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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1906
Page
3
The Southern Railway will implement schedule changes on the Bluemont Branch effective October 9, 1906. Read The Star for full postings and updates.
The Star offers a handsome ladies watch to the best lad reporter and a 20 year gold watch to the best gentleman reporter. Exhibits are in E. Bruce Capper’s window. Rules require eighteen weekly communications from May 1 to Sept 1, editor may exclude. no cross-paper contributions. judged on news value, frequency, accuracy, penmanship, and neatness. Cor respondents must sign names.
In Boyce August 25 community notes list visits and arrivals from Berryville Front Royal Stephens City Harrisburg Hagerstown and Shenandoah Junction. People attending events include Pauline Bowie Bevan Florence Lillian Brown Agnes Merchant John Carper and Beatrice Barr. News also reports Lucy Jolliffe’s death at age three and a half in Bluefield West Virginia.
Mr. R. L. Baskette of Nashville accompanied by daughters Miss Mary and Marguerite spent a night in Brucetown and left for Washington. Rev. C. H. Buchannan will preach at Crum's Burnt Factory and Bruce town on Sunday August 26. The quarantine on the William Fidler scheme will be raised.
Archer Tolman, held for West Virginia authorities, was arrested at a victim’s funeral in Harriston by special detective John W. Mitchie for the killing of James Venie near Charles Town. Venie died from a head wound after a tussle on August 21. Tolman claims to be from Waynesboro. Marshall McCormick, a prominent Virginia lawyer, arrived in town to visit.
A discussion of goose farming cites hardiness and low shelter needs, notes Embden-White China and Embden-African varieties, and compares old versus young geese for breeding and egg production. Moving geese can affect breeding. performance improves in the third season in a new locality.
The article explains how cheese flavor reflects taste and aroma and defines off flavors as taints from milk. It differentiates taints from injudicious cow feeding and from contamination after milking, noting cabbage, onions, leeks, turnips, rye, and rape as problematic feeds. It contrasts calf milk feeding with corn and starch, detailing digestion differences between calves and hogs.
The article argues for prioritizing fundamental beef traits over color in cattle breeding. It notes butter production in dairy cows and the need to develop steers with superior fattening potential, citing China’s shift from milkless beasts to milk sellers and the potential for dairy expansion among natives and missionaries.
A market overview describes square cheese blocks four by twelve inches cuttable in one pound servings, with ten pound cakes and twenty pound daisy blocks marked for easy slicing. It notes Red Danish cows as the main Danish dairy breed, brownish with black points, similar in size to Holsteins, yielding about 8 700 pounds of milk and 349 pounds of butter per thirty cows.
A Baltimore Sun report notes a fresh air child witnessing a cow milking for the first time. The child asks if that milk is the one people drink, and the farmer explains it is kept in a refrigerator.
A policeman from 315 North Kent Street describes kidney pain from patrol duty. He bought Doan's Kidney Pills at Franck Baker & Son and found steady relief, praising the remedy as a remarkable kidney remedy and urging readers to take Doan's and no other.
OCR string lists towns like Winchester Martinsburg Gettysburg Chambersburg Mechanicsburg Harrisburg Philadelphia and New York, hinting at a regional map snippet or travel note with scattered city names. The fragmentary text lacks a clear event or narrative for a fuller summary.
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