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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1919
Page
4
Walt Mason riffs on frugal living and self sufficiency praising old time gardens. He recalls growing beans, peppers, melons, succotash and quinces while denouncing profiteering grocers and urging readers to reclaim thrifty habits and self reliance.
The source lists varied prices for groceries and farm goods with many garbled entries. Items include sacks, butter, hay, clover, and poultry, showing a wide, poorly legible range of quotes.
Star previews Sunday pages show a feature photograph of Gen Pershing leading the Washington parade route down Pennsylvania Avenue. The image highlights the parade's grand scale as readers prepare for the two page spread tomorrow.
The provided text is fragmented and unreadable, lacking coherent entities or events to summarize into a factual headline and card style summary. No clear person, organization, date, place, or outcome is identifiable for a faithful record.
Reports from Martinsburg bureau show steady markets with moderate demand and few sales. Prices for Jonathan apples range 2.25 to 2.75 per box, Yorks and Ben Davis in the 5.00 to 7.50 range, with mixed carlot and barrel listings and scattered shipments from Virginia and West Virginia.
Governor Westmoreland Davis urges Virginia boys and girls to reenroll as junior Red Cross members to aid postwar reconstruction. He emphasizes relief for suffering children in war torn Europe and calls for volunteer service during difficult days.
Misses Fannie Pitcock Teenie Snapp and Mrs Perry of Fawcett Gap visited the Pitcock home. Visitors to Mrs Vernie Cadwallader included Mrs Harry Lamp and others. Mrs J B Pitcock visited Mrs Joe Renner near Winchester. Beulah Lamp stayed with the Knights. Sunday guests at Harry Lamps included the Snapps and Carpenter family. The stork visited James Rosenberger's home recently and Pett Siete welcomed a newborn at Charles Smith's.
Fellowship in the fastest growing American society invites all citizens to join and pledge thrift. The piece highlights the Treasury's wartime finance, noting the shift from debt to creditor status, the $20 billion wartime cost, and the role of Liberty Loans. It extols War Savings Societies as safe investments for small savers, offering security equal to a $10,000 Liberty Bond with as little as twenty five cents.
Poem praising Washington and his legacy while urging cost cuts. It encourages thrift by replacing wasteful spending with War Savings Stamps and notes the nation’s debt to Washington for liberty and progress.
A thrifty man advised to buy wisely and save intelligently by investing in Thrift and War Savings Stamps to secure funds for the future.
Government urges thrift through Thrift and War Savings Stamps with a loan to the U S. public. It promises repayment after five years with four percent interest compounded quarterly, aiming to encourage prudent saving and investment.
An eminent engineer, back in Washington, recalls the battlefield as he scavenges relics. He notes rifles and helmets everywhere, but a trench shovel remains coveted, prized for reclaiming a lost post. War Savings Stamps are trench shovels for digging in against adversity.
The piece urges continuing support for War Savings Stamps even as soldiers are discharged and return home. It praises veterans and civilians alike and calls for ongoing savings campaigns to fund postwar readjustment under the WS 5S banner.
A public promotion extols war savings stamps as the safest investment issued by the United States Government. It claims stamps increase in value monthly, are cashable on ten days notice at any post office, and advocate thrift as a civic duty to defeat wastage.
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