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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1920
Page
4
The page lists daily local market prices for farm products and groceries. It includes oats, butter, spring chickens, flour, middlings, molasses feed, screenings, corn meal, dairy feed, timothy and clover hay, and livestock values. Prices vary by item and quality with closing figures noted.
Fragments describe Melba singing by wireless to about 100 miles away and Rev. Clayton Wells preaching via wireless to 1000 operators across hundreds of miles. Readers wonder about the reach of radio as a churchlike event draws listeners and sparks interest in distant communities.
The Richmond Times Dispatch discusses calls for cancellation of allied war debts by the United States. It notes sympathy for the financial strain on allies and argues the U.S. should consider debt relief while still expecting principal and interest payments. It emphasizes the U.S. funded the war through its citizens and seeks a fair reward for that duty.
A fragmentary scene contrasts placid waters with angry breakers along a rocky coastline. The sea roars and thunders hourly while a weary observer contemplates emotions stirred by the ocean and its shores.
An advertisement touts Lydia E. Pinkham's Compound as a remedy for women’s ailments including backache head ageing sensations and nervous irritability. It claims decades of use and suggests the product restores women to a normal mat condition.
Make a simple freckle and tan lotion by mixing the juice of two lemons with three ounces of orchard white to yield a quarter pint. Apply daily to face neck arms and hands to fade freckles brighten skin and keep it soft and rosy white without irritation.
Winchester residents unite for a union service Sunday at 8 o'clock in the Chautauqua hall with a sermon by Dr. Marshman and a mass choir formed from local choirs. On Saturday July 11 at 10 am Disciples of Christ meet at Odd Fellows Hall for worship and organization with a Key Note sermon and communion. Minister J Alva Hopkins reports Bartonville preaching at 8 pm.
Advertisement proclaims Bayer Tablets of Aspirin as genuine and safe, prescribed for over twenty years. It urges purchase of intact Bayer packages with directions for relief of headache toothache earache neuralgia rheumatism colds and pain. notes small tin boxes and larger packages sold by druggists.
Richmond report states grand jury in Alexandria returned three indictments against William Turner for the murder of government torpedo expert T. Morgan Moore near Alexandria. Turner faces murder highway robbery and attempted criminal assault charges with United States District Judge Edmund Waddill presiding.
The advertisement urges buyers to obtain Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy as a reliable bowel complaint cure. It notes availability at drug stores and mentions social visits by Hollis Seymour and Mrs Ball to their sister Mrs Stanley Cooper in North Braddock street.
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