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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1921
Page
6
A Winchester firm promotes its large line of wall paper and paints. It claims to offer high grade wallpaper of the latest styles and to carry a wide variety of paints. The ad invites inspection of its extensive stock and notes it is an agent for Hanline paints.
The advertisement extols a laundry plant equipped for turning out class work and asserts patrons should be confident in choosing their service. It promises proof of superior quality and complete satisfaction to secure ongoing patronage.
The leading bakery of Win offers fresh bread and pies praised as nearly perfect. Its products are a household word in the area and sold in many stores, inviting continued patronage from locals.
The Progressive Bank in Winchester emphasizes its savings department and community ties. Officials promote the bank as a modern, customer focused institution with strong local support and a promise of reliable service.
The Safe Bank of Winchester emphasizes rapid loans and trusted service, linking its names to leading Virginia enterprises. It highlights strong financial standing and customer satisfaction as core values for a secure banking experience.
The Bank of Winchester presents itself as stable and trusted, highlighting its long history and strong leadership. It emphasizes safety and solidity as core values, inviting patronage from the community and noting that its directors are among the county’s leading citizens.
A local financial institution advertises its growth driven by discreet leadership. The bank operates under national law and emphasizes safety for depositors while inviting public patronage.
A leading exclusive shoe store in Winchester offers men women and children Thompson Bros shoes Linder and Pals lines at reasonable prices. The shop emphasizes high grade footwear and a growing local trade and appreciates patronage.
An advertisement for a leading photographer proclaims readiness to serve with real art quality photographs. It promises high standards, custom framing by an artist, and satisfaction guaranteed. The note mentions Kodak film and a $410 prize as part of the promotion.
Winchester shop known as a leading confectionery offers high grade candies, ice creams, and the latest soft drinks. The firm manufactures much of the candy sold locally and is famed for purity and excellence. Popular with the younger crowd, it aims to serve customers seeking top quality confections.
The top Winchester real estate firm handles improved and unimproved city and suburban property, farm lands, and more. Thoroughly posted on local and county Realty values, it serves buyers and sellers with expert knowledge and ready service. The office is near the County Court House.
A Winchester hardware firm promises exact selections in shelf and heavy hardware including pots stoves cutlery and oils. It claims quality goods and reasonable prices have built a growing local trade and notes it sells Majestic stoves and ranges with appreciated patronage.
A fragment outlines a Winchester men’s shop offering clothing and furnishings with emphasis on quality and value. Mentions Griffon clothes and appeal to patrons, noting affordable prices and a broad stock.
The oldest monument and headstone firm in the Shenandoah Valley, Winchester established in 1842 offers a vast selection of marble and granite. Skilled workers provide reliable craftsmanship and all work is as represented.
A long established local roofing and general repair firm in Winchester advertises reliable service for stove and furnace work. They emphasize fair dealing and ongoing community business, offering all related repair and maintenance tasks.
A Winchester firm advertises electrical services for all kinds of electrical work and supplies. It claims to handle contract work of any size and promises to provide labor and hardware for modern homes.
A local cleaning and pressing shop promotes years of experience in cleaning, repairing, and delivering reliable service. It highlights first class workmanship, strict standards, and customer satisfaction as core commitments to the community.
An old Winchester advertisement touts a drug store offering pure drugs and accurately compounded prescriptions. It promotes toilet articles and stationery as part of a first class drug em porium and notes Norris candies as a product line.
A Winchester automobile agency showcases Buick cars praised for style economy and durability. The dealer offers supplies accessories and a service station and invites customers to test a Buick demonstration fitting all requirements.
The firm offers fresh and cut meats, fruits and vegetables, and groceries at reasonable prices. It emphasizes year-round care for meats and a motto of quality, aiming to expand its growing trade with appreciative patronage.
The leading jewelry firm offers diamonds, glass, novelties and gold and silverware. An expert in charge of repairs ensures quality service with fair prices. The firm has established a strong trade in the community through reliable methods.
The old established firm in Winchester sells musical instruments including a fine piano a player piano music rolls talking machines and records. It emphasizes quality prices and a growing local patron age and mentions York pianos to welcome customers.
The Family Grocer in Winchester promotes itself as the leading pure food store offering fresh staples fancy groceries fruits and vegetables. It emphasizes courtesy sanitation and reasonable prices and invites patronage from the community.
In Winchester the leading store for women offers dry goods motions ready wear garments and furnishings. The firm maintains reasonable prices and steady trade growth while emphasizing courtesy and service to patrons in the community.
A Winchester firm proclaims itself as the leading insurance agency representing many of the world’s largest companies. It offers fire, life, accident, marine, surety, and other lines and invites new clients to receive prompt, reliable service.
