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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1919
Page
4
An AP style note states that Ted Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches. The statement clarifies rights and attribution for republishing across outlets.
The Star defends its coverage after a voter circular by Councilman J H Henry claims omission of an amendment to the paying law. The paper states it has fairly reported council meetings and notes eleven other councilmen also merit coverage while criticizing political demagogy.
Poet Walt Mason laments magazine scarcity and the loss of reading pleasure. He mocks a merchant offering beans and bread as substitutes, arguing true magazines lift spirits and feed the imagination during dull nights.
The Whirlwind vaudeville act from Martinsburg appears at the Empire Theater in Winchester tomorrow night for YMCA fundraising. The production is described as the most elaborate seen locally in years with 11 acts including seven el i ta solo numbers and a large enthusiastic audience last night.
Auto truck brings acts to town as Falk and Kline return for a comedy sketch and Herbert Flynn performs a monologue. The evening ends with a short sketch titled The Kitchen Police, showcasing novelties not yet seen on the local stage.
Daily wholesale quotations show prices for wheat timothy hay butter cornmeal middlings bran cracked corn potatoes and more. Baltimore figures list young chickens old fowl butter and hay with ranges for steers and cattle.
Herbert Hoover, now on the Near East Relief Executive Committee, says the Near East crisis is the most desperate in the world. He urges concentrated support for Colonel Haskell’s administration to avert a major tragedy among about 1.8 million Armenians in the Caucasus, including 800,000 destitute refugees and numerous children.
The speaker urges ideas on package forms and sizes for market fruit and vegetables and suggests submitting them to the Bureau of Markets in Washington DC. The aim is to develop a forthcoming proposition that leads to standard, satisfactory packaging nationwide. The message indicates collective interest in finalizing standards soon.
Dodson campaigns against calomel claiming Dodson's Liver Tone replaces calomel for liver sluggishness and constipation. Drugists report rising sales of the vegetable remedy described as pleasant tasting and harmless to all ages with a money back guarantee if it fails to ease symptoms.
An advertisement claims Danderine can stop hair loss by treating dandruff and “nasty conditions” of the scalp. The pitch asserts all hair stays in place and implies complete restoration.
For sale right away in Adams county, a well located 173 acre farm with 50 000 feet of tile, 7 acres of timber, a 10 room brick house full of amenities, bank barn with silo, reservoir, and essential outbuildings. One mile from Gettysburg along a macadam road, school house nearby. 50 acres of wheat available if buyer covers seed and fertilizer. Price 16500 dollars. George C. Fissel, Masonic Building, Gettysburg, Pa. The Real Estate Agency of Service.
E L Hook offers at public auction in Ca pon Bridge on December 20 1919 a 15 acre house and lot on school house hill with 7 room dwelling water at door ice house stable granary and outbuildings and 12 acre bottom land adjoining W A Baker and Mrs Wm Oates to be sold separately or together Personal property includes bureau desk meal chest bedstead sofa chairs and more Real estate terms 1 3 day sale balance in two annual installments bonds interest and deed of trust on buildings with insurance policy.
Eight room modern house with lawn garden and garage priced at 8500. Seven room with lights and water listed at 3500. Six room with lights and water at 31700. Five room with lights and water at 1450. Double house six rooms each side with utilities 3200. Seven room on large lot at 3750. Eight room with water and gas at 3300. 80 acres with house and outbuildings for 1700. 25 acres with out buildings at 700. 127 acres with house barn and well at 1500. 283 acres with bark and timber priced 7000. A. J. OATES Fairfax Hotel.
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