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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1907
Page
2
Advertises first class authors and top titles in cloth bound editions for boys and girls. Describes poem and fiction volumes in fine bindings priced at 15c to 25c. Leather bound volumes offered at 50c to 75c, with values up to $1.50. Includes works by Henry, Alger, and others.
Paper and packaging sale items listed with prices. Box paper up to 20c, fine box papers 15c to 25c, worth up to 75c. Our special linen paper offered in a pound package for 20c.
White madras rich embroidery waists priced from 1.25 to 2.00 now 1.00. A lot of odd waists in Madras all wool effects and sateens worth up to 2.00 each now 75 cents.
A local seller notes growing belief in Gowan's Pneumonia Cure as demand rises. Critics focus on price while acknowledging its perceived life-saving effects. Drugstores stock the remedy widely, with a dollar or fifty cent pricing range making it accessible to many.
The agricultural column advises consulting a competent veterinarian to diagnose hog disease, noting hog cholera and swine plague share symptoms. It explains post-mortem checks, signs such as pinhead ulcers in the small intestine and labored breathing, and stresses there is no cure. It suggests saving healthy hogs, typically 25 to 75 percent, and abstaining from grain feeding to sick hogs. conclusion to follow Monday.
Howard Larrick son of John W. Larrick of the county, was among Washington and Lee University football players at Lexington who received monograms. Dr. John H. Latane announced the awards before a large crowd, with applause for the fourteen honored players including Dow Waddill White Osborne Hoge Larrick Morales Pipes Wilson Izard Brown Streit Anderson and Stephenson.
Readers are told that blood quality determines health and that rheumatism and catarrhal affections arise from bad blood. A home recipe using Fluid Extract Dandelion, Compound Karyon, and Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla is advertised as a safe, vegetable-based system renovator to cleanse kidneys and liver, relieve symptoms, and restore vigor.
Mr and Mrs W H Crawford entertained about forty guests at their Martinsburg home with a card party Thursday evening. Progressive euchre followed by refreshments honored Mr and Mrs Stephen R Snodgrass and the house party. Ladies first prizes went to Mrs A Andrews and Miss Belle Stewart. gentlemen prizes to Mr Allen B S Noll and Mr Max Robinson.
Lake Erie is credited with producing more fish per square mile than any other body of water, highlighting its abundant aquatic life and rich regional fisheries.
The Star carries wholesale and retail quotations for grain and country produce. Spring chickens sell around 12 cents a pound in retail, and wholesale prices include potatoes at about 40 cents per bushel and corn at about 2.00 per bushel.
Bunker Hill reports Harry Clendening of Washington visiting his father J. L. Clendening. W. B. Clendening and J. L. Stewart were Martinsburg travelers Friday. Rev. E C Ely conducts protracted services at Gerardstown as Rev. R A White begins a week long meeting in the Presbyterian church Monday night assisted by Rev. Link of Strasburg.
Isaiah Good died at his father Mahlon Good’s home in Rock Enon Springs after a three week pneumonia illness. He was a bright 15 year old. The funeral is planned for Sunday from the family house.
Special Receivers will sell at public auction on December 19 on the S S Thomas farm known as Glenowen near Berryville Clarke County Va to settle a chancery decree. The sale includes four horses a cow two-year-old steer several farming implements including drills binders mowers plows cultivators planters wagons harnesses and farming paraphernalia plus household goods fodder and about 25 barrels of corn to be fed on the place.
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