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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1915
Page
4
A 1915 Frederick County notice announces a unanimous Democratic committee action calling attention to the legal September primary held under state law. It lists district officials and magistrates and notes adherence to primary provisions.
A discussion on bringing his bride to her native state for a honeymoon amid the hills and mountains of southwest Virginia, highlighting the allure of the region and the couple's plans to spend the early days of their marriage there.
The Baltimore Sun contrasts Europe’s devastation with America’s constructive growth. It notes millions in arms and casualties in Europe versus twenty million workers building the nation, thriving crops, and ongoing Thanksgiving sentiment, urging daily gratitude for prosperity and stability.
The fragment presents a political tease about a proposed idea or suggestion tied to the President and a figure named Virgania. The incomplete text limits clear context or event details.
An American despatch reports six dummy battleships returned to Glasgow after serving as decoys in the North Sea. The vessels were built atop freight steamers with canvas and false structures to resemble warships and lure German torpedo boats and coastal batteries. They are being dismantled after the ruse was uncovered.
A fragmented passage notes the horse fading from use as gasoline driven autos and urban drift grow. Farmers replace draft animals with steel tractors powerful enough to pull six plows, signaling a shift to mechanized farming and rural decline.
The White House rejected reports that Miss Margaret Wilson is engaged to Chicago publisher F. E. Compton. Secretary Tumulty called the claim entirely false and said wedding and honeymoon plans remain private with no California or Gulf Coast location being considered.
Daily market quotes show prices for grains hay and feedstuffs including cracked corn at 4.50 per bushel and flour retail prices listed. Dairy and poultry items include creamery butter wholesale at 26 and young chickens at 12 per pound. Potatoes and hams listed with sparse figures amid a garbled transcription.
As of the day before publication, No. 2 red wheat sits at 1.11 1-2, corn spot 72, cob corn 3.90 to 4.00, butter creamery 30 30 1-2 and 27 1-2, Virginia and nearby rolls 19 to 20 cents, eggs Virginia and nearby down 29, live poultry prices for chickens and hens, hay values for timothy and clover mixes, sheep and lamb prices per pound and per head, and New York apple market with Jonathan King Baldwin Ben Davis and Now'n Greenings priced by barrel rates.
Preaching is planned at Carpers Valley Macedonia and Relief on Sunday October 17 with services at 11 a m 3 p m and 730 p m. Protracted services start at Relief for the Sunday night gathering. Pastor E W Brugaker extends the invitation.
Berryville notes list local residents traveling to Birmingham Bluefield and Chillicothe. Several families return from California Texas and Virginia while others attend the state fair in Richmond. Visitors include R H Tyler from Philadelphia and Louise Peters from New Jersey among others.
The heirs of Jesse Fries offer for sale at public auction in Winchester Virginia on three dates starting November 6 1915 several Fries properties. Items include the Home Farm of 182 acres near Winchester with orchard and timber 1600 barrels of apples from the Gold Tract 67 acres and Apple Pie Ridge location 139 acre Stone House tract and later tracts at Babb Run Bell and in Nain with multiple houses lots and tracts totaling hundreds of acres. Possession is set for March 8 1916 with tenants allowed to stay until March 1 1916 and rents from the orchard lease will go to the purchaser after this year.
One fourth cash on day of sale with the balance in three equal annual installments. The deferred payments are to be evidenced by three bonds bearing interest and payable in one, two, and three years, secured by a deed of trust on the property and a policy of insurance on the buildings. Purchasers may pay a larger one fourth in cash.
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