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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1929
Page
2
Critics hail The Patriot starring Emil Jannings as a masterful cinema achievement. The silent epic follows a Mad Czar with childlike power and cunning, capturing the era with a poised performance and dramatic peak. Viewers praised its unforgettable portrayal and cinematic refinement.
Authorities urge full precautions as public worries about the flu linger though the epidemic is not as severe as 1918. Demand for Vicks Vap rub soars with nightly production at the lab, reaching about 75 000 jars daily while water veins near the city run deep from artesian wells.
A reader claims a prescription from a French American Army source relieves rheumatism. The note offers to mail the prescription free of charge in exchange for the reader sending their address.
January to March 191? catalog of sales including stock and implements, household goods, and farm items. Names include Feltner, Massie, Ashby, Polhamus, Cline, Ebert, Stine, Cooper, Adams, Fishpan, Chiles, Mell, Hummer, Boyce, and others in Berryville Charles Town Summit Point Welltown Pike and surrounding localities.
Stockholders in Clarke county banks elect new directors at Berryville meetings. W. W. Bradford and others recur as directors while dividend news from First National Berryville and Boyce State Bank shows strong year profits. The note of concern cites crop failures impacting earnings.
Universal’s King of the Rodeo starring Hoot Gibson opens at the Colonial Theatre tonight and tomorrow. The western features Gibson as a rodeo competitor with scenes drawn from the Chicago rodeo, a strong plot, and Kathryn Crawford as the leading lady in a top cast.
Stephens City Va. Jan. 9 Those who have chosen spending the holidays with their parents and who have returned to school are James Cadwallader Wilbur Inskip Fred Brumback and Lohring Staples.
Miss Mattie Lee Brumback returns to the College of Williams and Mary. Mr and Mrs Boyd Steele improved after illness. Briscoe Williams is 11 with the flu. School reopened with high attendance as many pupils were absent sick. Evelyn Steele, Julian Steele and Albert Colaw congratulations on births. Paul Carbaugh welcomed a daughter. Leslie and Maxie Golliday and Carmel Golliday children all with influenza.
A public sale of personal property is scheduled for Monday January 14 1929 starting at 10 30 a m at the Mrs C W Fritts farm located 18 miles east of Winchester on the Boyce to White Post road three miles from Boyce. Livestock includes mules horses cows hogs and sheep along with farming implements and feed overseen by D O Massie.
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