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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1923
Page
7
Detailed instructions from Ohio State University Agricultural Extension Service on Bordeaux mixture for spraying. Includes materials copper sulfate and lime, stock preparation, mixing ratios for 100 gallon tanks, and methods to ensure thorough mixing. Also offers alternative formulas for apples and potatoes and cautions on excess lime.
The report describes mixing arsenical with water to form a thin paste then adding it to finished Bordeaux. It notes substitutions of copper dusts for liquid Bordeaux in some areas. Intesta conducted tests in Ohio with these dusts yielding results.
A Winchester reader laments a one eyed monster seen along Valley pike that motorists mistake for a headlight. He urges safety campaigns to keep both lights burning and rear lights bright to prevent accidents and death on the road.
In Culpeper Virginia on September 27 seven year old Edwin Carpenter saved his baby brother and two sisters from a fast burning farmhouse. He first led his sisters to safety then reentered the flames to rescue the infant, while the parents and neighbors arrived as the house collapsed.
Brief notices describe artificial scarecrows failing against birds in Egyptian cornfields. Locals rely on native workers on raised platforms who throw stones to protect crops from voracious birds. Also quoted thoughts praise resilience and the Vatican Library lists 34 000 manuscripts and 250 000 printed volumes.
Warren county politics erupts as county chairman bypasses committee to call a convention with short notice. Delegates hand picked, women protest to defend ballot rights, Ford is edged out, and a new county committee forms after a one day notice convention.
A humorous poem about aggressive door to door salesmen and the narrator’s wish to buy a sausage stuffer without harassment. The speaker recalls older shopping days when sellers were less intrusive and laments modern persistent pitches from Ira Banty Evra Heffelfinger and others.
The great statesman says the papers did not misquote him and that the idiotic things attributed to him were indeed said. This remark appears in the Cincinnati Requirer and reflects ongoing media scrutiny of his statements.
Lady Honoria enters the room with a sweet if rather set smile on her handsome figure as described in the Reston Evening Transcript.
A Ruskin quotation urges every man to discover and strengthen his own powers and gifts to aid those around him. The line emphasizes individual responsibility and usefulness in public life.
An Ohio scientist reports that watch springs break during thunderstorms due to sudden moisture changes in the air, based on experimental observations.
A fragment from the San Francisco Chronicle notes well bred guests hide the urge to snicker while someone frantically works at carving. The quirky line reflects social behavior and humor in casual observation.
Shenandoah Box Board Corporation receives charter to manufacture paper and pulp boards with 80 000 capital. Nathan H Carpenter Mildred H Carpenter and Fred Hunt named directors and officers. The Winchester Old Dominion plant, idle or part time, will reopen full time under new ownership after purchase from American Strawboard Company.
Local wholesale markets report prices for eggs butter flour and livestock with figures for hens under and over four and five pounds, steers calves hogs lambs and chickens. Baltimore wholesale and retail prices list butter eggs corn meal and mixed feed with reported spot values.
The parcel post service shows rapid growth since 1913 with revenues rising from a few dollars to over a billion dollars in ten years. In 1921 the mail carried more than a billion packages, with full fiscal figures not yet complete but expected to cover extensive expansion. Investigations by Henderson are underway to determine the full scope of parcel service.
A Devon Geological survey officer reports artesian water in a 1,000,000 acre area southeast of Lethbridge Alberta. The study maps water-bearing strata and estimates depths for wells. Findings place water occurrence within tight margins, aiding future searches for reliable supplies.
Fragmented OCR text describes trampling in glass pot manufacture using human feet, noting no mechanical method fully satisfactory for kneading the molten material. It mentions sore feet from the work and references various garbled phrases and unrelated characters.
Mystery of sleeping sickness describes the African malady as not contagious in the ordinary sense yet possibly transmissible under unknown conditions. Symptoms include alert wakefulness rather than a simple desire for sleep, leaving the mechanism of spread uncertain.
A family conversation reveals Sonny’s dislike for mornings as a favored time. The excerpt notes the social topic of waking hours and contrasts it with a bank history line and a Napoleon quote about true heroism enduring life’s ills.
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