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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1917
Page
5
Trains arrive in Winchester from the listed stations at 9 20 daily except Sunday 11 45 am and 7 22 pm daily. Friday service noted with daily variations and times, reflecting Cumberland Valley schedule details for rail arrivals.
Schedule lists Norfolk and Western services including No 13 9 18 a m to Bristol with Pullman sleepers and dining cars. No 1 2 27 a m to Roanoke Bristol and intermediate stations with Pullman sleepers and cafe car Shenandoah Gary. No 27 6 38 p m to Shenandoah and intermediate stations. No 28 9 32 a m to Hagerstown and intermediate stations with connections at Shenandoah Junction or Washington.
The Mississippi, a 32000 ton steel armored dreadnought, will be built by Newport News Shipbuilding from Idaho and California plans. It measures 624 feet long, 97 feet 4.5 inches wide, drafts 30 feet, and reaches 21 knots. Armament includes twelve 14 5 inch guns and twenty 5 inch torpedo defenses. Contract price is 7.195 million dollars. projected total cost about 14.2 million.
Earl C Rose publisher of the Hamilton County Republican News in Syracuse Kansas endorses Chamberlin's Cough Remedy. He claims it is the only cough remedy on the market and that his family of six has used it for years. It is sold by all druggists.
At Boyce Virginia the Boyce State Bank elected G H Burwell Jr J J Carper Kenneth N Gilpin R G Mitchell George C Meade R P Page M L P Reed N B Page and R P Whiting as directors for the coming year The president reported one of the most prosperous years with the earplug fund more than doubling in three years Officers named were President R Powel Page Vice President W A Bradford R G Mitchell R P Whiting M L P Reed and Cashier C Van Deventer.
A special Common Council meeting is planned tomorrow night to discuss sewer pipe sales to property owners at wholesale cost. City Manager Field may urge the city to stockpipe for up to 600 connections this spring under a new ordinance requiring property owners to connect where practicable.
Commissioner Parsons of the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries issued letters to wardens directing hotels and cold storage plants to cease storing for sale any game protected under state game laws after January 31. The season closes that date and confiscation will follow for possession by such facilities, applicable only to protected game.
Harry Thaw's head is described as clearing up by Dr. Ellwood Kirby at St. Marys Hospital in Philadelphia. Thaw's mind grows more normal and his razor wounds heal, but he will be two weeks from court before extradition proceedings to New York can begin.
T S Vance of Warrenton Virginia charges abundant pulp supply and steady prices despite industry talk of increases. He cites a Purcellville buyer and a May 9 1936 letter offering poplar and pine wood at set prices and monthly factory settlements, amid overstocked mills and import competition.
A light-hearted woman brings joy to a man while noting that beauty fades and health endures with cheer. The text warns of female disorders causing backache headaches and near nervous breakdowns, endorsing Lydia E. Pinkham's A Herbal Compound.
A July 7 1916 statement notes payment of 7.26 dollars per cord for 180 cubic feet of poplar gum and sycamore wood, f. o. b. cars in full car load lots at the shipping point, while pine remains priced at 5 dollars per cord for 160 cubic feet.
Civic League will meet tomorrow at 4 in the council chamber. An article praises Cham berlain's Tablets as a purgative aiding digestion and salable by druggists. The notice also lists livestock and farm implements, household goods, and grain for sale by C M Barrett in Hayfield Virginia.
Mrs George Lewis of Pittsfield New York reports her five year old son's severe winter illness improved rapidly after using Chamberlains Cough Remedy. She tried multiple medicines with little effect before obtaining relief through this remedy. Sold by at druggists.
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