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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1917
Page
5
Cumberland Valley timetable lists trains from New York to Winchester with arrivals and departures around 9 20 am 11 30 am 11 42 am and 7 22 pm. It notes services daily except Sunday and a Sunday schedule with special stops and connections.
A fragmented timetable lists Bristol and intermediate Pullman sleepers dining cars and parlor car service to Roanoke and connections to Blue Pocahontas Welch Norton and inter station stops. It references Memphis special connections and Shenandoah area service with cafe cars and attendants.
An advertising claim from the Philadelphia Press extols Danderine for cleansing hair, reducing dandruff, and stimulating growth. It promises wavy, fluffy, glossy hair and stronger roots after a single application, priced at 26 cents.
The Star announces a steep rise in subscription rates due to a historic 800 percent increase in paper costs. The announcement notes federal investigations fail to curb prices, threatens smaller papers, and offers two year renewals at old rates before February 1, 1917.
Purify your blood with Hood’s Sarsaparilla medicine marketed as the people’s medicine for twenty years. It claims to treat scrofula catarrh rheumatism dyspepsia loss of appetite and general debility and boasts forty years of testing.
The Peoples' Bank Inc located at Stephens City Frederick County Virginia filed a balance sheet as of December 27 1916 with resources including loans and discounts bonds securities banking house and fixtures and cash items. Liabilities show capital stock surplus undivided profits and deposits including savings with due to state banks and other institutions totaling 104 862 13. Russell A Shryock cashier swears to the truth of the record in January 1917 with directors attesting.
The United Brethren parsonage welcomed eighty to ninety members and friends on New Year’s night bearing gifts for Rev. Geo. W. Stover and his family. The event filled the larder as Stover thanked the congregation, and a prayer closed the joyful gathering. William Keating, Jr. returned to the University of Virginia after holidays at South Main Street home.
The fragmentary note references a subscription offer for The Star with unclear pricing and terms. Readers see a call to subscribe but specific details are unreadable in the damaged OCR text. The item hints at a promotional push or reader service message embedded in a periodical page.
A turkey dinner was served in an elegant style at the home of Mr and Mrs H S Hawkins near here last Sunday with twenty guests. The table was laden with turkey and all the trimmings plus fruits, oranges, bananas, candies, pies and exkea. Guests returned home late in the evening after an enjoyable day.
A pleasant surprise party was held Tuesday night for Mr and Mrs Ollie Ebersole at their Harris addition residence. Guests included Lucy Carper Ida Fisher Annie Fisher Opeal Buntz Mabel Buntz Bessie Barrett Ruth Frye Eva Cammer Dudley Lichliter John Cammer Stanley Grove Grover Carper Esten Carper Nelson Haines Robert Hoover Alvin Thomas and others from Carpers Valley Winchester Elorna town Kernstown Newark and nearby areas. Supper followed later in the evening.
A vintage advertisement promises Cascarets cleanse the stomach remove fermenting food and excess bile. It claims a 10 cent box clears the head and bowel action by morning and works while you sleep without gripe or indiscretion.
Served then returned home thanking Mr. and Mrs. Ebersole for a pleasant evening.
Vauculuse Va. Jan 4 Miss Elizabeth Larrick left Tuesday for Parnassus Earl Callahan returned to Lynchburg after a visit at William G Stickley Mrs Robert Gillock Lexington visiting Mrs J J Wise Mr and Mrs Earl Humaton Edinburg spent weekend at Sunny Side Miss Anna Kline returned to Washington Mr and Mrs Robert Larrick and Misses Dorothy Larrick and Edna Dinges motored to Harrisonburg Tuesday Howard Kline returned to Richmond Samuel O Neils remnant house damaged L Humston went to Clarke Miss Hattie Nixon visits Mrs Joseph Gocenour in Washington Misses Elizabeth and Willie Cadwallader returned from Washington
Mrs. J. B. Whittaker of this place says Thedford's Black-Draught cured her sick headaches and stomach trouble after ten years. She keeps it on hand for her children and reports fewer illnesses since using this purely vegetable remedy used for digestion, indigestion, colic, wind, nausea, and similar symptoms. Drugstore price is 25 cents.
A brief reflection notes that learning and reflection improve the mind and mentions happiness and tranquility as a human aim in a pensive, aphoristic tone.
A quotation notes that contemporary times brim with superfluous ideas while essential ones are missing, attributed to Joubert. The remark frames a critique of modern thought and its priorities.
A garbled OCR fragment features broken phrases and misspellings such as Before Lntarried you and Sea what one gets for lying. Paek signs off with a cryptic remark. The text resembles a stray newsroom blurb or mock exchange lacking clear news content.
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