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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1908
Page
4
The writer rails against a vogue deemed foolish and unsightly describing hats and hairstyles as ridiculous. The critique targets trends that appear to degrade modesty and personal appearance, labeling them as senseless and uncomfortable and urging readers to resist fashionable excess.
A recent meeting of the Horticultural Society executive committee adopted a plan to boost Virginia fruit advertising. The aim is to put Virginia grown produce into closer touch with growers and markets, with exhibitions in New York and at the State Fair next fall.
Fragmented OCR reads of a financial column noting New York banks showing strong surplus reserves and rising deposits over three months. It mentions railroad and railway sector discussions, reductions in office staff, and ongoing industrial projects such as coke ovens and ore shipments, with unclear names and dates.
Steel and wire men were yesterday set at work in the Schoenberger plant in Pittsburg. Reduced imports that personal economy is personal extravagances to balance in Europe. More important than all other good signs combined, the splendid promise of the crops indicate that nature is once more bestirring herself, as she has so often done before, to rescue as short-sighted people from the consequences of their follies.
The piece notes a projected $14 million revenue shortfall for the current year, doubling last year's deficit, and argues for a one cent letter rate if express companies did not block reforms. It cites rural free delivery losses of $25 million, blaming opposition by express firms and Senator Platt.
The News and Courier of Charleston suggests that allowing women to vote would nearly double the electorate. The South Carolina view argues that extending suffrage to women would largely be rejected by Southern women and would leave political power to white men and white women.
Rev W T Walters a Christian Church minister from Harrisonburg Virginia and pastor at Timber Ridge church will deliver a sermon at the United Brethren Church on Braddock Street Friday evening at 8 oclock. The public is cordially invited.
Friends consider Rev J T Graham likely to succeed Rev Dr J Gray McAllister as Hampden Sidney College president. Graham, son of Rev Dr James R Graham of Winchester, is Hampden Sidney and Union Theological Seminary educated and has led churches in Payettesville and Farmville.
Ground work begins promptly as the instruction suggests tying and lifting poles. A straight wire across the top supports bean vines and allows even growth. The method emphasizes quick setup and sturdy support for climbing varieties.
Farm and Home advises plow and cultivate one row on each side of the line until beans begin to vine. Set poles slanting and tie where they cross the wire to brace the row. Hills three feet apart with one vine per hill yield better results than two vines.
In Bowling Green Ohio spirits and a dead ancestor are said to have guided discovery of a long lost will. The case seeks 80 acres of Wood county land with Catherine Sebastain as plaintiff asserting the will of her grandfather Pember. The piece blends courtroom note with a humorous stage aside.
The marriage of Mrs. Alice Mon tague Warfield to Mr. John Freeman Rasin took place quietly in Baltimore on Tuesday afternoon at the bride’s residence. Rev. F. X. Brady officiated in the presence of family and friends. The couple planned a motor trip to the Valley of Virginia and Capon Springs before visiting Wakefield Manor in Virginia.
Carry Nation at Des Moines declares she will tear the so called sheath gowns from any woman she sees wearing one. She condemns the Directoire of sheath dress as a monstrosity and vows action against its supporters.
Mr Gilmer Jackson returns to Lewisburg Virginia after spending the winter at Hill Cross with his parents Mr and Mrs J M Jackson.
Mr James Ryan spends a few days with Mr R E B Reid, highlighting a brief visit and local hospitality.
A fragmented OCR sequence shows figures including 358 00 1 008 00 49 049 00 1 852 and currency symbols. The readable data is numerical and lacks context or identifiable entities.
For building needs we furnish beams angles roof truss anchors truss rods bolts stirrups sidewalk plates iron doors columns Hintels and cadtings of any description in the structural line.
George W. Taylor of Winchester Virginia testifies Doan's Ointment cured his itching piles after years of suffering. He notes one application stopped the itching and urges others to use the product. Sold by Baker & Son's drug store at 50 cents with Foster Milburn Co. as sole U S agents.
T. T. Wall announces a large stock of wallpaper at prices to fit current times. Ice cream for Sunday delivery must be ordered by 11 p.m. night. no orders taken after sun morning. Jones Creamery advertises contact numbers.
In many Dutch kitchens the kettle remains suspended above the open fireplace not for art but because housewives never tied it any other way, reflecting old custom and practical habit.
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