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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1916
Page
4
The Evening Star is a daily newspaper published in Winchester Virginia except Sundays. It is consolidated with the Morning News Weekly News Weekly Times and Weekly Mirror and entered at the Winchester Post Office as second class mail matter.
Bell 33 and United telephones publish subscription rates for the public year ahead. One year in advance costs 2.50, six months 1.25, three months 0.65, one month 0.25.
A nostalgic manifesto recalls the Roosevelt era panic and banking collapse. It cites bank failures, cleared clearinghouse certificates from New York, Pennsy Railroad service cuts, idle engines and cars, and J. P. Morgan's role in stabilizing the treasury while Roosevelt's administration faced Republican dominance.
The Staunton News contrasts Roosevelt era stability with Wilson era turmoil. It argues Wilson would have faced a global stock market collapse if world exchanges closed and credits a hypothetical wartime panic as history defining, claiming Roosevelt guided the nation through such trials while Roosevelt criticized Wilson.
Poet Walt Mason portrays a harsh winter ahead urging readers to store tools and prepare for shortages. Goosebone seers predict early cold, with animals gathering provisions and birds moving south. The verse intertwines superstition with practical tasks like coal and larder supplies and Christmas shopping.
The Princess Pat operetta features titles such as Wish I was an Island and Two Laughing Irish Eyes with principals Dorothy South Carl Stowe El mer Haynes Wilhelmina Ragnhild Powers Ethel Boyd Charles Meyers Helen Fitzpatrick Nelson Riley Augustus Buell and Roland Allen. An augmented orchestra directs under William.
The continued measure outlines procedures for charging second offenses and introducing prior convictions, with city substitutions for county where applicable. It specifies allowances for domestic production of wine or cider, medicinal and industrial alcohol uses, sacramental wine, and denatured alcohol restrictions under federal law, including packaging disclosures.
An old advertising block urges mothers to give California Syrup of Figs to constipated children with signs of illness. It claims a teaspoonful relieves bowel waste and warns against counterfeit syrups. Notes for adults and babies, and legal cautions about Jamaica ginger and licensing precede a continuation.
On October 18 and 19 D. W. Griffiths Birth of a Nation will play with a large orchestra and full equipment. On October 20 Gus Hill's Bringing Up Father In Politics debuts as a new version of the comedy. Additional acts include DeRue and Al. G. Field minstrel show My Home Town Girl and LeRoy Talma and Bosco illusion production with other bookings pending.
Refuge News notes ailing residents and social visits in the Stephens City vicinity. C J Orndorft shows improvement after typhoid fever at home near Stephens City. H A Bates and spouse spent a day in Front Royal. Mary Perry visits Winchester en route to Paw Paw West Virginia to visit Nancy Bohrer. Dorothy Pifer infant daughter of C E and M E Pifer at Armel County ill.
In Cedarville Warren County Mrs. Grover Grim and three children join Mrs. Martha Bowman and Mrs. Queenie Pifer for a Sunday visit at Becky Cline’s home. J R Conner and son Robert visited May and Lula Lauck. H A Bates and two California boys returned to Florida after a six week stay. Luther Williams did business in Winchester on Tuesday.
An old advertisement urges cutting out a slip and mailing it to Foley & Co. in Chicago with five cents to receive a package. The bundle includes Foley's Honey and Tar Compound for bronchial issues, Foley Kidney Pills, and Foley Cathartic Tablets, touted as comforting to stout persons and sold everywhere.
Harvard seismograph records list occasional winter shocks as frost cracks the opening of frozen ground. Professor Woodworth notes Shaler cited a Cambridge tremor linked to a crack in the frozen earth and says the frost crack explanation is widespread in New England for small early season shocks.
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