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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1916
Page
6
Mary Miles Minter appears as the title character in Dimples on a Metro programine. The film is a five reel comedy starring Minter and Sidney Drew. Admission is 10 cents.
Flora and Carter DeHaven appear Tuesday in The College Orphan a comedy drama of college life with Flora Parker De Haven. The program also includes the tenth episode of The Iron Claw and a six reel Broadway feature by Aguil in the same night with no advance charge. tickets are 10 cents.
Walter Pinks of Powells Fort was jailed on a charge of unlawfully and early firing timbered mountains near the Stockwood Realty mines. Government and local fire crews battled the blaze for over 24 hours, destroying $700 to $800 worth of timber. The case was developed by M E Stickley and E D Clark with Commonwealth Attorney Philip Williams and Sheriff Stoner facilitating the arrest.
The Hagerstown Mail reports Virginia's prohibition law allows hotels to obtain licenses to sell whiskey for bath or culinary purposes. The rule requires liquor to be rubbed in and not gulped, with licenses granted under restrictions. Hotels must deliver the liquor in person to guests about to retire for a bath.
An advertisement touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as a cure for scrofula and related symptoms such as facial eruptions neck swellings and general debility. It claims blood purification and strengthening of the body based on Dr Hood's fifty years of pharmacological experience and urges readers to start Feaparina today to ensure freedom from scrofula.
A Brandon Springs Alabama resident reports that Chamberlain's Cough Remedy helped relieve a severe whooping cough in a baby. The note claims rapid improvement and notes the remedy is obtainable everywhere.
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