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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1914
Page
3
A 1914 Christmas feature lists a vast range of gifts including Eastman Kodak items from $20 Kodak supplies hot water bottles stoves safety razors and Parisian Ivory beauty boxes. The advertisement promises a large assortment of perfumes evergreen decorations and holly wreaths for near Christmas with an inspection encouraged.
Commissioners will offer at public sale on a specified date at 1 p.m. at Middletown B and O station in Virginia real estate including Tract 1 a 10 acre orchard with a new two story dwelling Tract 2 an 84 10 acre mill site with full machinery and equipment Tract 3 a 62 acre farm with a frame dwelling payment plan one third cash and two equal annual installments with bonds and deed security names include Albert Baker et al and A Walter late of Frederick County Virginia and the sale is subject to court decree and approvals.
Court records reveal a 1914 publication order in Frederick County Virginia. The Master Commissioner announces proceedings to determine land value liens rents and profits and to report unpaid taxes for properties tied to Mary Foltz and heirs with notices for interest holders to appear by December 1944.
Disjointed notices describe an order revoked and schedules altered. Train service faced gaps with no night man on duty, a watchman on sick leave, leaving passengers to wait in cold weather for the next transport.
Illinois health officials publish control rules for farms to curb foot and mouth spread. Recommendations include isolation of animals, restricted visitor access, sanitation of buildings, equipment, and milk cans, and disposal of stray animals. Disinfectants and chlorinated lime sprays are advised for barns and water troughs to kill germs.
Agents of the department of agriculture seek a north Asian alfalfa that resists winter kill. They note variation in fields on similar soil due to handling, late cutting, heavy fall growth, light snowfall, and snow cover. Recommend leaving six to eight inches of growth in fall to protect roots and reduce soil heaving from freeze thaw. Also describe a method to dry seed corn by drilling nails into barrels for aeration.
Public auction in front of the Court House at noon for the Peery property in Stephens City Virginia. The estate includes five acres with an improved residence, bounded by the Valley Pike and Peters Mill Creek, with two-year notes bearing six percent interest payable semiannually. Cash payment option available. Executor C Peery and attorney R Gray Williams announce the sale.
A quirky assemblage cites Poe’s vanity and other authors’ foibles, noting Nathaniel Hawthorne’s handwashing before reading a wife’s letter and Longfellow’s preference for sunrise or sunset walks. It shifts to a description of the Malabar Godavari dance and then to woodpecker damage to telegraph poles, with a tour note about extensive pole drilling.
Harry Jungles arrives in Three Pines with a motorized wheelbarrow and wins Pearl’s attention. Pearl proclaims she must marry into an automobile owning man, prompting Harry to propose in a bold, comic twist. Pearl cries as the barrow crashes, then learns he ordered a new auto to beat Gene Filers to capitalize on her remark.
London’s oldest twins Messrs John and James Barker of Forest Hill recently marked the ninety second birthday of John Barker who has now died. Born Woolwich two years after George IV ascended the throne they lived near Charing Cross all their lives. John Barker a rope and sack merchant retired from business but remained with family in Forest Hill.
A fragment hints at gender roles and marital strain as a woman questions a husband’s hard work to make ends meet, noting perceived intelligence differences and domestic expectations. The text reflects dated views on marriage and labor.
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