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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1918
Page
5
Readable OCR fragment lists numeric values and codes such as Ra 131 and 23 263, with scattered units like Ov 105 and 722. The text hints at weather or measurement records but lacks complete context or clear events.
Train service shows Pullman parlor car to Bristol and Shenandoah Junction connections. Schedules list Hagerstown and intermediate stops with sleeper service to Philadelphia and New York. Saunders, General Passenger Agent, and Spaulding, Traffic Manager are credited for details.
Train notes show local and express services between Strasburg and Harrisonburg with arrival times. No. 21 E runs Saturdays and Sundays at 7 50 p m with buffet parlor car to Harrisonburg. No. 12 operates Saturdays to 5 10 p m arrival. Washington parlor car service listed with arrival around 9 18 p m. Debuts division pass agent H DeButts of Washington signs notice.
Train schedule from Harrisburg to Winchester Martinsburg Hagerstown Greencastle Chambersburg and Philadelphia and New York City with morning and evening departures. Trains arrive in Winchester from the stations listed at 9 20 am and 7 27 pm daily with Sunday and holiday variations. Riddle and J H Tonge sign as general and superintendent respectively.
Washington January 31 The Treasury Department expands War Savings campaigns in schools with Liberty Bond clubs and pupil purchases. Secretary McAdoo aims to make every school an open forum teaching patriotism and national service, using schools to reach rural districts.
Dr. Robert F. Jarvis of Greenville Kentucky endorses Kilmer’s Swamp Root as the best kidney liver and bladder remedy on the market after twenty years of use in his family and by patrons who praise its benefits. He recommends it to suffering humanity in a May 4 1917 letter.
Letter to Dr Kilmer and Co Binghamton NY urges proving Swamp Root benefits for kidneys and bladder. It offers a ten cent pottle plus a booklet, asks to mention Winchester Evening Star, and notes regular medium and large bottles are sold at all drug stores.
The ad extols perfect womanhood through health and a good disposition. It laments pain and suffering from functional derangements causing head- aches backache nervousness and the blues. It promotes Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as the remedy used for generations.
When troubled with indigestion or constipation take Cham berlain's Tablets. They strengthen the stomach and enable it to perform its functions naturally. Indigestion usually accompanied by constipation and aggravated by it. Cham berlain's Tablets cause gentle movement of the bowels, relieving the constipated condition. For sale by all druggists.
Extract from a decree of the Corporation Court of Winchester Virginia dated November 1917 directing a master commissioner to report on the real estate of William and Elizabeth Robinson, debts and heirs, with notice by weekly publication in the Winchester Evening Star and a meeting set for February 28, 1918 at ten a.m. in Winchester.
National registration of women available for farm work is planned by the Department of Labor to address the expected farm labor shortage. In Winchester and Frederick County women, as in previous peach and apple seasons, may take light orchard and farm roles next summer. A.L. Berkman announced a nationwide effort to mobilize available men and women, with farm service staff in federal employment offices and post offices as recruiting stations. Workers will fill light tasks such as truck gardening and dairying while men remain available for heavier labor.
Postmaster Sibert reports an order to discard old torn magazines while ensuring mailed issues are clean, current or recent and broadly interesting. The directive notes general distribution to soldiers, not subject- or locally focused works, and urges proper publication on court notices in Winchester.
Edward F. Fleagle 63 of 310 North Prospect Street shot himself in the forehead with a .32 revolver at about 8 30 Tuesday night dying about 11 00. He had lost his left arm years earlier and left a wife Miss McDonald of Winchester. Funeral Friday at 2 p m from the woods with Rev L M Dice officiating.
Two local boys in Company B First Replacement Regiment stationed at Washington DC thank the Winchester Red Cross for a relief box. They describe quarantine delays and express gratitude for the aid, noting the dissolution of Baker and Garton and pledging to aid the war effort.
A German writer praises Hungary’s depth and legendary medieval poetry, noting its enduring patriotism while contrasting history with present memory. The Washington Star urges citizens to support the American Red Cross fund.
A Victorian advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a proven internal remedy. It claims the product reaches the affected mucous surfaces through the blood, promising cure where local applications fail. Signatures include Schenes & Co., Toledo, Ohio, with price listed at 76 cents.
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