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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1917
Page
5
Daily train schedule fragment lists Winchester station calls and times with notes about daily runs except Sundays. Appears as clipped timetable data including station references and general daily service.
Daily timetable entry dated April 80 1916 lists trains between Washington and Strasburg and Harrisonburg with local stops. Morning and afternoon departures include connections to Alexandria and Washington, with arrival times around 2:30 pm and 10:50 pm.
Fragmentary timetable notes show operations of a Pullman Parlor car and sleeper service. References to Bristol Roanoke intercity runs, connections at Roanoke to Memphis, and intermediate stops such as Welch Norton and Kingston appear, with times partially legible.
D C G Clark and Charles Boyd of Stephenson hosted visitors including Neva Anderson from Winchester and Elmer Maiesster with Ollie Lewis. Raymond Lewis and family visited his mother R B Emmett. Barney Smith and family joined David Barrett for Sunday at his home while Isaac Miller and D E Miller dined with Frank Barrett near Green Spring. Pleasant Valley picnic for August 11 is indefinitely postponed. C C Miller reports a Holstein calf with white hair of normal length but very short black hair.
A New York Times piece recalls Bobbie’s first live sheep experience. He imagines a woolly lamb on wheels and jokes about the flock being bought cheap due to their missing parts while visiting a West Coast sheep ranch and an uncle.
The Board of Supervisors of Warren County will offer for sale at public auction before the Courthouse in Front Royal, Virginia, five per cent Warren County road bonds. The notice announces the sale date and location for bidders.
A late 19th century ad touts Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a blood based remedy for catarrh claiming quick improvements in overall health. It promises testimonials on request and lists J ChenDy Co. Toledo Ohio as the seller with nationwide druggists carrying the product.
The piece extols wartime sacrifice and patriotic duty while criticizing copperhead critics who question the war, taxation, and army funding. It argues that wartime policy is necessary and virtuous, warning that small politicians will be exposed as obstructionists amid national effort.
Health officials urge strict parental action to curb infantile paralysis spread. Parents told to prohibit children from gatherings, close Sunday schools and moving picture theaters for those under 16. Clarke County imposes quarantine on several counties as cases rise, with 32 cases reported in Rockingham and deaths, plus suspected cases in Grotto.
At 1 30 p m bonds for the permanent improvement of highways in South Hiver District Warren County Virginia totaling 10000 dollars in 500 dollar denominations dated May 1 1914 bear 5 percent interest payable semi annually till redeemed. Bonds payable thirty years after date redeemable after twenty years exempt from local taxation bids with accrued interest. John M Lake chairman Board of Supervisors announces auction details.
A Scottsville New York woman urges keeping Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy on hand for summer illness. She recalls severe attack five years ago when one dose eased pain and symptoms quickly, and notes others in her family have benefited from the remedy as well.
A London tale circulating among American women reveals a sugar shortage affecting tea service. A tea party guest unknowingly drank tea with five pounds of Epsom salts mistaken for sugar, prompting a cautious future check of supplies.
William Balfour of Bisbee Arizona met two friendly men in Los Angeles who claimed he could win big money on horse races. They gave him $40 winnings after he lent $2, then urged a larger bet. Balfour walked away and alerted police about the scam.
In East Wenatchee the Majestic Flat district coyote attacked Walter Brunton while pruning, sending him up a tree. J J Filburn also climbed a tree. After Brunton summoned help, Earl Miller and Frank Burton returned with a shotgun. The coyote was pursued toward the W. W. Cobb place where additional shots finally killed it. The animal was thought to be mad.
A brief note describes chronic constipation as hard to cure but possible using Chamberlain's Tablets and the plain directions that accompany each package. It emphasizes the product as a remedy.
The War Relief Association of Winchester, a branch of the National Surgical Dressing Association, becomes a national auxiliary of the American Red Cross. Henry P. Davison announces the alliance after negotiations with Mary Hatch Willard and Judge Robert S Lovett. The committee has produced over 16,000,000 dressings for 1,500 European hospitals and 25,000 workers across the United States.
Advert says Calotabs replaces harsh calomel with a pleasant tab that cleanses the liver overnight. One tablet at bedtime with water, no taste, no nausea, no griping, leaves you feeling fine next morning and hungry. Original sealed twenty dose package priced thirty five cents with money back guarantee.
Seattle resident Dennis Scaily rose during a frigid night and traversed two miles in nightwear. He later complained of cold feet upon returning home, illustrating the extreme cold of the period.
Fragmentary OCR text reads as a brief notice with unclear names and places. Readable parts suggest a local event or notice but lacking concrete details or dates.
An irascible man on a trolley complains he would rather give a newspaper than have it read over his shoulder. A passenger behind responds that he has a stomach cramp and leans over to read. The snippet ends with a partial newspaper name.
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