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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1908
Page
2
Local grain dealers quote live stock and produce prices across cereals hay butter corn and meat. The market notes include per bushel per ton and per pound figures with varied bids and offered rates reflecting current trading conditions.
Sale notice by Atty for the Owners at the premises of C B Guyer in Strasburg Virginia. The listing indicates property offered for sale under legal authority with location and representative attorney details.
A public sale is set for Tuesday February 18 featuring five head of horses head cattle hogs and farming utensils including various farm articles. Proceeds to be offered at the Stephensons property location as listed in the notice.
Wardensville West Virginia February reports note Rosser Robinson delivering remains from Capon Bridge, sale of J. W. Frye estate set for the 13th, and several locals attending lodge for new members. Hogs infected by cholera lose 14 of 25 in ten days, ice harvest finished with 7 8 inches thick, temperature hit 10 below zero, measles fading with two sick listed along with B B Billymer and Mrs Lucy B Cline in improved condition.
Miss Maude Funkhouser of Middletown Virginia died of consumption in Michigan after some time away. The news came Thursday night.
For Your Sunday Dinner try a dessert with 1-2 crop English welout meats 1.2 dozen figs and JELL O dissolved in boiling water. Cool and thicken stir in figs and nuts top with whipped cream. Mr and Mrs Payton Bowers of Winchester Virginia visiting Mr and Mrs Alexander Bowers Leitersburg. Hagerstown Herald.
A long list of upcoming public sales shows horses cattle sheep hogs and farming implements offered by various sellers on dates from February 13 to March 24 in Shenandoah Valley and nearby Virginia locations including Berryville Winchester Rippon Wadesville Summit Point and Gordonstown area listings name the seller and farm with items to be sold.
An advertisement promotes Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root as a cure for kidney bladder and liver problems. It touts benefits such as restoring urine flow relieving pain and reducing nighttime urination. Samples and a free booklet are offered by mail from Kilmer & Co Binghamton NY.
Franck Baker & Son, Winchester agents, tout Hyomei as the best cure for catarrh with a money back guarantee. They say it has widespread approval from physicians and business people and their families, driving strong sales and proving its healing air kills catarrhal poison.
Special notice details a schedule change for the Bluemont Branch of the Southern Railway and the Winchester Berryville Bluemont Stage to meet trains daily. It permits leaving Winchester at 7 o clock in the morning instead of 6 and connects morning trains to Berryville for passengers from Berryville to Mont. The wording is incomplete and several dates and times are uncertain.
Public notice promises improved transit as the Turnpike Company plans a 12 passenger steam auto with 40 horsepower. It will operate two daily round trips, aiming to boost patronage and fair public benefit.
An 1890s advertisement argues that most kidney complaints stem from diseased rectum and promotes Dr Bosanko's Pile Remedy. It claims piles cause toxins affecting the bowels and kidneys and promises cure with a 50 cent jar sold by Bosanko in Philadelphia and mailed by Geo. E. Bushnell & Co.
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