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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1917
Page
2
A two day sale offers all odds and ends at steep discounts with wide variety. Items include 10c rolls toilet paper for 25c, 19c parasols, 5c hats, silk hats 19c, waists 39c, corsets 50c, ribbons up to half price, remnants and china toys priced low, and many other bargains for Friday and Saturday.
A home remedy claim extols Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a mild laxative suitable for all ages. It promotes relief from constipation with a pleasant taste and no narcotics, sold by druggists for fifty cents. A free trial bottle is offered by writing to Dr W B Caldwell at Monticello.
Terre Haute mother Mrs. C. C. Evinger praises Vick's VapoRub as a safe external remedy for her two boys ages nineteen months and three and a half years. She notes it loosens phlegm, aids sleep, and helps severe colds. Available in three sizes 25c 50c or 1.00.
The commission aims a careful detailed study of state offices to see if Virginia government can be more efficient and economical. Members serve without compensation while officials fill out department reports including duties, hours, salaries, service start dates, and appointment methods. The effort is not a political check-up but an inquiry into current methods.
A 1916 letter from Daniel Drug Co of Hogansville Ga reports customers claim health restoration from Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root confirming strong sales. The firm urges readers to prove the remedy by sending ten cents for a sample and booklet detailing kidneys and bladder. Regular sizes available at drug stores.
A newspaper note advises women to protect complexions as March winds bring freckles that may persist through summer. It promotes ethine-double strength cream, claiming rapid improvement with few applications and a druggist guarantee if it fails.
Near Opequon a Confederate veteran named Levi Miller receives a Virginia pension and displays the Southern Cross of Honor. He is known among Winchester veterans and plans to attend the Washington reunion.
German soldiers train to swim rivers despite carrying rifles and gear. Experts can cross several hundred yards with clothing on their heads and guns in hand, demonstrating swimming proficiency under combat conditions.
A quip by Laurence Sterne critiques hypocrisy and the harsh cant of criticism as the most tormenting from among many social pretenses in the world.
The will of Mrs. Ella Kerr of Baltimore was filed in Baltimore Orphans Court. Beneficiaries include Mrs. Edward Contee Johnson of Winchester and other relatives. Specific bequests cover furniture portraits and cash legacies with the residue split among Kerr children as executors. The document dates from 1913 with a codicil in 1914.
Mr Silas Grim returned from Washington after attending President Wilsons inauguration. J Orndorff and family of near Stephens City visited Mrs Orndorffs parents Luther and Mary McCauley at Refuge. Mrs Queenie Pifer returned from a visit near Macedonia. Mrs J R Conner is ill with a severe cold. Friends regret Mr Barney Painters winter illness and lack of improvement. Mrs George Conner and daughter Maggie of Vaucluse visited John and Mrs Conner. T A Steele shipped five porkers from Ashbys Station averaging 102 pounds each. Ollie Grim is sick near Refuge. Lorenee Orndorff regaining speech after measles. Raymond Bates, after surgery in Winchester, is recovering and hopes to resume studies. C E Pifer and son Earle visited brother W T Pifer near Refuge.
A physician endorses morning hot water with limestone phosphate to “wash” the liver and bowels, arguing it removes indigestible material, toxins and sour bile. The remedy is said to prevent headaches, bad taste, sallow skin and other liver-related ills without salivation, unlike calomel.
The passage traces dog day superstition to Romans naming the period from July 3 to August 11 as dog days. It links Canicula the little dog rising with the sun to blamed causes for hot weather and illness, noting fear of dogs going mad and biting people during the heat.
A brief literary blurb notes Morley Roberts in Thorpe's Way states that men have not been valued by women, yet women are now beginning to express otherwise.
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