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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1916
Page
3
A humorous collage of snippets: an orator thanks a knitting listener after a lecture, a palm reading joke about Daisy’s future wealth, and a quip about Dubhwaite buying a car with the seller now doing the calculating. The tone recalls a light community page of public notices and cartoons.
A collage of light jokes and short sketches ranging from social manners to misunderstandings. Bits include a nurse explaining a chart to a sick soldier and a minister debating fate with a waggish listener. The set blends puns, wordplay, and social satire for quick laughs.
An advertisement extols Dodson’s Liver Tone as a humane vegetable remedy to replace calomel for biliousness and constipation. It claims calomel is mercury and harms bones, while Liver Tone cleanses the liver and bowels without salivation. The copy promises a money back guarantee and urges use for the whole family, including children.
A dense market listing from Baltimore notes retail and wholesale prices for butter corn hay and poultry with separate sections for live poultry cattle and miscellaneous farm goods. Prices include potatoes 1.26 per peck and hay No 1 timothy at 22.50 with other feeds and livestock values across multiple categories.
New York reports eight heat deaths as a hot wave persists. By 10 a.m. the temperature reached 84 degrees and kept rising, with authorities warning of continuing heat and health risks throughout the day.
A speaker warns of fraud in un witnessed wills and urges stricter rules. He cites a West Virginia case of a crude handwritten will altered by others and proposes that all holographs be wholly in the testator’s handwriting, proved by two disinterested witnesses, and deposited or found with valuables.
Captain Paul Koenig and the crew of the submarine Deutschland were presented with a $10,000 token of admiration from August Hescher of New York. The check was sent to Charles von Helmuth, manager of the North German Lloyd Company, for distribution among officers and men after their celebrated gallantry and courage.
General Pershing warned the war department that heavy rains may force him to shorten his line of communication from Mexico to the United States. He is investigating whether weather will necessitate drawing closer to the border.
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