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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1920
Page
4
The advertisement lists subscription prices for Morning News The Weekly News and Weekly Times. Rates shown include one year in advance at 4.50, six months at 2.26, three months at 1.20, and monthly carrier options. Additional lines mention Weekly 4.50 and various in advance terms.
The Associated Press holds exclusive rights to reprint dispatches and local news in this paper. Communications should be directed to The Star Publishing Company, not individual office staff.
Staunton News Leader cites Dr Charles W Eliot on indecent dress and asks where mothers are in guiding girls. Miss Cally Ryland notes motherhood’s decline amid after war shifts, with examples of youths, debutantes, and moving pictures, questioning maternal influence and public morality.
The writer reflects on time slipping away from holiday cheer toward early shopping rules and looming winter. Nostalgia for Christmas bells and Kris Kringle contrasts with pragmatic calls to shop early to ease weary clerks as seasons change from summer to autumn.
A humorous seasonal verse by Walt Mason reflects on Christmas rites and weather as he mocks late shopping and overbearing clerks. The poem blends moral tone with festive imagery.
An appeal from Shenandoah Alley National Bank urging readers to appoint an experienced bank as executor or trustee rather than uninformed friends or relatives. The bank touts its years of trust experience and ability to manage complex estates and tax laws, inviting calls or letters for information.
Market notices list dairy butter and creamery products, chickens and grain items, with wheat rye oats barley timothy clover and straw. Local retail prices reflect barrels flour shoes and general goods, indicating a busy rural trading day.
An advertisement claims external Gowan's salve penetrates air passages to relieve colds spasmodic croup and inflammations. It touts a animal fat base rubefacient effect no irritation and quick relief, noting use on babies and skin friendly action. It covers home uses and price range 30 cents to 1.20 dollars at druggists.
Baltimore wholesale prices and market quotes list items from local grain and dairy feeds to livestock. Entries include flour middlings cracked corn creamery pay butter dairy prints and various livestock prices such as fat steers lambs sheep calves and heifers with noted ranges.
An advertisement bills Aspironal as a two minute cold and cough reliever endorsed by military surgeons and authorities. It claims immediate relief and a delightful taste, urging druggists to refund the price if relief does not appear within two minutes, and recommending dosing with water for all ages.
An excellent remedy for all catar rhal inflammations of the nose and throat and a preventive for the flu offered for sale by all drug stores.
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