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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1915
Page
4
Nova Scotia apple growers raise 5000 barrels and funds for a national campaign to showcase Nova Scotia fruit. They charter steamships during transport-rate turmoil and plan widespread advertising to boost consumption and world demand. The Virginia Horticultural Society backs similar efforts with guides and statewide promotions.
Bananas and other fruits spend large sums on advertising. self preservation will compel apple growers to do the same.
The Navy secretary’s Naval War College speech defends modernization without expanding size, urging better use of expert thought while preserving civilian control. The report cites critics and notes Daniels has faced harsh scrutiny yet could disarm opposition through notable service.
Frederick Maryland’s Anti-Tuberculosis Association report shows death rate cut from 320 to 146 per 100000 over 33 years while 143000 still die yearly. It urges ending street spitting seen as key to stopping transmission.
Poem laments World War I casualties across Europe. It recalls exhausted soldiers lying in fields and valleys, condemns ongoing slaughter, and uses stark imagery of death and desecration to critique war’s apparent futility.
A harsh wartime quip attributed to Teaper depicts blood flowing deeper and human lives growing cheaper as young men are conscripted and sent to die. The lines invoke grim imagery about battlefield fatalities and civilian cost.
The article notes five extra plant units boosting output to 1,100,000 pounds daily with the US government taking about three fourths of production. It details looming private munition facilities, massive payrolls, and new worker towns around Virginia, including City Point Hopewell and Dupont City, as construction accelerates.
Hope well hosts construction and two more lines planned nearby. An application to build an electric railway from City Point into Petersburg is before the Petersburg city council. When built the line will provide a needed transit as most Petersburg to new settlement travel currently by 125 autos over a dusty ten mile trip.
The Winchester Commercial Pony Contest begins June 1915 and ends Oct 2, 1915, giving a Shetland Pony, vehicle and harness to a boy or girl 16 or under. Midget the pony is supplied by C. M. Solenberger. Merchants including The Evening Star, Hy Hable, The Airdome, and Pepsi-Cola Co. offer pony votes for purchases and subscriptions. Rules restrict participation to non-relatives of organizers. votes are tallied after the contest and registration requires clear name and age.
Discussion on whether land plaster boosts legume crops by increasing soil nitrogen or simply wastes fertility. Warns against use in nonlegume cereals and sands eastern Oregon soils, recommends potassium sulfate to maintain potash and soil balance. Includes a note on lime to correct acidity and a guide for a simple gate fastener in Farm and Home.
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