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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1919
Page
5
The Associated Press reports from Washington on June 20 that nearly one million American doughboys landed at British ports during the war and each received refreshments and smokes from Red Cross canteens at departure points. The release details the scope and cost of canteen service in the war effort.
Mr and Mrs Loring A Cover will entertain at a dinner Friday evening at the Green Spring Valley Hunt Club before the supper dance staged by a Valley women’s committee. Host Francis J Carey will welcome about 200 guests. the first event of the series was a success with Florence Re returning to the scene.
Miss Louise Ford of Front Royal Virginia wed Lieut. Samuel Gardner Waller of the One Hundred and Sixteenth Infantry at her home on Royal Avenue. The ceremony was by Rev Dr Webster with close family present. Guests included Miss Elizabeth Marston Miss Rebecca Earle and Miss Anna V Ford. Waller, a lawyer and former mayor of Front Royal, served at the border with the old Second Virginia Regiment and later became historian of the regiment.
An advertisement touts Calomles as a preferred laxative for liver cleansing. It claims no taste or nausea, one tablet at bedtime with water, morning relief, and a hearty breakfast. Sold only in sealed packages for thirty five cents with a refund if ineffective.
Camp Zachary Taylor in Louisville is expanding into a large storage point for quartermaster supplies with twenty three warehouses holding about twenty million dollars worth of shoes uniforms hats blankets and helmets. The camp salvages clothing and blankets from other cantonments. A new laundry sterilizes and mends items while cobblers remake shoes and experts redeem hats and shirts. Millions of tin cans are sterilized and sold to canning concerns, generating thousands in salvage income.
Fragmentary OCR reads as poetic fragment about love and pursuit with unclear context and few identifiable names or events. The line suggests a questioning or emotional theme without concrete actions or outcomes.
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