acreage. The method involves creating a rolling gauge with long enough strips for accuracy. Later, Chautauqua presents the opera Robin Hood with a full cast of thirty five, including chorus and orchestra.
The Associated Press reports that despite a future prohibition, the sale of tax stamps for intoxicants will continue after June 20. Commissioner Roper stated stamps would be sold only with the understanding that manufacture and sale of prohibited beverages remains unauthorized.
Local column lists residents and guests visiting White Post area including Beverley Sommerville Messrs. Greenam Meade and family from Hagerstown, Marie Valentine from Philadelphia, Hortense Lloyd from Villeton, and extended visits from Culpeper and Woodstock circles among others.
The New York Chicago air mail service scheduled to inaugurate today has been postponed indefinitely awaiting larger mail planes. Experiments continue at Belmont Park flying field, Long Island.
A facetious seller quips about price shocks at a butcher shop and how price prompts thoughts of flesh. The Indianapolis Star quips that such humor makes the world glad and praises a mindset that sees the bright side and avoids motive.
A Birmingham paper reports that the Shottery farm tenant’s homestead was recently dismantled and asserts it housed the house where Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway are said to have pledged their troth in the old hundredfast rite.
A Dallas News fragment quotes a woman noting that truth may emerge through attention to details rather than statistics. The remark highlights skepticism toward numeric summaries and emphasizes observational insight.
In Richmond the Navy Good Roads Association plans its initial meeting soon. The legislative committee includes Senator C O Connor Godrick Fredericksburg State Highway Commissioner George P Coleman secretary of the Virginia Automobile Club W C chairman Henrico Supervisors U S President of the Association. Governor Davis slated to convene General Assembly August 19.
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