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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1919
Page
5
An old advertising passage promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a constitutional cure for catarrh, asserting local and constitutional causes and offering a one hundred dollar reward for any failure to cure. It lists F J Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio as manufacturers and mentions Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
A chancery sale under a 1919 Frederick County Va decree offers Lots A to D in Winchester and Lot T in Frederick County. B and C may be offered separately or together. Terms require one third cash and balance in two yearly installments secured by bond and deed of trust. Title set by decree and witnessed by special commissioners Warren Rick and Herbert S. Larrick.
A detailed old formula describes preparing poisoned wheat using Sulphate of Strychnine, hot water, sugar, and careful stirring. It specifies 1 3 4 pints of hot water, 1 2 ounce strychnine, 4 pounds sugar, 1 2 peck wheat, and cooking in small batches to evenly coat each grain.
Commercial and Savings Bank of Winchester Frederick County Virginia files a sworn statement with the State Corporation Commission showing assets including loans and discounts notes and bills receivable securities real estate furnishings and fixtures and claims against national and state banks. The cashier John I Sloat signs the balance sheet dated November 17 1919 with attestations by Fred S Boyt and others.
Farm advertisement for 80 acres in bottom land with an ively watered, well fenced stock and grain operation. Describes 1 mile front on pike between Washington and Leesburg, near electric line, with good farmhouse, barn, outbuildings, Ixya well, no hills or rocks. Price 12500, terms desired. Nearby farms fetch 75 to 100 per acre. Northern Virginia stock farms in blue crape section near Washington. A H Buell Farm Agent Herndon Va. 7-21-1
A fragment from a 1919 Winchester document shows D. Fuller as cashier and H. D. Puller as cashier with directors J. S. Haldeman M. M. Loench and Wt. the declaration is sworn before notary Bary J. Brown on November 25, 1919, with commission expiry June 191.
By order of the Western District of Virginia judge a trustee will offer the property at public auction in front of Winchester Court House on Saturday December 20 1919. The block and lot at 392 Flishland Avenue Winchester features a 50 by 50 foot footprint and 19 ½ feet depth. Terms require one third cash with the balance in two equal annual payments at 6 percent interest. Payments secured by a deed of trust and property insurance. Sale subject to court confirmation.
A local physician in Hagerstown offers chronic disease and deformity treatment claiming high success with cases others miss. He invites readers to send name and address for personal guidance and stresses he is not the only Dr. Fahrney in town.
Special Commissioner Herbert S. Larrick will sell the Middletown Virginia property fronting the street to the B&O line on Wednesday December 10 1919 at 2 oclock pm. The two story dwelling lies on the north side of the street and was conveyed to Emma M. Booth in 1913. Terms include cash on sale day and the remainder in two equal annual installments secured by a deed of trust and mortgage insurance.
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