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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1918
Page
5
White men subject to the draft may volunteer for special military service in carpentry blacksmithing automobile repair gunsmithing metal work and related mechanical duties. The program offers two months of government training and runs until April 30 with selection by order numbers if needed.
The ad promotes Zemo as a fast, non greasy antiseptic liquid to stop itching and clear eczema tetter pimples rash and similar skin troubles. It claims quick results and stain-free application from The E. W. Rose Co. Cleveland O.
Jn.1 received a car load of sugar salt in all sizes a car load of corn meal and hominy a tank car of 8000 gals water white oil and 4 tank cars of 8000 gals of gasoline along with a large stock of general merchandise groceries provisions and dry goods noted as the largest on this side of the Eastern markets by Cooper M D S E. & Oil Co.
Mount Olive hosts services next Sunday at 10:20 a.m. Pleasant Valley holds worship at 8:00 p.m. Rev. Dewey Ritter will preach at Fairview at 3:00 p.m. The Sunday school will be held after the preaching.
Miss Alice Seta Maughter, daughter of Mrs. Ida F. Shryock, and First Lt. Frank W. Bailey of the Engineer Corps United States Army, married at Shawnee Lodge near town. Ceremony led by Rev Sydenstricker due to recent family death. The bride, a Winchester area graduate, and the groom, from Summit Point West Virginia, plan a brief southern honeymoon before his transfer to Camp Custer Michigan.
Local markets publish daily quotations with cautions on accuracy. Prices listed include winter and spring wheat flour, corn per barrel, cracked corn, middlings, bran, barley feed, No 1 timothy hay, butter fat, creamery butter, fresh country butter, eggs, potatoes, and Baltimore area entries with nearby dairy and hay figures.
Avoid laxatives and purges. This advertisement urges stopping constant dosing and promotes Nature's Remedy NR Tablets as a nightly aid for digestion, liver function, appetite, and kidney and bowel regulation, claiming a 25 cent box lasts twenty five days and that druggists guarantee the product.
The high court chief justice sternly warns West Virginia that defiance of the Supreme Court to enforce Virginia's $13,000,000 judgment risks destroying the union. Winchester listens closely as Major Conrad, New York bankers Brown Brothers, led the case before the court. The dispute now appears in records of a local suit involving Major Conrad’s estate and executors.
The document notes a decree authorizing Mrs Conrad, via other counsel, to settle fees with Major Conrad's clients in New York. The case is pending in the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, brought on appeal by Holmes Conrad Jr through attorney James P. Reardon of Winchester. Wakefulness relief ad follows.
Scout troops organize as gleaners to gather remaining funds in the Liberty Loan campaign, aiming to maximize contributions and support the national effort. Community volunteers, led by local leaders, mobilize in the final push to secure more donations.
An advertisement extols Dodson's Liver Tone as a safe herbal substitute for calomel, claiming it avoids salivation and side effects. It warns calomel is dangerous Mercury-based and can harm bones, urging readers to try the vegetable tonic for quick, gentle relief from biliousness and constipation.
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