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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1917
Page
3
A testimonial ad promotes Doan’s Kidney Pills for backache weakness and headaches. Mrs. W M Sumption of 122 South Main writes of instant relief after using the product, priced at 50 cents, with Foster Milburn Co. as distributors.
Reported hiding in Chicago and other points in the north signals whites plan to reduce blacks to semi slavery. Officials declare a massive agitation must be halted at once with indictments and speedy trials. Regular troops may be deployed to prevent rioting at hot spots.
Members of the Japanese mission asked for a conference with M. Hurley, chairman of the United States Shipping Board, to discuss using Japanese merchant ships with the American fleet to deliver food and munitions to the allies. The meeting is planned within a few days.
Local health boards of Frederick county and the city of St Wint Héster enforce a strict quarantine against infantile paralysis. Children under 16 are forbidden at public gatherings, so parents are urged to keep minors away from the gospel tent at Berryville Pike and National Avenue Harris addition. W E Bidwell and C E Overstreet sign.
At market close the Baltimore wholesale market quoted spot wheat at 224 and coin at 2. Winchester dealers offered 2.20 for wheat this afternoon.
Washington reports America is the center of the aeroplane industry as the International Aeroplane Standard Board meets daily. Allied air forces push for standardized equipment and parts manufactured in the United States. A world long distance flight record is planned from Toronto to Fort Worth with Canadian winter quarters to follow.
The Virginia State Board of Health issued a public appeal for prompt diagnosis and early treatment of diphtheria to prevent epidemic spread. Diphtheria typically appears in Virginia late August and can spread rapidly without preventive measures, with past outbreaks tracing to early cases.
A sensational tone advises against high heel wear for women to prevent corn pain. It claims trimming worsens corns and warns of lockjaw from the habit. It promotes a drug called freezer or freez for quick corn removal with minimal cost.
A vintage advertisement touts Dodson's Liver Tone as a safe, vegetable remedy to replace calomel. It claims the tonic cleans the liver and bowels, prevents salivation, and guarantees money back if it fails to improve health in the household.
The board warns that diphtheria spreads through unsanitary childhood habits and the common drinking cup. It emphasizes early antitoxin treatment and prevention, noting infantile paralysis remains a Virginia concern and calls for strict anti spread measures in public places.
A marriage license was issued yesterday in Washington to D. Melville Miller 24 of Elizabeth City North Carolina and Emma P. Clowder 22 of Winchester. Rev. Howard F. Downs performed the ceremony.
A wary old saying advises that a man courting happiness should choose a wife from a good family and marry one of her daughters rather than any other woman. The proverb cautions against unsuitable matches and stresses the value of strong kinship.
The Executor will offer at public auction in Berryville Virginia on October 20 1917 at 1 30 p m a limestone farm of 203 acres owned by the late Jacob H Rinker The land lies near the Charles Town Road one mile from Wadesville and seven miles from Berryville It offers as a whole or in two parcels with residence barns and other improvements Possession is March 1 1918 and profit sharing terms provide two fifths of the wheat crop to the landlord and three fifths to the tenant The sale requires one third cash with the balance in two annual installments secured by a deed of trust and insurance On request contact John M Fishpaw Executor Berryville Va.
Clinton L Batt, a Reynolds Store merchant in the county, was robbed at a boarding house on East Piccadilly Street. The thief, Owen Anderson of Hampshire County, West Virginia, stole cash checks and notes near $400. Anderson initially denied, then confessed after rearrest, with portions of the loot recovered at a Massey farm. Police describe him as a shrewd but simple minded drifter. He remains in custody on robbery charges.
Dr C W Kent head of the Lin den Kent Memorial School of English Literature at the University of Virginia has arrived at University Hospital and is under his family physician Dr John Staige Davis care. He suffered a collapse in mid July while lecturing at West Virginia University summer school. He was accompanied by Mrs Kent and daughter Eleanor Kent and brother in law Dr George Tucker Smith.
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