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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1920
Page
4
A clipped AP wire and local notes frame the page with press credits and advance notices. Readers see standard republication phrases and the balance of wire content with regional items.
An anxious narrator recalls a slick San Diego barber who touts herbal mixtures and facial treatments. The tale describes deceptive promises of dyeing hair, whitening skin, and removing blemishes while enforcing painful methods, leaving the speaker wary of the shop and its proprietor.
Quoted wholesale market figures appear in a damaged column with scattered numbers and prices. The text references barrels and sacks, with partial figures like 2.65 and 9.00 and mentions Bal Vit Eddies and various cryptic notes.
Readable fragments show numbers like 14.50 8.00 15.50 12 15 16.25 but contain garbled text. No coherent event or entity context is discernible to define a specific action, place, or participants.
Sunday visitors include Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hockman and Bartonville with Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Baker. Mrs. Annie Weaver of Stephens City returned home after visiting Mrs. Amelia Evans and Miss Alice Elbon. Other gatherings feature Edward Grove family guests from Winchester and Spruillts relatives visiting Irvin Triplett on Apple Pie Ridge.
Mrs. D. H. Anderson of 129 St Main St reports kidney trouble and backache cured by Doan's Kidney Pills. She says she had sharp pains and could not straighten, then trial led to complete relief with no further kidney issues. Advertisement notes 60 cents at dealers FosterMilburn Buffalo NY.
Miss Y de Meade daughter of the late D Randolph Meade and Betty Crown Meade wed Ralph Nicholas Dorsey son of the late EB L Dorsey and Mrs Eliza Dorsey at Woodlawn Berryville Virginia. Ceremony by Rev Malcolm S Taylor with John Crown as presenter. They depart for their honeymoon and will reside on the Dorsey Myers farm route near Marvine Chapel.
Druggists report calomel sales drop as Dodson's Liver Tone gains favor. The vegetable remedy is sold with a money back guarantee if it fails to relieve liver sluggishness and constipation. It is described as harmless for children and adults and does not cause side effects the next day.
The U S Department of Agriculture reports a true army worm outbreak in southern Illinois and southern Missouri with warning that waves may move north and northeast. Farmers are urged to obtain Farmers Bulletin 731 for control guidance including poisoned baits, sprays, and trench and trap methods.
A letter to The Star notes increasing apple scab in Shenandoah Valley orchards and Roanoke area, urging prompt spraying with Bordeaux mixture to curb the disease. It recommends adding leaf arsenate for the second brood spray and identifies Winesap, Delicious, Ben Davis as highly susceptible, York as relatively resistant.
The Gainesboro Home Demonstration Club will hold its regular July meeting on Tuesday July 13 at 2 30 o clock at the school house. Every member is requested to be present.
Jast received a large assortment of bathing caps and water wings priced at 25 and 50 cents. Sold by The People's Drug Co.
Local notice advertises thorough cleaning, steaming and pressing of garments in Troy. Service promises quick turnaround and prices, with Bell phone contact 172 W for orders.
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