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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1918
Page
2
The ad urges abandoning spray and douche remedies for catarrh and recommends 8. S. 8. as a bloodborne treatment praised for decades. Readers are told to seek personalized medical advice free of charge from the Medical Director, Swift Laboratory, Atlanta, Georgia.
A notional article promotes checking accounts as essential for all, stating that even small or new customers can open an account. It notes professionals, farmers, and many women use checking accounts and invites readers to start with any amount.
In a Winchester letter dated May 21, IRA S. Capper argues for prohibition’s communal benefits in Martinsburg. He describes former drink-dominated homes transformed into neat, paying households with paid bills and secure yards. Capper warns whiskey couriers and sympathizers will oppose dry laws, but urges enforcement and notes improved streetscapes and stable family life as outcomes.
Readers urged to restore energy and clear complexions by taking Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. Advocates toning blood with herbal formula free of alcohol or narcotics, urging use for impure or impoverished blood and fatigue. Available as tablets or liquid at drug stores.
An old advertisement promotes California Syrup of Figs as a gentle inside cleansing for children and adults. It claims a coated tongue signals need and promises quick relief, warning to avoid counterfeit syrups and to buy only from the California Fig Syrup Company.
Mrs Margaret Croushom of Hinton Virginia describes her relief after using the herbal Dreco medicine. She suffered stomach trouble headaches and weak kidneys before trial. She reports improved appetite pain relief and regained energy enabling easier housework and renewed hope. Dreco is sold by local druggists and recommended in Winchester by Miller's Drug Store.
Calotabs marketed as a purified calomel tablet cures cold symptoms overnight with a single tab at bedtime. The ad touts no nausea or eating interference and claims the next day the cold vanishes with a purified system. Sold only in sealed packages for thirty five cents with druggist guarantee.
An old style self mailer urges readers to cut out the slip and mail it with five cents to Foley & Co. Chicago to receive a trial package of Foley products including Honey and Tar Compound for coughs and colds, Foley Kidney Pills, and Foley Cathartic Tablets.
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