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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1906
Page
3
The Star Announces Prizes For Local Reporters
The Star offers a best lady correspondent prize a fine inlaid ladies watch and a best gentleman prize a 20 year gold watch. Entries must average one communication weekly May 1 to September 1 totaling at least eighteen. Submissions should be signed and judged on variety speed accuracy and presentation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winder
E. Bruce Capper
The
Star
Strange Finds in Library Volumes Across Several Incidents
City libraries report odd discoveries in returned books including spectacles letters and an endorsed check left by a borrower. A well known bookmark recurs in at least a hundred returns. Two checks found between fiction pages sparked dramatic scenes of loss and concern. Letters are misplaced opened and sometimes sent onward or destroyed. Spectacles and scissors frequently appear and are claimed by owners. A subscriber once requested Monologues of the Dead which was bought and later returned after the presenter’s death.
Machine Fed Poultry: Packers Mass Produce Chickens
The Chicago News notes vast U S poultry packing firms grow millions annually by machine fed cooped chickens. Chickens are fed four to six times daily with corn meal and milk, then tubes feed them to fatten in about twenty one days. workers monitor flocks, cull weak birds, and ship the market-ready fowl.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Chicago News
Storing Unsalable Produce to Feed Winter Poultry
Rural Home counsels farmers to harvest unsalable cabbages and small root crops and store them in outdoor pits for winter poultry feed. Save table scraps for fowls rather than hogs as carrot peelings cabbage leaves and apple skins boost milk weight and egg production.
Impossible Compass by Clock Method Described
The passage explains converting a watch into a compass by counting hours from midnight, halving the count, and aligning the shadow of a pencil across the watch center. It gives examples for nine A M showing north, and six P M showing directions with 12 north and 6 south.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sum
Six Clauses Of English Labor Law 1783
An old English labor law from 1783 lists six provisions for tailors. It imposes two months’ jail on union members and on workers who refuse to work. It sets work hours from six in the morning to eight at night and caps wages at forty eight cents a day. It allows three cents for breakfast per tailor. It fines employers who pay higher wages at twenty five dollars and jails workers who accept increases for two months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Treated Timber Brings Greater Toughness Through Boiling Sugar Process
A long series of experiments reveals a method to greatly increase toughness and hardness in soft wood. Timber is saturated at boiling point with a sugar solution and then the water is evaporated high heat. Pores fill with solid matter, yielding vulcanized preserved and seasoned wood. The Russian government orders all soldiers to use handkerchiefs showing soldierly life in battle and peace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Empire
Incubators Outperform Hens In Egg Hatching Trial
A Field and Farm report compares sitting hens with incubators and brooders. Hens broken eggs mark 12 percent. incubators 0 percent. Chicks dead in eggs range 14 to 18 percent. incubator losses under 19 percent. Hen hatched chicks killed in nest reach 12 percent. brooder deaths under 1 percent. Three incubator makes tested.
Mediterranean fowls urged for egg production on farms
Farmers seeking eggs are advised to favor the Mediterranean breeds such as Leghorns Minorcas and Spanish. These birds are smaller more active and better foragers and make excellent layers. For heavier birds the Asiatic Brahmas Cochins and others are suggested as alternatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plymouth Rocks
Elephant's Costly Meal In Dundee Pocket Thefts
An elephant with a cead at Dundee Scotland put its trunk into a farmer's pocket and drew out a bank note for 20 pounds before escaping. The tale follows a curious incident of animal mischief and a currency claim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dundee
Scotland
A Knotty Problem from a London Tit-Bite
A fair passenger seeks information as the captain boasted of twenty knots an hour. He explains the propeller propels water and then quips that they threw the speed overboard, prompting a teasing exchange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Reference to Commissioner for Baker estate in Winchester Virginia
The court orders John M Steck to value the Piccadilly street property devised to Edmonia L Baker for life, determine E Wyatt Baker’s reversion, and identify liens. Publication in The Winchester Star for four weeks notifies interested parties to attend the Aug 26 1906 proceeding in Winchester. If unfinished, adjournments follow. Given July 25 1906 by John M Steck Chancellor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John M. Steck
Tate
Piccadilly Street
Winchester
Virginia
J. Milton Baker
Edmonia L. Baker
E. Wyatt Baker
Winchester Star
Beach Creek School District Teacher Applications Due
Notice to teachers to file applications with trustees or clerk by September 16 1906 for the next school term. An advance of two dollars per month will be added to the salary. Signed R M Cooper Clerk of Board August 13 1906.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. M. Cooper
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