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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1915
Page
2
A handwritten ad touts a homemade cough remedy using 2 ounces Vines and a pint of granulated cucur evapor, claiming rapid phlegm thinning and cough ending. It advertises for tronelats winter soul and bronchial asthma and urges readers to ask their druggist for ingredients and steady use.
Town of Stephens City Virginia grants authority to a private company to construct operate and maintain electric poles wires and conductors on public streets. The ordinance requires poles to be up and aligned. company to repair sidewalks displaced by poles. town to recover costs from the company. company to assume liability for damages. acceptance to be filed within sixty days. bids to be received January 4th 1916. advertisement for thirty days.
Fragmentary item notes a sale of trespass cards at Star Office with pricing listed as 50e per dozen.
Miss Dorothy Lawrence Talcott, daughter of Mr and Mrs Eamund Myers Talcott, wed Hugh Gaylord Barclay of Mobile Alabama at 7 45 in Georgetown. The ceremony at St Johns Episcopal Church was performed by Rev Christopher Sparling with a white lilies and palms setting.
Harrisonburg Town Council approves changing status from town to second class city by 10 to 1 vote. The proposal now goes to the Circuit Court after a census shows a population of 5 557. Proponents cite potential annual tax savings of 6000 dollars.
News in brief from Europe reports German reinforcements pushing toward positions recaptured by the French in the Cadlupagne area and a 500 yard stretch on Hill 193 north of Souain. Paris says German removal from the Auberive trench advances, while Balkans gains include 2000+ prisoners. Montenegrins push back Austrians after defeat as 80 cannons fall at Ipek. British reinforcements reach Mesopotamia before Ctesiphon.
The piece promotes expecting mothers and the product Mother’s Friend as a helps during pregnancy. It cites letters from mothers and grandmothers praising its effects on expanding muscles and easing childbirth. It urges readers to obtain a bottle and request a free book for mothers.
Ad claims spring loss of appetite and vitality is caused by impure blood. It promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla as the cure that makes rich red blood for the whole system, marketing it as the best spring medicine rather than a seasonal remedy.
J L L Dodd Jr reports success in cedar rust control in Berkeley County. A crew works on Dr Sencindiver’s farm near Tabler’s Station and will move to another farm as work completes. The plan aims to clear a large county area of cedars soon.
At Staunton Virginia city council, W L Rife petitioned to be relieved of a $36.25 water tax claiming a meter leak caused excess use while he dealt with many domestic matters. The water committee favors leniency and relief from the tax.
Rinker M. Van Pelt of nine miles south of Harrisonburg was found guilty in the Western District of Virginia on the federal white slave law. The verdict followed testimony by Miss Rurell Foley, 18, who described a February 1915 Baltimore trip, with Van Pelt. Sentence was suspended for 30 days.
Industrial Inspectors J B Clinehinst and Miss Lillie Barbour report wholesale violations of state labor laws in Roanoke. Warrants issued against forty-four firms and individuals for sanitary ten hour and child labor law breaches. Justice Beverley Berkeley will hear all cases next Tuesday in Roanoke police court.
Mrs. R. G. Neff of Crookston Ohio says she suffered two years with stomach trouble and was an invalid. After taking three bottles of Chamberlain's Tablets she has enjoyed good health since. Obtainable NOR.
At the last monthly meeting of the Sarah Zane Fire Company a vote of thanks was extended to the carpenters painters and other workmen who contributed their labors without cost when the interior of the engine house was recently repaired and improved.
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