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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1916
Page
5
Train schedule listing arrivals and departures with stations around Winchester. Daily operations noted with exceptions and a few times shown, including morning and evening slots. Citations to officials J Tower Supt A Ripple Gen P likely indicate station management.
Norfolk and Western trains No. 13 9 188 m list Pullman sleepers dining car and parlor car to Roanoke with connections to Bristol Bluefield Pocahontas Welch Norton and Winston-Salem cafe car Shenandoah and Gary. No. 277 at 6 38 p m to Shenandoah and intermediate points. Route ROATHBOURD No. 28 at 9 32 a m to Haramstown Harrisburg Philadelphia and New York with connections at Shenandoah Junction or Washington.
Daily westbound trains depart Strasburg for Harrisonburg at 7:30 am 12:25 pm and 7:55 pm with arrivals at 9:30 am 2:30 pm and 10:10 pm. Eastbound trains from Strasburg to Alexandria and Washington leave at 7:25 am and 5:10 pm with arrivals at 10:45 am and 9:15 pm. Buffet parlor cars are listed on several runs.
Mrs E H Bean of Nashville Tennessee describes a tumor swelling as large as a child’s head that vanished after using Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. She credits the remedy with alleviating the Change of Life symptoms and removing the tumor, without continued medical visits. She endorses the product and invites others to write for information.
Trustees announce a public auction under a 1916 Virginia chancery decree in Jefferson Cooperage Co. v I N Conner et al. Four tracts of farming land near Stephen City to be sold with crops reserved. Terms require one third cash at sale and two annual installments with bonds and deed of trust. Herbert S. Larrick and Geo M Beltzhoover trustees.
Martha Tilbridge hides a shirt mishap on the professor next door. She swaps a waist and shirt between two houses, is caught in the act, then faints after the professor finds her. He comforts her and declares love, ending the scene on a tender note.
Advertises Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery claiming it cleanses blood by removing poisons through eliminative organs. Promises improved liver and bowel function, reduced pimples boils eczema and other skin troubles, and overall vigor. Sold by medicine dealers in liquid or tablet form with ingredients listed on the wrapper.
In Rockingham County Virginia Mars G M Suirrcerr reports severe indigestion and stomach hemorrhage. After trying doctors with no cure he sent for Dr. Pierce and used Golden Medical Discovery. He says he improved, gained weight, and became well.
A historic ad touts Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets as a sugar coated remedy to regulate and invigorate the stomach liver and bowels. The copy emphasizes easy use with tiny granules for daily relief and health improvement.
Lists of new arrivals visiting the Wayside Inn in Middletown include families and individuals from Charlestown W Va New York City Washington Va Boston Mass Baltimore Md Orange Va San Juan Porto Rico Covington Va and Staunton where they plan to attend the upcoming fair and visit relatives before returning home.
Special Commissioners will offer at public sale a 250 acre limestone farm with 54 acres of apple orchards, two residences, barns, 60 acres permanent blue grass, and a river promontory near Shepherdstown. Sale at 2:00 p.m. at Hotel Rumsey, Shepherdstown. Terms: one third cash, balance in two years or all cash. Growing corn and apples reserved. Tenant rights expire April 1 1917. Special Commissioners Forrest W. Brown N Campell James M. Mason Jr H C Getzendanner.
The Union Bank of Winchester will close Monday September 4 1916 as a legal holiday. Paper maturities due that day may be paid Tuesday September 5. Read and signed by cashier Leer Grim and cashier John I. Sloat of Winchester's Commercial and Savings Bank.
Mro FC Grove and his son How ard Grove of the Grove Brothers firm have gone to New York for a week of buying fall goods. Miss Virginia Hughes has arrived from Norfolk and is visiting friends in town for late summer.
Mr and Mrs H H Little and their daughter Susie Little departed today with Mr Bundy of Norfolk for a motor journey to Staunton Lexington and the Natural Bridge. Optimistic Thought offers a guiding maxim about self imposed aims.
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