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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1920
Page
6
The Star lists wholesale price quotes for wheat eggs butter corn meal and various feeds and livestock items. Entries include prices for butter creamery butter fat cracked corn oats hay and live animals with figures scattered across categories.
The Associated Press reports a mixed stock market start with a notable decline in American shares from a previous gain. Other sectors rose, led by equipment and oil stocks, while corn and food products lagged. Liberty bonds rallied on strong buying as trading totaled about 625000 shares.
The Century Club held an evening of toasts and rhymes drawing applause. Notable speakers included Mrs. Bartop Mrs. D B Conrad Mrs. B M Clarke Mrs Hi H McGuire and Miss Sophie Baker. Members praised the club’s serious earnest program.
An advertorial promotes Jad Selt as a safe inexpensive lithia based drink to flush kidneys and bladder, claiming it cleans waste acids from meat digestion. It urges regular use after meals to prevent dull kidney ache, back pains, headaches, sour stomach, and coated tongue, describing Jad Selt as effervescent and harmless.
A fragmented page lists gift items for graduates including perfumes fountain pens Byer Sharp pencils and stationery. It also notes National Decoration Day May 31 1920 as a legal holiday with bank closings and payment terms for maturing paper. Names H D Fuller John I Sloat WM G Hardy Charles Summers are mentioned as bank officers.
The season gathering featured a long list of guests and participants including Mrs Louis Sera, Mrs R. T. Parton, Mrs Campbell, Mrs B Conrad, Miss Susan Colston, Miss Bessie Bist, Mrs A M Field, Mrs H Melstead, Miss May Jon, Mrs H H McGuire, Mrs E C Chan, Mrs B M Roszel, Mrs H W Russell, Mrs J M Steck, Mrs R M Ward, and Mrs W W Whitside. Attendees also included Miss Mary Conrad, Miss Gussie, and Mrs Philip Williams among others.
Mrs. Lee Riggs, Mrs. Abney Payne, Miss Fanny Page, Mrs. Haines, Mrs. R. Graham, and Mrs. F. E. Clerk are listed in the society column of the community weekly. The notice records members and their titles in a routine society update.
An OCR fragment presents a personal medical complaint about persistent kidney strain and back pain. It mentions a man’s feet hurting from long work, temporary relief from medicine, and a claim that Foley's Kidney Pills cured other symptoms though not the main issue. The text is garbled and contains misread names and addresses.
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