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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1915
Page
3
A Stephens City Virginia remnant sale is planned for Monday with stock including silks linen white goods embroidery ginghams galatea and table linen remnants. Also broken lots of ladies waists children's wear and some full dresses at reduced prices. Strong bargains expected as new stock arrives.
Water and sewer taxes must be paid by June 1 1915. A five percent penalty will be added and pipes disconnected. Please give this your prompt attention W T Barr 192 City Treasurer.
Public sale due to deed dated August from Wm R Newlin to M Steck Trustee. Mention of Frederick County and Pope Clerk's records. Sale to be held in front of the Court House in Winchester Virginia at 12 o'clock M.
The executor will offer for sale at 1000 o'clock a m on Saturday May 29 1915 at the residence of Mrs Martha J Lewis 615 South Braddock Street Winchester Virginia all household effects of the decedent including parlor suite leather couches chairs beds tables rugs sewing machine and numerous other items cash only terms. Clerks Roy P Duvall J McCann J R Fishpaw act as clerks.
A fragmentary dialogue at a ferry dock recalls a colored man admitting marriage to Widow Jones then deserting her. The exchange notes January, shifting terms, and a flatiron incident as misdeeds allegedly unfold in a coarse colloquial tale.
Italy moves toward war as new military plans against Austro German forces emerge. The Falaba sinking raises questions of submarine cruelty and American victims. In the Dardanelles, Turkish batteries repelled English ships, with French forces later pressing Asiatic forts and Marmora harbor seizures.
The Star presents daily and Baltimore market prices for wheat corn butter eggs poultry and hay. Quotes include No 2 red wheat 1.47 14 and corn spot 77 with other items such as butter eggs live poultry hay and cattle weights listed for retail wholesale and closing values.
Goodyear employs 104000 workers to meet tire demand with a 52 percent dealer sales rise this spring. The ad touts exclusive features for safety and reliability and lists distributor names including Milver Hather c ty Forshe Co Core Ando & Supply Gibbs Hardware Co.
Armel notes show visits by James Armel to Haymarket and local family gatherings. Several locals, including Willingham Pifer Cornwell and Tevalt, visit relatives in nearby towns while others return from trips to Winchester Ridgeway and Front Royal. A painting project on homes begins, and Brubaker schedules a Macedonia appointment with Sunday school earlier that day.
Mrs Fy Grimes of Crooksville Ohio reports her daughter suffered a severe coughing spell with a lung hemorrhage during whooping cough. After using Chamberlains Cough Remedy she saw immediate relief and, within two bottles, was entirely well. The product is described as available everywhere.
The piece explains penny situps, cheap London lodgings where benches with wooden backs are used. Lodgers lie with arms on the bench back and rest their heads to sleep, a frugal sleeping arrangement in the city.
The apricot did not originate in Mexico. It was introduced from Asia into Europe during Alexander the Great’s era and spread from Greece to other European nations, then to the Americas after 1492.
From cut great trees in the Northwest, soft hod reveals that stumps are now utilized for shingles. Ten thousand shingles were made from one stump.
The article notes how geographic names repeat across regions as people impute familiar terms. It cites Galicia linked to Ei, a Hungarian king calling himself Rex, and England named after the Callaici in Gallaeci, with Carpathians misconnected to the Carpathian Sea and Carpathus.
The Life Guards in England organized soon after the Restoration. Recruited from old cavaliers who fought for Prince Stuart, they formed three troops in 1661.
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