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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1918
Page
2
The piece explains a War Chest drive urging universal support on a one hour per week basis. It argues gross income should determine contributions and stresses sacrifices of soldiers overseas, appealing to all incomes to aid the war effort.
The advertisement touts Calotabs as a purified calomel that avoids nausea and danger. One tablet at bedtime with water purportedly cleanses the liver and boosts morning appetite. Sold in sealed packages for thirty five cents with a money back guarantee.
An advertisement extolls Gold Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules as a cure for kidney and bladder problems and other organ diseases. It warns against delaying treatment and claims two centuries of efficacy, urging readers to buy from druggists with guaranteed results and to beware of imitations.
Market report lists daily quotations from local buyers including retail and wholesale prices for winter and spring wheat flour, corn, cracked corn, middlings, barley feed, No 1 timothy hay, creamery butter, fresh country butter, young chickens, and potatoes. Baltimore markets note nearby prices for butter creamery prints eggs corn hay and timothy.
Private Harald Hamel of the 66th Regiment at Ft Adams writes of a three month bad cough relief after using Foley's Honey and Tar. He says he will keep it on hand and endorses it for hay fever and asthma as well.
Train timetable shows departures from Cumberland to Winchester Martinsburg Hagerstown Chambersburg Shippensburg and more with times ranging from early morning to evening. Notable arrivals include Philadelphia and New York connections with daily and Sunday services noted by officials H A Riddle and J F Tongue Supervisors.
Train notices detail Pullman parlor car to Bristol and Pullman sleepers from Williamson to Roanoke and to Philadelphia. Service includes cars to Shenandoah Hagerstown and New York with connections at Shenandoah and Washington. Also notices preaching schedule at Pleasant Valley Fairview Mount Olive by Rev. W. H. Sampsell and a note on savings stamps.
In Opedosfury history a grandmother served as the local druggist using roots and herbs such as peppermint, mullein, skullcap, thoroughwort, and wormwood. This plant-based practice preceded Mrs. Lydis E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, noted for restoring health to women over forty years ago.
John W. Rice Lewis F. Cooper and A. B. Richards are named as directors and sworn before Elsie M. Maphis on July 10 1918 with commission expiration December 11 1918.
A Savannah Missouri reader recounts using Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy nine years ago to cure flux and again years later. The writer says a few doses cured the second attack and that the remedy has been recommended to dozens. For sale by all dealers.
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