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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1908
Page
3
Wholesalers posted small moves in prices for wheat, butter, corn, hay, lard, potatoes, and side meat. Prices ranged with wheat near standard levels, butter steady, corn around four dollars per barrel, hay from ten to thirteen dollars per ton, lard about ten cents per pound, potatoes sixty cents per bushel, and side meat listed at various per pound marks.
The passage notes flowers as signs of political factions in France, citing Carnation for General Boulanger supporters, violets for Bonapartists, and a stage anecdote about Mlle. Mars being hissed for wearing violets during the restoration era.
French birth customs place blooms around the cradle while funerals feature lavish grave decorations. Pere la Chaise spends millions yearly on grave adornment. The Worms de Romilly tomb is kept with fresh flowers at a cost of 0,000 francs annually.
An advertisement touts poslam as a rapid cure for eczema and other skin troubles aggravated by hot weather. It claims first application relief, external use, and healing powers with quick results for pimples, rash, itching, and scalp humors. Packages priced at 56 cents and two dollars are available at Franck Baker & Son's in Winchester, with free experimental samples from Emergency Laboratories in New York.
Mosby the Confederate cavalryman is humorously revealed in a Shenandoah Valley episode from 1864. A hungry trooper seeks food, asks a contraband woman if Mosby is in the house, and is told Mosby lies in a cradle nearby. The capture plan collapses as the colonel discovers a pigtailed infant instead.
A severe electrical storm struck farms near Clarke and Jefferson counties causing multiple barns to burn. The Hicks farm barn near town burned with 1490 bushels of potatoes lost and $300 insured, while the McCormick homestead barn in Clarke county also burned, killing a horse and consuming implements. In Whitacre Virginia near Whitacre a barn belonging to B Frank Keiter burned with loss of hay and gear, and no one home was hurt.
Mr William V Smiley and wife and Mrs Sibilla Cooper of West Chester Pa guests of Mrs Mary F Trimble near White Hall spent the day in Winchester viewing historical places.
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