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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1920
Page
4
The Weekly News section titled The Weeks presents a concise mirror of local happenings. Details include brief notices, community updates, and small items of public interest gathered from the Morning News.
An internal notice from The Star Publishing Company directs republication rights for Associated Press dispatches and requests address for communications to individuals connected with the paper.
In a Chicago era debate, George Wickersham supports Harding’s campaign for League of Nations entry, arguing the political logic will compel adoption. Taft and Cox dispute the pace and imply the party split over Versailles and foreign policy.
A reflective piece critiques sanctimonious writers and public figures who preach virtue yet live scandalously. It laments the disconnect between idealized public personas and private behavior, noting how films and gossip shape moral judgments of actresses and couples amid shifting social norms.
A historical note touts bear oil as a potent ingredient in Ketatke-for hair care. The ad claims the oil is an exotic secret used by an Indian healer, with prices cited and a sense of mystery around its effectiveness.
Advertising copy promotion claims No-To-Bac stops all tobacco cravings with a tablet in the mouth. It promises complete break from smoking or chewing, mental and physical benefits, and a money back guarantee if cravings persist.
The Star reports wholesale prices for eggs butter chickens and hogs with notes on corrections and regional variations. Items include country butter creamery butter young chickens roosters hams shoulders bacon wheat barley oats timothy hay straw corn and flour with regional prices and closing market figures from Baltimore and other markets.
An old advertisement touts Dodson's Liver Tone as a pleasant vegetable liquid that starts the liver like calomel but without sickness or salivation. It claims calomel is dangerous mercury and bad for bones, urging readers to choose the safer remedy for biliousness constipation and headaches.
Mrs Sallié Barr and her son from Nebraska visit at Mrs Jasper Williams home near Round Hill in the county. Barr is the widow of Hugh Barr of Toledo Ohio Lucas County. Frank J Cheney swears he is senior partner of FP J Cheney Co and offers one hundred dollars for every catarrh case not cured by Hall’s Catarrh Medicine.
Cedar Grove Virginia residents report visitors from McKeesport and New York City. James Strother and family arrived to spend several days with relatives while Mrs Strother’s sister Miss Ethel Barrett accompanies them. Mrs Nathan Roberts improves from illness. Mary Myers and her children leave Wellsburg after summer visit. The Burden Bearers Bible class hosted a social at William Newlin’s home with about fifty attendees. Clarence and Mrs Roberts from McKeesport are visiting and painting a farm house. Stewart Crim of McKeesport also visiting W H Crim’s brother in town.
A vintage advertisement touts Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy for female ills. The copy urges women to try the product, claiming it helps with obstinate conditions and benefits families.
Roy H. Keuhling, held as a witness in the death of his wife Gertrude Viger Keuhling, tried to flee a Washington precinct station last night by removing a door panel. A grand jury probe was begun today as a coroner’s jury ruled the Potomac canoe capsize caused her drowning.
In Brucetown Virginia on September 14 Mrs Mary Kesucker and families from Sleepy Creek North Mountain and Hedgesville shared Sunday visits with relatives. Several households hosted guests and a Willing Workers League picnic was held with ice cream and a picnic supper. A marriage occurred at a bride's home near Brucetown on September 1.
A Naples New York mother recounts how Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy eased her child’s severe dysentery episode when a local doctor was unavailable. She recalls the child's rapid pain and convulsions before giving the remedy and noting swift relief.
San Juan Puerto Rico September 11 dividends announced in New York indicate the South Porto Rico Sugar Company may yield 100 percent. The Santa Isabel Sugar Company reports a per cent dividend, likely the highest in Puerto Rico this year. Other sugar properties may match or exceed this, but no declarations have been reported.
Mr. B F Frye of Lebanon Church Virginia showed The Star office the season’s largest cantaloupe. The melon measured 29 inches across and was described as the biggest fruit seen here this season.
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