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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1920
Page
3
An advertisement touts Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound as a simple remedy to darken gray or faded hair overnight. It claims millions of bottles sold annually and promises natural, lustrous results after one or two applications, while noting it is a toilet preparation not a medical cure.
An old health ad claims meat digestion creates uric acid that overworks kidneys. It promotes Jad Salts, a grape and lemon acid with lithia, as a daily prebreakfast drink to flush kidneys, relieve bladder irritation, and prevent kidney or bladder diseases.
Properly cured hay keeps a bright green color and loses water rather than nutrients during storage. Shrinkage affects shipper costs when excess moisture is held for speculation, but dry matter loss is rare in market hay. A forthcoming Department of Agriculture bulletin will cover shrinkage metrics and farm methods, with ownership statements for The Evening Star dated April 1920.
Marketing costs for 14 carloads of sheep show loading and bedding average 1.9 cents per 100 pounds live weight with 289 to 197 cents per hundredweight freight and 3.58 to 8.57 percent shrinkage. Hog carloads record loading bedding about 1.5 cents per 100 pounds weight plus 8 to 9 cents feed and 4 to 10 cents commission, totaling about 5 cents. overall marketing including freight ranges 38 to 50 cents per hundredweight with 0.0 to 8.8 percent shrinkage reported.
Observations show the best savers molt mainly in September to December while hens molting in July and August miss 3 to 4 months of lay and begin again only February or March. Early hatched pullets may molt in June. use tests to judge these cases.
Rhubarb not yielding well last season should be dug this fall and roots left open over winter. In spring, once the ground can be prepared, the large mother root is divided into three to five parts and planted. A root four to five years old becomes root bound and produces small stems.
A scanned markets brief listing wholesale and local retail prices for eggs butter chickens corn flour bran molasses and dairy feeds. Prices are shown for country and creamery butter, various oats and hay items, local flour, bookbinders and dairy items with per barrel and per sack figures.
Gore Virginia October 22 Rev Mr Bass of southern Virginia preached two sermons at Mt Hebron Baptist Church and may locate in the village soon. Gore High School opens with good attendance. D F Kern Miss Kater and Miss Cadwallader lead this year’s work. Elmer Saville moves to Capon then Wardensville WV. other local building and family visits noted.
Notice prohibits hunting or trespassing on Lenny's soil and warns prosecution. Also advertises auto repair and building services by F. C. Parker of Fairfax Langvi with reasonable prices and a request for a trial. Includes name William Glaize.
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