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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1919
Page
5
An early beauty remedy touts Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound as restoring gloss and lustre to gray hair, claiming it provides a youthful appearance. The ad notes it is not a disease cure and describes its use with a sponge or brush for small strands each night.
Bids are invited for the construction of a sixteen foot concrete bridge over Boyds Run on the Finont Royal about three miles from Winchester in Frederick County Virginia. Plans and specs are on file at the Clerk's Office in Winchester and this office. A certified check for $50 must accompany each bid. The right to reject any or all bids is reserved. For further information apply to G. Coleman State Materials Commissioner. 1-9-2w.
The Star business office closes at five p m each evening. Subscribers wishing to renew their subscriptions should call between the hours of five and six p m.
The Rev M T Keen pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church South of Middletown announces Sunday services for January 26 Sunday school at 945 a m with Mr C Harrick as superintendent 11 a m sermon The Loveliness and Lostiness of Jesus 30 p m preaching at Epworth 730 p m sermon The Chief of Gimners
Mrs Martha Stanislawski of Perth Amboy New Jersey reports severe backache dizziness and illness improved after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She declares the remedy restores health and recommends it to her sister as a grand cure for various female ailments including cramps and irregularities.
Judge D Newman Mr M L Walton Mr J Russell Boyer and Mrs B L Wander, members of the Centenary committee of the Methodist Episcopal Church South of Woodstock Virginia, attended the district centenary meeting held at the church in this city on Wednesday.
Mrs. Angie Hummer of 222 South Market street received a letter from the adjutant general in Washington stating her husband, Private Charles Hummer of the infantry, was slightly wounded in action in France around October 20 1918 and was under treatment in a base hospital. He left for Camp Lee early in the war and served in France since training. Mrs. Hummer is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Walter Lee of South Market street.
A vintage ad promotes St Jacobs Liniment as a quick remedy for backache lumbago sciatica and rheumatism. It claims a 30 cent bottle applied to the skin relieves soreness in minutes and ends stiffness with a single use.
A list of spring stock sales across Clarke and nearby areas in Virginia dense with names of sellers and dates from January to March. Entries include Dunn and Daven Royston Millwood Oates Brothers Bear Chamibere ville Woollord Rob Lyons George Stump Isaac Stith William Crampton Carson Shade and others with sale dates and items such as stock implements and feed.
Merchants push ad investments despite limited funds aiming to boost visibility. Local business leaders cite star ad campaigns as a cost effective way to attract customers and stand out in a crowded market.
A vivid travelogue aboard a destroyer describes descending to the furnace level amid pumps and coils. Firemen toil, fuel gauges glow, and the narrator endures heat, fumes, and oil-scented air while facing a brutal sea and grinding hull sounds.
The piece traces Switzerland as a humanitarian model since Morgarten 1815 and the Vow of Grattt 1291, highlighting self government against Habsburg rule. It notes the 1815 Paris Congress recognizing Switzerland’s perpetual neutrality and independence as central to Europe’s policy.
A ship on the verge of thirst learns its water is salt until a fellow sailor spots a hidden stream of fresh water. The crew reacts with anger toward their captain, misbelieving him to defy humanity, until the bucket reveals the truth.
The text comments on the small statures and distinctive features of figures such as Aristotle Athanasius the Great, Pope VII, Voltaire, Robespierre, Marat, Napoleon and others, describing them as diminutive or slight in build while noting their powerful influence or stature in thought and history.
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