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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1916
Page
2
A health note advises those who eat breakfast after eight lunch at noon and dine at six to fix meal timing to avoid indigestion. It recommends Chamberlain's Tablets for quicker recovery and stronger digestion. A lost silver card case offers a reward for return to 826 Amherst St.
Mount Williams Virginia reports Sunday visits from E R Clowser and W H Williams with W H Williams visiting J H Williams in Bloom. Local students and residents including John O Flaherty Joseph Fawcett and Beulah Clowser are noted guests. Martha Woore improves from tonsillitis. Dr K R Anderson attended.
The Methodist Episcopal Church South reports a 3 percent net gain, adding 66 418 members to reach 2 100 505 total. It lists 7 440 traveling preachers and 5 263 local preachers, 7 354 officers and teachers and 115 692 scholars in Sunday schools, with 1 844 318 teachers and scholars overall. Epworth League membership reaches 133 063, up 9 055.
Dr J Mitchell Willis of Jefferson County now stationed at Albay Philippines after transfer from Galveston Texas. He reports a son John Mitchell Willis Jr born December 3 1916 at Manila Department Hospital. Also notes social updates from Charlestown and nearby residents.
Maryland legislators consider a bill to regulate issuing marriage licenses as runaway couples from Virginia and other areas may lose refuge in nearby towns. In Hagerstown last year over 1300 licenses were issued, with more than half to out of state couples, averaging more than two runaways daily. Also note, Mrs. Loring A. Cover has returned to Baltimore, and January renewals for subscriptions drop to two dollars per year.
Eugené Householder of near Peratin Va was hurled into the air and trampled when a hornless bull charged as he watched men cutting ice on the Gideon Householder farm near Brunswick. He was rescued after neighbors clubbed the animal and shot from a negro employee’s gun failed to stop it. Householder suffered a broken nose and other injuries before being carried home.
Mayor Turner orders immediate execution of dogs reported biting persons in Martinsburg. Ada Grubb returns from a week with her sister in Hagerstown Maryland. An advertising pitch promotes Pinex cough syrup with home preparation instructions and price details.
Public sale of a one and a half acre parcel in Frederick County on the Welltown road one mile north of Grimes. The trustee will offer the property at 11 a.m. in front of the Winchester courthouse with one third cash and the rest in two annual installments secured by bonds and a deed of trust. The sale follows a 1912 trust deed and recorded details in Clerk’s office.
The ad claims catarrh is a blood disease like scrofula and rheumatism and cannot be removed by local treatment. It says catarrh weakens heart and lungs and leads to consumption, then touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as the best remedy to purify the blood.
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