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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1917
Page
4
The Evening Star is entered at the Winchester Virginia Post Office as second class mail matter, consolidating with Morning News Weekly News Weekly Times and Weekly Mirror.
In a playful verse set on a Wednesday in April the speaker ribbedly notes spring’s arrival eases winter woes. He claims health improves with eating apples and bemoans rheumatism while winter lingers, then salutes the season’s warmth and bird songs as he yells with joy.
Council confronts fire company funding with a $1400 annual proposal and options to consolidate, receive more funds, or disband. A street department dispute over a dismissed worker prompts defense of city manager. Reports showMarch receipts and fines, health and city manager records filed. a large water usage decrease is noted.
The council passed second readings for an ordinance to pay $100 as the citys share of the jailors salary and adopted a resolution transferring 200 from the street fund to improve the Senpesnet road inside city limits. A bid for leasing the Auditorium was authorized and measures to curb surface closet cleaning were debated.
Public editorials call for six months intensive universal military training for all fit young men with no exemptions. Training credits possible for prior service, aims to deter war and build national defense, democracy, and unity as a political appeal to lawmakers and citizens alike.
By action of the City School Board the public schools will not observe regular Easter holidays this year Good Friday will be the only holiday granted Owing to certain reasons it was found necessary to close the public schools not later than June 1 and in order to make up the few days that would be lost at the end of the session the board thought it advisable to keep the schools open on Holy Thursday and Easter Monday
The pastor Rev W H Lampeell will preach Sunday at Pleasant Valley 10 30 a m Fairview 3 p m and Mount Olive 7 30 p m The Walker family Mrs John G Walker and daughter Frances A Walker have returned to Mansfield residence in the country after spending winter in Washington DC.
A 1916 testimonial from Gill Company of Starkville Mississippi praises Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root, claiming no complaints and general customer satisfaction with reported meritorious results. Signed by Julian J. Gill on September 29 1916.
Advertisement notes Dr. Kilmer & Co. of Binghamton New York offering Swamp Root with a request to send ten cents for a sample bottle and a booklet on kidneys and bladder. Mentions regular fifty cent and one dollar bottles available at drug stores and to mention The Winchester Star.
Philadelphia readers are urged to try Bon-Opto tablets said to strengthen weak eyes and reduce dependence on glasses. Dr. Lewis cites numerous testimonies of improved reading, less eye pain, and clearer vision after 15 days, with users advised to dissolve a tablet in water and bathe eyes twice daily.
A letter from Mrs. Benjamin F. Blake of Madison requests relief from severe illness and reports improvements after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She encourages other women to write for free advice from the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Mass.
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