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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1920
Page
5
An old advertisement touts S.S.S. as a remedy to purify the blood and drive out rheumatic germs. It offers free expert medical advice and lists a Swift Laboratory address in Atlanta for consultation.
An advertisement touts Dr Blair's Cream of Cucumber as a skin product replacing powder. It claims to reduce redness wind burn and chapping, lasts all day, prevents blackheads and wrinkles, and comes in 50¢ and $1.00 prices in white and flesh colors.
A California inventor received a patent for a baggage check designed in two joined parts. The split format ensures correct pairing by users, reducing errors from single piece or misaligned checks.
The jury heard testimony by witnesses including the Ohio attorney general. Mrs Hooley’s tale moved many in the crowd as Hooley faced divorce action. The Ohio court ordered support for the child and alimony, while Winchester may drop the criminal action or seek to uphold differing judgments.
An old advertisement touts Dr. Pierce’s Anare and Anuric tablets for kidney problems with testimonials from Huxtixeron West Virginia and Mrs Ed De For. A separate item reports a whiskey smuggling plot with a 5000 bribe offer to allow a “Herring” car to pass from Staten Island to Chicago.
Associated Press reports arrest of leaders of a whiskey ring shipping carload liquor to Chicago and western cities. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad employees are implicated in the smuggling operation, with details promised by M. J. Murphy, railroad superintendent.
Classifieds show demand for WANTE hundred carloads vinegar at top price from Strasburg Fruit Pro ducts Co. in Strasburg Va. Also permanent Lady Bookkeeper needed by Spillman Bros. Inc. in Martinsburg WV and coal shoveling job with cheap boarding at Box 1151 Harrisburg Pa. One-horse wagons without beds for sale by John W. Rosenberger.
Attorney M. M. Lynch offers multiple parcels for sale near Winchester along Berryville Turnpike. Sale items include a residence with 5 acres for 4500, adjoining 5 acres for 1750, Berryville frontage lots for 650, a 47 acre farm 9 500, and a 10 acre orchard for 1500.
Petition seeks to set aside a deed dated Oct 7 191 as fraudulent and to subject the real and personal property to a creditor claim by O J Delmaine Co. against Frank G Diver and others. The court orders defendants to appear within 15 days and to publish notice in Winchester Evening Star for four weeks with a rule day deadline.
An advertised promise to women for a reliable relief remedy titled Relief from the National Medical Institute in Milwaukee Wisconsin. The notice urges writing for particulars and cautions against experimenting with other pills and seeking drugstore sales.
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