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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1919
Page
6
In Clarke county Virginia teachers advocate daily morning hygiene checks in eight rooms. Focusing on nails, necks, ears, hair, and teeth, the program aims to raise school attendance and class performance by fostering a healthier, more orderly environment.
The ad touts Nerv Worth a family tonic promising a full refund if it fails. A testimonial from J C Hizer of Dayton describes past poor health digestion weakness insomnia gas and pains now improved after three bottles with doctors unable to help. Miller's Drug Store sells Nerv Worth in Winchester.
Two capable young performers provide most of the comedy and heart in the stage production The Unpardonable Sin. Bobby Connolly plays the Belgian boy while Wesley Barry portrays the American boy facing hardship after a tragedy. The Belgium Society of Hoy Scouts and other characters aid the youths in a humane mission with entertaining results.
A dated home health tip promotes a hot water flush with limestone phosphate to cleanse the system. Claims include relief from headaches and various ailments as toxins are purged from stomach, liver, and bowels. Advice to ask a pharmacist for limestone phosphate.
Robert W. Bowers, formerly of Winchester, acquires half interest in the K. and N. Electric Company of Martinsburg and renames it Union Electrical Supply Company. Bowers has spent three years selling for General Electric in several eastern states and arrived in Martinsburg recently to take up his duties.
An old time remedy praised for turning gray hair back to a rich dark shade. Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound is sold in drug stores as a 50 cent bottle and applied with a sponge to a strand at a time. It allegedly darkens evenly and adds shine, returning a youthful appearance.
In Cross Roads Virginia Oct 1 to Oct 2 families of Keller Oates White Peacemaker Hicks and Carpenter hosted and visited. J R Oates improves property with a new house while M J Marple grew prize sweet potatoes weighing five and a half pounds each.
The market report notes Ben Davis apples strengthening to 6.00 per barrel in some eastern cities while reaching 7.00 to 8.00 in distant markets. Baldwins vary from 1-2 to 7.50 in New York and Chicago, with Virginia and Washington prices also shifting. Shipments and cold storage stocks are detailed, with boxed stock movement down from last year and international prices edging higher in Glasgow and Liverpool.
A noted authority warns that stomach fermentation occurs with improper digestion and acidity. He recommends four ounces of rad Salts in water each morning for a week to neutralize acid, remove gas, and aid liver and kidney function, noting its inexpensive grape and lemon juice origin and wide use.
Fire rages in mine No 2 of the Y and O Coal Company at Amsterdam Ohio with 21 miners entombed and no hope of survivors the mine superintendent says the blaze is too intense to recover bodies likely lost.
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