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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1926
Page
8
A doctor outlines a one week to ten day diet course stressing will power and gradual weight loss. The plan includes rising Epsom salts, open air walking, YMCA visits, specific meal components like fruit eggs lean meats salads and limited water, and strict abstinence from sugar cream and fats. It emphasizes lifestyle changes and post meal exercise.
Instruction suggests weighing at the same hour each day to monitor progress. Once the target weight is reached, the strict obesity diet may be relaxed and a careful diet substituted to ease the regimen.
A Luray party of H R McKay N B Smith and families Fannie Rhodes Winslow Mrs Mary Yager Blanche Virgie Chapman and F G Grove toured Frederick county and Winchester to see Gov Byrd’s apple orchard. They observed enormous unpicked fruit Grimes Golden and Yorks partially picked and modern packing machinery. Upon entering Winchester they faced closed streets due to the funeral of detective Arthur B Scrivener. The wind was cold and conditions were trying.
A party seeking an outdoor luncheon asked a policeman for lodging or a hotel. No nearby place suited them but the Friendship Fire Company hall offered a ready table with glassware water pitcher and lunch spread all gratis. The act exemplifies municipal hospitality and may inspire the town to adopt the gesture.
Local notes report social visits including Guy Brannon from Winchester Cold Storage staying with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Brannon. Other residents, such as Roy Calvert and Lee Jr., Pitts Largent near Whitacre, Troy Puffinberger of Kernstown, Stanley Riley of Capon Bridge, and several villagers, are recorded as traveling to Johnson Pond or visiting homes. The funeral of Arthur B. Scrivener in Winchester is noted.
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