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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1920
Page
3
An advertisement for Triumph Pills promotes Relief as safe and dependable not sold at drug stores. It urges readers to write for particulars and notes a free address at National Medical Institute Milwaukee with ad details.
Chicago woman Anna Johnston testifies of relief from severe side and back pain after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad highlights decades of women reporting success with the remedy and invites others with female ailments to try it, noting it is made from native roots and herbs with no narcotics.
Reports from the Sereth front describe heavy Soviet losses as Koscuiscko’s squadron clashes with Buenny’s cavalry and infantry. Britain and France mobilize and plan rapid aid to Poland while negotiations on aid intensify. The Polish delegation leaves for Minsk amid grave Russo Polish tensions.
In London August 5 the House of Commons heard Premier Lloyd George state that Britain and Bonar Law pressed Soviet delegates to accept an armistice on their terms to prove sincerity toward peace and Poland's liberty. He warned that unsatisfactory terms could trigger pressure on allies to aid Poland. The premier noted war risks hinge on acceptable transit of munitions, not on immediate broader conflict.
A marriage license was issued by the Frederick county clerk to William D. Johns of Washington DC and Miss Gertrude Mabel Eaton of Trone county. The groom hails from Perry County Pennsylvania and works as a mechanic. the bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J Edward Eaton.
The Rev. Dr. George M. Diffenderfer and Mrs. Diffenderfer, guests of the Rev. and Mrs. A. A. Kelly at Grace Lutheran Church parsonage on North Market street, Washington, have returned home. Dr Diffenderfer is pastor of Luther Memorial Church in Washington, a large church at the national capital.
An illustrated Salvation Army lecture titled From the Manger to the Cross will be shown next Saturday August 7 at 8 PM in the Court House Auditorium with about 50 slides. Captain and Mrs Van Enemond will sing The Ninety and Nine with colored slides. 15 cent admission to aid expenses.
Mrs Helen Gardner of Washington D C, recently named by President Wilson as a civil service commissioner, spends vacation in Harrisonburg and Rockingham County. A prominent suffrage figure, she is the only woman to serve on the U S Civil Service Commission and has ties to Peale family in the county. She previously stayed at Shaeffer boarding house and plans a several week visit this summer.
A vintage warning touts Dodson’s Liver Tone as a safe calomel substitute. The ad claims calomel causes sickness and fatigue, while Liver Tone is vegetable, easy to take, non salivating and gentle on the system for adults and children.
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