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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1914
Page
6
Advert says pure blood makes healthy people and promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla to remove sores boils eruptions by driving humors from the blood. Claims external treatments fail and that Sarsaparilla purifies blood builds digestion and strengthens the entire system. Buy it now.
John Woodson, a member of a prominent Harrisonburg family, was arrested with several others for breaking into the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and Southern Railway depot. The charges against Woodson were dismissed on motion by Commonwealth Attorney Co. D. Harrison. White suspect John Holloway and George Turner, colored, await hearings. The alleged depot robbery alarmed locals and involved railroad detectives and Harrisonburg police.
The listing shows wholesale prices for staples at Stephenson including Wheat at 1.08 per bushel Yellow corn old 4.00 new 3.50 White corn 3.50 Timothy hay 19 Mixed hay 17 Straw and other feeds with retail items such as Mlotr and Millfeed, Butter 0.16 store packed, Potatoes 0.65, Beebwak 0.26, Turkeys alive 0.14 and dressed 0.18.
Prices paid in Baltimore today include wheat at 118 1 4 for spot and December. corn 68 3 4. prime yellow corn 3 40 per barrel. various hay, butter, eggs, live poultry, rabbits, partridges and pheasants with specific per unit figures. An amiable cartoon capper concludes with a light exchange about reporters.
The article notes the fame of pheasants in England and Western Europe for game, clarifies that pheasants are not native to America, and that the ruffed grouse is often misidentified as a pheasant. It also states that native turkeys are closely related to the pheasant family.
John W. Vogels Big City Minstrels bring a progressive, high class minstrel program to Winchester at the Auditorium on Wednesday night. The show claims to be unequaled and the only minstrel attraction visiting Winchester this year with a grand, tape spectac?e promised.
Mie Margaret Walter returns from Baltimore after visiting friends Mr H Savage Wever on, and Mr Walker Bond visits from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Miss Ada Thatcher shows improvement after illness on South Bradlock. Charles W Miller attends in Harrisonburg the trial of a $10,000 suit against the Valley Turnpike Company filed by the administratrix of James V Crowder's estate.
A Virginia forecast shows cloudy conditions continuing tonight and through Wednesday with fresh north and north west winds that will gradually diminish. The outlook indicates cooler air as fronts move in from the north.
Francis X. Bushman headlines a three part feature by the Elaney Company at the Empire tonight. The production titled Bleed Wil Tell costs over twenty thousand dollars and portrays a colonial era tale of a neglected wife played by Irene Warfield. Included are four regular reels with new Keystone Bombs and Bangs. Admission is 5 cents in balconies and 5 cents on the ground floor.
A Washington Star quote shows SNC telling a congress member he will not explain actions. He says he will let constituents debate and then back the side with most advocates. The remark reflects political strategy and public accountability in a quoted exchange.
A quip from Stray Stories about a landlord paying children to fight and create noise. An elderly man questions the uproar while a boy explains the landlord’s dime incentive to disturb a quiet neighborhood.
Mrs W R McClain of Blairsville Pennsylvania writes that Chamberlains Cough Remedy relieved her boy Rays croup quickly and she keeps it in the house as a proven cure for croup. Sold by all dealers.
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