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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1926
Page
9
The first term of the summer quarter of the University of Virginia in 1926 reports 1,831 students from 31 states. Indications suggest more students may stay for the second term, which runs August 2 to September 4.
An advertisement touts a simple home method using buttermilk cream to soften wrinkles around the eyes and mouth with a gentle finger massage. It promises easy results, inexpensive cost, and a money back guarantee at drug or toilet goods counters, citing Baker's Drug Store as a supplier.
New Orleans street names reflect French Spanish and American influence. Noted names include Chartres Bourbon Conti and Dauphine with royal family ties. Napoleonic names such as Napoleon Avenue and Jena. and American figures like Washington Jefferson and Adams. Also streets honor music muse Calliope and St. Peter and St. Mary, plus plantation-era child names like Octavia Arabella and Amelia.
A restaurant operator, plagued by stomach trouble that battered his appetite, credits Maya's as the simple harmless preparation that removes intestinal mucus and eases inflammation. One dose convinced him and the ad offers a money back guarantee through Bakers Drug Store and Druggists Everywhere.
The Virginia State Horticultural Society plans its 1926 annual meeting in Charlottesville on December 7 to 9, starting at 10 o'clock each day. W. S. Campfield, secretary, notes Charlottesville’s new hotel and armory suit the event, with Piedmont Fruit Growers' Association and the Chamber of Commerce backing the invitation and civic groups pledging cooperation for a large exhibition of machinery and supplies.
The British trade reports a sub normal apple crop in England Belgium Switzerland Germany and Holland with heavy crops in Ireland and the Italian Tyrol. Kent reports a 20 percent crop loss while Permain apples vary from 20 to 50 percent of a crop. European pears show promise with France Belgium Holland Germany predicting good yields and Czecho Slovakia better than a half crop.
In Shenandoah Caverns near Mount Jackson Virginia hundreds of feet underground an estimated six to seven thousand Ku Klux Klan members held a mass initiation. Prominent members spoke and a sermon was delivered by the Reverend W G.
Dearing of Warren county reports that a number of Klansmen from adjoining states were present at the gathering, indicating regional participation in the event.
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