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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1918
Page
4
Publication data lists Harry Flood Burp as publisher with telephones Bell 33 and United Consolidated with Morning News Weekly News Weekly Times and Mirror. The Evening Star is issued from Winchester Virginia with post office as second class mail matter. Subscription rates are noted.
W W Roy Stephenson of Winchester Virginia writes urging the city to condemn and pay for the Bell property to widen the dangerous Water Street corner at Main. He argues traffic growth and upcoming national highways demand a permanent fix rather than a traffic cop, detailing costs and benefits for taxpayers and future prosperity.
The Washington Scout Band with 45 members and Boy Scouts Troop 1 plan to depart for Strasburg for a Liberty rally event at 8 p.m. The address will be given by Mr. T Russell Cather. Local committee members Frank Zea and J W Eberly spearheaded parade and meeting preparations. County meeting schedule lists towns and dates from Strasburg to Branson school house through April 16 to 27.
A Pittsburgh report to The Star confirms the death on Friday April 12 of Mrs. James ill, a relative of Fred Colbert, after four days illness from pneumonia. Born in Winchester, she had lived in Pittsburgh for several years and was part of a well known colored family.
Public notice urges readers to maintain blood purity to ward off disease and boost vitality. The flier promotes S. S. S. as a vegetable blood medicine and offers free medical advice from Swift Specific Co. in Atlanta, Georgia.
The Rev S B Ware who resigned after 30 years as rector of St Peter s Protestant Episcopal Church Port Royal Va has reconsidered the matter at the urgent request of the congregation and will resume his work there. He had planned to retire to Berryville Clarke county but will continue his duties amid family ties and friends.
Frank B. Reardon, formerly of Winchester and now based in Baltimore, has joined the Melon-Stuart Company of Pittsburgh as a responsible executive. The firm is constructing a large filling station for the U S government at Magnolia near Cumberland Maryland, with Reardon assisting in the project.
Plains State Bank at Plains Fauquier County Virginia became one of the first banks in the state to subscribe its full quota of the third Liberty loan bond issue. Cashier John J. Kiger, formerly of Winchester, is credited with the bank’s progress. The allotment was about 17 500 dollars and the bank went over the top on April 6. Bank assets exceed 266 000 dollars.
Mr. W. Avenell Beverley son of Capt. J.B. Beverley of this city has enlisted in the United States Army and sailed for France. He serves in the quartermaster department.
A brief note shows names and phrases urging support for a Liberty bond campaign led by a family figure known as Uncle Bam. The fragment mentions enthusiasm for national savings and wartime finance.
An advertisement touts Vinol as improving health in delicate children and restoring vitality to old people. It lists cod liver and beef peptones, iron, manganese peptonates, citrates, glycerophosphates, and Cascarin as ingredients and promises a money back guarantee if not satisfied. The Miller’s Drug Store backing claims with a broad consumer warranty.
The records show a loan amount of 3,000,000,000 dollars with bond issues dated May 9, 19185 and payable September 15, 1928. The first interest coupon covers 129 days and is payable September 15, 1918.
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