Scouts O10 Fine Bond Sale Work
During the first Liberty Loan drive Boy Scouts of America sold over 23 billion in Liberty pens and expect the second campaign to double. Local troops sold 620 bonds totaling 84 700 with Troop 1 at 552 bonds 62 600 Troop 2 110 bonds 16 350 Troop 3 58 bonds 5 750. Assistant Potts led with 51 bonds 23 850. Scribe Gray 27 bonds 15 900. Scouts visited homes and businesses and aided at a pond meeting and Auditorium event.
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Boy Scouts of America
Sid Adaden
Russell Potts
Richard Gray
Graham Bacy
Beout Lacy
Potts
Scouts Gray
G. Potts
H. Baker
Massey
Sheetz
Aulick
Wheat
Hollis
Lacy, Carter, McCauley
Eagle
Recher
Green
Cornwell
Paul Miller
Kremer
Petersburg
Winchester
Hyomei Promises Cure for Catarrh and Breathing Relief
Hyomei claims to heal catarrh and related ailments when used daily. The ad touts a complete inhaler kit sold by druggists and asserts quick relief without stomach dosing, noting low costs and germ killing action.
Help Uncle Sam Buy a Liberty Bond Pet Eee Tah
A quirky item notes Uncle Sam promoting Liberty bonds with a playful twist. The short item highlights patriotic saving and a whimsical call to support the war effort through purchases framed as a pet-themed quip.
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Commercial and Savings Bank “Safety and Service
Uncle Sam
Pape's Cold Compound Promises Quick Relief for Grippe
A vintage ad touts Pape's Cold Compound as a fast cure for a bad cold with headaches and stuffed nose. It claims relief in three doses over hours, clears nasal passages, stops discharge, eases feverish symptoms, and costs 25 cents at any drug store.
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Pape
Joses
Auto Collision Near Kergstown Hurts Team
A collision occurred late yesterday afternoon on Valley Pike near Kergstown involving a team led by Mrs. Strickler and an auto operated by MF yy. Bromley reportedly sounded his horn and traveled about ten miles per hour. Mrs. Strickler steered toward Mrs. Lantz’s home, causing an unavoidable crash. the horse broke loose but was recovered.
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MF. Yy
Rie Strickler
Middle Road
Valley Pike
Kergstown
Bromley
Conduct of War to Be Discussed at Paris Conference
In Washington Oct 20 Chancellor A Bonar Law said the allied conference in Paris will focus on the conduct of war not aims. It will cover rationing shipping and all aspects of the struggle against Prussian tyranny alongside military questions.
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Washington
Exchequer
A. Bonar Law
House of Commons
Paris
Night Air Raid Plot Frustrated
London rejoices over the failure of the German air raid on the southeast counties last night. Searchlights and anti aircraft guns activated as warnings sounded, and the enemy could not penetrate the outer defenses.
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London
Navy Recruiter Winds Up Winchester Visit
Electrician Jenkins of the United States Navy, who has been recruiting in Winchester since last week, closed his office in the postal ice building and left for Fredericksburg Virginia to canvass. He enlisted one man, A E Walker of Marshall Fauquier county Virginia, accepted yesterday and sent to a training station via Richmond Staunton.
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Electrician
Jenkins
United States Navy
Winchester
Postalice
Fredericksburg
A. E. Walker
Marshall
Fauquier County
Walker
Richmond
Staunton
Italy to Retain Sonnino as Strongest Man in New Cabinet
Affairs on page one report Sonnino will be kept in government and policy ties to him. The new cabinet faces curbing German propaganda in Italy after months of pacifist activity, with measures likely to greatly reduce or eliminate such dissent.
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Sonnino
Italy
American Corporal Wounded First With Expeditionary Force
An American lieutenant attached to the signal corps is the first U S soldier wounded in France with the expeditionary force. He was struck in the leg by a shell splinter near the first line and sent to a field hospital where the wound was described as not serious.
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France
Signal Corps
British troops sweep forward toward Routers in Ypres area
British forces advanced north of Ypres near the Routers railroad as the war office stated at noon. Haig is believed to be pushing toward Routers, a key German railroad hub about six miles from the British outposts of last week’s push.
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London
Ypres
Haig
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Ad Missioned for Cure
J Cheney owner of F J Cheney & Co sworn oath promises one hundred dollars for every catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Medicine. Notary A W Gleason, December 6, 1886. Company touts internal blood action and offers testimonials. Sold by agents in Toledo Ohio with Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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State of Ohio
Toledo
Ucas County
N. J. Cheney
F. J. Cheney & Co
Hall
Frank J. Cheney
A. W. Gleason
Notary Public Hall
Audists
Tc. Dees Hall
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Shenandoah Valley
Nat. Bank
John M. Miller
People’s Bargain Store
Bell Phone
Rogers
E. Bruce Capper
Jones’ Creamery
Woodward’s
S. Main Street
Margy Southwell Stock Co
Peg O
Scouts
West Water Street
Fire Star
Naval
Offcer
Wire
Vance
City
Good & Coq
Bellphone
Huntsberry
Copenhagen
Community
Wallace
Simon L
Geo. H. Rogers
Jewelers
West Water St
Bell
United States
Farmers & Merchants Nat. Bank
Virginia
National Banks of the
Gray
Muresco
Jessie Hillyard
East Water St
Philadelphia
P. K. Kisecker CO
Vine Street
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