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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1905
Page
4
Market brief reports steady prices in the day’s local market listing key items such as wheat at 70 to 82 cents, corn around $2.00, butter about 17 cents, and poultry including hens and young chickens. The fragmented text notes assorted goods and small fluctuations in everyday commodities.
Nineven December reports residents now in Chicago visiting grandchildren. Robert Haymaker recovers from a recent injury while hauling wood. James Gardner returns from Gaithersburg Maryland after dedicating a church he built this summer. Irene Micartney visiting Washington DC area relatives. Joshua Grifm rents the Ratcher farm for next year. Theodore von Reisharz and Annie Smellie return from Winchester. Funk of Berryville moves to Mecartnhevna place near here.
Detailed advice emphasizes choosing uniform hives with interchangeable parts, starting in spring, and buying Italian bees or black bees with Italian queens. It cautions on frame hives, swarms, seed hives, and preserving combs, while urging patience and personal experience to avoid early failure. Indiana Palmer and W L Boyd are mentioned among readers.
Miss Ella and Susie Danner of Staunton visit Rev. David Harris and family. Mrs. J. S. Gardner and Mrs. W. S. Hammond shop in Winchester. Neal Kline buys Turner Willey property near town and moves family. Glover family from Denver visit G. G. Keith. Mrs. Irvin Hottle from Washington arrives to stay with her parents I. M. Wilkeson.
Winchester druggists Franck Baker & Son advertise Hyomei as a cure for acute and chronic catarrh. The inhaler system is said to reach air passages and lungs, with a money back guarantee if no cure. Priced at $1.90 with inhaler and supplies for weeks.
Rev. Mr. Lynch delivered a sermon on Revelations 27 5 declaring There shall be no darkness in Heaven. Miss Pearl Hennings of Stephens City visits nearby friends. Mrs George Dix of Canterbury and Miss Mattie Aleshower of Luray visit Mr Stewart Carper. Mrs West Grim of Winchester visits Newport home of Miss Bessie Carper. Miss Bessie Washington of King George county visits Dr Wilton Stewart. Miss Louise Meade returns from Baltimore and other visits. Mr A H Guard of Stephens City spends Sunday with William Powers. Miss Mamie Denner of White Wall spends Sunday at Al View.
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