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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1918
Page
6
Madge Kennedy stars in the Goldwyn adaptation of Avery Hopwood's Our Little Wife at Empire Theater. The comedy follows a bride who flirts her way through six reels and a jealous husband, with feisty wardrobe upgrades and a cliffhanger fire escape stunt. Admission 9, 1 and 2 cents.
Local showtime features Mutt and Jeff in Divorce, Bud Fisher cartoon musical comedy at the Empire. Heiress wards drive a guardianship plot with money at stake, followed by a chase and comic escapades. The production touts tuneful score, dance ensembles, and exquisite costumes amid Broadway‑quality scenery. Curtain at 8:30 with prices 25 50 75 cents and 1 dollar plus tax.
An advertisement promotes Ly- Ladies Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a century old health remedy for women. It claims to prevent organic weakness and disorders and helps grow old gracefully by restoring health with nature's root and herb.
Mrs. Swimley wife of Dr A C Swimley recently operated on at Memorial Hospital for appendicitis has returned to her North Braddock street home and is rapidly recovering from the procedure.
A promotional notice extols calomel and its modern form Calotabs as the universal purifier for liver, stomach, bowels, and blood. It claims improved safety, no nausea, and easy detox, with a 35 cent price and money-back guarantee from druggists.
The tale follows a girl who sailed off on her honeymoon with her rejected lovers in a buoyant Broadway hit by A Horwood. Showtimes are 7 30 and 9 00 with admission 10c and 15c.
Interest grows for the new General Film Company serial A Daughter of Uncle Sam opening at The Empire this week. Jane Vance, Martinsburg West Virginia girl Jesse Horsefal, leads a plot filled with fast action including ice race actions yacht collisions spy raids and a secret code theft in a war era adventure paired with Douglas Fairbanks A Modern Musketeer and the final Seven Pearls episode.
A brief civic message encourages youth to embrace the prebation period of life as a prelude to supporting the purchase of Liberty Bonds, linking youthful energy with wartime financial effort.
A reader prescribes dissolving dandruff with four ounces of plain liquid arvon applied at night and massaged into the scalp. By morning most dandruff fades. repeated applications claim to destroy all traces, leaving hair softer and shinier.
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