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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1924
Page
9
A Boston Transcript blurb notes a child mishearing heaven as a place with golden chairs and tables. The piece adds Bolivia’s capitals, saying Sucre is the legal capital while La Paz hosts government work due to accessibility.
An advertisement promotes Kojene as a quick, safe cure for nasal catarrh in nose and throat. A six ounce bottle costs 60 cents at Franck Baker and Son, with a money back guarantee if it fails. Spray the nostrils twice daily for 3 to 4 days to destroy catarrh germs and clear the nasal passages.
The average healthy person stores several days’ supply of essential vitamins in the body. This explains why a well nourished person of any age is less susceptible to germ infection than those who are malnourished.
Scott's Emulsion acts as a safety factor to keep you well nourished when used daily to complement the regular diet. It activates with essential vitamins to help build resistance and urges storing a reserve of essential vitamins. Scott & Bowne Bloomfield N J.
The poem describes police stops as courteous and calm, praising polite officers and the calming effect of a smiling encounter. It contrasts gracious cops with harsher treatment, noting the speaker’s luck improves when drivers and guards maintain a pleasant front and the judge’s eventual role.
Advice urges kidney flushing with four ounces of salts from grapes and lemon juice plus lithia. Drink lots of water and take Jad Salts as an inexpensive effervescent drink to keep kidneys active. Seek physician exams twice yearly.
An advertisement touts Kellogg's Bran as a universal remedy for constipation claiming over forty linked diseases, guarantees full results with ALL bran, and offers a money back promise. It highlights preparation methods, ingestion ways, and notes Battle Creek production.
Bloom News Notes reports the Friendly Grove Unity League will stage a Halloween social on October 31 with a program and games followed by refreshments. Proceeds benefit the local school. Also noted are visits and greetings among residents including Mr. Gilbert Russell Miss Hes ter Richard and Mae Painter. Additional social news covers births and visits among Clowser Richards and Arnold families with guests from Front Royal Winchester and New York.
Mount Pleasant records Sunday visits and weekend calls. Locals from Kerns Town Kernstown Ridgeway Winchester Star Tannery and Star Tannery are listed visiting friends and relatives in Mount Pleasant with several households hosting family members and calling on neighbors.
An advertisement promotes Drexel Dioxol tablets claiming purified ox gall can cleanse the liver and blood, remove poisons within 24 hours, and clear a sallowness or pimples. It argues drugs cannot regulate the liver and urges buying only the genuine Dioxol from druggists.
Bishop Hughes, at a Methodist ordination sermon, declares hanging a fitting penalty for a minister who uses clerical office to violate a home. He argues respect for the church requires strict punishment, not leniency, to deter criminals and protect the innocent.
Grimes Virginia reports attendance at the Hagerstown Fair with fine weather and large crowds. E D Shirley and family visited relatives near White Post. Clarence Beckey and family move from Woodbine area to Winchester Market street. Apple picking nears end with a smaller crop quality. Harry Shirley plastering at a local home. Weather turns frosty and cool.
The Cross-Word Puzzle now tops Mah-Jongg and other indoor games. The New York Sunday World Magazine Section for October 26 will feature an extra four-page puzzle section with contributors led by Mrs Ruth von Puhl the women’s crossword puzzle champion.
A advertising claim urges parents to give McCoy's Cod Liver Oil Tablets for 30 days to puny or thin children. The ad promises weight gain and vigor, notes sugar coating and candy ease of take, and offers money-back if no improvement. It cites endorsement from D R Munk of New York and lists Franck Baker and Son and Boyd Drug Company as distributors.
Quote on evaluating a person by their good qualities before judging their flaws. Emphasizes cautious discernment and balanced judgment attributed to Carlyle.
Housewives praise Red Seal Lye as the most dependable cleaner for closets cuspidors floors garbage cans dishes and clothes. It cleans quickly thoroughly and at a trifling cost with no equal for household maintenance.
At a German League for Prohibition congress in Bueckeburg Dr. Melle links alcohol to national danger and urges Christian influence. Dr. Strecker cites three and a half billion marks yearly loss, six billion total, as damage. George Michaelis argues Protestant church role, while Herr von Wicht blames church inaction and calls for renewed effort.
A vague OCR fragment cites tensions over the separation of church and state and mentions potential fines. The readable text is limited and provides no clear events, dates, or named entities to identify.
Noted physicist Johnson Tyndall, famed for glacier studies, was also described as a devotee of no climbing in a biographical note. A 1856 trip with Huxley to Swiss glaciers is recalled, including Weisshorn climbs. References to ancient libraries and a 340 B C public library are noted, alongside a 20th century Austrian court ruling on marital discipline describing a wife beating as natural reaction.
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