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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1915
Page
3
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad has begun enclosing slips to shippers urging faster unloading to ease a car shortage. Messages stress load the cars and keep cars moving with phrases about penny savings and earning losses from delays. The line notes thousands of cars held at lake ports worsened the shortage and precautionary steps are underway.
The Tuberculosis Commission created by the last General Assembly will meet in Richmond late October or early November to prepare its report. It has gathered statewide data and statistics on tuberculosis conditions and control efforts, to be submitted to committees and the Assembly for potential funding in 1916.
A vintage advertisement touts Cascarets as a nightly sleep aid that cleanses the stomach and liver, removes undigested food and bile, and eases headaches bad breath and upset stomach. It markets a 10 cent box aimed at both men and women and promises gentle regularity without stomach gripes.
The British Foreign Office released Rev. H. S. T. Gahan’s account of Edith Cavell during her last hours in Brussels. Cavell spoke calmly of death and patriotism, asked friends to know she died for her country, and received communion before a Christian burial.
The page lists daily market quotations from local buyers with prices for corn, hay, barley, flour, butter, eggs, chickens, roosters, potatoes, and meat cuts. It also shows Baltimore market closes including wheat No. 2 red, butter, eggs, live poultry, hay, sheep and lambs, and calves with per unit values.
Local druggists report dropping calomel sales as Dodson's Liver Tone gains prominence. Prominent merchants praise the vegetable remedy as safe, effectively easing liver ness and constipation with a money back guarantee. One bottle costs iy cents and is advertised as pleasant tasting for adults and children.
Apples in moderate supply, weather dull, and trade slow. Prices for top grades show Jonathan at 4.00 for firsts and 2.50 for seconds, Sings at 2.75 and 2.00, Baldwin at 2.75 and 1.50, and others like Greenings and Ren Davis around 2.75 and 2.00.
Eight year old Honor Fisher dies after climbing onto a tar tank on the Waynesboro Staunton road. The tank toppled, trapping and crushing his head beneath the heavy iron wheel. The accident prompts sympathy for his mother Mrs Dorothy Fisher of the mountain road area.
Lynn residents Octney Nan Redding of Melrose and Philip Bulman of Malden died when a biplane collapsed in marshy ground. Redding was a Saugus Aviation School manager and Bulman his mechanic. The accident appears caused by wing frame failure and both were buried two feet in mud.
Public auction in Winchester Virginia on Wednesday November 8 1915 offers the property fronting 60 feet on Merendilty street formerly the Ossar Barr property with a deed of trust securing 3000 plus 2000 dollars in debts. The buyer pays one third at sale and balance in one and two years with six percent interest. sale notice filed by James P. Reardon trustee.
Staunton banks end plan to consolidate National Valley Bank and Augusta National Bank citing inability to form a suitable new board. Augusta National elected M Killighan president while Valley National planned a future policy and executive slate, leaving former directors from both banks unplaced.
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