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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1918
Page
4
An editorial urges vaccination to avert smallpox outbreaks, citing Virginia counties, wartime vaccine shortages, and local school boards already vaccinating children. It warns against ignoring proven prevention and notes vaccine availability from the State Board of Health.
The Local Board begins mailing questionnaires to all registrants aged 19 to 36 who registered on September 12 1918. About 123 forms are mailed daily until completion. Registrants have seven days to answer and return. The Legal Advisory Board offers free help at the Corporation Court House in City Hall from 9 am to 6 pm.
An advertisement extols Hyomei as a universal catarrh remedy available from druggists. It claims daily inhalation clears air passages and head symptoms, with a complete outfit including a hard rubber inhaler offered at little cost. The copy emphasizes no stomach dosing and mentions cures for catarrh coughs bronchitis and asthma.
The funeral for John Dean Adams who died in Staunton Virginia Tuesday night was held at 10 this morning at the home of Mr and Mrs H B McCormac on West Clifford street with Rev J H Lacy of the Presbyterian Church officiating. The service was small and the burial followed at Lornee Mount Hebron Cemetery. Adams born August 1889 was 29 and resided in White Hall where he farmed and grew fruit. He leaves a wife Miss Kern, a daughter of Howard Kern, one sister Mrs H B McCormac and one child.
New York man Mr Keith Watt Morris visiting the Miller home on North Washington Street. He serves in the air service medical research lab at Mineola Long Island and notes deaf aviators are well suited for flying due to lack of sensitivity to engine noise and seasickness. Tests show deaf pilots can fly blindfolded and identify ascent or descent. Army officers cheer results and point to many deaf pilots available.
Miss Anne Maria Dieffenderfer longtime city resident dies after paralysis stroke on the sidewalk near her South Market Street home. Survived by three sisters and a brother, funeral at Christ Episcopal Church with interment in Mount Hebron Cemetery.
The Rev. Border J. Stanley will hold preaching services in Centenary Reformed Church at 11 am.
United States Department of Agriculture outlines a year round plan for selecting seed potatoes. Start with a seed plat from top yielding disease resistant plants, inspect for weakness or disease, harvest carefully, store in cool moist conditions, and cull damaged or off type tubers before next planting. If needed treat lightly scab or black scarf with a 30 minute corrosive sublimate soak.
A farming bulletin argues farm machinery can substitute for labor by increasing usage of equipment like corn binders. It cites NY state survey data showing higher annual use lowers per acre cutting costs, and recommends joint purchase among neighbors to spread initial costs and improve efficiency on fellow labor-saving machines.
As a matter of business foresight and economy, as well as patriotism, farmers who increase their production of poultry and eggs this year should plan to use a considerable part of the increase on their own tables.
The insecticide act of 1910 benefits both farmers and manufacturers. Farmers gain access to effective products and save money by avoiding worthless, low grade, or short-weight preparations, while legitimate makers are protected from illegitimate competition. The act builds confidence and increases sales and knowledge about efficacious insecticides and fungicides.
Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture the report notes vetches provide excellent feed green or as hay and serve well as cover or green manure crops. They resemble red clover in use but tolerate soils and climates where clover fails. About 20 wild kinds exist in the United States with two main cultivated kinds the common vetch and hairy vetch.
Farm guidance notes half of farmers neglect thorough milk separation. This results in 10 to 25 percent of butterfat loss. Encourages cream separators as a tool to increase edible food production for consumers.
Raising hogs without plenty of pasture is a losing venture, especially in the West where grain crops are often short.
A testimonial from Mrs. Alice Hellers of Christopher Illinois credits Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound with curing four years of nervous weakness after two doctors failed. She reports becoming regular and healthy and urges others to seek guidance from the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Massachusetts.
Under a 1818 court decree in the Trundle estate sale will occur at the Winchester Courthouse at noon. Two adjacent 70 by 80 foot parcels on EB Gerard Street, each with houses, cellars, and good condition, may be bought separately or together with one third cash and balance in two annual installments secured by bonds and a deed of trust.
By deed of trust dated October 31, 1910 A Bowers and wife convey Rest village acreage near Ridgeway Frederick County. Two acre home site features a two story six room residence with porches cellar fruit land and shop. Sale at the courthouse Winchester Virginia at noon with one third cash and balance in two annual installments secured by deed of trust.
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