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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1916
Page
2
Special sale announces hat offerings from the store after a failed Saturday showing. Combines past hat sale items at unusually low price with all hats 72c and any hat in the store at reduced price. Also remaining colored silk hose offered at 39c.
Public notice invites readers to mail a slip with name and address to Foley & Co. Chicago for a trial package including Foley's Honey and Tar Compound for coughs colds and croup Foley Kidney Pills and Foley Cathartic Tablets.
Financiers and stock market observers report rumors that the Pennsylvania Railroad may lease the Norfolk and Western Railway for a long term. The plan would include guaranteeing an 8 percent annual dividend on P R R capital stock.
Advice from an old advertisement promotes California Syrup of Figs as a gentle laxative for infants and children. It claims pink tongues signal need for cleansing, promises quick relief from constipation, and warns against counterfeits and non genuine products.
Work advances on Shepherdstown West Virginia water system with a large well and underground pool. Drilling has reached 50 feet of limestone 250 feet below and will continue. The 2.& Ringgold headed company will add an electric light system to create a white way for the town.
A health column extols drinking a glass of hot water with a spoonful of limestone phosphate before breakfast. It claims this flushes the stomach liver and bowels, cleans away toxins and sour fermentations, improves appetite and even reddens the cheeks, with minimal cost and effort.
The plan lists a water system contract at 25000 dollars and a separate electric lights contract at 18000 dollars, detailing anticipated costs for city infrastructure work. Assets involved include municipal services and utility improvements.
An advertisement extols Pope’s Diapepsin as a quick safe remedy for sour stomach indigestion and gastric distress. It promises relief within five minutes, enabling people to eat favorite foods again without fear, at a price of fifty cents for a large case.
RELIANCE Va Oct 13 Samuel Levi Stickley 32 son of John Henry Stickley died Wednesday at his sister Mrs Charles Borden home in Wheatfield Shenandoah county where he had lived since his mother’s death six years ago He had been a helpless invalid from birth.
Surviving him are his father two sisters Mrs Borden and Mrs Carl Racey of near Strasburg and a brother Calvin E Stickley of Reliance. Funeral services were held this morning in the Walnut Springs Christian Church near Strasburg by Rev M Allen Stickley.
Montcalm owned by Mr Kenneth Gilpin of Boyce Clarke county won the running race at the Hagerstown fair yesterday led all the way. The time was 1 01 for five eighths of a mile and the purse was 150 dollars.
Mrs. F. M. Davis has returned from a short visit to friends in Washington.
Fragmentary OCR notes mention an item related to Waal Ad and The Star newspaper. Readable words are sparse, no clear event or person identified. Summary limited to available fragments.
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