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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1920
Page
7
An advertising claim touts Aspironal as safe for the heart and stomach offering immediate headache relief. Buy at a drug store for half a dollar, take two teaspoons in water, and test the two minute guarantee with a money back promise if relief is not felt. The ad also extends the guarantee to colds coughs and neuralgia.
The graduation events feature prizes for best original short story by the class, a surprise award to a boy and girl, and presentations by Eulalia Savage and Mr. Cooke. Ivy planting follows, with an Ivy Odes by Vada Gardiner and Victoria Artrip. Commencement exercises include a Salutatory by William Brown and a three-act play with diplomas and a valedictory by Portia Robinson. A musical program by the Glee Club concludes the afternoon.
Advertisement promotes Bayer Tablets of Aspirin as genuine and safe for millions of users and prescribed by physicians for over twenty years. It urges customers to accept intact Bayer packages with proper directions for headache toothache earache neuralgia rheumatism colds and pain. Smaller 12 tablet tins are cheap and larger packages are sold by druggists.
The King's Daughters will meet with Mrs. George W. Kurtz tomorrow afternoon at 4 o clock.
A new gaslight fixture features a turbine above the gas line that spins with heated air and automatically shuts off gas if the flame goes out. The mechanism aims to prevent gas leaks by sealing the supply when ignition stability is lost.
In Abyssinia a newborn burial follows death of an adult with rites including washing beds in honey-sweetened water wrapped in a cloth, and the body laid in a mat of braided straw before burial in the churchyard.
An advertisement touts Othine double strength to remove freckles with a money back guarantee from druggists. The issue also notes a Rule Bible Class meeting next Sunday with Rev Richardson discussing The Chief Corner Stone and reports 111 men attended last week. Attorney Robert M. Ward travels to Easton, Pa for several days of legal business.
The American Legion baseball team faces Brunswick Md in this city tomorrow afternoon at 3 o clock with Sept Clerk of the Handley Schools umpiring. Brunswick beat the locals last Monday and the locals seek an opportunity to even the series.
Mr. L. L. Townsend of Riverdale Maryland will speak at the First Christian Church Sunday evening at 8 p.m. Sunday school at 9 45 a.m. followed by Children's Day services at 11 a.m. Christian Endeavor Society at 7 p.m. Joseph Tisinger, a prominent Mount Jackson area landowner, was in the city today.
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