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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1921
Page
7
An old medical advert urges readers to maintain rich red blood with Pepto Mangan. It promotes tablet or liquid forms and warns sickly blood increases disease risk. It emphasizes choosing genuine Gude's Pepto Mangan and keeping blood health to stay well and avoid costly illnesses.
Market for barrel apples shows quiet demand with prices mostly down. Fancy Baldwins and Greening offer higher values. York Imperial and Winesap reach up to 7.50. In Virginia, Amelia B. Lupton sues Thomas I. Lupton for divorce on cruelty and desertion, with publication ordered in The Winchester Star and a court posting due by March 14, 1921.
The page lists local retail market items including eggs butter hay corn meal flour and middlings with prices for dairy products and feed. It records figures for country creamery butter No 1 timothy hay No 2 light clover and young chickens along with fat cattle steers and lambs in the market notes.
A small dainty advertisement proclaims that a few cents buys Danderine and after a few applications the user will not find fallen hair or dandruff. It asserts hair shows new life vigor brightness and more color and abundance.
The Baltimore conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South with about 75 000 members from Maryland and neighboring areas will convene at Greene Memorial Church Roanoke Va April 7 for a week. Bishop Eugene R Hendrix will preside and more than 300 ministers will attend.
The brief note compares the small cost of a long distance telephone message with the expense of other options. It highlights price considerations and suggests evaluating cheaper methods for long distance communication.
Rid the body of discomfort with Cascarets a pleasant sleep aid that activates the liver clears the head sweetens the stomach and ensures regular bowels by morning. No griping or inconvenience available in 10 25 or 50 cent boxes suitable for children too.
Richmond, Va. March 10. Highway Commissioner G P Coleman rejected all bids for spring highway projects, saying the bids were out of proportion to current labor and material costs. New bids will be opened in March as the department races to capitalize on declining construction costs.
Dr Walter Link of Parkersburg West Virginia a leading physician in the state died at his hospital last Sunday from cerebral apoplexy. He was a native of Jefferson county.
Miss Georgia Pierce of Ridgeway wed Realeish W. Bitner in a Winchester Avenue Christian Church parsonage ceremony attended by relatives. Bitner, a Baltimore and Ohio firefighter and World War I veteran, served 18 months in France, wounded at the Marne. They plan to live in Martinsburg after their honeymoon with family in Huntington and western points.
A drugstore remedy named Freezone offers instant relief for corns when applied to the affected area. The product comes in a small bottle and costs only a few cents, claiming to remove hard and soft corns and calluses without soreness or irritation.
James M. Pangle, stationary engineer of 128 S Market St, testifies on April 21, 1915, that back pain from kidney troubles limited his bending and breathing but improved after using Doan's Kidney Pills. He repeats on January 6, 1919 that the relief lasted and endorses the product again. Sold for 60 cents by FosterMilburn Co of Buffalo, N.Y.
Morgantown March 10 Chestnut blight from the United States Department of Agriculture warns that West Virginia chestnut trees could be destroyed by 1935. G F Gravatt urges timber owners to cut standing timber now as blight has reached 17 counties and spread from Pennsylvania and Virginia.
A brief claim says applying Outgro around an ingrown toenail reduces swelling and pain and hardens the surrounding skin so the nail grows outward overnight. The product is marketed to chiropodists but sold at drug stores in small bottles with directions.
Brucetown Virginia March 10. Mr and Mrs Thomas Bradshaw Miss Lewellyn Bradshaw and Miss Mary Bradshaw spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs Frank Scimsley. Mr and Mrs F Dunn Mrs Prince Dunn and Mrs Bradley Wagley guests of friends here Sunday. Charles Starliper entertained at dinner with Rev O D Lambert and family Howard Boden Jack Boden Mary Boden. Rev Lambert christened Bernice Madge Charles Harding Starliper and Mary Belle Boden. Mrs Joseph Snapp returned home from a visit in Hagerstown to her son and daughter. Miss Etta OConnell spent weekend with Mrs Garland Snyder Clearbrook. Miss Kathleen Pierce returned to Winchester after visiting grandmother Mrs W W Tanquary.
Public sale of personal property from the estate of Giles J. Smith near Gore Virginia scheduled for Wednesday in 1921 at 10 AM. Items include household furnishings and, jointly with Elmer G. Fletcher, farm livestock and implements plus large quantities of hay and grain. Terms of sale apply to all sums.
The ad outlines sale terms of 10 dollars and under cash or over that amount six months credit with a negotiable note and approved security. It lists H E Hiett as potato executor and mentions M C Garvin Elmer G Fletcher as Giles J Smith executors with John W Herrell as auctioneer.
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