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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1918
Page
3
A Pittsburgh mother writes to Dr. Caldwell praising Syrup Pepsin for fast relief of her daughter’s bowel trouble and stomach pains. She claims three years of use makes the remedy indispensable and notes the child is soon playing normally again.
Constipation is a condition to be guarded from infancy to old age. Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is pleasant for children and effective for strong constitutions. A trial bottle can be obtained free of charge if sent to Dr W B Caldwell 458 Washington St Monticello Illinois.
The United States Food Administration asks families to limit sugar to two pounds per person per month for household use. Despite domestic production of about 1 million tons annually, roughly 75 percent is shipped abroad, while imports exceed 8 million tons. Shipping comes under strain due to military needs, so saving sugar aids convoy and transport.
The article argues shyness derives from lack of practice with strangers. It proposes removing the strangeness by making encounters with strangers common so that attention is no longer directed at the individual. If meetings with strangers become habitual, the strangeness fades and shyness diminishes.
A mother brings her young son to a fashionable Chicago cafe for a luncheon with friends. The boy is the only male guest and is urged to imitate his father’s manners, promising a polite conduct fitting the occasion. The scene captures a quaint social moment in a bustling urban setting.
In Enterprise, Mr Chuggins notes gasoline trips are less efficient on rough roads and oily gas, and suggests developing a by product to reduce expense and improve mileage, aiming to churn more axle grease per trip.
Artist John Lavery, staying with Lord Derby at Newmarket, set up an easel to sketch the course, but a police officer ordered him away for lacking permission, mistaking the easel for a stand. Lavery claimed guest status, yet the constable insisted it was the same old tale and he must leave.
The article notes that Holland had about 9,900 large windmills with sails 80 to 100 feet long. It reports annual costs near $10,000,000 and describes mills used for sawing timber, beating hemp, grigging, and chiefly pumping water from towlands into canals to protect the country from flooding.
War Savings stamps can be exchanged for a ton of anthracite coat or a blanket and field shoes or a pair of high leather boots or six jerseys or a pea jacket. The offer highlights how stamps translate into vital military and home front supplies.
A Japanese writer explains her shift from East Asian religions to Christianity after finding Eastern faiths inferior to men and oppressive to women. She cites Jesus as egalitarian and believes true female advancement in the Orient comes through Christianity.
London Answers reports a single operator running Héther Henge colliery at Ambergate yielding about 1 000 tons yearly. In Idaho, an irrigation rail line runs a motor car with 16 passengers and two light trailers, without guards or porters, yet follows a printed timetable.
Miss Cayenne remarks Mr Briggins speaks four or five languages but faults his ability to think up something worth saying in any one of them. The exchange highlights a humorous, character driven moment in the page.
The Rev. J. J. Gravatt Jr of Frankfort Kentucky has accepted a call to be rector of Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church in Staunton Virginia. He succeeds the retired Rev W Q Hullihen who served 46 years.
The War Industries Board classifies newspaper staff as engaged in a needful occupation and essential to the sector. Draft rules exclude editors and reporters but apply to compositors and pressroom staff. a recent Iowa draft notice misidentified this, later withdrawn as an error.
Stephenson Virginia notes a spree of visitors from Charles Town Baltimore Winchester and Berryville. Church and school events include a Red Cross talk by Walker Bond and Quarrie Lupton. Families plan with relatives at Luray Caverns and farm visits wrap the week.
Pilgrims from across Burma climb the steep hill to the Kyatk-hto-yo pagoda perched atop a rock. A hermit builder theory is suggested as the shrine rests precariously above a deep valley. Guides claim a Buddha hair lock keeps the bowlder steady while offerings are made and candles lit at dusk.
The article recalls a young Austrian officer saluting his American volunteer comrade, then notes the first Quaker women Mary Fisher and Ann Austin landing in Boston in 1656. It mentions Puritan surprise, the Society of Friends founded by Fox in 1648, and William Penn’s role in early Pennsylvania and New Jersey history.
A 300-man team erected a 230 by 36 foot building at Grasmere, a United States base hospital location, in five hours. The completed structure featured a steam heating plant sewer connections electric lights and a tiled bathroom. Construction began at 7 am with post hole digging and finished by noon with the first worker ready to leave.
A 17 year old boy with typhoid fever writes that Vinel built up his strength after three months out of school. The ad claims Vinel contains beef and cod liver peptones manganese peptonates and glycerin tea to rebuild blood and energy. Miller's Drug Store and Druggists advertise nationwide.
Public sale at Red Gate farm two and a half miles south of Mithwood Va on September 3 1918 at 10 4 a m. items include good work horses cows calves brood mares harness farm wagon wheat drill binder hay equipment and implements. cash for under 10 and credit terms for larger sums with negotiable note and bank payable. sale overseen by RP Whiting and clerk Bradford.
Mrs Blanche Bowers of Indiank Pa reports long poor digestion until a year ago when she tried Chamberlain's Tablets. She credits the treatment with restoring her digestion and finding the right relief.
J M Pangle of 1288 Market St Winchester reports severe back trouble and kidney pain, saying Doan's Kidney Pills restored his strength. He endorses the remedy and urges others to ask for Dean's Kidney Pills from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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