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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1920
Page
3
A local retailer advertises a sweeping sale with prices slashed well below cost on hose, dresses, hats, and paper goods. The push emphasizes clearing shelves for upcoming fall stock, highlighting silk hose, Lisle hose, kids wear, middy blouses, and trimmed hats at drastic reductions. Bold savings target early buyers and families seeking bargains.
Advertises white dress skirts at 8.00 and 2.25 for smaller items. Also promotes white spreads with various prices such as 3.25 for 2.49 and 4.69 for 6.00, touting many spreads well below regular prices.
Local sale ad touts half price and low discounts on children’s underwear, napkins, Madras fabric, Turkish towels, Huck towels, cretons, brass curtain poles, and shirt waists. Items include napkins 49 cents, Turkish towels at 50 cents, cretons 20 cents, and shirt waists reduced to 1.49 dollars with wide savings claimed.
Bargains in the July Clearance sale are promoted with notes on reduced prices such as 85e 75 cent items, 48c items, and up to 1.39 dollar items. Shoppers are urged to buy early as quantities are limited.
Will Dennis, a freight brakeman on the Penbrook line, loves a girl in a blue house at Lawton North End. He schemes to meet her for six months, sends a note that ends up in Jeff Franklin’s hands, and endures comic misfires until a train crash lands him in her care after a garden incident.
A beaver placed in a park near a town clock 12 feet long tree began by barking the trunk then attacked the wood. He alternated between labor and bathing, ate a supper provided by the keeper, and worked through the afternoon and night to divide the log into sections for shelter.
A woman reports four years of pains in sides hips legs and back prevented work. After trying many doctors she found relief using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and says she can do housework again. She offers permission to publish and invites others to write for advice from the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co.
An old ad promotes Zemo as a versatile antiseptic liquid for burns wounds and chafing. It claims effective healing and inexpensive price for large sizes and urges trying it from The B. W. Rose Co of Cleveland Ohio.
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