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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1916
Page
5
Mrs J B Whittaker touts Thedford’s Black-Draught as a proven vegetable medicine for weak stomachs, digestion, indigestion, and colic. The ad claims the product has 70 years of use and benefits over a million people and urges readers to buy at 25 cents per package.
Train schedule for Cumberland Valley notes arrivals at Winchester from the station at 9 20 am daily except Sunday 1 45 am and 7 22 am daily with Towar Supt WA Ampore Geno P. A listed as officials.
Train schedule fragment lists No 13 9 1h a m to Bristol Roanoke with Pullman Sleepers Dining Car and parlor Roanoke Bristol No 1 2 27 a m to Roanoke Bristol Blur Geld Pocahoptas Welch Norton and intermediates with Pullman Sleepers cafe car Shenandoah Gary Roanoke Memphis special South No 27 6 38 p m to Shenandoah and immediate stations.
A historic listing shows farm sales scheduled around Winchester. Dec 15 1916 Park H Strode and Leslie D Kline offer horses cattle implements and harness one half mile east of Bartonville. Dec 19 1916 J H Loy sells horses cattle implements and harness 1 1/2 miles southwest of DeHaven. Dec 19 1916 Miss Jennie J Brown near Winchest on Valley Pike offers horse corn hay implements and household goods.
Dec. 12, 1916. S. L. Lupton argues against seat reservations for Handley lectures. He claims the schools should not face the firing line to protect reputations and stresses that reserved seats should not favor a few individuals while denouncing the board president's uncandid excuses.
Mrs W C Clayton of Louisville Kentucky testifies Vinci improved her health and strength describing it as the best medicine for nervous run down systems and elderly people. Vinol is a beef and cod liver peptones iron manganese glycero phosphates mix marketed by George F Millers Sons Winchester Virginia and other Virginia drugstores.
A marriage license was issued yesterday in Washington to C. Marion Crabill of Strasburg Virginia and Miss Hattie Stickley of Reform Virginia.
An old advertisement touts Resinol ointment as fast relief for eczema ringworm rash and other skin troubles. It claims physicians have recommended it for over twenty years and says it is sold by all druggists.
A reader warns that some toilet soaps contain harsh alkali while Resinol soap claims to add resinol medication for soothing skin and clearing complexion. The ad suggests Resinol keeps hair healthy and skin comfortable without free alkali.
In Ridge West Virginia on December 13 a surprise birthday dinner honored Mr. Omps for his fifty second birthday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R L Omps. Guests included numerous families and friends who enjoyed turkey chicken roast beef and accompanying fair. After social conversation the guests departed, extending birthday wishes.
Miss Grace Orndorff of the Rockingham Memorial Hospital nursing staff in Harrisonburg Virginia returns home in the afternoon after visiting her parents Mr and Mrs T J Orndorff on North Main Street for several days.
The University of Virginia alumni and active students plan a dance and reception in Winchester to kick off a hoped annual holiday event. Invitations will be issued to Virginia men in Clarke and Frederick counties. the date clashes with Miss Faulkner’s wedding, so a reception is added for non dancers.
Judge F B Whiting of the Circuit Court of Frederick County ordered decrees awarding damages to county property owners for cedar tree destruction. The commissions recommended awards totaling sums to residents including Jacob I Rubie $10, Jonas Barrett $250, and others, paid from the county treasury and later refunded as required by law through assessments on fruit tree owners in affected sections.
L H Smith M D discusses auto intoxication from intestinal toxins and urges water intake and Dr Pierce's Pleasar Pellets for cleansing kidneys and bladder. He endorses Anuric from Pierce Surgical Institute as superior to lithia for uric acid elimination and links kidney congestion to disease.
Officers were elected for the ensuing year by Winchester Hi am Lodge No. 21 A F and A M at its annual meeting in the Masonic Temple. The new officers will be installed at a special communication at 8 o'clock this evening presided by Right Worshipful Grand Master J Alston Cabell of Richmond. He will be joined by other Virginia Grand Lodge officers who attended Berryville golden anniversary. A banquet follows in the dining hall.
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