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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1919
Page
4
A reflective verse urges patience and kindness toward aging fathers noting the strain of time and the fading body. It contrasts gentle care with harshness from younger kin and calls for love and support as winter nears.
A mid August social roundup recalls neighbors visiting relatives in Refuge and Stephens, with many named families: Lauck Grim Breele and others, plus Miss Genevieve Maddox from Baltimore visiting at Mrs. Grim’s home. Mrs. Martha Cowman shows marked improvement after illness.
The notice lists local wholesale and retail items including Timothy hay mixed hay cottage cheeses country butter young chickens hens potatoes and flour with prices for several quantities. It notes corncake corn meal middlings cracked corn screenin gs and new potatoes with varied unit prices.
Market report lists various commodities with price ranges including spring chicken butter corn hay beets lambs shoats pigs steers and other livestock. Prices shown reflect latest close data and corrections for the preceding day across the Baltimore wholesale markets.
A newspaper pitch promotes a lemon and Orchard White lotion to whiten tan skin and reduce freckles. It advises squeezing two lemons into three ounces of Orchard White, bottle and shake, then daily massaging onto face neck arms and hands to fade redness suntan and windburn.
Revival led by Rev. W. D. Mitchell at Pleasant Valley U B Church on the Winchester Circuit grows nightly with five adults converted on the third night. Mitchell is described as earnest, sympathetic, and faithful in the work. Sunday schedule includes services for parents and children at 11 am, men and boys at 3 pm, and an all invitational 8 pm service.
Bayer aspirin packages must bear the Bayer Cross to prove authenticity. The ad notes aspirin relieves headache toothache earache neuralgia colds and general pain. It mentions handy tin boxes of 12 tablets and larger packages sold at drug stores.
The Victory celebration committee appeals for the loan of three iron kettles for Labor Day. If you can help, notify John Seal Jr., chairman. Get sale bills printed at Star office.
A Key West Florida resident reports five years of back pain and irregularities ended after taking Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She says the medicine relieved her symptoms and enabled housework again. The ad invites readers to write for guidance from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Massachusetts.
Secretary Glass appeals to Treasury Department employees and the public to buy thrift and war savings stamps regularly. He says the campaign benefits the nation by promoting financial safety, stability, and future prosperity, with affordable costs and no loser in the program.
The advertisement promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a cure for catarrh in all its stages, claiming it works through the blood and mucous surfaces. It offers a $100 reward for any case it fails to cure and urges readers to send for testimonials from Cheney & Co in Toledo Ohio.
In the 1919 decree of Frederick County Circuit Court Emma M Booth heirs are referred to one Master Commissioner to locate heirs realty liens and tax status and settle accounts of administrator C E Edmondson. Notice to interested parties and lien creditors of Booth to appear August 25 1919 in Winchester Va for execution and continuation if needed.
A large group of Virginia students depart Columbia University as the summer session ends. They plan home study centers in September offering broad courses, with figures from Winchester and John Kerr Public Schools among attendees. The Southern Club, with over 2,000 members from seventeen states, elected W. L. Prince of Richmond as president for 1919 1920. The club held a pageant featuring state sketches, with Virginia's tableau recalling the first sitting of the House of Burgesses at Jamestown 300 years ago.
A large crowd watched East Enders lose to Virginia Woolen Mills 10 to 7 on the Dr. Heist lot, where Robinson's circus was housed last week. Pitcher M. S. Pangle of East Enders held the Woolen Mills scoreless until late, and another game is set for 7 p.m. with no admission.
An odd ad lists a remedy labeled as for pains and a boosting claim for a product linked to Evans. The fragment mentions a price of 3 bottles for $2 and associates it with Parcel Post and aaitions, presenting a dated, promotional tone from an early 20th century ad.
George R. Tokes as Executor is assigned to report on real and personal property of Geo W Randolph dec d and to settle accounts of R Tokes as Executor. The Commissioner will convene creditors, report assets, and conclude the reference with ongoing adjournments as needed. Proceeding set for August 11 1919 at 48 Rouss Avenue Winchester Va.
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