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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1916
Page
4
A union of Morning News Weekly News and Weekly Times Weekly Mirror consolidates local briefs. The collaboration blends reports on community events, civic notices, and sports scores from multiple era-era sources.
The article declares the Verdun victory decisive, defeats German aims to capture Verdun, and notes Allied superiority on the Western Front. It cites von Arnim and von Hindenburg, mentions German withdrawals and possible redeployment to the Balkans, and frames the outcome as a turning point in the war.
An editorial in the Detroit News criticizes Theodore Roosevelt’s stance by praising President Wilson’s reliance on diplomacy and his pen over risking American lives. The piece weighs whether a president should first use words or compel sacrifice of soldiers.
The Roanoke Times editorial lauds Woodrow Wilson for pursuing submarine crisis goals with nonlethal means. It argues his notes spared thousands of American lives and honors him, urging voters to weigh his record before endorsing or repudiating him.
The Farm and Fireside notes a dramatic rise in average national farm values from 15.57 per acre in 1900 to 82.40 in 1910, then 36.25 in 1912 and climbing to 45.55 by 1916. The surge is linked to a southern rebound after a wartime mood dip and war price stimulus boosting exportable surplus.
Stephens City residents greet visitors and travel to cities for work and study. Charles Foster Egolf and son return to Cincinnati after a week with Shryocks. Miss McKnott visits relatives near Baltimore. Cadwallader of Salem stays with locals. Horner of Roanoke weekended here. Dr. Grim visits family after pellagra work in Spartanburg. Caroline Painter heads to Pittsburgh for winter teaching. Ruth and Martha Snyder visit from Lewistown. J Leslie Drake family joins husband at Westinghouse. Minnie McArthur to spend winter in Washington. Margaret Funk injured by wire accident and recovering.
Instructions describe canning pumpkin and squash with sugar and salt, sterilizing in hot water, and lacquering cans to prevent corrosion. Also details a concrete well platform design with a framed two-layer block system, cement, reinforcement, and an anchor bolt for pump support.
An old advertisement touts Dodson's Liver Tone as a safe vegetable alternative to calomel. It claims calomel is dangerous causing sickness and salivation, while Liver Tone starts the liver gently without harsh aftereffects and is suitable for children.
Eight tons of corn silage can be stored in the space of one ton of hay, about 400 cubic feet. One ton of alfalfa hay has 1,000 pounds digestible nutrients, while eight tons of corn silage provide about 2,800 pounds digestible nutrients, nearly three times as much per same space.
Luther Pannett announces a series of public speaking events by noted Democratic orators across Frederick County Virginia. The schedule lists speakers Thos W Harrison B M Roszel and others at Bracetown Cross Junction Mountain Falls Stephens City Gainesboro Winchester with dates from October 31 to November 6.
The Warren County Board of Supervisors will offer for sale at public auction at Front Royal Court House on Saturday November 4 1916 at 130 PM ten thousand dollars of highway improvement bonds in South River District. Denominations 500 each dated May 1 1914 bearing 5 percent interest payable semi annually. Redeemable after twenty years, taxes exempt. Bid must be at par with accrued interest. Chairman John M Lake announces option to sell unsold bonds separately.
A Star sales directory notes farm auctions in and around Winchester. Listings include G Hunter Yeakley October 30 near Winchester auctioning household and kitchen items. Mrs B C Roberts October 31 near Swimley Station offering horses cattle hogs implements harness and goods. George Hulver November 2 at Bloom selling fine fat cattle horses hogs. Ezra E Hauptman November 9 Rest Virginia offering horses cattle hogs implements corn fodder.
Dwarf fruit trees are ornamental and easy to care for. They bear fruit much sooner than standard trees, with quality equal to or better than standard varieties. Dwarf cherry trees can yield fruit in two to three years, with sweet varieties noted for strong growth and showy blossoms.
Quote expresses that fairy tales arise from the dreams of the poor. Noted poet James Russell Lowell remarks on storytelling rooted in hardship and imagination.
A noted apianist reports that bees, when locating a patch of flowers, zigzag to discover it and then return by the same circuitous path. In his garden hollyhocks, visiting bees repeatedly cross over the wall about 25 yards from the flower rather than approach directly.
Alice takes music lessons and fears daily practice as a hardship. She keeps a small piano clock to limit practice to thirty minutes. One day she rushes in excitedly shouting that the clock has stopped, stopping her work.
The quote explains how reading history trains readers to separate local from universal truths, distinguish lasting principles from transient exceptions, and identify enduring laws versus contingent circumstances shaping every society.
The piece notes famed men famed for eccentric dress, citing Buffon the naturalist as an example. It describes his habit of wearing showy costly fabrics with laces and jewels and curling his hair with special attention, even using curlpapers while at work.
A theatergoer recalls a scene where a false servant steals a ring. The master demands a confession and the boy loudly accuses the man with the red stockings as the thief.
A Selected note extols the Ficus Religiosa or Pee pul tree revered in India for honesty beneath its shade and advocates planting such trees throughout cities to curb falsehoods and improve public spaces.
The term Hagiographa means sacred writings in Greek and designates 11 biblical books. These include Ruth Psalms Job Proverbs Canticles Lamentations Ecclesiastes Daniel Esther Ezra and Chronicles arranged as in the Jewish Talmud.
The learned doctor disliked stepping over thresholds with the left foot and would take a long circuit to avoid a valley in Leicester Fields he believed fatal to him. He avoided certain paths and thresholds due to superstition and fear.
A reflection on how true creative energy expands when freely given and diminishes when restrained, linking generosity to life itself.
Five year old Mary used her final block to finish a bed she built as her teacher urged. After thinking it through she declared the remaining piece would become the bed bug in her imaginative construction.
A nurse reports a baby swallowed a paper of tacks prompting sourcing, while Mrs Suffrage laments the need to glue suffrage posters. The cartoon captions reflect humorous, domestic reactions to wartime suffrage efforts.
A reflective notice urges sharing joys rather than mourning, advising to spread happiness widely and celebrate life. It counsels against memorials and encourages living people to enjoy flowers and joyous acts rather than dwell on death.
A concise remark notes that most people act from impulse more than principle and that general moral character is often overestimated, as quoted from Hare.
In a financial sense a reader jokes that the capital of Florida is the money taken from Northerners, a quip printed in the Bogton Transcript. The brief item captures a witty exchange about state capital and taxation.
A New York Telegraph item quotes a woman who says she enjoys solitaire because it allows her to cheat without getting caught. The remark highlights a candid admission about dishonest gaming behavior.
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