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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1921
Page
6
An old newspaper note touts a physician backed remedy combining a vegetable compound with olive oil to improve bilious symptoms and liver function. It claims doctors endorse its use and warns against low complexion and dull eyes as signs of illness.
In Stephensy Va a trustee sale is set for October 29 1921 at 2 pm in front of the log and frame house on Main Street. The property lies northeast of the Methodist parish and southwest of the L A party and is Lot No 56 in Deed Book 651 page 12. Terms require cash on day of sale and the balance in equal annual payments via bonds secured by the property and insured against fire. GO A Samsell trustee.
Daily price quotes for staples including butter eggs young chickens hay and grains from the local wholesale markets. Items listed include creamery butter 46 cents per unit country butter 40 cents per unit oats 40 cents per unit wheat 80 cents per bushel and shelled corn 90 cents per unit with various middlings flour and cotton seed meal also shown.
Corrected as of closing the preceding day notes and market abbreviations for Baltimore wholesale markets. The fragment lists ticker like ae cs abe bie etek tees tee and references ob corm with date.
Fragmentary text lists times and items about young chickens and dairy prints with unclear numbers. Mentions prices around 16.00 and 21.00 and notes a veto, but details are unreadable.
A sequence of recorded transfers lists Edward Lee to Marry W Green for a 29 by 200 foot North Maid Street parcel at 400. H B Potts to Ghages R Anderson for a northwest Piccadilly and East Lane brick dwelling and 2382 East Piccadilly interest. William M Supton to A Blackburn for 440 Fairmont concrete house lot 40 by 190 at 1250. Shirley Carter to Fred R Stryker pebble dashed house 50 by 115 West Clifford for 10. Other transfers include I N Good to Fred Finley double house 9 and 11 East Pall Mall 35 10 by 66 at 1750. Clara V Fultz renounces provisions and elects dower. Boyd R Richards and Emma Wisecarver house 408 South Washington 55 by 125 for 9500. William Noonan to Taylor Wall 110 Valley avenue 55 feet front for 10. further line shows Jack H Berry to Emmet.
Henry house and lot at 110 Leicester Street offered for 10 dollars and other valuable consideration. Amanda Burwell sues W. J Herman and Miss Ge Stetina at Nos eee East Ger fi street for 2500 dollars.
The Virginia Department of American Legion will send Mathews Post No. 83's Frank Smith to Washington for Armistice Day ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery. Smith, a former Marine private with the 42nd Infantry Regiment, earned the Croix de Guerre for leading a charge at the Bethea Wood engagement on October 4, 1918. He later became a freight agent in Norfolk. Woodmen of the World Hickory Camp to attend a Friday revival at the Southern Methodist Church, assembling at their hall 7.20 pm and marching to the service.
Seated uric acid deposits are said to dissolve and the rheumatic pain to fade within a day. The maker James H. Allen guarantees Allenrho with two bottles if it does not conquer severe rheumatism, with druggists offering refunds through Boyd Drug Co and Franck Baker and Son.
William Calvin Phillips 72 died October 15 after weeks of illness pneumonia. Survived by widow and six children in Virginia West Virginia Maryland and Indiana. Funeral held at Lutheran Church Toms Brook with Rev E B Shaver. interment in Toms Brook Cemetery. He had earlier lived in Winchester and worked in cooperage and orchard industries.
Yesterday marked the fifty seventh anniversary of Gen. Phil Sheridan s ride from Winchester to Cedar Creek where he rallied disorganized forces against Gen. Early s Confederates. After Cedar Creek the Confederate troops evacuated the Valley of Virginia and did not return as a fighting force to this part of Virginia.
Wenatchee valley growers and shippers plan Federal Court action against Great Northern Railway and the American Railway Association citing a severe apple car shortage. Local groups warn the crop may suffer as less than 1,000 refrigerator cars are available and only about 50 cars arrive daily versus a needed 200 to 300.
Mrs Fannie Quaile arrived in Washington this afternoon and plans to return to her home after visiting relatives in town.
October crop report shows Washington apples estimated at 20,474,000 bushels and a potato crop at 416,000 bushels. Apple prospects up from prior month while grapes hold at 96 percent of normal. Minor social notes include Grace Orndorff resuming nurse work and Mrs Adelman visiting Miss Emma Snapp in North Main Street Harrisonburg address.
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