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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1908
Page
5
Local notes list residents returning from trips to Hagerstown and Pittsburg, visits by Maud Larrick and May Ginn, and illness of Mrs. Hinkins. Winchester residents and Charles Manuel family hosted visitors. Dr Z L Weaver sold Main street property to J A Blackburn and plans to build soon.
Rev. Dallas Tucker, brother of Rt. Rev. B. D. Tucker, has accepted the call to Harrisonburg and will preach his first sermon Sunday. He previously served as rector at the Episcopal Church in Charles Town and later in Bedford City.
Mrs Frances wife of Prof John Frances of Los Angeles Cal daughter of the late Bishop J W Hott visits relatives in Winchester and Dayton Va. The couple will tour Europe for school work during his year long absence from the Polytechnic School of Los Angeles. Mrs Frances left Virginia 28 years ago. J H Cooley moves into the Shipmen property on Seminary street and begins studies at Shenandoah Collegiate Institute preparing for the ministry. Esther Barrett of Winchester visits at J W Hott's home.
Inwood residents report E. S. Henshaw starting a new house foundation as he plans to move from the farm next spring. Wilmer Whiting and sisters Bessie and Susie Whiting of Summit Point visited their brother R. F. Whiting last Sunday. Anna and Lou Silver traveled to Martinsburg today. Mrs. Henshaw and Mrs. Abell visited Wednesday evening with Mrs. E. B. LeFevre. Mrs. R. P. Bryarly and Miss Bryarly are in Martinsburg today.
Mr. Peter Wiedenburgh has returned from a visit to New York and is at the home of his parents and Mrs. A. M. Baker.
Berryville residents receive visitors from Washington New York Roanoke and Maryland. Local developments include a Berryville ice plant contract a near complete reservoir project and a planned Norfolk and Western station. The King’s Daughters hold a Winston Hall bazar for hospital and charity funds.
A Chicago to Philadelphia Record dispatch notes wheat prices rising to new highs amid bullish market talk. May futures surged to 1.10 and 1.12 in Minneapolis, with cash prices premium to futures as deliveries shift to bull leaders and Northwest millers. Major players like James A. Patten anticipate scarcity before next harvest.
Miss Amelie Louise Hack daughter of Frederick Home Hack of Baltimore will make her debut at the first Monday German of the Bachelors' Cotillon Club after spending the summer in this city and county.
The ad urges every family to keep Pape's Diapepsin for sudden stomach trouble. A 50 cent case supposedly digests food quickly, relieves sour stomach, heartburn, nausea, and headaches, and leaves no foul breath.
Wholesale markets reflect firmer prices for flour butter eggs and poultry. Wheat oats rye and hay hold steady while corn remains firm and higher. Vegetables and green fruits show steady demand with prices per bushel and bale quoted for hay potatoes and other staples.
A reader letter from Battle Creek, Mich, cites a family of twelve who left coffee for Postum. The writer claims relief from headaches, dizziness, heart palpitations, and stomach issues after switching to Postum, noting a sister and mother improved and even a skeptic brother praised the coffee substitute. The letter ends urging others to try Postum as directed, with a nod to The Road to Wellville.
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