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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1916
Page
3
A girl recounts two lunch incidents at school. She says her mother prepared meals, but on the first day the lunch vanished from the desk. On the next day the girl says she sat on the lunch, proving no one stole it.
The article notes opal ranks with diamonds rubies emeralds and sapphires but warns its color fades in severe cold and damp conditions. It adds warmth from the hand or sun can restore its fire and brilliance, highlighting the stone s delicate structure and reactive nature.
A Pittsfield Massachusetts mother recalls telling her young son to drop his penny in the church plate. The boy asked why the man who collected the money never returned, growing restless as he pressed for an answer and comfort from his mother.
An antiquated note cites Dr George Qheyne advising reduced food after fifty and near eighty. A punchline about an elderly couple seeing a shop sign reading Johnsons Shirt Store prompts a joke about who wore it and why. Proper Indignation.
Dabki, a Russian children’s toy using pig leg bones for play resembles tenpins in peasant estates where toy makers craft items for shaster’s children. The Blushing Bride joke has Saffron Long guessing brides blush from thoughts of ruling husbands after marriage.
Journal de Pharmacie et de Chimie reports a method to restore elasticity in aged rubber. Soak the material for five minutes in glycerin mixed with distilled water in a 1 to 25 ratio, heat to 70 degrees Celsius, then dry with filter paper.
In mid January Mrs Jones reproaches her husband James for breaking their new year promises. He admits the lapse and vows to set new, even better resolutions for next year.
Jacob Randolph Hillyard, young son of Mr. and Mrs. C B Hillyard, died Monday morning at the family home on Bufitek road after a long illness. The funeral was held yesterday at Macedonia. Survived by parents two brothers Lawrence and Douglas and three sisters Nellie Beulah and Louise.
Grape treatment advised for nervous thin and anemic individuals with digestion issues. Eat one grape per minute for sixty minutes and repeat the dose several times daily until a cure is achieved. Sleep at least eight hours in every twenty four.
A Paterson Press Guardian item reports a boss scolding billing clerk Mr Lorum for attention to Miss Sweetthynge during office hours. The employer reminds he was hired only as billing clerk and dismisses the matter for the present.
A quotation from John Ruskin argues that men enlisted for deadly labor should instead be drafted for life-sustaining work and that leaders directing the latter should be treated as gentlemen equal to those guiding dangerous tasks.
A reflective note cautions that one cannot smear ink on others without staining oneself and cannot speak ill of others without becoming mean. The aphorism urges self-awareness in writing and speaking.
A brief item notes Miss Reed traveled from the city to Baltimore after a stay here. It adds a light aside on a boy who proudly says he saved one penny from a ten given by his mother.
Ellarose Amick, seven month old twin daughter of Mr and Mrs James W Amick, died at home on Highland Avenue after illness of brain trouble. Her twin RoseHa Amick died in July. Survived by parents and one sister Miss Eva May Amick. Funeral held at 3 PM at Highland Avenue Mission. interment at Mount Hebron Cemetery.
Former Confederate soldiers from Winchester and nearby join the 29th annual reunion of the Grand Camp of Confederate Veterans of Virginia in Norfolk. Grand Commander Tate presided morning, Gen. A Thompson Brown led the afternoon. Adjt T B Jackson delivered welcome, R E Lee Camp Richmond read an historical address on heavy artillery. Rev W E Thompson read a sketch on the Ku Klux Klan. Mrs Carlton D Harris of Baltimore registered at Hotel Jack. Mr J S Haldeman was in Washington on business.
Mr C N Fraser of the Washington branch of the Underwood Typewriter Company spends several days in town on business and is registered at Hotel Evans.
Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Baker left for Richmond Virginia to attend the Grand Commandery of Knights Templar gathering. Mrs. B Maphis also left for Wilmington Delaware to visit relatives this morning.
Mrs J Gowery of Philadelphia Add Mire West Virginia and He Averwalt of Allentown Pennsylvania were registered last night at the Hotel Evang in the area.
Miss Kate Barr of Wilmington Delaware, who had been visiting relatives and friends in the city for some time, returned to her home today.
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