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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1914
Page
3
The list shows wholesale prices for wheat corn hay and grains plus poultry Butter potatoes beeswax and rabbits with a table like structure. A separate paragraph discusses vitality noting the early afternoon as most fatal and midnight to dawn as highly dangerous for a sick person.
Prices paid in Baltimore markets include corn timothy clover and hay with poultry and rabbits rates listed. The piece also comments on social code as reflected in Atlantic Monthly and describes a Swiss bottle cleaning invention using sand and water for difficult bottles.
England's Life Guards, oldest cavalry command, formed after the restoration. Recruited from cavaliers who served Prince Charles Stuart, they became three troops in 1661 named the King's Own the duke of York's and the Duke of Albemarne's. A Scottish troop was always raised in honor of the House of Stuart to protect the sovereign and royal family.
In Germany a Newfoundland rescued a boy from a pond and showed pleasure. The boy later repeated dives to test the dog, which punished him with a shake but continued to save him. The dog watched the boy repeatedly fall in, staying dry on shore. Fire safety evolves from 1761 New York ordinance mandating stone brick and tile roofs for city buildings south of Fresh Water.
A Kansas City Star excerpt contrasts rustic Arkansas talk with an exaggerated debate between neighbors over a wife’s odd behavior. A separate scene shows an agricultural expert clashing with a farmer who retorts by citing a calf that nursed two cows to illustrate practical wisdom.
The article explains allurophobia or cat fear as a rare nervous condition. It discusses varied reactions including asthma, seeing cats, near presence, or even smelling a cat, with some cases where the consciousness of a cat lingers despite absence.
A public school geography class lesson ends with a humorous exchange as a student named Johnny correctly identifies the Nile as Egypt's main river and humorously cites its tributaries as juveniles. The moment reflects optimistic views of youth in the era.
In Montreal the old stone building now housing La Chambre de Commerce on Champs de Mars recalls the 1859 rite of passage for dollars and the first color counterfeiting countermeasures. The British-American Bank Note company, faced with forged notes from American imitators, consulted chemist Dr. Thomas Sterry Hunt who proposed a chromium sesquioxide pigment to secure bank notes, a method that has endured.
The text traces the emergence of public schooling from Calvinist Geneva and its spread through Europe, noting that widespread public education only became firmly rooted in the United States after its establishment. It acknowledges uncertainty about exact origins and timelines.
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