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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1918
Page
6
The Pickett Stock Company opens with vaudeville specialties featuring a five year old star and strong solo acts. They stage late-repertoire productions with in-house scenery and heavy royalties, drawing capacity crowds. Special seating at People's Drug Store sells at 25 or 35 cents plus tax. curtain at 8:30, house opens at 7:45.
The New York Packer reports a drop in potato acreage in Virginia’s big growing district and Weld County Colorado. Northwest plantings are lighter, while northern states must supply 100000000 people with this staple this winter.
Wilmington Del May 14 Feeling fit and fine at the end of a 12 day fast for intestinal troubles W Wright editor of the Middletown Transcript has informed his friends that he will begin another fasting period. During his recent fast Mr Wright who was at one time a Methodist minister lost 16 pounds but felt no hunger pangs after the third day. He allowed nothing but water to pass his lips and on the ninth day ran a mile at five miles an hour a feat repeated on the tenth day. Wright is past 66 and volunteered for duty in France with forces planned by former President Roosevelt.
An advertisement extols Danderine as a hair rinse that cleanses dust and oil in minutes, making hair wavy fluffy and abundant. It claims scalp invigoration stops itching and hair loss, with roots strengthened and growth promoted by a small bottle bought at drug stores.
The Broken Butterfly, acted by Pickett Stock Co at Empire, features a wife misled by her racehorse devoted husband and a half brother plotting to steal her money. Comedy runs through Nellie Ryland and Jack Stull, with three vaudeville acts filling the bill. a strong weekly favorite.
In France on May 14 an American soldier strapped a time alarm under his arm and planted it on a wire in No Man’s Land. The clock rang intermittently, drawing German fire while the Americans relaxed in their trenches and laughed, wasting enemy ammunition and effort.
Mr Irwin Carper left this morning for Lynchburg Virginia to represent Madison Lodge No 6 I O O F at the Grand Lodge meeting in that city Mrs William Whisson her daughter Virginia and Miss Ethel Scrivner also left to attend the Rebekah Assembly officers were elected for the Grand Encampment and a trip was planned by the combined bodies to the Odd Fellows Orphanage near Lynchburg
Fragmentary OCR notes mention Paris and Baylies with battles and enemy losses. References to a French ace with 23 victories, a wounded officer, and multiple military actions appear, but readable context is limited and names are incomplete.
Citizens urged to support the Women’s Civic League clean-up drive in Winchester. City carts will haul away rubbish on regular days. residents to place waste in small containers for pickup to prevent epidemics and protect public health.
Mr. A. R. Pendleton of New York is at Hotel Jack in Michigan. A former Winchester bar member he plans to supervise the reopening of his summer home near town which he and Mrs. Pendleton will occupy.
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