Evening Star enters Winchester Post Office list
The Evening Star is entered at the Winchester Virginia Post Office as second class mail matter.
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1918
Page
4
The Evening Star is entered at the Winchester Virginia Post Office as second class mail matter.
The writer laments endless slaughter on distant fronts and the collapse of farming at home. He voices weariness with war generalities and expresses a stubborn determination to stay the course until victory, rejecting pleas for peace for the duration of conflict.
The ad claims Winchester residents endorse Dean's Kidney Pills for kidney trouble. It describes symptoms including back ache urinary disturbances fatigue and poor appetite and asserts the pills provided relief and improved health over six years. The notice lists H Boxwell Sr retired merchant at 302 North Main St and urges purchase from dealers.
A government leaflet urges Winchester and Frederick County women to consider going without wheat to support France. It contrasts French women working in fields with American homes that must bake bread, noting France's war-time strain and urging readers to bear the extra burden rather than rely on others.
An advertisement touts Calotabs as the superior refined calomel for liver cleansing and system purification. It claims one nightly tablet purges a patient without nausea, allows normal meals, and guarantees satisfaction with a money back offer from druggists.
General Pershing personally commanded a recent American advance that captured Cantigny with heavy German losses. The War Council told the Senate military committee that the western front improved with halted German offensives and allied counterattacks yielding substantial gains. The allies were believed to have sufficient strength to resist further German advances.
A fragment indicates First Lieutenant Claude R. Cammer, on duty with a machine gun company, was involved in a gas exposure incident. The readable text is incomplete and lacks context on location or outcomes.
The French front veteran Lt Cammer, gassed recently and treated at a base hospital, is recovering as relatives report. He declined a captaincy promotion twice due to a condition to return to the United States as an instructor. Cammer was chosen from Fort Myer’s first training camp to join the first division under General Pershing and previously commanded Shenandoah Valley Academy.
United States civil service examinations for bookkeepers typed clerks and clerk bookkeepers will be conducted in this city on the third Saturday in June July August and September. Exams at the Winchester post office seek eligibles to fill vacancies paying 1000 to 1400 dollars yearly. seven hours allowed. Details from the local post office.
A short item notes Rev D L Blakemore dropping into the Winchester district office with added honors and a grandfather title. The record includes financial figures and attestations from 1918, with the scene tied to a Baltimore Southern Methodist context and various coin and resource entries.
Mrs. B. C. Oldham receives a Mother's Day letter from son Hubert Oldham in France. He praises mothers for tenderness patience and understanding and says no other mother in the world can match hers. The message urges giving extra joy and mindful gifts to mothers this May day.
Winona Minnesota woman Mrs. Albert Saltze describes years of nervousness and sleepless nights. She credits Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring sleep and energy, citing its forty year history in treating displacements inflammation and nervous prostration in women.
Train schedule snippet lists arrivals from Philadelphia and New York with times 3.40 11.69 9.36 and 1600 33.56, mentions Widonester and J. & TONOM, but text is fragmentary.
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