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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1917
Page
2
Advice against harsh soaps and red shampoos for hair care. Recommends plain coconut oil as a grease free cleaner available at drug stores. Explains how to apply with water and a teaspoonful, yielding soft, manageable, dust free hair.
Page county farmers expect the heaviest wheat crop on record with an average around twenty bushels per acre as harvest ends. The cherry crop is forecast to be nearly a total failure due to late spring freezes and summer hail storms.
Mrs J B Gadd of Hixson Tennessee recounts relief from a left side pain after using Cardui and later Cardus. The ad urges women to try Cardus for headaches backaches sideaches nervousness sleeplessness and fatigue, claiming it as a splendid female tonic.
In Baltimore a Virginia resident ordered whiskey from a large mail order house after the Reed amendment took effect July 1 banning alcohol imports to dry states. Clerks labeled shipments “For Mechanical Use Only” while other houses continued dispatches, and signs declaring wet goods were removed. Ferdinand Myer of the Maryland liquor trade group confirmed the joker method was used.
Harrisonburg paper prints 68 names of men aged 21 to 31 who failed to register on June 5. Sheriff Croushorn seeks data concerning the list after locating W. D. Ray in West Virginia who sent a fake tale of a railroad death exposing Ray's deception.
An estimate of 23 500 car loads of apples in four northwestern states for the 1917 season was released in Spokane by the secretary of the Fruit Growers Agency a cooperative marketing organization. He said the figure was based on reliable information from districts.
A schoolteacher asked pupils to write a sentence using the word horoies. Little Willie submitted a sentence about a man sitting on a chair with a tack on the chair that rose.
Advert says the expectant mother should follow external prep to stay healthy and pretty. It touts Mother's Friend to prevent morning sickness, ease abdominal expansion, soothe breast changes, and reduce pain. Readers are urged to request the illustrated book "Motherhood and the Baby" free from The Bradfield Regulator Co.
The Wigginton process of Bridge Grafting claims three years of proven success saving trees girdled by mice rabbits borers or collar blight. It describes sap flow through live roots and grafts to keep trees healthy with guaranteed results backed by $100000 capital and testimonials from fruit growers including Harry F Byrd of Winchester Virginia.
The article extols Bridge Grafting as a profitable method to save girdled trees and boost production. It cites an orchard under 70 acres yielding over 1,000 barrels of merchantable apples after three years of grafting and invites readers to visit orchards in Virginia to verify results. It also promotes buying orchard farm rights and offers free apple scions with purchases.
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