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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1918
Page
3
The article advises sheep raisers that pasture alone fails to meet needs. Provide wholesome food, dry ventilated quarters, exercise, and close lambing attention. Regular dipping prevents ticks and skin diseases. Plant forage crops if summer feed is short. one acre can fatten 30 to 40 lambs with access to other fields.
The Department of Agriculture plans a bulletin to aid women and children on farms in gathering and curing domestic sumac a tannin source for tanning and dyeing. The bulletin will cover proper gathering curing handling recognition and tannin content figures and compare domestic with Sicilian sumac noting price differences and market potential.
Classified rental brief notes a small house to rent in a quartier described as Octet area. Listing mentions basic accommodation with minimal details and no explicit contact information.
The USDA outlines home grown feeds to replace scarce concentrates. Alfalfa hay, soybeans, cowpeas and oats are recommended with peanuts and cottonseed meal as alternatives. Rye sown in fall provides pasture. fish meal and fish scrap are discussed as substitutes, with limits west of the Mississippi due to cost.
A wartime notice calls for increasing home promotion and consumption of white meats like poultry to leave more for overseas forces. An unrelated rental ad appears mentioning Mrs. RFE Byrd on Amherst Street with contact details for October 19.
Whitwell Tennessee resident describes four year struggle with dizzy spells. After using Cardus as advised by a neighbor she reports marked improvement and recovery after two bottles with no added medicines. Cardus is presented as purely vegetable and gentle in action. All druggists carry it.
An old advertisement explains squeezing juice from two lemons into three ounces to make a bleaching lotion. It claims a quarter pint of Orchard White provides a cheap skin whitening solution you can apply to the face neck and hands to remove redness sallowness and windburn and leave skin clear and white.
The United States Department of Agriculture urges storing sweet potatoes in up-to-date storage houses to reduce spoilage and boost market price. Outdoor pits and banks spoil 25 to 90 percent, while storage houses offer safer, economical marketing with flexible withdrawal and better quality.
A long list of donors names appears with small contributions totaling 65150 dollars. MR. W. Shade of Washington was in town en route to Gainehero to visit his mother.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions men and dirt with unclear action. No clear event, date, or entities to identify.
Fragmentary rail timetable notes show Norfolk and Western No 15 925 4.m. routes with parlor cars and stops at Pocahontas Welch and Shenandoah. Mentions Winston-Salem North Carolina and connections toward Hillcrest field with miles and points unclear in OCR.
Classified notice seeks a reliable white man with a family to work on a property with a five room brick lodge and cellar, furnished, plus a garden and an arab cow. Liberal yearly wages offered. Applications accepted October 31 or at the first meeting. Board of Directors, GEO. Co. THOMAS, Manager, Green Hill Cemetery Cay.
Public sale of a desirable house and lot in Winchester in 1918. Property at 501 S Leicester Street fronting 44 feet 2 inches and 158 feet deep, a comfortable two story home. Terms require one half cash on sale day and balance in one and two years with deed of trust and fire insurance. Grace F E Hollis vs Richard A Maot et al. Clerk I Beverley.
Mrs A E Sidenberder of 3B Ind says a spring bronchial trouble causes coughing and that the Cough Remedy provides relief after days of symptoms though the text is incomplete and garbled.
A terse phrase notes a power dynamic where a freeman purchases bands that a slave must wear, illustrating control and ownership. The statement points to symbolic subjugation and social hierarchy without additional context or events.
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