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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1939
Page
6
A doctor uses alfalfa to treat a jaundiced patient with bleeding tendencies. After a hospital consultant linked cattle illness from spoiled clover to alfalfa, a fresh supply concentrated into a green jelly cured the patient’s bleeding the next day, and she recovered.
A reader asks if scarlet fever germs can linger on furniture after ten years. The reply notes scarlet fever can persist on furniture and fabrics for a long time but is usually gone in six weeks. Another reader asks about reducing diets for low blood pressure, and the answer confirms it can be used.
Earl eFarland Taylor, deputy clerk of the Augusta circuit court since 1929, is appointed clerk of the Staunton corporation court to fill the late Jacob Hevener’s term. The interim posting lasts to Feb. 1 when Taylor begins an eight year term. He is a Lee high school graduate and formerly Augusta county deputy sheriff (1920–1938).
Richmond, January 4. The state police are replacing white patrol cars with black two door sedans. Maj. Roy Bishop says the change comes from practical patrol experience over years. White cars once aided identification but now hinder pursuit of habitual violators.
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