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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1908
Page
4
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A collage of quotes and anecdotes touches on Carrie Nation wealth and a Lincoln memorial road dispute, plus humorous fables and a taft roosevelt jab. It weaves social notes from Washington Post to Rural New with reflections on aviation and politics.
The British submarine AY cruised with no white mice aboard and the crew nearly died from escaping petrol vapors. White mice, trained to smell fuel, forewarn crews, while the AY’s test of a new machine left the vessel without their alerting presence.
Summit Point West Virginia August reports show Thomas Kuykendall of Lovettsville visiting T H Miley for several days. Preston and Mrs Biller spent a month visiting friends in Shenandoah County. D L Whitacre and sons Edward and Mann returned from Dayton Ohio where they visited John R Whitacre.
Mr Charles Willson chats in Lovettsville area while Summit Point youths plan a hall event on Friday for Mrs Tom Farnsworth fund at Stock Farm below Town. Many from Sun attend Odd Fellows Island Park. Two carloads of cats shipped to Hardesty Rikers. one died on unloading. Mr A Baker received a truckload of crushed stone for a concrete house project.
Deerfield Va. residents hosted guests and attended gatherings over the weekend. Conley Glaize family from Biks spent Saturday night and Sunday with S Snapp. Several neighborhood youths joined a Macedonia yard party. Other locals visited friends in Sweett's Gap and Vaucluse.
A Yorkstate woman describes ten years of stomach and liver trouble eased by switching to Postum and Grape-Nuts. She gained twenty pounds, regained energy, and can work hours without fatigue, praising the product as a road to well being.
A long whiskered farmer recalls Betsy the wife hatching turkey eggs with the biggest gobbler. Betsy ties a plank and uses brandy to make the gobbler sit on eggs, then drums him with alcohol until hatching succeeds. The tale ends with the gobbler becoming a moonshine finder and a gainfully employed, if inebriated, state helper.
Thursday Hagerstown at Winchester. Friday Winchester at Martinsburg with the new club. Saturday Winchester at Frederick MD. Miss Magdalene Zinn of Clear Brook visits the family of Mr John K. Snapp at Mountain Falls county.
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