Campaign to humanize jails via Gray Brotherhood movement
A national drive to humanize U S prisons is led by the Gray Brotherhood, ex convict group. A former Sing Sing inmate claims the movement seeks reform and to counter Bolshevik influence in prisons and politics.
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Gray Brotherhood
Associated Press
New York
United States
Sing Sing
Gray Brotherhood Movement
Welfare League
New York City
Thomas Mott Osborne
Naval
Portsmouth
United States Navy
Chicago
Osborne
South Is Turning From Calomel To Liver Tone
Calomel sales decline as druggists report customers switch to Dodson's Liver Tone. The vegetable, pleasant tasting remedy promises no griping and a money back guarantee if relief isn’t achieved. Customers urged to try Dodson's for liver sluggishness and constipation with no bilious aftereffects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dodson
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Cure Claim with $100 Reward
A Texas reader notice promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a cure for catarrh with a $100 reward for any case it fails to cure. It claims internal action through the blood and offers testimonials and a Toledo address for I. J. Cheney & Co. The ad notes availability from all druggists at one dollar per bottle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
I. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Ohio
Ali Drugzgiat, Tic
Middletown High to Offer General Farming Course
Beginning January first 1920 Middletown High School will offer a twelve week course in general farming for boys and young men over 16 unable to pursue the regular high school program. Subjects include triculture farm shop project work arithmetic English orchard technique insects plant disease crops fertilizers rotations animal husbandry and farm management. Interested students may write EB Trexathan Middletown Va for details.
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Middletown
Middletown High School
K. “Eb. Trexathan
Virginia Alumni Dance Set For New Year Eve Meeting
The University of Virginia alumni plan a dance and annual meeting at Hotel Jack on Wednesday night December 31 at 9 o'clock. All alumni are urged to attend as key university matters will be discussed. Admission to the dance is three dollars. Thomas W. Harrison presides, R. Gray Williams is secretary.
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University of Virginia
Hotel Jack
Samce
Thomas W. Harrison
R. Gray Williams
Winchester
Virginia
Banking House
The Star Announces January Price Increases
The Star reports sharp rises in paper and publishing costs force a subscription price hike effective January 1. Mail rate up to 4.00 with a 0.25 discount for prepaid January or July, net 3.75, Shenandoah Valley’s lowest. Winchester carrier rates 4.50 yearly, 0.40 monthly, 0.10 weekly. weekly rate hike begins January 5 for January 10 collection.
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The
Star
Shenandoah Valley
Winchester
the Star
Want of Error in Famous Case in Virginia Tax Ruling
Judge Robert R. Prentis granted a writ of error in the Commonwealth vs trustees of Henry Grafton Dulaney. The dispute hinges on inheritance taxes, $26,472, for a $649,000 1890 estate taxed at death rather than at the succession of heirs. If the state Tax Board prevails, taxes would apply in 1917.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert R. Prentis
Supreme Court of Appeals of
Virginia
Commonwealth
Henry Grafton Dulaney
Loudoun County
Sage and Sulphur Compound Promises Darker Hair
An old beauty remedy Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur Compound promises to restore natural hair color in gray or faded hair. Sold in drug stores, the formula is now enhanced with extra ingredients and claims to darken hair evenly by morning with repeated use.
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Wyeth
For Sale Listings Including Houses and Land
Multiple properties offered by J. Oates at Fairfax Hotel. Listings include 8 room modern house with lawn and garage priced at 8500, 7 room with lights and water at 3500, 6 room and 5 room options, several larger tracts from 25 to 283 acres with outbuildings, bark and timber, and combined house and barn values.
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J. Oates
Fairfax Hotel
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy Endorsed by Mrs Frye
Mrs Clay Frye of Ferguson Station Missouri praises Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as effective for children with croupy symptoms and for coughs and chest colds. She reports relief after a few doses and a quick recovery with continued use. Sold by all dealers.
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Clay Frye
Ferguson Station
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Good & CO
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Hannah Murray
Maggie Murray
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Detroit
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WM. G. Hardy
Jim
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Cdseciation of Railway
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