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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1926
Page
4
The Evening Star published daily except Sundays in Winchester Virginia. It is consolidated with several local papers. Subscription rates listed for 1926 include annual forty dollars and advance payments for longer terms. The paper is a member of the Associated Press.
The piece notes rising French anger over the Mellon Berenger debt settlement with Britain, arguing U.S. terms were less flexible. It contrasts British concessions, warns of stalled agreement, and cites The World on consequences. It also discusses diplomatic procedure and Mellon remarks.
Richmond News Leader reports on the Voronoff monkey and goat gland procedure in Moscow. Twenty one patients were treated with glands transferred from animals and one from a cat, with two cases detailed including a man who leapt from a streetcar and an elderly revolutionary whose voice improved after confinement.
The passage jokes about goat glands boosting a professor and other characters, imagining absurd results if different glands had been used. It mocks medical fads and the idea of replacing a person’s voice or energy with animal-derived improvements.
After nine months of effort and failed lifts to raise the wreck, the submarine S 51 is towed into New York Harbor in a sea funeral procession. Only half of the crew were recovered, the rest lost to the sea, but the nation honors the fallen as a test of American resolve and compassion.
M. D. Hart of Ashland was appointed executive secretary of Virginia's newly created game and inland fisheries commission. Governor Byrd approved, with a $4,200 annual salary, and Hart assumes full-time duties after the governor's ratification. Hart has served as assistant commissioner since 1919 and is praised by sportsmen for wildlife protection advocacy.
Christy Brothers Shows bring a large circus to town for one day with two performances on Friday. The act features forty clowns, acrobats, gymnasts, aerialists, dancers and animal feats. Tickets sold at the same price as on the show grounds via a downtown wagon.
All eligible contestants from Winchester may enter at the Shepherdstown bathing beach on Saturday July 17 starting 2 30 PM. Events include canoe races tub races diving contests and floats with prizes. Free entry sandwiches and candy will be sold and proceeds go to the bathing beach fund.
Harrisonburg Virginia. July 15. Company C 116th Infantry Virginia National Guard to be organized here within six weeks needs 30 more enrollees by July 31. Capt W G Myers in charge. headquarters advised. only 30 men signed.
Mrs Annie Kwinski of Milwaukee reports weakness and housework inability improved after six bottles of Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Mrs Mattie Adams of Brewton Alabama notes feeling like a different woman after use. The piece touts midlife renewal and widespread endorsements for the product.
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