An Worcester agency sells the Dodge Brothers cars and supplies an up to date service station. They offer accessories and maintain a full dealership, meeting all requirements for car buyers with proven reliability.
A Winchester store markets high grade clothing and furnishings for men with Distinet quality at reasonable prices. The firm promotes Society Brand Reiss for young men and aims to cultivate a well dressed customer base.
A leading Winchester millinery shop promises stylish hats from top designers. The store bills itself on quality stamps and moderate prices, attracting a thriving trade and expressing appreciation for patronage.
A Reading restaurant in Winchester promotes itself as a premier dining spot for ladies and gentlemen. It touts excellent cuisine and top service at reasonable prices, with growing business and a claim to be the valley’s most up to date eatery.
Fancy groceries Namath Fruit and Vegetable Shop advertises pure fresh staples and fruits. Sanitary display and stock aiming at top quality and reasonable prices to attract trade in the community from a well known firm.
A leading Winchester shop advertises comprehensive dry goods, notions, ready to wear garments, and men and women shoes. It touts high grade goods, quality, and reasonable prices across departments with a wide advertised shoe selection.
A local dealer in Winchester advertises the universe car with a wide line of parts and general repair services. The outlet promotes durability and reasonable prices and highlights carrying other market brands and financing options.
Winchester store Hens Outfitters advertises to offer high grade clothing furnishings shoes trunks hems and more. It emphasizes cash sales for lower prices and claims a growing customer base with consistently low rates.
The store offers clothing and furnishings for men and boys at reasonable prices with a motto of quality goods at little cost. It pledges friendly service and savings on all wearing apparel.
The Winchester house of fine furniture advertises comprehensive selections with quality goods and reasonable prices. It notes an undertaker department ready to handle funerals economically, highlighting a long established business since 1867 and a growing local trade.
Nash automobiles and trucks are presented as top choices known for economy durability and steady performance. The ad urges readers to compare models and consider Nash as a reliable option reopening interest in the brand for purchasers seeking value.
A fragmented OCR item reports a silent motor touching on Fei and noting the engine lacks valves. The readable bits suggest a technical or engineering snippet, with limited context about purpose or date.
A Winchester carving firm known for fine high grade monuments and headstones boasts a wide trade territory spanning Virginia Maryland and Pennsylvania. It promises excellent workmanship and ample stocks of granite and marble to meet monument and headstone needs.
The Winchester automobile agency offers Hudson and Essex cars hailed as the best on the market for quality economy and price. It provides supplies, accessories and a top garage in the Old Dominion and also sells White Trucks. Those who have used them praise the agency’s demonstration of a real automobile.
Winchester theater promotes itself as a leading family show house with wholesome entertainments and films from world famous producers. Patrons are promised clean, elevating cinema and an enjoyable evening for the entire family.
A Winchester firm specializing in general plumbing and heating announces extensive lines of supplies and accessories. The company handles contract work of any size and invites estimates on contracts, promising reliable service for all plumbing and heating needs.
Contestants must guess names of business firm representatives from a tare paper quiz. Correct answers rewarded with a $10 prize and the winner to be announced May 14. Partial name accuracy noted and firms may be revealed with results.
Frederick County Virginia and Winchester proceedings announce the decree date April 18 1921. A master commissioner will report on real and personal estate debts division and potential sale with publication and appearance requirements at 18 Rouss Avenue on May 20 1921. Attorneys Ward Larrick and Cather represent interested parties.
A local firm advertises a jewelry and optics business offering diamonds watches silverware glass and more. It promotes high grade goods and reasonable prices and notes an optometrist can refraction and correct eye errors. The shop also mentions in-house eyewear grinding services.
By decree of George A. Sampsell executor of Cora A. Carbaugh the estate offers at public sale a farm west of Stephens City Virginia adjoining property of H. Co and wife to Mary A. Bush and Octavia Guard. The 80 acre tract near the B and C Railroad Depot will be sold March 24 1894 with terms one third cash and balance in two yearly installments at 6 percent interest secured by deed of trust.
Public auction to sell 121 acre farm in Opequon District three miles southeast of Stephens City. The sale on May 14 1921 at 11 a.m. in Winchester as court house steps. Terms: one third cash, balance in two annual installments secured by deed of trust and insurance. Trustee Ty Russell Cather and auctioneer Roy P Duvall.
Diet and Health Hints explains fat saponification, ranking fats by digestion ease from fresh cream to beef fat and lard. It argues mastication aids liquefied foods and notes olive oil becomes cream with mouth agitation for better digestibility.
Notice to holders of Winchester Gas and Electric Co that the annual meeting for election of directors for the year will be held Friday at 11 a m. The treasurer and secretary positions are referenced. The text contains garbled and irrelevant phrases about interior improvements and cleaning.
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