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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1928
Page
2
Health officials warn mothers to avoid unfit milk and unsafe foods as infant diarrheal deaths rise in 1927. Improvements in sanitation and reduced consumption of sour foods help cut fatalities, with 198 fewer deaths than 1926 and progress since 1913.
Mothers today dress babies for comfort and practical care. Breast feeding for nine months provides near total early life protection with germ-free food. The Vital Statistics booklet Feeding the New Family explains how it may be done in most cases.
Gore Virginia June 27. Among those renewing old acquaintances at the Bethel memorial services last Sunday was Mrs Minnie Lockhart Kelso of Kaw City Oklahoma Mrs Kelso is a visitor who attended the event and reconnected with former friends.
An old time household tip touts using Red Seal Lye to melt grease from pots and pans in ten seconds. The method keeps hands dry and claims to outperform traditional soap and steel wool, noting lye is 97 percent pure and popular in modern kitchens.
Several weeks spent with relatives in and near Winchester. Mrs J M Estes and son plan to leave for Charlottesville this week. Estes to visit Fourth of July with family before returning to work in Charlotteville. Captain Hardy of the Highway Camp visited with J M Estes and family. Mr and Mrs L C Good and children from Intermont West Virginia spent Sunday at Valley Home with Mrs Good’s sister Virginia Kern. Friends wish S Sncistr speedy recovery from illness. Alvah Kern and Carson Miller injured at J Natwick mill yard slowly improving. Kern has ankle injury. Miller remains in Memorial Hospital with a broken arm. Postmaster B L Larrick bought a new truck. Audrey Shingleton of Romney spent the week visiting friends and former classmates in the village.
A 400 strong motor caravan from the American War Veterans Club of Washington will travel to Orkney Springs and Shenandoah Caverns for an annual pilgrimage. Wounded veterans from Walter Reed and other hospitals will be guests, escorted by doctors nurses and Red Cross representatives. The procession departs Washington at noon Friday and will be met by police at the Virginia line and through the Shenandoah Valley. Governor Byrd will send a representative to extend state greetings at Orkney Springs.
A caravan led by Lieut Charles Riener and the War Veterans Club will host special guests at two resorts. Maimed and wounded members of the party will be the especial guests of the management.
KINSTON N C June 28 A Negro fishing for cats in Neuse River here towed in a goldfish hook by a line running from a boat, drawing a crowd as authorities investigated the unusual scene.
A local man yesterday caught a four inch goldfish on his hook along Heritage Street. The tale recalls a past incident where a four year old boy took his mother's aquarium occupants to swim in a gutter during rain, the fish escaped and washed into a sewer. The captured fish was believed to be one of ten escaped aquarium occupants.
Note to parents from the San Francisco Chronicle asserts that the world’s first boy’s misbehavior occurred not due to neighbor children. The remark frames parental responsibility and social critique in a sharp, tongue in cheek tone.
A charter is granted by the State Corporation Commission to the Shenandoah Publishing House, Strasburg, Va. Capital stock ranges from 100000 to 200000 dollars. B. Keister is president and C Harold Law secretary. The firm is authorized to print and publish in Strasburg and in Front Royal and other Virginia points. W. L. Newman, attorney, Woodstock, Va.
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