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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1907
Page
2
Wholesale and retail dealers in grain and country produce provide today’s quotations including wheat butter spring chickens potatoes corn rye side meat milk feed milled seed and eggs with mixed price notes and illegible fragments. The data lists per bushel and per 100 weight prices for several items though portions are unreadable.
A reflective column contrasts clever romance and sharp tales of bunco with tributes to Turner Ashby and the Shenandoah cavalry. It notes how poets like Byron and Shelley would reshape fame if living, while praising Ashby’s wartime deeds and untimely death, linking his legacy to the Valley’s memory.
The 6 shop group bears power cut out and return duties until a locomotive is ready to leave the shops. Master mechanic carries responsibility from ready for service to again cut out for repairs. Locomotives undergo joint inspection before leaving shops and every worker is responsible to their foreman.
A curious tale recalls Sir James Simpson who introduced chloroform to surgery. Lyon Playfair tested a new anaesthetic on rabbits before attempting it himself. The rabbits died, illustrating the peril of unverified experimentation in anesthesia history.
The London Globe reports the French Academy of Science offers a 4000 prize for a patent system to open communication with the moon or other planets. Mars is barred as communication with Mars is already established. The prize will be awarded in 1910 if won.
The first group of American Rhodes scholars will complete their three years at Oxford as examinations begin this month in various states. The third installment of scholarship funds advances, with fortune favoring continued study.
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