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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1913
Page
4
A fragmented Norbert style recipe describes Steamed Apple Pudding with layered bread and apples. It mentions steam for one hour and serving with a liquid pudding sauce, noting steps like browning separate layers and beating eggs with milk.
The article notes cedar trees threaten Virginia apple orchards across the Appalachian belt. Mica damage often destroys trees, forcing costly remedies and management changes. Apple traps and removal of cedars are discussed as potential fixes, with Virginia growers expanding from Winchester to Bristol and sending apples to Europe.
A compact guide outlines a Christmas recipe and practical help for a friend who is ill. It includes comforting steps and simple ingredients to lift spirits and offer practical support during the holiday season.
A distressed voice urges care and kindness to lift spirits this Christmas. The speaker notes unnoticed suffering nearby and calls for immediate comfort, saying joy and solace can keep Christmas alive for others and oneself.
A fragment blends a playful Thanksgiving toast to a turkey with a grim note about Villa executing prisoners. The passage contrasts light culinary whimsy with stark violence, noting he is kind to his family yet shoots prisoners, concluding with a penned attribution to S M Lewis.
The article reports rising tobacco and whiskey use in the United States with 14.294,096,741 cigarettes sold and tax paid, up from the prior year. Whiskey distillations in bonded warehouses nearly doubled from 136,841,378 to 276,784,540 gallons, as total Internal Revenue receipts reached 344,424,453.85 dollars, surpassing estimates. Col. Osborn seeks staff and stamp agent pay increases.
The Sunday school of the First Baptist Church will hold a Christmas celebration in the church Friday evening at 7:45. A musical and literary program will be presented and scholars will receive presents. Pastor Rev. W. H. Carter is expected to speak briefly.
The Washington Sun previews exclusive features for the Sunday edition including Romance of Panama The Counfounding of Holby Faps for the Topaz Tale Throwing a New Light on the Drama More Tales from the Road and The Parcel Post and Its Mice with order details for the full issue.
There will be preaching at the following Frederick circuit churches on Sunday December 28. Relief at Pax-tons Chapel at 11 a m Lamps Memorial at 7 30 p m and South Church at 3 p m.
Kernstown Presbyterian Church presents a Christmas entertainment on Saturday evening featuring the WilP group performing carols and seasonal numbers for the local community.
On December 27 the entire Virginia Woolen Company staff will quit work this evening and resume Monday morning. Weavers who wish to return Friday morning may do so. The move follows calls for a short stoppage at the big mill.
Holiday notes from Berryville list Mrs R B Lewis and sons of New York visiting at Rockledge with Mr and Mrs W T Lewis. The Crown family from Columbia DC and John Crown Sr of Washington join. Miss Margaret Moore returns from Baltimore. Miss M M Blackburn visits Alexandria. Mrs John Henry and children stay at Province McCormick's for holidays. Lucy Deahl returns from Washington. Bob Elts of Washington is in town.
Mrs. Mary H. Mesmer departed this morning for Washington to visit relatives and friends over the holidays.
Mr. Robert C. Sibert and his bride Miss Mary Catherine Baker have returned from their wedding trip and stay with the bride’s mother Mrs. P. E. Baker north of town. They visited Washington Brandy Station and Madison county and will soon establish a home. The Bartons from the University of Virginia will holiday with grandparents on Fairmont avenue. Hon. Richard Evelyn Byrd is visiting from Richmond for Christmas at his Amherst street home.
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