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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1923
Page
5
The stage star touts a white refined clay and related products as youth preserving. She claims twenty years of study improved the clay and urges women to use it for clearer complexions and reduced lines. Edna Wallace Hopper notes her Wisconsin address and Pantages Vaudeville circuit booking.
Louis Brb shares advice on vocations at a Kansas City Missouri banquet, praising Ben Davis apple growers and urging formation of marketing groups. He quips about railroads and guilds, mentions Dead Man's Gulch near Cedar Gap, and notes apple growers face ups and downs with distant markets and high freight costs.
A speaker extols the Ben Davis apple across generations and regions, linking orchards to prosperity and culture. He jokes about Eve, Adam, and the origin of fashion and commerce, praising horticulture and its social value while wryly noting liquor and family life in Prohibition-era Missouri.
The author argues fruit growers and hort iculturalists rarely amass fortunes. They stay in touch with common people, act charitably, and rarely seek monuments. A Ben Davis man is remembered by nature and springtime growth around apple trees rather than stone memorials.
The Star reports daily wholesale prices for local markets including wheat butter eggs hens rabbits and corn meal with figures for local and Baltimore markets. Entries list quantities and per unit prices, reflecting varied items from flour and creamery butter to small livestock and feed components.
A relief claim invites ruptures to write for a free trial of a “wonderful stimulating application.” It promises muscles tighten and the opening close naturally, freeing wearers from supports. Urges immediate response despite no discomfort and warns of gangrene risk.
An advertisement offers a free sample treatment for rupture. It lists a requester name and address, mentions Rice, Inc. and a price line of $98, and invites readers to send for a stimulating application. The text includes scattered abbreviations and unclear details.
Local ad touts Doan's Kidney Pills as a remedy for back ache and kidney trouble. Mrs Mason of 101 W Cork St recounts relief after using the product bought at Miller's Drug Store. Price 60 cents at all dealers. Foster Milburn Co Madison? New York advert.
Dunn and Duvall auctioneers offer in Harris Addition a lot listed by Farmers and Merchants National Bank with H D Fuller as cashier, under notice reference 19 121 3.
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