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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1920
Page
4
A fragmentary verse passage laments high prices and profiteers. It recalls honest workers discarding worn stock after buying up dealer goods, noting how reformers failed to curb greed as the world remained fenced in by commerce. The lines cite Walt Mason and a rustic setting.
Levi P. Morton reached a remarkable old age while serving in varied public roles. He entered politics late at 54 after a career in business, serving as Congressman and American Minister to France. He was a courteous, diligent official, not a reformer, remembered for longevity and steady service.
Richmond Va May 20 More than 40000 people applied for Salvation Army soul insurance policies last year as gospel messages converted them Nationwide figures from the organizations headquarters note . Captain Henderson of the Nashville Tenn corps promoted life and hereafter endowments offered free to seekers saying Old man take my advice and get your soul insured with premiums within reach.
May 20 reports show Mr and Mrs Charles Ricken visiting the former's parents and Mrs Harvey Richard. The Daughertys and Warren spent Monday with the Snapp sisters. S M Tevault and son J C Tevault returned from Browntown. John Miller and Blanche Snapp visited Mr and Mrs John Snapp. Hugh Mowery of Winchester and C C Bauserman with family visited Edinburg and Stephens City neighbors.
The Star lists today’s local wholesale prices for Wheat No 1 timothy hay and mixed hay at 28.00 and 39 respectively while butter fat 0 and creamery butter 0 appear. Local retail shows flour 12 pound sack and potatoes per bushel with varied pricing. Balticore wholesale markets report spring chickens hens eggs butter and timothy hay with hog prices 18.00 to 19.50 and cattle to 12.00.
Albin Virginia May 21. Mr James Lamp and family from Winchester spent Sunday with friends here. Mrs Dora Keller of Whitacre was calling on friends. Mr Thomas Parlett of Winchester visited locals. Mrs Holmes Nail of Hayfield stays with aunt Mrs W M Janel. Sarai Hudson ill at sister Mrs A's home.
An advertisement touts Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a natural laxative option for daily health. It urges use during drowsiness dizziness bilious feelings and early cold or fever signs and offers a free trial through Dr Idwell at 512 Washington Monticello Illinois.
Martinsburg visitors arrive amid ad copy extolling Gude's Pepto Mangan as a blood tonic. The advertisement claims the product enriches blood and increases red blood cells, promising quicker benefits and urging medical consultation if no improvement.
Doctors and druggists tout the new Aspironal Elixir for headaches, saying it relieves pain in two minutes and addresses the liver to curb biliousness and constipation. The ad urges trying two teaspoons in water, with a watchful two minute countdown and money back guarantee if relief isn’t felt. It also claims benefits for colds coughs and neuralgia.
The Associated Press reports from Chicago on March 21 that Penrose has leased a ten-room apartment near the Coliseum to use as headquarters. The listing notes it is a sizeable space suitable for offices and operations in the area.
At Republican headquarters it was learned that Senator Boise Penrose of Pennsylvania may not attend convention sessions due to health. The clipping also notes parents cutting schoolbooks to use again next year.
A vintage home remedy advises mixing two lemons with three ounces of orchard white to make a cheap freckle and tan lotion. Learn that regular massage in the face neck arms and hands can fade blemishes and leave clear rosy white skin without irritation.
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