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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1919
Page
2
A fragmented sale list shows 3c to 15c prices for hooks and eyes sewing notions hairing safety pins pearl buttons and dragon cotton. It includes knitting needles gussets and cottons with items like eyelets and veil pins, listing small household and dressmaking goods with unit prices.
An advertisement promotes Whitehouse Antiseptic Powder for women health and hygiene. It claims to relieve nervousness and weakness, serve as a deodorant, douche solution, and home essential. Available in 35 cents and 1.20 sizes, with postpaid family size option from Whitehouse Chemical Co., Lynchburg, Va.
Des Moines reports Pat Ryan a Newsboy has returned after months overseas wearing the Croix de Guerre. Records show Corporal Ryan of the 188th Infantry delivered orders under heavy fire and inspired comrades. He also helped start American newspaper sales in Paris, moving 29,900 Stars and Stripes copies in a day.
263 acre stock farm in Lou County Virginia for sale. One mile south between Washington and Leesburg three miles from electric line. Fine watered land, good quality row crop land, lays well, not hilly. 80 acres in bottom land with good houses and outbuildings. Nearby farms bring 75 to 100 dollars per acre. Also North Virginia stock farms in bluegrass section near Washington Herndon. Trip this week, seen 300 per price. The Star Job prints kinds of printing quickly.
A home remedy combines juice from two lemons with three ounces of Orchard White to create a quarter pint lotion advertised as a harmless skin whitening product. The ad claims daily massage will remove tan redness sallowness and windburn and promote clear soft rosy skin at low cost.
The United States Shipping Board estimates Washington Oregon and California will build 3 721 524 dead weight tons of ships by end of 1919. A total of 472 new merchant vessels have joined the fleet since wartime shipbuilding began 318 steel and wooden ships totaling 2 336 986 tons from the three states and California alone accounts for 1 369 538 tons.
An old notice explains that genuine Bayer Aspirin tablet bears the Bayer Cross on the tablet and packaging. It notes uses for toothache earache neuralgia colds and general pain and mentions small tin boxes of 12 tablets are inexpensive at drug stores with larger packages also available.
New York August reports show cigarettes up in price while cigars fall in availability. Cigar distributors fault manufacturers who blame workers. notices of price hikes appeared in United Cigar Stores and Schulte’s, with clerks limited to 100 cigars per customer amid a growing shortage.
New York August 8 Gabriel G Menocal brother of the Cuban president arrived from Havana on the Ward Liner Mexico with his family. He said abundant rains this season will push the Cuban sugar crop to a record this year and he predicted the next year would also be very large.
In Charlestown West Virginia on August 8 a 10 year old, Donald Augustus Morris, fell into a gas tank while attempting to inhale vapors and drowned. Reports note many local boys visited the tank daily seeking intoxication from the gas.
A brief survey notes a mix of generosity and self interest as people share resources. The piece highlights how the most giving individuals often retain a larger share of benefits.
In Pulaski Virginia the Town Council votes to protest to the State Corporation Commission against raised rates proposed by the Chesapeake and Potomac Company. The firm lately acquired Virginia Tennessee lines with a 20 year franchise but must maintain existing maximum rates for the remaining nine years of the franchise.
The Star misidentified the buyer of the Dr W M Janney orchard near Albin. The correct purchaser is George Barrie III, son of Alexander Barrie, who will operate the 40 acre orchard personally.
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