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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1920
Page
4
The Evening Star announces another rise in newsprint prices affecting subscriptions. The notice lists various timetables and consolidation with Morning News and several Weekly editions, outlining annual and shorter-term prepaid rates and contact details.
The Associated Press reports steep rises in newsprint costs. Canadian Export Paper Company will lift from 4 to 5 1 2 cents per pound on July 1 and to 6 1 2 cents on October 1, with prices reaching $130 a ton. International Paper hints further October 1 increases, forcing annual costs up toward 7 to 8 cents per pound.
A map in The Nation's Business highlights improving southern conditions across Georgia Florida Alabama Mississippi Louisiana and Texas with good and fair zones. It promotes a future of prosperity driven by rising agricultural and industrial wealth and expanding Southern manufacturing capacity attracting investment and stock growth.
A clipped political poem laments campaign rhetoric while a narrator vows simple living. It contrasts clean campaigning with verbal clashes, noting the speaker tends to practical duties like pruning trees and tending bees rather than partisan disputes.
The Mack Search Licht Truck, famed from World War I, arrives in Berryville Clarke County to illuminate the June American Legion celebration. One officer and five men accompany the apparatus to exhibit at the Horse Show Grounds.
Doctors praise Aspironal Elixir for rapid relief and underlying cause removal by aiding the liver. Take two teaspoons in water, wait two minutes, and demand a money back guarantee if headaches persist. Also promoted for colds coughs and neuralgia with the same guarantee.
Daily wholesale and retail price listings appear with corrections noted by The Star. Readouts include wheat hay barley butter chickens eggs and livestock quotes with inconsistencies and missing figures across multiple lines and items.
Trustee Herbert S. Larrick will publicly auction on July 3, 1920 at 11 a.m. in front of Winchester County Courthouse the Lot C tract of 73 acres in Frederick County Va. near Winchester. Sale terms require one third cash and rest in two annual installments with interest secured by deed of trust and insurance. The land was part of Nellie M Hyde’s partition and comes from Peter S Hyde’s estate.
The text argues glasses do not weaken the eyes and that rest allows the eyes to strengthen. It claims prolonged wearing may reduce or end the need for glasses as eye function recovers.
A note on Thursday being deemed unlucky in Scandinavia, contrasted with Friday beliefs. The text discusses cultural superstitions and alt folklore attitudes toward weekdays.
A Cincinnati man promotes a cheap home remedy for corns using freezone and ether with direct application. He claims a quarter ounce cures a tender corn by drying it and lifting the whole corn from the foot, reducing pain and infection risk.
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