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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1927
Page
8
An old advertisement offers Jaine-Hase relief for inflamed sore muscles. It claims quick results from thorough application and promotes a 60 cent tube sold by Baker's Drug Store with a free large sample on request to Pope Laboratories in Hallowell Maine.
Whalebone, once crucial in corset construction, has diminished in fashion use and now serves primarily as bristles in hairbrushes and other brushes. The shift reflects dwindling demand for corsetry and a pivot to utilitarian applications.
The Commerce Department estimates toy sales at 250 million dollars this year with less than one fifth imported. American manufacturers expand output to replace goods once from Germany Japan and France while foreign producers still hold a market share in the United States.
Ornaments mainly from Germany totaled 602000 in value this year. For the first nine months of 1927 the wholesale value of toys imported into the United States reached 3427316, compared with 3262650 in the same period last year.
Local notes from Summit Point West Virginia dated December 10 report Mrs. J E Breckenridge and two sons John and Jim relocating to Quantico Virginia with Colonel Breckenridge to join them. The Boyd couple drove to Luray Virginia with Mrs. Selina Southard visiting. Edith Crim visited her sister in Brunswick Maryland. Carrie LaRue visited Charles Town friends and attended the ChatAnQuA. Francis Davis spent days in Washington and other small items from area residents.
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