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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1926
Page
4
Press service details indicate second class posting and subscription prices for one month to one year with rates for Morning News The Weekly News and The Weekly Mirror. The Associated Press maintains exclusive republication rights for news dispatches and local Derein news.
Richmond dispatch reports Winchester hosts the third annual Apple Blossom Festival drawing Virginians and visitors to the Valley for parades, queen coronation, and beauty on the Valley Pike. The event promotes tourism and state pride, highlighting roads, a coming national park, and broad publicity for Virginia.
Poem reflects on James Jiggles a hustler who harms others for success. Aging, he recalls chaos he caused, wrecked friends and livelihoods, and the costs of unscrupulous schemes as a sordid tale of pursuit of fortune and renown.
A partial excerpt explores guilt and remorse after a crime. The speaker reflects on a tormented soul, unable to find solace or comfort in the idea of the wrongdoing.
A narrator wakes in a grim jail cell recalling a night of drink. The warder soberly informs him he caused death and maiming with his actions and warns of consequences. The piece ends with the prisoner left in despair, contemplating ruin and his wife.
A fragmented market summary lists local staples such as flour barrels, corn products, mixed feeds, hay, middlings, and butter with scattered pricing cues. It notes live poultry categories, cattle and sheep, and regional market terms, including Baltimore and Philadelphia area references and a 24.50 price figure.
Letters from grateful women across the country praise Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. They claim it restored energy, enabled housework, and improved health after sickness, with testimonials from Lansing Michigan and others noting long-term use and recovery.
The thirteenth annual convention of the Sunday schools of Back Creek district will meet at Mountain View Methodist Episcopal Church South near Mountain Falls on Friday May 28 at 10 o clock. Leaders must elect delegates and alternates and each school should send a report and offering for final summing up before the state meeting.
Rosenberger Virginia May 4 Mr and Mrs Leslie Lonas of Winchester spent Sunday with Mr William Brewer and family Miss Belle Brewer has returned to the area after her visit
Mr. Maynard Brewer is recovering after a spell of illness. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Clowser and son Leonard visited Winchester. Ernest and Gilbert Dyke and Stanley Clowser visited Gratton Higmaday. The Clowser couple also stayed with the Rosenbergers. Mrs. Guy Frye visits relatives at Opequon. The school closed last Wednesday after a successful term led by Miss Alma Hockman of Strasburg.
Physicians praise these tablets as body builders. Cod liver oil extracts mixed with iron boost weight and energy. Burke's Cod Liver Oil and Iron Tablets are sold at the drug store to improve strength and red blood as fast as possible.
Mrs Cox explains her treatment after a medical removal without operation. She says she was short of breath and unable to work, staying in bed part of the time. An advertised product Sorbol Quadruple is promoted by Sorbol Co in Mechanicsburg Ohio and sold locally at Millers Drug Store and Baker's Drug Store.
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