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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1916
Page
4
The Evening Star of Winchester Virginia notes daily publication except Sundays and lists consolidation with local weeklies. Subscription options include one year 2.50 six months 1.25 three months .65 and one month .29 in advance.
The Petersburg Index-Appeal remembers Henry Fairfax as a refined, devoted Virginian. Born of the Old Dominion, he combined cultured travel with deep love for neighbors and state, serving without seeking advancement. His death in Leesburg marks the loss of a prized gentleman.
A humorous verse extols the auto as a bridge to country air and simple pleasures. It contrasts city grime with rural scenes and praises motor travel for lifting spirits and renewing energy in weary readers.
In Painter Hill Virginia on July 13 residents report summer visits and social gatherings. Betty Kalb her daughter Dorothy and granddaughter Elizabeth Peeples from Washington are spending the season at the Deanery. Various locals including J D Rinker H S Terault and the Ridings and Massie households host and visit through Sunday.
Acids accumulating in the system poison the blood and cause diseases affecting skin nerves joints and organs. Purify the blood by taking S. S. S. a purely vegetable tonic with a half century of use. Contact your druggist or write Medical Department Swift Specific Co Atlanta Ga for advice.
Mr and Mrs H B Hawkins entertained at their home near Chambersburg Virginia on July 11 in honor of their son Lynden Hawkins of Wheeling West Virginia who is visiting. The lawn glowed with Japanese lanterns and guests enjoyed outdoor games vocal and instrumental music with refreshments served. Attending were Edna Legg Ola Cooper Autrey Russell Nannie Hicks Fay Lauttrell Oca Bay lise Lola Pingley Pauline Larrick Lela Braithwaite Alice Snapp and others from Strasburg plus numerous Hawkins relatives and friends.
Cross Roads Va July 14. Mr and Mrs James Whitlock and John Fiffin and family spent Sunday with Tom McKee and B H Keller guests of L B Barrett. Mrs Mary EB Carpenter guest of Mrs R C Fletcher. Miss Ellen Oates Gore visited brother W H Oates Tuesday evening. Mr R N Wolford in Winchester on business. Miss Festa White recovering from illness. Mr B H Keeler spent Thursday in Winchester. G W Parish Winchester a business caller Monday.
Miss Kathleen Hack returns from a visit near Baltimore. Fragments report visitors at Hackman and Strode households. A birth is announced for William Venable’s family. Several residents attend summer schools and visits in Stephens City and nearby Clarke and Frederick counties.
A man accompanied home by his sister Mrs. Greeger and her young son Mr. Charles Watson, who has been quite ill, is now able to be out.
Advertisement touts Anuric as a potent remedy for backache rheumatism gout and dropsical swelling. It claims to purify impoverished blood through the kidneys and can be bought at drug stores by asking for kidneys or backache treatment.
R Gray Williams of Winchester presented a 49 page typewritten paper to the Virginia Bar Association on changes in Virginia will law. The Newport News Press notes the paper was praised as one of the best read before the association and refers the recommendations to the Virginia law reform board. Williams argued for reforms in probate and holograph will rules and for stronger safeguards against forgeries and fraud. He discussed contests of wills and protections for bona fide real estate purchasers, noting the need for clearer probate procedures and foreign will questions. The address lasted nearly two hours and received keen attention from the bar.
Mrs. Jennie Moyer of Lima Ohio testifies to Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash curing her after doctors doubted recovery. She urges other women with displacement weakness irregularities or backache to try the tonic with advice from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co Lynn Mass.
Balance sheet items listed for a Winchester Virginia bank show assets including loans and discounts and deposits totaling 74,539.55. The incomplete OCR reflects liabilities and capital figures with figures such as 102,314 and 74,539.55 and mentions items like paper currency gold and silver coin and war tax stamps.
Fragmentary numbers shown include sums like 16 233 70 14 000 00 and 239 726 28. The text presents financial totals, balances, and per cent figures without context or readable labels. No identifiable people or organizations are present in the legible portion.
British lines push toward Combles as German defenses crack after a wide front breakthrough. French forces on the Somme report no infantry actions while organizing new positions at et 3ateaux. Artillery duels continue on the Meuse near Souville with patrol engagements in Cheois wood. In Petrograd the cabinet is called to the front amid war urgency. The Stockhod and Stryv regions report German and Austro German counter moves to halt allied advances.
A 1916 notice describes a public band concert in Winchester and welcomes Roanoke neighbors. It details hotel arrangements at Evans and Jack to host half the party each night and notes plans to sleep on a train.
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