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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1907
Page
2
A group of bargains offers a special $3.75 black wool coat, $3.50 fancy plaid ladies coats, $5.00 fine tan coats, $6.00 to $8.50 black and tan coats, $2.25 children’s coats, and bear skin coats from $2.50, all valued higher.
All first class authors and best titles. Cloth bound books for boys large type good paper. Poems and fiction in fine cloth bound. Gunter's books 75c items for 25c. 75c boys and girls books by Henry Alger and others for 21c. Fine leather bound books 5c and 75c worth up to 1.50. el ar
Box paper 10c each with total value up to 20c and fine box papers 15c to 265c valued up to 75c. Special linen paper 20c per pound. Toilet sets one piece 3.25 and six piece sets 2.00. Children's fleece-lined skirts 9c and outing gowns 30c. Embroidery silk best make 2c per skein.
Advertisement notes white madras waists richly embroidered priced from 1.00 to 2.00 with choice options. Includes assorted W waists in madras all wool effects and sateens listed as worth up to 2.00, promotional sale for buyers choosing from the lot.
A sales note advertises fine furs and muffs at discounts from $1.50 to $4.00 with values up to $6.50. Children's fur suits start at $1.00. Playing cards sold at 12 1/2¢. Sample hats for ladies offered, with 50 trimmed hats priced around $1.59.
Special ad offers women’s suits made of all wool serge broadcloths and Panama cloths priced at 8.75 with a free umbrella stand valued at 4.00. Boys pants 0.59 per pair, children’s dresses 1.00 up, floor oilcloths 0.22, linoleum 0.85, damaged oil-cloth 0.30 per yard.
A shopper cites endorsements from North Carolina Governor R. Glenn and others claiming Gowan's Pneumonia Cure is a universal household remedy. The ad asserts it cures coughs colds croup and pneumonia and lists prices 25 50 and 1 dollar per bottle sold by druggists.
An agricultural column stresses spraying as crucial in modern fruit farming and notes demand for preventive remedies in northwest regions. It contrasts up to date growers with older critics and ends by asserting the distinct character of Virginia ham and its long tradition.
B F Barnes in Garden Magazine argues scale will force extensive adoption of dwarf fruit trees in home gardens. Tall trees may die off within ten years. amateurs will focus on best flavored varieties grown as dwarfs and controlled with mineral oils.
A New England newspaper article mocks a Virginia ham recipe, noting the cookery teacher’s method with scrubbing soaking slow boiling bay leaves vinegar and sugar. The writer argues Virginia ham rightly belongs to Virginia and contrasts New England’s codfish chowder and clam bakes with Virginia traditions.
Wholesale and retail dealers in grain and country produce reported quotations today. Prices include June wheat 60 cents per bushel, eggs 29 cents, spring chickens 08 cents, hens 08 cents, potatoes 40 cents per bushel, rye 59 cents, oats 56 cents, corn 60 cents, and millfeed 1.40 per 100, with retail bids for butter 19 cents, spring chickens 12 cents, side meat 12 cents, and pork products pricing referenced.
Miss Corie and Miss Mary Swimley hosted out of town guests on Friday in Brucetown Virginia. Attendees included Miss Ethel Cleathing of Bunker Hill Rebecca Baird of Romney WV Dakotah Best of Fort Loudoun Seminary and others from Winchester Bunker Hill Richmond and Stephenson. An elaborate supper followed by music and games.
The excerpt calls the middle classes to examine their own faults before criticizing the upper ranks. It notes a single high profile scandal among the elite contrasts with lesser-known misdeeds lower down. In London relic prices a three ounce Commonwealth cup sold at $150 per ounce and a 1682 York hall Charles I tumbler at $100 per ounce. It also reports explorers' claim of three large natural bridges in southeastern Utah compared to Virginia's, noting Pike's Peak is taller than Mount Washington.
Hindostan musicians perform on a tiny pair of toublabs fastened by cloth straps beaten with fingers. Sometimes single drums beaten with hard wood sticks are used to frighten away tigers.
A Philadelphia physician states it is impossible for anyone to eat too many onions, arguing onions carry no upper limit to consumption and promoting their healthful qualities.
A local notice urges renewals with free wordplay and discounts. It promotes Paris Modes and National Home Magazine at $4.00 per year, plus many other titles, with options for $6.00 yearly or advance payments. The ad touts two or three year prepaid deals and claims the Shenandoah Valley’s best paper at $2.00 a year.
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