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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1916
Page
2
Store announces a special hat sale after a closure decreased last Saturday’s sales. This Saturday features a combined sale of hats at unusually low prices and a reduced price on colored silk hose, with many 79c, 84c, and 98c hats included.
The Handley Board announced Frederick Palmer a leading war correspondent will lecture here around December 18 as part of eight winter talks. Palmer, AP representative in the English Army, recently returned to the front from London on an air courtesy. Local notices mention residents ill at home and visitors from Cape May and Romsey attending events and staying at Hotel Evans.
Brucetown Virginia residents note Miss Sadie Snapp spent the weekend with the Stipe and Fox families of Wadesville. Friends report Mr Douglas OConnell showing marked improvement. Mrs Patrick Murphy and daughter Teresa visited the village. Nettie Crim from Martinsburg visited her mother. They may move this week to their future home there. Turner Castleman of Martinsburg visited his mother near Brucetown. The school league meets October 13 with all members urged to attend for new officer elections.
Mrs Y R Horbaugh of Waynesboro Pa says after a period of bronchitis she was weak and unable to work until Vinci built her up. The testimonial notes Vinci increases appetite digestion and strength with a money back guarantee via George F Miller’s Sons Winchester Va and Leading Drug Stores across Virginia.
An advertisement recommends Hamburg Brust Tea for colds and grip. It advises obtaining a small package at a pharmacy and consuming a tablespoonful in hot water to relieve congestion, open the pores, loosen bowels, and drive the cold from the system. It stresses the product is entirely vegetable.
An ad touts a 25 cent bottle of St Jacobs Oil to relieve backache lumbago rheumatism and sciatica. It claims rapid, harmless soothing effects with one application and dramatic reduction of soreness within moments.
Letters and notices recount women praising Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief from weakness irregularities and other troubles. Included are personal testimonials from Harrisburg Penn and Albert Lea Minn as well as brief local notes from Torrytown West Virginia mentioning social visits school opening and church revival activities.
An old health ad claims clogged kidneys cause stiffness in the morning and rheumatic pains due to uric acid poisons. It promotes a 50c Anuric tablet from Dr. Pierce of Buffalo N.Y., advising a cup of hot water before meals to improve results.
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