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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1927
Page
3
The Star lists today’s wholesale prices for staples including flour barrels, cracked corn, bran, mixed feed, shelled corn, middlings, and eggs. Prices vary by item with local flour at 7.75 to 8.25 per barrel and butter around 0.46 per pound amid corrected daily quotes.
Examination shows that six million bacteria can attach to the body of a single fly revealing potential health risks and contamination pathways for spreading microbes.
An advertisement touts McCoy's Cod Liver Oil Compound tablets as a cure for thinness. It claims sugar coated pills help both sexes gain solid flesh, with a money back promise if 5 pounds are not gained in 30 days. A case mentions a woman reportedly gaining 15 pounds in six weeks.
The Virginia Valley Central Christian Conference will hold its annual convention at Bethlehem Christian Church near Harrisonburg on June 13. Roy A. Harrick of Winchester will preside. Miss Anna Amelia Seabright will welcome guests, with talks by Mrs R A Larrick and Rev B J Harp. Visiting ministers include W B Fuller W C Hook J H Lightbourne Dr J O Atkinson and Dr W T Walters. The session closes Friday afternoon.
Whitacre Virginia program announces all day memorial service at Redland Church in Whitacre on June 5. Sunday school begins at 10 with preaching at 11 and 2 led by Rev. John T. Banks assisted by Rev. E W Dolan. Observers include Mr and Mrs Rudy Sawyer and daughter visiting Hovermale home May 22.
A reflective quote from Tholuck warns that growing old without wisdom is a misfortune and that closed doors in this world should not prevent future opportunities from opening.
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