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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1917
Page
4
The Evening Star is entered at the Post Office in Winchester Va as 2nd class mail matter.
A Chicago Tribune excerpt argues that the selective army draft converts civilians and cowards into soldiers. Through weeks of training and frontline exposure, fear is reshaped as discipline and comradeship create courage and a new self-perception.
Wal Mason reflects on the futility of hate toward Germans and urges support for the Read Cross. He argues kindness and aid to wounded soldiers, like bandages and surgical supplies, are better actions than nightly anger.
An advertisement proclaims Calotabs as a modern replacement for calomel offering a non nauseating dose at bedtime. It claims quick morning relief and restored appetite with a money back guarantee if not delighted. Sold in sealed packages for thirty five cents delivering twenty doses.
In Fremont the communion service drew a large crowd as Rev. Mr. Sloop delivered a notable sermon. Miss Virginia Larrick departed to supervise a school near Lauray Virginia, while Jackson Whetzel and his family moved from Stephens City to the Hedrick farm. Rev. Norman E. Cooper, after a vacation, will return to the Union Theological Seminary in Gettysburg this week.
Cross Junction notes cover visits to and from the Braithwaite family including S H Braithwaite M Braithwaite and relatives. Charles Coe birthday dinner in Stephenson is noted as well as visits by Eugene Collins of Collinsville and John Braithwaite family returning to Berkeley Springs. O D Braithwaite loses a valuable horse and other relatives travel between Winchester and Washington.
A dated medical advertisement urges treating catarrh by blood cleansing with S. S. S. rather than surface sprays. It claims catarrh germs reside in blood and that S. S. S. will remove them, with medical advice offered from the Swift Specific Co. in Atlanta, Georgia.
The ad promotes Pape's Diapepsin as quick harmless relief for sour stomach gas and indigestion. It claims five minute relief, stops fermentation and acidity, improves appetite, and offers a large case for fifty cents at drug stores. It targets busy adults seeking easy, affordable stomach comfort.
Rev. Mr. Mathews from Barnsville Ohio has led two weeks of mission services to strong evening congregations in White Post Virginia. Local residents and visitors travel between Winchester Harrisonburg and nearby towns, with Mrs. Afield soliciting orders for a publishing house and several locals visiting relatives and relatives.
Train notices list Pullman Parlor car service to Roanoke and Bristol with Parlor Car broilers, No. 1 schedules to Roanoke Bristol and intermediate stations, and Pullman Sleepers to Gary Winston Salem with cafe car Shenandoah. Mentions connections at Roanoke and Memphis special for points South. Shenandoah and intermed stations in Vol. 276.41 p. a. Shenandoah and intermediate stations.
The famous Potash and Perlmut ter stories by Montague Glass now feature Abe and Mawruss in a new series. They tackle timely topics with wit, with the first installment The Czar Business appearing in the Washington Sunday Star on October 7.
Prof H B Wiedrick and daughter Miss Eleanor Hedrick left for New Haven Conn. They will be missed at Hayfield where they contributed to social and entertaining functions of the season. Leslie D Kline superintendent of schools and E Lee Orndorff clerk of the Board of Trustees Back Creek district made a round of inepercion in the interests of the public section Mr.
President Wilson grants Herbert Hoover's request to mobilize the secret service to aid the food administration in locating price manipulators and profiteers across cities and towns.
The article warns that medicines marketed for children are often harmful and unnecessary. It promotes mild laxatives as sufficient for regularity and health, endorsing Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a pleasant laxative free of opiates and narcotics.
Rev George W Stover arrives from Staunton after conference. New year work begins with regular services Sunday. Sunday school at 9 45. Preaching at 11.00 am. Y P S C and prayer meeting at 6 45 and 7 30 pm. Everyone invited to these services.
An old advertisement invites readers to mail a cutout with five cents to Foley & Co in Chicago Illinois for a trial packet. The kit includes Foley s Honey and Tar Compound Foley Kidney Pills and Foley Cathartic Tablets marketed for coughs colds croup and general relief.
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