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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1909
Page
6
Public health notice urges residents to kill flies and eliminate breeding sites. Keep refuse covered and disposed, screen food and windows, and burn or bury waste. If flies remain, contact the health department.
A local meeting established a poultry society to advance the industry and secure better prices in the Valley of Virginia. J D Develley was elected president with officers and a finance committee named. The group will meet weekly at 8 PM in Beverley Poultry Yards and invites all poultry enthusiasts to join. Also notes new arrivals and travel plans of residents in Lexington and nearby towns.
A long discussion of street names in Winchester traces origins from Leicester Street named for Robert Dudley to Monmouth Street honoring James Scott Duke of Monmouth. It covers German Street, Pall Mall, Gerard Street, Braddock Street, Wolfe Street, Amherst Street, and others, with anecdotes on Braddock, Washington, and Fairfax connections.
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