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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1917
Page
4
A Winchester Virginia notice reprints a testimonial from J C Bagley of Dana North Carolina praising Vinol as a constitutional liver iron remedy that cures chronic colds and coughs by improving digestion and blood. Miller's Drug Store offers money back if it fails.
The Star examines City Manager Field's proposal to raise water rates on large users to fund pumping costs. It argues for self support without profit, distributing charges by consumption while preserving low rates that attract industry. Large users and small consumers deserve equitable treatment.
Norfolk reports that E. Griffith Dodson will introduce in the Virginia General Assembly a bill to force able bodied men aged eighteen to fifty to be continuously employed in useful work during wartime. The act would compel tax supported work for the idle, aiming to push idle men into employment or drive them away from the state.
The Daily News argues a new law should be tried in Virginia, noting it will mainly affect the professional side while shielding those temporarily out of work, and that the state should see benefits from enforcing it.
The American Army warns against women in the United States adopting soldiers in France during the war. Officials say adoptions clog mail service and hamper censorship rules. Home front pressure risks placing soldiers in awkward positions as letters increase.
Davis Bottom, superintendent of public printing, has sent the latest code to every member of the General Assembly convened in the Capitol on January 9. The single volume code runs 2,177 pages with 6,571 sections including preface and code revisers notes by Martin P. Burks, F. B. Hutton, and Samuel A. Anderson.
The Star reports daily market quotations for flour, corn, hay, butter, poultry, potatoes, and cattle. It notes prices for butter, creamery products, live poultry, corn, timothy hay, cattle ranges, hogs, and regional variations alongside a social note of visitors from Virginia, Washington, and New York staying with the Kern family in Amherst Street.
In a child subject to croup attacks the first sign is hoarseness. Give Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as soon as hoarseness appears and the attack may be warded off and all danger and anxiety avoided. Sold by all dealers.
Classified item notes a compact furnished farm setup with 8 Star Office care mentioned, indicating a small rural property option with workspace facilities.
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