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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1922
Page
4
At the post office in Winchester Virginia the Star Publishing Co. announces second class matter. The Weekly News Weekly Tag and Weekly Mirror published by M News. Carrier rates listed as year and advance months with prices.
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In a biting verse by Walt Mason the Quack is mocked as a showy healer who touts grand cures. The poem ridicules claims of miraculous remedies learned from distant places and mocked desert chiefs.
In this verse fragment a narrator warns of con men selling cures while claiming knowledge from wizardly or Chinese remedies. The speaker notes mild health at first, then worsening symptoms, pink pills failing, and a doctor named Whangdoodie Baxter. the quack promises cures with fantastic tales to lure payments.
Miss Eugenia Fairfax returned from Boyce where she joined Miss Belle Cameron at Powhatan for a country house party. Guests included Misses Fairfax Elizabeth Palmer Emily Haynes of New Orleans Edwin Conquest and Walter Robertson of Richmond. Miss Palmer then traveled to Blacksburg to visit Colonel W. H. Palmer.
Curly hair is a woman's crown and glory but hard to keep in heat. An electric curling iron helps hold curls through rain and humidity. The device is affordable and reduces the impact of damp weather, according to Northern Va. Power Co.
In Corporation Court today Frank H. Krebs was appointed coroner for Winchester to succeed C. M. Hodgson who resigned to join the city council from the first ward. Krebs will finish Hodgson’s unexpired term.
Mr. John I. Brown Jr. departed today for Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, to enroll in a college course in physical education.
Thomas D. Cain of Winchester and Miss Mabel B. Rinker of Berryville married on Saturday September 16 at the United Brethren Church minister W H Sampsell presiding in his residence at 303 East Piccadilly street. They plan to reside in Winchester.
The ad promotes a pure heavy copper Majestic Range set, highly polished and elegantly designed. It claims the ware is serviceable, beloved by thousands, and the same as furnished before the War, highlighting its durability and popularity.
Demonstrators invite shoppers to a postwar price reduced Majestic Range event with free cooking utensils this week. A factory man will present assembly details and build quality, highlighting the range’s reputation and available styles and finishes.
A store invites customers to visit between 3 30 and 4 30 P M on Monday for a quantity of Majestic word puzzles promising bushels of fun.
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