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Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Sep 26, 1916

Page

3

Mrs Rachel Ann Burkhart Dies After Long Illness

Mrs. Rachel Ann Burkhart wife of Jacob H Burkhart died at 11 30 last night at her Mount Williams county home after a long illness aged 72 years 2 months and 20 days. Funeral at noon Wednesday at St John Lutheran Church Mount Williams with Rev Asa Richer of Winchester. burial in Miho Cemetery. Survived by husband and five sons Clarem Newton Jonas Wilmer and two daughters Miss Katie Burkhart and others.

Rachel Ann Burkhart Jacob H. Burkhart Mount Williams St. John’s Lutheran Church Mount Wilams Asa Richer Winchester Miho Semetery Clarem Newton Jonas Wilmé@r Katie Burkhart

Infant Cornelia Stouffer Dies at Five Months

Infant Cornelia Liewlyn Stouffer died unexpectedly at her North Kent street home from a complication of infantile disorders. Survived by parents Harry D. and [missing], three sisters, and grandparents Mr and Mrs Jacob H Stouffer and Capt and Mrs Robert L Gray. Funeral arrangements unavailable.

Cornelia Liewlyn ‘Stouffer Harry D. Stouffer Nooer North Kent Street iShe Anasne Felj Jacob H. Stouffer Robert L. Gray Stouffer Winchester

Market price list reflects varied commodity rates

The market page shows retail and wholesale prices for flour, corn, endive, cracked corn, hay, rye, bran, butter, eggs, chickens, potatoes, and live poultry. Cited ranges include No 1 timothy hay at 18.50, creamery butter 34 and 31, corn around 93 1/4 for spot and Sept, and live poultry figures from 11 to 22 cents per unit.

Ieee Choice Creamery Virginia

Annoyed Gadson Beset By Street Corner Demands

A dialogue contrasts Gadson's poise when calm with irritation under pressure as an insistent woman asks him to buy a flag or button. A college graduate seeks work, claiming top athletic status, but a corpulent desk clerk deems him unsuitable for an orderly business as a bouncer.

Gadson

Two Styles of Delivery in College Careers

A paper notes early American colleges saw about half graduates enter the ministry. The Gotham angle asks how many students choose the pitcher’s profession, highlighting a different delivery style in presenting career paths.

Church Gotham

Fire Threatened the Heart of Strasburg

Two large stables filled with hay straw fodder and other inflammable material were destroyed and another partly burned near Strasburg in Shenandoah county. The town fire department subdued the blaze. One stable owner Henry Ellis a yard conductor for the Southern Railway lost a work horse and four tons of hay. Fires are believed caused by boys smoking cigarettes on the premises.

Strasburg Shenandoah County Henry Ellis Southern Railway

Public Speaking Mastery Demands Training and Practice

A school authority on oratory states that mastering speech is hard and requires persistent work. The speaker needs precise word choice, adaptable temperament, a pleasing voice, and full control of body and facial muscles to express exact shades of meaning.

Steam and the Home and Transport Reform

The passage argues steam shifted industry from homes to factories and later dissolved rigid parishes as transportation made populations mobile. It notes families clustered at home for eating and sleeping, while steam enabled movement uphill from low to higher incomes and eroded ties to birthplace as people seek better destinations, recalling ancestral images no longer real.

Lafayette Eugene Wood Century

Billion terminology confusion sparks debate in economy circles

Experts discuss whether billion should mean a thousand million in the United States or a million million in Britain. The ambiguity affects finance figures, contracts, and reporting standards across markets.

United States Britain

Took Name From Town Tanésus Origin Story

The fragment notes a town named Landay and references a 1 Octmany origin moment for the items named Took Name From Town and Tanésus, suggesting local production in Landay.

Landay

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