Powerless To Stem American Tide
British and American forces push north of Verdun as German divisions are drawn from the western front. Washington reports Pershing says the German retreat continues with American successes and prisoner captures. Belgians reach the Dutch frontier and advance toward Valenciennes while British troops enter Tournal and expand gains in Flanders.
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Washington
Western Front
Verdun
Pershing
War Department
Bantheville
Trianglar Wood
Freya
Bois de Bancheville
Bourrut
Bois Rappes
Tournal
London
Belgium
Lille
War Office
Valeggiennes-Hirson
Sells River
Valenciennes
le Cateau
British
Flanders
Roubais
Pecq
Frontier
Havre
Holland
Belgian War Office
Bruges
Becloo
Sluis
Eecloo
Amsterdam
Antinnea
Farmers urged to sell wheat for best cash price
Winchhurst Milling Co calls on farmers to hold wheat for higher cash price and notes selling Crystal Flour at government price with mill feed reserved for wheat suppliers. The notice stresses delaying sale to ensure convenient handling.
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Winchirsthr ‘Milling CO
Sample Fur Lot Limited Three Days at Jolliffe & Jolliffe
Big lot of sample furs received this morning will be here for three days. See them today or tomorrow and choose from five to twenty five dollars. Jolliffe & Jolliffe.
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Jolliffe & Jolliffe
WANTED MEN AND HELP WANTED SEED WHEAT LISTING
Bath housing offer for one or two men with hot water heat electric lights and central location. Also listing for men at new cold storage plant pay 45 cents per hour bonus for staying to November first. Female live-in domestic position with references required good wages. Leaps Prolific seed wheat priced at $2.60 per bushel along with winter oats from Winchester Seed Co Inc at 46 East Piccadilly Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester Seed Co., Inc
East Piccadilly
Home Fires Burn Bright as Fourth Liberty Loan Surges
The Fourth Liberty Loan campaign in Frederick County reports strong support with one million dollars subscribed and the entire six billion dollars raised. The Star aided public effort, praising volunteers including Mrs. Baker and Mrs. Fuller, and stressing patriotism, unity, and resolve to fund a victorious, lasting peace.
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Liberty Loan Central Committee
Peetertek
God Heefty
Winchester
Ioan
Joan
Frederick
Thekaiser
France
Liberty
Lote
Frederick County
Double Funeral For Parker and Fisher Sisters Today
The first local double funeral in years was held at 3:30 PM for Mrs. Bessie Parker and her sister Miss Anna Fisher who died within hours of each other from pneumonia. The service, at a house avoiding due to influenza, consisted of a brief committal at two graves led by Rev. F. M. Richardson.
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Leam
H. ¥. Byrd
Star
W. A. Baker
Parker
Anna Fisher
Bessie Parker
Miss Fisher
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
F. M. Richardson
Braddock Street Methodist Episcopal Church
Mrs Grubbs Dies After Week of Illness at 72
Mrs Margaret A E Grubbs widow of M L Grubbs died Sunday afternoon at her East Lane home from pneumonia after a weeklong illness. She was 72, born in Clarke county, and survived by five children including William Grubbs Hannah Herrert Maggie Grubbs Mrs Thomas Sawyer and Mrs William Grim. Funeral is 2 pm tomorrow at Mount Hebron Cemetery with Rev J H Lacy of the Presbyterian Church officiating. Interment followed at Mount Hebron.
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Margaret A. E. Grubbbs
M. L. Grubbs
East Lane
Clarke County
Lee
Grubbs
William Grubbs
Hannah B. Herrert
Maggie Grubbs
Thomas Sawyer
William Grim
Mount Hebron
J. H. Lacy
Presbbyterian Church
Dulin Laws 15 Killed by Train
Prominent farmer Edward Oulin Laws of Brandy Stallion Culpeper County Va is killed crossing the Southern Railroad near Brandy Stallion while driving to Sunday School. The body to be brought to the city and buried at Mount Hebron Cemetery with services at the Laws home. He leaves two sons Kinzel Laws of Brandy and Mc Pherson Laws of Barre Vermont.
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Theodore Y. Kinzel
Bdward Oulin Laws
Brandy Stallion
Culpeper County
Southern Railroad
Laiwis
Mount Hebron
Laws
Warren County
Wezo
Ayton Inn
Front Reveal
Upperville
Fauquier County
Brandy
Susie Kinzel
Henry Kinzel
Winchester
Kinzel Laws
McPherson Laws
Barre
Vermont
City and County Over Top Easily in Liberty Bond Drive
Winchester and Frederick county surpassed expectations by subscribing over eight hundred thousand dollars to the fourth Liberty loan in a single Saturday night surge. Banks will absorb the remainder toward a million dollar quota as crowds, clubs, and committees celebrate a record campaign.
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Cause of Liberty
Liberty Loan
Ee O
Winchester
Frederick County
Liberty Joan
Firederick
Ladies‘committee
Boy Scouts
Chatiks
Mir. Maphis’ .En cCanvassers
John Kendrick Bangs
Bangs
The
Parenthood
Hetel
Fen
No Surgical Dressing Unit Open During influenza outbreak
Owing to an influenza epidemic the surgical dressing walls will be closed until further notice. Mrs H H McGuire signs the notice indicating the temporary shutdown dates 21 to 21.
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H.H. Mguire
Reading Moling and Seal Notice
Ville. Apply at faitm or to H. F. Byrd, Winchester, Va, ¢ee : pet Read Moling and Seal. Rugad, 'Sth page.
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Rugad
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Misa Camille Graber
Hunter H. McGuire
J. P. Sartelle
John W. Rosenberger
J. Mad Spurr
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William C. Hardy
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J. L. Whitlock
W.W. L. Whiseon
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Karl Hoover
Robert Roever
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Front Rogal
Uncle Sam
H. B. McCormac
J. Luther Maphis
R. Gray Williams
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Melvin Green
Mr. Green
Laura V. Gratchen
Margaret and
Marianna
Stella M. Adams Mir
D. A. Fries
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