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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1917
Page
3
An American liner reported firing on a Swedish vessel in the Belgian relief service about 400 miles off shore after the Swedish ship did not respond to signals or reveal its name. A blank shot and a solid shot across the bow followed, striking a spar and prompting the Swedish officers to display colors.
An old advertisement touts Pope's Diapepsin as a quick neutralizer of stomach acid. It promises relief from sour digestion, gas, belching, and indigestion within minutes. The claim emphasizes that a small dose costs fifty cents for a large case and lets readers eat favorite foods without fear.
Daily market report lists local quotations for winter and spring wheat flour butter eggs and various feeds. Notable figures include winter wheat flour retail 10.75 per unit spring wheat 11.75 per unit cracked corn 2.10 middlings 2.10 butter creamery retail 46 per unit young chickens live price not shown potatoes retail 1.20 per bushel.
These markets are corrected as of closing on the day preceding publication. Butter nearby creamery at 41. Virginia and nearby nesty plants 37. Eggs and nearby 25. Poultry: chickens 25, old hens heavy 25, small to medium 24, old roosters 14. Corn cob corn 8.50. Hay No 1 timothy 26.00, light clover mixed 24.00. Cattle choice steers 12.25, good butcher 10.25 to 11.50, choice heifers 39.75 to 10.50, medium 7.29 to 8.60. Hogs heavy 19.00, pigs 18.
A discussion on education and human dignity argues that cultivating equality matters more than reinforcing class lines. It suggests ignoring class prejudice to reduce social barriers and highlights the value of respectful behavior toward all social groups.
Public wartime diet advisory urges conserving scarce foods to aid Allies. Focuses on wheat beef pork dairy and sugar, promotes wheatless meals, more vegetables and beans, and reduced meat portions. Advises using stale bread, more fish and poultry, dairy utilization, and saving fats and soap for war needs. Encourages cooking with vegetable oils and storing potatoes and roots.
Readable fragments praise resilience in hardship and the value of liberty. It cites a sentiment that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph, and warns against undervaluing freedom.
The text urges buying less and cooking only what is necessary to serve smaller portions. It promotes patronizing local producers, reducing transportation, and preaching the gospel of the clean plate while avoiding starvation and encouraging eating plenty but wisely without waste.
In France a cat, two weeks after losing her kittens, cared for seven chicks left by a hen killed nearby. The chicks warmed by the cat's fur thrived and followed her about the premises, as if she were their mother. New York Herald.
The article notes scarce fossil evidence for prehistoric man in western Europe and argues man predates the Ice Age, with tropical fauna in gravel beds before glaciation. It links early humans to development from the Stone to Bronze and Iron ages through archaeological remains and deposits.
A reader cites a 19th century Burroughs book and a Southern Woman's Magazine passage noting Englishmen in America once thought American women had deformed feet. The remark about coy women and hidden feet appears in a chapter on walking.
A discoverer claims condensed milk applied to broken china edges preserves the article as well as common cement. He says it has mended saucers withstanding hot water wash and even repaired a fairly large telescope lens using this unique cement.
Two Cardiff pedestrians were approached on a road by a one legged man who asked them to carry his brand-new artificial leg. The travelers sped up and, after turning, watched him buckle under crutches and the leg, before they helped him onto a tram and deposited him in a corner seat.
Mr George S Bailey departed on a business trip to West Virginia after spending several days at his home in this city. Miss Ruth Guyer left this morning for Baltimore where she visited friends for some time.
Mr. Alson S. Hott left yesterday for Baltimore Maryland to attend the funeral of his aunt Mrs Brooks Ketholtz. Mr and Mrs D C Miller and Mr M L Lindamood and sister Miss Sadie Lindamood and Mr W H H Burns motored to Woodstock and toured the Massanutten mountains on Sunday.
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