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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1924
Page
10
Reading from a damaged OCR page, this item lists prices for local flour barrels 12 Ibs and 1 2 Ibs, butter, corn, spring wheat flour, standard middlings, mixed feed, and livestock values. It notes closing-day corrections for wheat corn and hogs with ranges for steers calves and hens.
An advertisement touts 8.8.8. as a safe vegetable blood purifier since 1826. It claims to improve complexion, clear skin, increase rosy lips and facial plumpness, and to strengthen underweight men and women by removing impurities and boosting red blood cells.
A vintage advertisement touts McCoy's Cod Liver Oil Tablets as a superior body builder for the aged. The copy promises sugar coated tablets, a 30 day plan to feel 106 years younger, and a money back guarantee with purchase at local druggists Franck Baker and Son Boyd Drug Company.
Poet Walt Mason ruminates on adversity and renewal. He notes the darkest hour precedes dawn and hardship softens as morning light returns. The piece reflects on aging, resilience, and optimistic glimpses beyond troubles.
An editorial notes emancipation of women through dress changes from steel stays to sport clothes. It argues improved health through diet and exercise, and recommends Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for ailments like irregularities backache headaches and irritability. Thousands testify to its success.
105 acre farm located three quarters of a mile south of Swimley Station on the Middleway pike two and a half miles west of Summit Point. Includes a seven room frame dwelling, stable, cattle barn, out-buildings, three cisterns, 10 acres in bearing orchard, nine acres in timber, good fencing and fine cultivated land. Possession April 1, 1926. GRO.F, SOWERS, 2612. RA, Charles Town, West Virginia.
Fragmented ad copy explains a topical treatment to relieve nasal congestion from a cold or catarrh. Mentions breathing relief and a product that helps ease the stuffed feeling, with garbled phrases indicating a local promotional pitch.
A restrictive act banned tennis as it was deemed not to improve England’s strength. The so called unpopular ministry of Charles II used the acronym CABAL from Clifford Ashley Buckingham Arlington and Lauderdale, naming the five men behind it.
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