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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1909
Page
3
Wholesale buyers announce scarce butter across the Shenandoah Valley despite no expected famine. Dealers report butter is limited over the past week while other staples like young chickens country bacon corn and baled hay show varied prices.
The Market St Church announces Sunday programs led by Rev Arthur E Slas gle on Setting Men Right at 8 p m and A Glorious Revolution. Sunday school at 2 15 with a board meeting afterward. Prayer meeting Wednesday at 8 p m cordial invitation extended.
Read The Road to Wellville and consider GRAPE-NUTS for breakfast. Eat slowly to feel lasting vitality through the day as the book suggests, storing energy for brain nerves and muscles.
Social season flourishes with parties from Baltimore Hagerstown Winchester Martinsburg and Green Spring Valley. Guests arrive by Packard Pope Hartford Stanley steamer and White steamer for card games lifts bridge euchre and five hundred. Prizes go to Mrs. H Clifford Smith Mrs J A Norris and Miss Maude Walmsley amid elegant suppers and receptions.
Miss Walmsley won first prize with Mrs D C Holder of New Orleans taking second. prizes included 75 and 50 dollars for various divisions. Hook and ladder contests featured Juniors Hagerstown and Antietams Hagerstown with Western Enterprise earning 81 2 dollars and Ryneal Company Martinsburg 34 11 3. The Finers captured the fiery prize of 100 dollars, with Antietans taking 25. A friendship reel team formed from local sprinters and pipemen competed, listing several names from the community.
Gol and Co frames advertisement seeks to market aditor farms for sale or rent. It notes available parcels, rental terms, and housing options for prospective buyers and tenants, with emphasis on location accessibility and farm facilities.
Fragmentary text warns against dangerous catarrh remedies and misleading prescribed treatments. Mentions fake ingredients, questionable sources, and the need for genuine products. References to doctors, pharmacies, and consumer safety appear in disjointed form.
Partial OCR gives a Norfolk and Western timetable dated October 8 1908. It lists leave Berryville daily and station connections for Brig and intermediate stops. Mentions Knoxville Roanoke Bristol Norton and Gary and Burleson sleeper cars with limited legible times and service notes.
Northernward timetable snippet lists departure times and routes through Florae town and intermediate points to Harrisburg and New York. Mentions Pullman and Buffet service to New York, Sleeper to Pittsburgh, and references to Roanoke Virginia travel agents.
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