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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1915
Page
3
Petrograd reports a decisive battle to decide Riga's fate has begun. Russians are said to have been pushed back across the Drina river thirty miles southeast of Riga, with both sides reinforced and engaged in heavy artillery duels.
The Winchester Commercial Pony Contest opens June 29 1915 offering a Shetland pony harness and buggy for a child 16 or younger. Merchants provide votes for purchases and new or old account payments with a grand prize to the winner. voting boxes placed in participating stores and seals on ballots indicate purchases and registrations only.
An advertisement promoting Hall's Catarrh Cure as an internal remedy that reaches the blood and mucous surfaces. It claims physicians support the cure, labels it a leading tonic and purifier, and notes a 75 cent price. Includes a sales pitch for testimonials and a Toledo company address.
Local buyers offered varied prices for wheat, corn, hay, straw, barley, flour, millfeed and dairy. Retail and wholesale figures appeared for butter, live poultry and potatoes with specific per unit amounts noted.
Baltimore wheat and corn closing prices given with daily telegraph accuracy. Cattle and other grain markets listed with price ranges. Local social notes report Miss Mellie Bender’s Washington visit and family travel of John Hoffman and Virginia Nurton. Several residents visit Winchester and Dodson, with mentions of Hagerstown and North Kent street.
Church listings show services across multiple congregations on Sunday. Centenary Reformed on Market and Cork, Episcopal at Water and Washington, First Baptist on Cork, First Christian at Braddock and Clifford, Grace Lutheran on West Water, and several Methodist and Presbyterian churches with morning and evening services, Sunday schools at various times, and midweek prayer meetings.
The mourning dove earns its name from its somber cooing. Its wing vibrations produce a ringing metallic note, and its graceful form and colors are praised as a natural touch of beauty. A sensitive neighbor once asked a sportsman to frighten one away. Daily Thought follows.
The text lists sea otter as the most valuable fur followed by Russian sable, silver fox, and sable, noting that skin size makes sable far more valuable per skin despite lower ranking.
A university pair, Jack and Edith, hidden romance and a lucky scarab ring drive a mistaken confession. After a lost ring inspires hope, Edith misreads the gesture, but the ring is found in Jack’s pocket, sealing their friendship and hinting at more. Jack signs off with a cheerful note to Dad.
A humorous note cites that while parents may lack college diplomas they are graduates of the school of experience, teaching resilience to youth as lifelong learning. It frames parental wisdom as practical education beyond formal degrees.
A concise reflection on fairy tales describing them as formed from the year’s beams. The quote attributes a crafting quality to storytelling and time’s light shaping legends.
A humorous dialogue features a young doctor asking about a Latin dictionary while the old doctor explains he is treating Mr Gotrocks who has a cold. The exchange plays on names and wordplay in a medical setting.
A provocative line argues repeated rough blows can backfire by drawing attention and making the aggressor infamous, suggesting fame comes from public reaction rather than dominance in encounters.
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