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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1920
Page
4
The article urges Americans to join the League of Nations citing France as a key ally and argues that the United States cannot stand alone in a future crisis. Veterans of the great War emphasize reading the Covenant to avoid being misled and to influence the national decision.
The Democratic line presents James M. Cox of Ohio for president with his running mate for vice president. The ticket emphasizes reform and national unity as the party outlines its platform.
The piece cites Secretary Baker arguing for and against U S entry into the League. It notes veterans’ trauma, high war costs, and death tolls to frame the stakes. It presents Baker predicting consequences of staying out or joining, urging cautious U S involvement to shape peace.
Refuge Virginia notes record Mrs Martha Bowman visiting relatives in Strasburg and Tom's Brook and S W Grim returning from Woodstock. Irvin Barrow ill but improving. Lou Ritenour visits friends then returns home. Rev R N Young absent due to his mother's illness in Washington. Various locals visit kin, repair silos, and tend family health matters in early October.
Local notes list social visits and travels around Rest, Virginia with Mrs. Rachael Kindle and Miss Annie Peacore visiting Baltimore relatives, Mr. Harland Barbour visiting Martinsburg family, and trips by Mouldens and Snapps. A weathered health tip advises rest and Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for grip like colds, noting bed rest speeds recovery.
The Mer's Bible Class of Grace Lutheran Church with 140 members plans a rally to bring all men to Sunday service next Sunday October 10. The event aims to boost participation across weather conditions and promote the church Sunday school program.
Farmers vary in efficiency and many fail to analyze their entire operation. The U S Department of Agriculture reports on farm management showing only 10 percent reach above average returns across four factors and 20 to 30 percent exceed only one. Bulletin 1130 offers methods and blank forms to analyze labor time and costs for crops and livestock, enabling farmers to plan for next year with expert help if needed.
The motor truck express routes enable farmers to market surplus fruit and vegetables in small quantities that would otherwise be wasted. When production exceeds canning needs this method should not be overlooked or neglected.
The Star lists wholesale and retail prices for eggs butter chickens and grains with ranges for No 1 timothy hay oats corn meal and other feeds. Dairy outputs and livestock values show steers lambs sheep calves and calves priced from various ranges as of the preceding day.
A Norfolk and Western freight collision near Luray killed 27 fat cattle as a following train crashed into the cattle train. Two engines were wrecked and the cattle were buried in a trench after the crash described as frightful and un controllable action following the engine derailment.
The text surveys the view that heat was treated as a basic property of matter from antiquity with Greek philosophers Epicurus and Democritus to around 1800. It traces how early theories framed heat as intrinsic to substances before modern mechanistic explanations emerged.
An advertisement touts Dr Blair's Dream of Cucumber as a premier complexion cream. It claims cooling skin benefits, prevention of blackheads, sunburn relief, and long-lasting wear without rubbing. Available in 50 cents and one dollar, in white and flesh colors.
Readable fragment notes services at Grace Lutheran Church on Sunday with listed order of worship. Partial text mentions POY Steal aid and original program, but full details are unclear.
Private sale of the late Barnett Coop estate farm four miles northwest of Woodstock. About 100 acres with two dwellings, large barn, poultry houses, wagon and machine sheds, spring and cistern, running water, and a 25 acre bearing orchard. Apply to J R Borden Maurertown R F D Va.
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