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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1916
Page
5
Train schedule notes daily departures and arrivals with times such as 9 20 am 11 46 am and 7 22 pm and states Supt BA Rivpyg and Gen P A Trainé arrive in Winchester from listed stations.
A crude advertisement extols cheap soap as better for hair than costly brands. It claims soap cleanses scalp, reduces oil, and leaves hair soft and lustrous with coconut oil as a recommended ingredient. The text pitches the soap as affordable for the whole family.
A Winchester farmer, A. T. Ritenour of 314 North Kent Street, testifies that Doan's Kidney Pills relieved his kidney backache and urinary problems after La Grippe left him ill. He recalls improvement in 1903 and, by 1915, rarely having kidney trouble. Price 50 cents at dealers. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY.
The Mutual Farmers' Club of Frederick county met June 3 at F A Cochran's Well town home. Members discussed soil neutralizers carbonate of lime and land improvement, incubator use on the farm, costs of raising livestock, and leguminous crops for manure. New member John Co. Cather was welcomed and a fall fair prize cup for corn, wheat and alfalfa was promised. The next meeting at Winchester Inn is set for June 24 after adjournment.
An old advertisement claims catarrh is only curable by internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure says it reaches the blood and mucous surfaces, not a quack medicine, and was prescribed by a top physician. The product, by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, sold by druggists for 75 cents.
In Tulip Virginia on June 20 residents report a well attended children’s day program at Ridings Chapel. Various locals noted visiting relatives and neighbors, including Miss Anna Morris and Mrs. Lula Owens, and a string of short social updates from Steph ens City to Cedarville.
A missionary from India told a Des Moines church audience that a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy saved his life during a sickness in inland India. He urged using the remedy as a preventive and cure for milder bowel complaints seen here. Obtainable everywhere.
A decree from the Corporation Court in 1913 orders a public auction of the Lewis Calvert building lot at 616 North Main Street Winchester. The sale, at 11 am in front of the courthouse, requires one third cash and two equal annual installments with bonds and deed of trust as security. Auctioneers M. M. Lynch and Wm. M. Bowen.
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