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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1915
Page
3
The piece argues the moon does not affect soil, atmosphere, or plant growth beyond light. Full daylight vastly outshines moonlight, and experiments show even tiny daylight portions barely help plants, so lunar phases unlikely influence farming or other mundane tasks.
A trust sale of 42 acres with buildings and an orchard on Little North Mountain near Winchester is set for Saturday June 26 1915 at 12 o'clock noon. The property in Shawneetown Frederick County is offered with one third cash and the balance in two equal annual installments secured by a deed of trust. John M Steck trustee.
Executor offers for sale at 10 o clock a m on Saturday May 29 1915 at 615 South Braddock Street Winchester Virginia the household effects of the decedent. Items include parlor suite leather chairs rugs carpets stoves clocks chairs desks refrig erator sewing machines glassware china ware and other furnishings all cash terms.
A confidential offer from Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co in Lynn Massachusetts invites women to write for private expert advice. The firm stresses confidential correspondence with a woman advisor and promises no testimonials without consent and no loss of letters.
Daily market notes list futures and local sales figures for wheat and corn, with Baltimore spot prices and a wide range of commodities. It records butter, eggs, poultry, hay, cattle and sheep values, and notes market conditions as of the day and prior day closing.
Classified note lists prices for winesap firsts and seconds with a $2.50 to $4.26 range and a larger $355 figure. Mentions advertising spring teeds.
London reports rumors that the HMS Warrior has been sunk twelve times. The talks spread along the Adriatic and Austrian ports where fittings were discarded, but officials affirm the ship remains afloat and ready for action as Queen Elizabeth is mentioned.
A Chicago man offers one hundred dollars for proof that great men arise from a family that practices early marriages over a century. He argues three generations in a hundred years suffice for vigorous descendants and opposes medical opinions endorsing youthful marriages.
A reflection on the saying that dining alone is not honorable and the broader idea that appreciating well cooked food and simple tastes shows enduring human values. The text notes palate refinement grows as appetite wanes and suggests this preference is universal rather than country specific.
A note to Professor Henkey states the earths true greatest diameter may come from a summit measurement. The line drawn from a high point to the opposite side yields a diameter of 7 929 units, suggesting mountain-based measurements can exceed equatorial spans.
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