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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1926
Page
3
Princess Eleanor Weaver of Front Royal Virginia visits Hawthorne the home of Dr. and Mrs. E C Stuart on Northwestern grade. Mrs Henrietta Adams and Miss Eleanor Smith of Cumberland Maryland are guests during the festival hosted by Mr and Mrs W L Ramsey.
Belleville Illinois May 4 John Haas 46 and six family members perished in a blaze that consumed their home early today Mrs Haas and another son plus a three month old baby were badly burned escaping The dead include Haas Vernell Marguerite Eleanore Raymond Irene Malone and Billy Malone The injured include Mrs Haas Oliver Morton Malone and two others as investigators probe whether a liquid poured in the kitchen sparked the fire.
An advertisement touts Red Pepper Rub for rheumatism neuritis back strains and aching joints. It claims rapid warming tingling heat within minutes and congestion relief, urging buyers to choose genuine Rowles with each package.
British minesweepers Maras and L-5 patrol the coast today seeking Captain Loriga the Spanish aviator missing since leaving Hanoi for Macao. Capt Gallarza flew another route and reached Macao Saturday. Much of the 550 mile flight was over water amid misty weather.
In Youngstown Ohio May 4 a nitrate building at Grasselli Chemical Company near Hillsville Pa exploded. Two men Duffner and Fred McCaflin both 50 from New Castle Pa were killed and $25 000 in damage occurred as a second building housing high explosives also blew up though no one was inside it. The cause remains undetermined.
New York stock prices showed strong resistance as selling pressure eased after a UK general strike news surge. Shares fell briefly at the open but recovered, aided by calm London trading and optimism of a short strike duration alongside favorable domestic business and earnings data. Total volume neared 1.1 million shares.
Physicians cite perfect purification as key to health. Purify your system with Calotabs in a thorough course, weekly for several weeks. A family supply with directions costs 35 cents at drugstores.
Three unidentified men were killed and 15 injured when a Southern freight train split a switch and crashed into a work train near Philadelphia Tennessee early today. Rescue work was in progress at 3 am with limited details available.
A vintage advertisement extols Kotex as a discreet deodorant solution to end fear of embarrassment. It claims no laundry is needed and that the product is purchasable at any drug or department store by simply asking for Kotex. The copy notes it costs only a few cents and critics old methods as unnecessary.
A physician's bill to General Andrew Jackson for dinner and a glass of grog in 1804 appeared in a Shillaber Americana collection sale. Jackson wrote on the back that he paid eight dollars for an extraordinary unjust act and noted no medicine was provided, calling the charge unjust.
Byron Southwell, manager of the Agricultural and Mechanical Hatchery in Tifton Georgia, reports that six layings yield the equivalent of a dozen eggs. The egg has two yolks and measures six and seven tenths inches in oral circumference. Southwell aims to develop a fowl breed that yields similar eggs.
Advertisement claims cream unclogs noses and relieves head cold symptoms. It suggests applying the product into the nostrils to soothe swollen mucous membranes and clear nasal passages for faster relief.
London reports Madge Titheradge, long a Shakespearean figure, will play lead in the sex play Pri Fazil as Henry Ainley stages a revived Shakespearian run to recoup losses. Titheradge says London seeks sex plays, though wholesome drama can succeed.
Havana reports the landing decree requires the protection of artists by the department and, for women, by their husbands or parents if under age. After seventy New York based performers were stranded, immigration inspectors are to enforce the rule. Single actresses aged two years or over do not require landing permission.
Lake City archives reveal items from 1762 and 1783 in a local DAR ses sion. Antiques include a Scots jug linked to Lieut Hector McNeill and a Bible bought in 1783 by John Daniel, a Revolutionary soldier, now owned by his descendant James Lipscomb.
Manila on May 5 reports soccer football expanding in the Philippines as the Philippine Amateur Football League plans development to field a team for the Far Eastern Games with Japan. Chinese teams have dominated these games in the past. Also noted are Cumberland Maryland visitors at a family festival in the article.
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