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Newspaper

Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

May 12, 1916

Page

3

Winter wheat conditions and abandonment hit harvest forecasts

The May 1 crop report shows winter wheat yield at 16.2 bushels per acre with 3 303 000 harvestable acres after 4 236 000 abandoned across the Midwest due to a severe winter and late seeding. Illinois Ohio Indiana Wisconsin Iowa Minnesota Missouri saw the heaviest abandonment. Atlantic Coast regions are fair to good.

Hington Department of Agriculture United States Middle West Ohio Indiana Illinois Wisconsin Minnesota Iowan Missouri Atlantic

Bright Skies Parade Highlights and Public Meeting

The article notes school principals for Gainesboro Gore Opequon Middletown and Carpers Valley and the Green Spring ornet Band at the parade. At 2 pm a large public meeting in the City Hall Auditorium featured addresses by Rev. Dr. J. H. Lacy Capt. Robert Y. Conrad and Prof. N. D. Cool, with Sapt. M. M. Lynch presiding and music by the Miller Jenkins or.

Back Creek D. F. Kern Gore Graded Opequon Tolbert Seventh Congressional Agricultural School Middletown J. H. Lacy Robert Y. Conrad N. D. Cool Sapt M. M. Lynch Miller Jenkins

Gets It corn cure promises fast relief in simple product ad

An old style advertorial quips about the razor and corn, touting Gets It as a quick drying corn cure that ends pain in seconds and lets wearers use smaller shoes. It claims the world’s biggest selling corn cure sold by druggists or direct mail from E Lawrence & Co Chicago Illinois. It also briefly mentions power preferred by candy factories for control and cleanliness.

E. Lawrence & CO Chicago

Best Treatment for Catarrh Promoted by Blood Cleansing Remedy

Specialists declare catarrh a blood infection and claim cleansing the blood of catarrhal poisons relieves symptoms. The ad touts S. S. S. as a proven remedy available at drug stores and offers free medical advice from Swift Specific Co. of Atlanta. It describes the product as a vegetable blood tonic that purifies the blood.

S. S S. S. SB Swift Fpecific Co Atlanta

Local Markets Report With Daily Price Corrections

Markets show daily corrections with prices from local buyers. Hay prices range No 1 timothy 23.50 and clover 20.60. potatoes retail 1.60 per bushel. bacon and hides listed with varied rates. Livestock prices include sheep 4.12 to 6.25 per pound, pigs 1.50 to 4 per head, and cattle prices in the 10s to 16s per head range.

Brill & Ritter THON Ogtr Co Caren Tee Etree

Judge queries drunk prisoner over wife money

In a humorous exchange, Judge Church White asks a prisoner why he spent money on drink since the man claims he has no wife. The prisoner replies he has no wife, prompting the judge to quip about the purpose of getting drunk.

Church White Atchison Globe

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