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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1918
Page
6
An advertisement touts Dodson's Liver Tone as a vegetable alternative to calomel that cleanses the liver and bowels without salivation. It asserts quick cures for sluggish liver, sour stomach, and constipation, promising a month of family wellness and a pleasant taste.
The local market report lists daily quotations from local buyers with items such as potatoes and butter. It notes price markings and potential errors while providing observed rates for creamery butter and other produce.
Market updates show butter at 46 for nearby creamery. liver poultry with chickens at 6 to 6.5, old hens 25, turkeys 10 pounds and over 30. Corn spot price 8.30, hay No. 1 timothy 29.50, light clover 28. Cattle prices: steer 1250 to 13.0, butcher 11.25 to 12.00, calves 50 to 16, pigs 3 to 4.50 apiece.
A Camp McClellan telegram reports Major Stanley Martin of the Third Battalion West Virginia National Guard has been honorably discharged due to physical disability. He will return to Lynchburg this week and is expected to be reappointed as clerk of the Federal Court for the Western District of Virginia, a position he resigned to enter military service. Martin trained at Fort Sill Oklahoma for three months before going to Alabama.
A garbled extract discusses Hungary with a German writer praising medieval heroes and old exploits. The broken text mentions history, legends, and heroism, but the surrounding context and attributions are unclear due to damage.
A Boston Fine Arts Bulletin note warns against buffing antique silver, saying it destroys age hues and beauty. It urges restraint, recommends proper silver polish for tarnish, and suggests camphor kept with silver to deter tarnish.
Plans for increased enfranchisement in England Scotland and Wales aim to raise eligible voters from 7 656 173 to 22 848 901 with women holding the balance of power. The coverage excludes Ireland and would extend voting rights to nearly every adult, reshaping political influence.
A new plating system promises increased output and uniform deposits. The machine features a circular arrangement of cleansing, tin zing, and plating solutions with a U shaped carrier using two endless chains and vertical rods moved by a cam to advance work through each stage and release finished pieces at the start.
The document presents loans and discounts totaling 2002.000 with secured and unsecured portions and lists assets such as banking house fixtures and currency. It includes liabilities like stock, surplus, undivided profits, and dividends unpaid and is sworn by cashier Russell A. Sligock in Frederick County Virginia as of the close of business on January 10, 1917.
Prolonged starvation studies show anger fades after three to four days. In five day tests men did not lose hunger contractions. hunger intensity rose with incomplete hunger tetanus on days four and five. By day five a burning continuous hunger sensation appeared, likely from stomach acid, changing the typical response pattern.
A provocative note from the Medical Fortnightly questions who could be considered experts on insanity. It argues that defining sanity is difficult since the subject can induce insanity in the examiner and that all people carry mental biases that may affect judgment.
Mrs. Robert Allison of Mattoon Illinois recalls moving from state to state eight years ago and suffering chronic headaches dizziness and stomach pressure. She says Cham berlain’s Tablets cured her constipation and distress and she now feels like a different person. Sold by all druggists.
The piece contrasts superstition about Friday proposals with a counter example of a man who proposed and was refused. It then promotes buying Red Cross Christmas seals to aid children and protect them from threat.
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