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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1916
Page
4
A humorous dialogue sketches Charles Fairbanks as a composed speaker in a late night talk by a cow-lot fence. The speaker laments whisker fashion and resists drastic laws to curb beards while praising facial hair as a political and social statement.
The piece questions the motives of Mr Hughes criticizing the eight hour emergency law aimed at preventing a railroad strike. It argues his stance lacks conviction and asks if he would push immediate repeal as President, noting that a Wilson reelection would keep the law intact and the commission.
The New York World says the Hughes campaign lacks clear plans if elected and calls him the most shifty candidate ever nominated. It notes he would report to Congress within nine to twelve months and questions what he would do as president.
Brucetown Virginia reports a village Saturday night party with thanks to contributors plus several visits and family travels. locals note church pulpit filled Sunday and Brucetown circuit services planned for September 17 with 11 am Brucetown 3 pm Wieblsown and 7:30 Stephenson. drought and drying pasture worry farmers as cork dries.
In Marlboro Virginia on September 12 residents report visits by D B Stickley M G Shull A L Marten and Ernest Shull to Robert Nokes near Front Royal. A E Robinson and How ard Windle shopped in Winchester on Wednesday. E E Hite and Mrs Hite visited Mrs Lucy Bowman in Edinburg over the weekend.
A testimonial advert claims Tanlac helped Mrs. W. Henry Turk of 429 Bank Street Norfolk with indigestion nervousness stomach trouble and insomnia. The ad urges readers to buy a bottle at Miller's Drug Store Winchester or Charles Blencowe Berryville.
Mrs Hugh Booth and daughter from Middletown visited Jas B Smith and J F Booth. Ernest Shull of Winchester visited S G Jamison. H E Shull traveled to Winchester on Thursday. E M Funk of Middletown was a business visitor Friday. Mrs Staples and daughter from Dillon S C visiting J G Jamison now with R J Lantz family in Edinburg Va. H N Clagett was a Winchester business visitor Thursday. Miss M P Smith and Mrs James Boggs spent Wednesday with Ellen Campbell at Painters Hill. David Ambrose of Clary Va was here on business Saturday.
In Star Tannery Virginia on September 12 guests at W. T. Orndorff included S. G. Fisher and Gladys Himelright. James Garrett and his mother Hattie Garrett visited J. W. Himelright. Ogden of Capon Road spent time with A. P. Stine. Mabel Hershman and children visited Opequon relatives. C Snapp and James Snapp with wives attended Gravel Springs services and visited J. W. Himelright. J. W. Himelright A. P. Stine and S. R. Hershman are improving farms with silos this season. Knochenhauer, lately with John H. Cooper, left for home in Elizab.
Miss Janet and Marie Pitzer return to Inwood after visiting Forrest en. Raymond Duvall travels to Washington to see his brother Roy Duvall here. Mr and Mrs Robert Smith of Brucetown visit Mrs Howard Stewart. Harvesting runs in full swing as farmers fill silos. Mrs W T Hoffman and daughters Virginia and Pauline visit Rebecca Baldwin near Ridgeway. Albert Davis visits John Bush. Loyal Workers Bible class meets at Emma Jackson’s. John Bromiey builds a tenant house and Lewis Pidgeon erects a hog barn. Duvall relatives remain in town.
Beth New Jersey residents Mr and Mrs EB Cooper spent Sunday evening with Mrs Rutelph at Lebanon Church. Mr Wash visiting son of Yeppp and others were in Cumberland then returned home. Mrs Sarah Himebright and the Hershmans were in Front Royal. Shenk from Baltimore left for Lebanon Church to visit Bettie Heickman. Sheriff Pannett of Winchester was a local business visitor Thursday.
Mrs. William Hay mother of former Representative Jamis Hay arrives in town for fall, staying at Miss Sherrard's on Amherst street. Charles A. Hidler of Baltimore visits for part of September and rooms at the Winchester Inn. Miss Ann Carson and her sister Miss Queenie Carson vacation at their parents home in Riverton Virginia.
An editorial urges both men and women to drink hot water with a teaspoon of limestone phosphate each morning to cleanse the stomach liver kidneys and bowels. It claims improved complexion energy and health from internal sanitation and notes the small cost of a quarter pound of limestone phosphate at drugstores.
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