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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1920
Page
4
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A Virginia letter quotes Walt Mason on tipping and social change and notes local updates. Illnesses and visits across Shenandoah Valley towns include Rogers ill at home after indigestion, Frances and Emma Adams improving after grip, Miss Beulah Rinker visiting Front Royal, and several residents easing back from colds or trips.
Mrs Al Clendening and daughter Vir visited Bunker weekend. Ladies Aid Society meets at Mr H C Jobe home Thursday at 7. Hiram Catletts congratulations on birth of a son last Saturday. District public school meetings discuss village school build and county supervisor with about thirty teachers. Some papers read and visitors present. A banquet was served for eighty guests.
Mrs T A Heart is indisposed at home. Mr Martin Carper attends in Winchester. Master Wilson pl has returned to Winchester after days with his aunt at The Briars. Mr and Mrs Cooke are in Washington. Mr M H Trenary confined to his room. Stewart Thompson of Boyce spent Thursday with Marshall Carper. Armel family guests at The Briars. J W Armel of Stone Bridge visited The Briars. Nellie Light shopped in Winchester. Harris couple arrived from England then left for Havana Cuba for the rest of winter. I S Armel and wife shopped in Winchester.
Armistice to ailments like constipation headaches colds and biliousness by Cascarets. The copy asserts a liver and bowel cleanse restores vitality, alleviates gas stomach upset and skin pallor, and offers a pleasant overnight effect without harsh laxatives or calomel.
The Star lists daily wholesale and local market quotes for farm goods and meats. Prices cover timothy hay, mixed feed, turkeys, hens, chickens, hams, shoulders, potatoes, butter, cornmeal, crackeds, and various live stock items with ranges for hogs, sheep, lambs, cattle, and steers reflecting regional trading activity.
Public health advisory promoting Pepto Mangan as a blood booster to resist influenza. Warns thin blood and anemic individuals are at higher risk and encourages taking the tonic, claiming physician endorsement and easy tablet or liquid form.
Messrs William Kackley Henry Bey and Moses Racey visited Pennsylvania this week to inspect farms and consider locating there in spring. The M M Orndorff lime works report demand far beyond normal for lime products.
Messrs M M Orndorff R S Wright and William Paxton traveled to Harpers Ferry on a business trip last Thursday.
Grimes Virginia reports several residents ill over winter including 80 plus Matilda Hubbard and Mrs John A Dick while others recover from recent illness. Miss neat Finfrock visits Elizabethtown Pa. James A Grimes recovers after two weeks confinement. Mrs Feltner improves with care from Dr. Duton. Mrs Langley stays with sister Mrs Hen sell.
A Toledo Blade minded line notes that good intentions alone won’t wake the day. it takes will power to rise and begin.
Train timings and connections for Norfolk and Western lines list No 13 and No 1 trains to Bristol Reahoke Bristol Bluefield Pocahontas and others with Pullman sleepers and parlor cars. Connections at Shenandoah Roanoke Washington Philadelphia New York and Memphis southbound. Information from W. B. Revill General Passenger Agent.
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