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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1918
Page
4
A wartime column features vivid slang and bravado as speakers mock German leaders and boast of American resolve. The piece satirizes Kaiser Bill and Teutons while celebrating Allied effort and bold threats to seize strategic targets like channel ports.
A telegram to Edward McAboy confirms Corporal Harry McAboy has arrived safely in France and earned a promotion. Brucetown's Church hosts Children's Day on Sunday at 8 30 p m. Cadet William Best Hesseltine graduates honorably from Millersburg Institute and will attend Virginia Was Institute in 1948 49. Mrs F T Pine’s son Hesseltine noted. Mrs 4 B Snapp and Samuel Wimley Jr listed as sick.
The regular monthly meeting of the Woman's Civic League Inc. will be held Friday June 7 at four o'clock in the Elk's Club corner secretary reports. Also mentions a new sixteen page magazine section in The Washington Bungay Star offering compact tabloid style Sunday reading.
A colored girl employed as a domestic for a prominent family admitted stealing eggs by charging them to the household and selling them elsewhere. In one month she obtained 60 dozen eggs and about $20 in cash before her father pledged to reimburse, and she was not prosecuted.
Grief funeral services were held yesterday for Mollie E. Dean who was murdered near Gore on a Saturday night. Her husband Thomas William Dean, jailed on murder charges, was not allowed to attend and no trial date has been set.
J M Pangie of 128 S Market St Winchester testifies that severe back pain and kidney trouble faded after using Dean's Kidney Pills. He reports ongoing relief since, urging readers to try the same kidney remedy priced 60 cents at dealers. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY distributes the medicine.
Unclaimed letters list for the week ending June 1 1918 at Winchester Virginia post office includes Miss Annie Brown George Gordon Massey Howard E N Richards Walter Williams J W Sibert P M HVE Bennett and others. Each caller must pay one cent per letter.
Mrs Branson McIkewee and her children left Tuesday for Washington to join Mr McIwee who has taken a government position there. The family plans to make their home in the city in the future.
A London dispatch reports Greek forces on the Macedonian front, aided by French artillery, have seized strong enemy positions at Sika di Legen on the Struma front. Over 1,500 German and Bulgarian prisoners, including 33 officers, were captured along with substantial war materials.
The New York apple market showed higher prices last week with active demand and light offerings. Prices ranged for Baldwins $6.50 to $8, Ambrosial Pippins $9 to $10, Spies $8 to $10, Ben Davis $5 to $6.50, Roxbury Russets $5 to $6.50 per barrel, while boxed fruit from $2.50 to $4 depending on variety and quality.
Paul Bromley who enlisted in the ambulance corps at Gettysburg is at home in this city with three sunstrokes in camp and high fever. He is under medical care but expected to return in a few days.
The ad links worry and blues to functional derangement and suggests Lydia B. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a revitalizing general tonic. It promotes outdoor life better sleep increased water intake and a several week course to strengthen the system and relieve symptoms.
The Cooper Merchandise and Oil Company on Main and Piccadilly streets plans to add two stars to its service flag, boosting representation in the army and navy. Seven men from the firm now in service include Chaude, Glen Ryan, Gibson Baker, James O. Baker, Eugene Cooper, Fred Bowman, and Elliott Miller. the eighth name will be provided by Eugene Cooper.
An advertisement touts Calotabs as a new form of calomel that is “delightful” and more effective for purifying the system and cleansing the liver. It promises a single tablet at night, then a clean liver by morning, with no dietary restrictions. Sold in sealed packages for thirty five cents, with druggist guarantee.
Mr S Roy Hetzer of Mountain View Nursery Williamsport Md leaves with 40 St Johns Academy Annapolis Md students for the reserve officers training camp at Plattsburg He is in the senior division and has two brothers Harry and William Hetzer already in France The brothers wrote home on Mother’s Day saying they were well and in good cheer
Cross Junction Virginia residents share Sunday visits with relatives in Winchester Siler Berkeley Springs and Whitacre. Families mentioned include Angell Braithwaite Stottler Baker and Whitacre households with local illness reports and social visits noted.
Doctor Harry Wall attends the winter gathering hosted by Mrs E Frederton in West. The event centers on social duties and seasonal hospitality.
A Philadelphia woman testifies that Vinol cured exhaustion and weakness after overwork. She states she regained strength, appetite, and weight after eight doses. The ad promotes a money back guarantee and lists Miller's Drug Store in Philadelphia.
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