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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1920
Page
8
The Grimes Home Demonstration Club will hold its regular monthly meeting on Thursday evening April 29 at the school house. A series of pictures on The Home Life of a Farm Woman will be shown, which has been well received in Frederick and other Virginia counties. The public is cordially invited to attend.
An advertisement touts Cascarets as a mild laxative that cleanses the liver and bowels while you sleep. It claims the product does not gripe or sicken like salts, oil, calomel, or harsh pills and appeals to readers with symptoms of biliousness and digestive discomfort.
Business men nationwide note improving conditions as Klaw & Erlanger discuss bringing A. B. Marcus and the Marcus Show to Winchester in the near future. Positive reports from New York showmen cite good sales for the extravaganza Oh Baby and potential offsetting travel costs.
Mrs. Ernest Frederic Tabor of Escondido California announces the marriage of her daughter Miss Beatrice Carroll Tabor to Mr. Cuthbert Powell Conrad. The ceremony occurred in Escondido on Saturday April 17. The groom is a nephew of the late Major Holmes Conrad of Winchester and has been a familiar visitor to Winchester.
Marlboro Virginia April 27 Miss Katie Fisher returns to Washington after visiting her mother 8 C Fisher Mrs James S Peace of Baltimore visits Mrs S G Jamison Edmonia Pangle takes her son to Baltimore to visit sister Mrs E P Ward Mr and Mrs James B Smith visit Mrs James Boggs Ambrose of Clary attends on business The spelling bee and pie sale at Longs schoolhouse was well attended.
The Mutual Play Co presents A Daughter of the Sun a Hawaii inspired romance by Lorin J Howard and Ralph T Kettering at Empire tonight. A native Hawaiian swimming scene and period music accompany the six scene first act in this fascination filled production.
Ellsworth Smith of Newark Ohio a well known lumber dealer endorses Nervlax as a good medicine after trying many remedies. In a letter to Nervlax makers he reports relief from stomach liver and kidney problems and says he will continue treatment. Nervlax is a herbal remedy for kidneys stomach liver and bowels and has been on the market for decades. It is sold at Miller Pharmacy.
Miss Margret Funk returned to Harrisonburg to resume school after a brief stay at her Bartonville home. Mrs Shull and her son Ernest Shull visited Mrs William Venable this afternoon. Mrs Tom Lam and her children traveled to Rockingham County due to the serious illness of her mother Mrs Caldwell. Miss Mary Martin, a speaker, is mentioned in the fragment.
A buggy collision near White Oak school house caused a narrow escape for Mr Tom bam and three children when a car struck their buggy and broke it. Mr Lam and children fell near a stone fence while returning from Bartonville Church.
Mr. Richard W. Linton of Cambridge Massachusetts a Harvard University student who has been visiting friends in this city has returned.
An old advertisement promotes Dr Burkhart's Vegetable Compound a 30 day treatment for liver kidney stomach trouble constipation catarrh rheumatism grip and flu. It urges immediate purchase with payment upon cure and lists 621 Main St Cincinnati Ohio and drug stores as sale points.
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