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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1919
Page
2
For sale 30 acres in bottom land with a good house barn and outbuildings. Desirable property operated as a stock grain farm. Price 12500 with terms. Farms nearby listing 75 to 100 per acre. Located in blue truss section near Washington. A H Buell Farm a Va. 7 21 tr entre away on trip this week.
An informational notice from the National Medical Institute in Milwaukee Wisconsin advises women on irregular or delayed use of Tri Oh pills. The text emphasizes safety and privacy and states the program is free and not sold at drug stores.
To wishful applicants a three year nursing course with required affiliated training. A delightful private hospital of 140 beds near Baltimore offers attractive surroundings and advantages. Address Mrs G F Sargent G-28 oaw 4 Supt Nurses for information and application blanks.
Ten limestone farms range 100 to 220 acres with prices from 65 to / acre. Listings describe improved tracts with orchards and running water, including 100 acre plots on Ap Ridge and other properties with timber, bottom land, and home sites. C. P. Bailey & Co. Bailey Bros. Store handle the sales.
Workers at the W. L. Fultz residence on Stewart Street found that a thief had entered the Frederick Land Corporation tool-house during the night and stolen carpenters tools. The padlock key was hidden nearby and later replaced. A former employee was seen leaving with a heavy bag. Chief Doran leads the investigation and hopes for an arrest tonight.
The text traces Portugal's origins as Lusitania and explains the current name derives from Portus, the ancient town name of Oporto. It links Lusitania to the Iberian region and notes timeline from ancient to present naming.
The Commercial and Savings Bank of Winchester will be represented at the International Apple Shippers Association convention in Milwaukee this week. President Herbert B. Larrick will lead the bank’s delegation. Attendees from this section include W. P. Massey, secretary of the Virginia State Horticultural Society, and W. S. Hiett.
The Bayer Cross on the Bayer Tablet of Aspirin confirms authenticity and safety. The text notes buying genuine Bayer packages for proper dosage to relieve headaches toothaches earaches neuralgia colds and pain and mentions common 12 tablet tins and larger packages. It also states Aspirin is the trademark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoacetic acid ester of Salicylic acid and briefly mentions elephant hunting in Ceylon for sport due to ivory yields in Africa and elsewhere.
A paragraph promoting a daily morning hot water and limestone phosphate flush to cleanse the stomach liver kidneys and bowels. It claims benefits for digestion, skin tone, and overall vitality, urging readers to start each day with this regimen and noting it can be found at drug stores cheaply.
The following conveyances of city realty have been admitted to record in the corporation clerk's office. John S Solenberger et ux to Sarah J Langley and Joseph H Langley for house and lot at 313 South Brad dock street for 2500 dollars. James Walter Clark et ux to Frank Brooks for house and lot at 116 East Pall Mall street for 500 dollars. William H Wright et ax to Walter A Shiner for house and lot on West Water street for 2500 dollars. Mrs Emma Shult to M Copenhaver for double house and lot on Fremont street for 900 dollars.
A simple home bleaching recipe uses two lemons and three ounces of Orchard White to produce a quarter pint of lotion. Applied daily to the face neck arms and hands it promises to fade tan redness freckling and windburn while leaving skin clear and rosy white.
Daily corrected market list shows wholesale prices for hay rye butter fat and poultry plus retail values for flour cornmeal middlings and butter. Reading includes prices for potatoes, bacon, eggs, corn, timothy hay, clover mixed hay, beef cattle, calves and shoats with varying ranges and weights.
A marriage license was issued in Winchester to Ashby Scott of Woodstock Virginia and Beulah Coby of Shenandoah County. Beulah, 17, arrived with her father James Coby who consented to the license. The groom is a Woodstock clerk, son of Isaac Scott.
An advertisement asserts catarrh can be cured in all its stages through Hall's Catarrh Medicine. It claims internal action through the blood and mucous surfaces, strengthening the patient and aiding nature. a $3100 reward and $100 bounty are promised if proof of failure is shown.
H F Byrd receives a letter from J Fred Crutchfield of Appalachian Fruit Growers Inc. rebutting ties to the American Fruit Growers Syndicate. The note explains cooperative aims and cites former members Prof W M Scott and Prof Charles J Brand as no longer connected.
Washington August 11 The State Department renewed protests to the Mexican government against Sonora's agrarian law seen as harmful to American interests. President Wilson informed the Senate of the démarche noting repeated protests were made.
Five houses priced at 1600 dollars each and two small homes at 3500 dollars. Main Street tick house 3200 dollars. An 184 acre fine limestone farm offered at 100 dollars per acre. Also good limestone clay border and slate farms for sale. List your property with OATES AND SMITH at 7 8 Fairfax Hotel.
Train times issued June 22 1919 show No 13 9 07am to Bristol and intermediate stops with Pullman parlor car. No 1 2 12am to Roanoke Bristol Bluefield Pocahontas Welch Norton and intermediates with Pullman sleepers to Bluefield and Winston Salem. cafe car Shenandoah and Roanoke linking at Roanoke with Memphis for south points. No 27 553pm to Elkton. northbound No 27 839am to Hagerstown Harrisburg Philadelphia New York with connection at Sheppandoah Junction for Washington. No 14 736pm parlor car to Hagerstown Pullman to Philadelphia. No 2 1254am sleeper to Philadelphia and New York. Inquiries to W C Saunders. Revill Traf Mer.
Laura Morgan sues George Morgan for divorce vinculo matrimonii on the grounds of desertion. The defendant, a non resident of Virginia, must appear within fifteen days after publication. Publication is ordered in the Evening Star weekly for four weeks and a copy posted at the courthouse door by August 18 1919. Court clerk J B Beverley signs.
The quote credits Feltham with noting that the greatest life results come from common sense and perseverance. It emphasizes ordinary qualities as the key to achievement and resilience.
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