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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1900
Page
3
Market bulletin lists wholesale prices paid for eggs butter apples potatoes dried cherries and peaches turkeys chickens ducks wheat corn and other grains with figures scattered across lines. Entries show varied prices per unit and appear incomplete with several illegible sections in this historical listing.
A Strasburg special reports that W A Bowser purchased the Fisher's Hill mill property for 1800 dollars to build an electric plant. Tumbling Run will supply power and electricity will be sent to Strasburg by wire. The town council has not acted yet but plans to use electricity along streets once the plant operates. Bowser will install an incandescent plant.
The State Board of Agriculture appointed ten inspectors created by the fertilizer bill with many contenders presenting claims. E M Minnick of Timberville Rockingham county named inspector for this district. Brooks Ramsay, a young black man, was shot and killed by Norfolk Policeman Solyer after breaking into Mrs. Pruit’s home and assaulting her with an iron grate.
Hardware Department offers locks hinges nails pulleys and cords with quick estimates for entire building projects. Copper bronze brass and jet finishes advertised for fancy hardware.
A historic listing notes roofing components including slate tin iron steel galvanized roofing tar roofing felt rosin sized sheathing asbestos and wall lining referenced in an era trade inventory.
Readable ad lists paints and finishes including John T Lewis and Railway Paz White Lead in oil. Also dry color colors in oil coach painters color in Japan varnishes har oil shellac ready mixed paints.
The ad lists Cold's Celebrated Meats with Bacon Shoulders and Hams Arm our's Potted Goods Harvey's Leaf Lard Tacbell Cheese and leading flour brands Pride of Berkeley Pillsbury's Best. Items include peas beans tomatoes corn canned and evaporated fruits olives pickles soups relishes mushrooms sauces catsup jellies lobsters salmon and luncheon tongues with a guaranteed quality.
Coffees, Teas and Candies, Fruits, Nuts, Cokes, Crackers, Jumbles, Bon Bons, Snaps and Biscuits. Dinner Sets, Toilet Sets, Cups, Plates, Saucers, Glassware and Lamps. Jardi nierers, Flower Pots, Vases, Cus piders and Nappies. Baskets, Buckets and Tubs, Washboards and Churns, Step Ladders, Clothes Horses, Rope, Twine and Mats.
A catalog entry lists wall brushes plasterers brusha es whitwash and paint brushes sash tools dusters brooms for professional painting and plastering tasks.
Glass cut to order in plain fancy and ornamental styles. Designs in lead and cog per bevel bent and germzam mirrors. Broken glass replaced with new. Glazing promptly done.
Mr Harry Cooper has been appointed postmaster at Star Tannery in this county. The office is in the fourth class.
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