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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1919
Page
4
The piece portrays a contented poet who values steady pay, modest cottage, frugal meals, and honest sweat. He rejects complaints and embraces mundane work, laments wage talk elsewhere, and clings to craft, music, and autumn weather as sources of fulfillment. The voice, attributed to Walt Mason, offers a buoyant, ironic reflection on ordinary life.
A Winchester Chamber of Commerce group tours the Capon Springs area to inspect the developing Winchester and Western Rail project. The party views road bed progress, enjoys Capon Springs water, and notes Capon Lake Home hospitality and future resort potential.
The article lauds the Winchester and Western railroad for opening up the region, notes plans for an annual Chamber of Commerce trip, and cites 1919 freight totals of 636 full carloads from Gore to Winchester. President Cornwell is thanked for arranging the trip. C. Fred Barr documented scenes to display later.
A promotional blurb touts Dr Ring's New Life Pills as a gentle action and pleasing in results. The ad claims one bottle is sold at all drug stores and suggests using the product for a reliable life boost.
Mount Pleasant notes report local social visits and guests from October. Residents like Mrs. Jeff Good Miss Hilda Racey and Mr Noel Williams are mentioned with several neighborhood calls and Sunday gatherings. The chestnut harvest arrives with light, poor quality crops this year.
The notice urges readers to seek reliable institutions for safeguarding earnings and to invest in the Bank of Heaven. It emphasizes laying up treasure not subject to moth or rust and invites the community to the revival running November 2 to 16 with a cordial invitation.
H F Byrd of Winchester Virginia swears this ownership and management statement for The Evening Star a daily paper dated October 1 1919. It lists publisher editor and business manager as H F Byrd and owner as E Bolling Byrd with no large bondholders or security holders. The average issue circulation is given as 3825 for the prior six months.
A newspaper advertisement urges readers to mail a cutout slip with 5c to Foley & Co. for a trial package of Foley’s Honey and Tar Compound Foley Kidney Pills and Foley Cathartic Tablets. The offer promises relief for coughs colds croup pain rheumatism backache kidney bladder constipation biliousness and sluggish bowels.
An advertisement promotes Relief pills from the National Medical Institute in Milwaukee Wisconsin. It urges irregular or delayed use of a triumph pill product and warns against experimenting with others. The flyer claims the relief is free and not sold at drug stores.
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