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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1915
Page
2
A playful promotional tale touts Geta-It as the world’s best corn remedy. It claims painless application in seconds, reduces painful bands and salves, and lets wearers fit smaller shoes. Sold by druggists or direct from E Lawrence & Co. Chicago. Winchester and Livick's Drug Store listed.
An excellent Thanksgiving program was given at the Fairmont School in Kabletown West Virginia with Miss Ida Pauline Hall leading. Students performed songs recitations and dialogues and the school earned an oyster supper funds for library books. The yard was cleaned and improvements included new stove cooler and shades plus the flag flying over the building.
Washington notes a National Geographic primer describing Teheran as a buffer capital amid English Russian and Ottoman powers. The piece details its geography culture and modernization struggles with Ragha Hamadan and Persepolis heritage and a 260000 population including 600 Europeans.
An advertising notice touts Pape's Diapepsia as fast and harmless for indigestion gas and heartburn. It claims widespread cures for dyspepsia gastritis and related stomach troubles and urges keeping a fifty cent case at home for immediate relief.
State School Inspector A L Lincol n from Richmond arrived yesterday to visit public schools in Winchester and Frederick County.
The Eighty-sec ong German Army Division was captured by Russian mounted scouts. A British submarine torpedoed a Turkish torpedo-boat destroyer on the Sea of Marmara. Two million British workers form a pact on wages and conditions. French retreat in Southern Serbia seen as strategic and not forced by Bulgarians. Bulgarians penetrating Southwestern Serbia toward Demir-Kapu and Strumitza. A French bayonet attack reportedly wipes out a battalion. French progress claims in Souain region against German trenches. German munitions depot explosion traced to French artillery. Turks advance on Aden near the Suez Canal corridor per Constantinople. Austro-German forces in Serbia estimated at 20 divisions. 220,000 Serbian troops retire into Albania. London notes two Serbian-Balkan retirements by British forces.
Miss Lelia Braithwaite from Chambersville visits Mr and Mrs C Fenton Giffin. E Russell Hook J F Chapman and Mrs Chapman along with Miss Eula Hoover travel to Charles Coe home near Berryville and return with Mrs J F Chapman. Mrs Lou Thompson returns to Capon Bridge after a stay with Mr and Mrs Do Fenton Giffin. Miss Eton Oates Gore and Miss Mary Meessrs and Mrs Maggie Teiplette stay in this place and are pleasant.
Invitations issued by former Governor J. Hoge Tyler and his wife announce the marriage of their daughter Miss Sue Hampton Tyler to Rev. Robert Marc Jopling of Austin Texas. The ceremony is set for Thursday December 16 at 11 A M. at the Central Presbyterian Church East Radford Va. Milton Skinner five year old son of Mr and Mrs W E Skinner Shepherdstown died Wednesday afternoon of black diphtheria. He had been ill for three weeks and is survived by his parents a brother and a sister.
A vintage ad touts Wyett's Sage and Sulphur Compound for natural darkening of hair. It claims the mixture hides gray, stops dandruff, and reduces hair loss with a simple at home application using Sage Tea and Sulphur.
Trustees announce sale of the William Pannett Home Place a 154 acre limestone farm four and one half miles from Winchester Va with 18 acres of orchard. Terms: one third cash day of sale and two thirds via bonds due one and two years later six percent interest. Open bid at noon December 11 1915 in front of the Frederick County Court House Winchester.
The Connor family of Shenandoah district Page county Va is noted for its size cohesion and longevity. Nine brothers and three sisters form a tightly knit clan with extensive local ties and many descendants. Isaac N Connor a rural mail carrier recognizes most patrons as relatives and the family has few deaths across generations. Jacob F Connor is noted as an active breeder of large families. An advertisement for Foley remedies accompanies the piece.
Wenzeslaw Holdicz, a Bohemian resident in the United States for over thirty years, was sentenced to ten years hard labor by a Austrian military court for calling Emperor Franz Josef a murderous old fanatic. Mrs. Robert Y. Conrad returned last night from a visit of some time other, Mrs. ule A.
By decree entered December 7 1915 in the case Mary Smith Kinzel admix c t a d bh n of Charles W Houck vs Charles W Houck et al pending in the corporation court of Winchester Va the undersigned will offer for sale at public auction in front of the court house in Winchester.
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