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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1916
Page
6
A letter from A. d H. Prancis of Zenith Kas reports severe back pain and immobility. After taking about two-thirds of a 60c box of Foley Kidney Pills he feels entirely well, and recommends the pills for safe relief of sleep disturbance bladder ailments.
Dr. Richard E. Whitehead dean of the medical department at the University of Virginia died yesterday. He was born in 1866 at Salisbury North Carolina and educated at Lees Forest College the University of Virginia and the University of Pennsylvania.
Miss Cary Barton of Kernstown travels from Staunton where she has been staying with the Misses Atkinson to visit her brother Dr Samuel Harton of the University of the city.
Winchester resident B H Leathers testifies Doan’s Kidney Pills eased nightly kidney secretions and back weakness after use. He reports lasting relief and now uses occasional doses when kidneys act up, recommending the product from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A Saturday ad mistake quoted 10 cents instead of 15, leading to refunds of 5 cents to customers. The error affected Red Circle pricing, with readers surprised at the window. The notice promotes Pathe serial installments beginning next Saturday.
The Metro presents A Royal Family featuring Ann Murdock as a boy character tonight and The Little Girl featuring Vivian Martin tomorrow night. Extras include additional pictures making a top tier ten cent show.
Rawley Davison suffered potentially serious injuries when a horse team fell after spooking at a Winchester-Strasburg bus leaving the station. Walter Flannagan sustained two broken ribs and other injuries while inspecting a lime packing shed but continued to drive home. A lamb with eight legs and two tails was shown at Happy Creek. The Farmers Club met to discuss seed selections. Miss Minnie Baker returned from visiting relatives in Washington and Rockville.
Cleveland February 7 Harry Tonis was electrocuted stepping on a live wire at the National Screw and Tack plant and revived after an hour with a pulmotor. He described dying as painless and coming back as painfully slow with a rush of sounds and shocking pins and needles. Doctors call the case unusual. Misses Elsie Ramsburg and Ruth Guyer left for Wilmington Delaware to visit friends.
Coupell rep sorrow to enter upon our minutes the lamented death of Dr W A Bell a director for this bank we record our appreciation of his many fine qualities and the loss which this bank sustains in his piecel a loyal efficient and valued member of this board cordial and affectionate relations to the town he lived in devoted citizen public spirited liberal and alive to all that concerned public welfare to his family personal friends and to those he ministered as a physician a good man and the loss intensifies hence it is ordered by the board that this brief memorial be entered in the minutes a copy sent to his family and published in The Evening Star.
Mr J S Haldeman of this county will attend the Virginia Creamerymen Association and the Virginia Dairymen Association conventions this week in Harrisonburg. Indications point to a large attendance at both meetings.
Master Alvin Kremer has recovered from an appendicitis operation at Memorial Hospital and is able to return home at No. 11 South Kent Street. He is improving nicely and able to see his boyfriends.
An advertisement promotes 8 8 8 S S S as a natural blood purifier to cleanse the blood, renew vitality, and relieve rheumatism including pains, sciatica, and muscular aches. It urges avoiding nostrums, suggests a blood bath, and invites readers to request a booklet from Swift Specific Co. in Atlanta, Ga.
An advertisement extols cod liver oil emulsion as a tonic for older adults, claiming it renews blood, strengthens organs, soothes respiratory passages, and supports nerves. It emphasizes warmth, no alcohol or harmful drugs, and promotes Scott & Howse of Bloomfield New Jersey in a Star advertisement.
Announcement from New York reports the marriage on Saturday of Miss Florence Beall of New York to Dr. William T. M. Thornton Jr. of Wilmington Delaware, son of Prof. W. M. Thornton of the University of Virginia. Florence Beall is the daughter of Mrs. Joseph Bond Beall and a member of Charlestown West Virginia's Beall family.
An old advertisement touts Pape’s Diapepsin as a fast acting, harmless remedy for indigestion, gas, heartburn, and acidity. It claims rapid relief from sour stomach, headaches, nausea, and undigested food after taking the tablet, urging households to keep a case on hand.
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