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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1918
Page
6
Miss Lottie Covington, a Gregg and Massey school graduate, teaches the Gregg shorthand system at Fort Loudoun Seminary. New typewriters offered. Certificate courses in stenography or bookkeeping take one year. Price listed as 19 dollars 6 pence 6 shillings?
Winchester and Frederick county Red Cross home service invites all pin wearers or those entitled to wear one to Handley Library auditorium Washington and Piccadilly streets Saturday at 4 o clock. Mrs Walker McC Bond who trained in home service at Richmond will explain the work and share Camp Lee impressions. Relatives of service members in camps in America and overseas are urged to attend.
An advertisement asserts local ear drops fail for catarrhal deafness and promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a system remedy. It claims the Eustachian tube inflammation causes deafness and offers one hundred dollars for any cure not achieved by the medicine. The ad lists druggists and Cheney & Co of Toledo as sources.
Douglas Fairbanks stars as a newspaper reporter in Say Young Fellow at the Empire tomorrow and Saturday. He interviews a wealthy mill owner and exposes a fraudulent scheme in a factory town while performing athletic stunts and daring climbs. The film promises brisk action and lively scenes throughout.
The Hagerstown Evening Globe announces a price increase to four dollars a year or thirty five cents monthly starting October 1. The historical note says annual price had been three dollars for many years.
B M Knight Jr son of Dr and Mrs B M Knight of this city has enrolled as a student at the Virginia Military Institute at Lexington He tops the list of about 300 applicants and may win a commission in the army He has seven years of military training at Shenandoah Valley Military Academy Winchester and Porter Military Academy Charleston S C
The parcel service route has been changed from the prior path via Leesburg Plains Middleburg to a new loop via Washington Leesburg Paeonian Springs Hamilton Purcellville Round Hill Bluemont Berryville returning to Winchester and back to Washington daily.
Mrs Edward Giles of Washington visits at the home of her brother and sister in law Mr and Mrs John H Seal Sr on West Cork street with relatives and friends in attendance.
Mariam Cooper stars in the seven part drama Woman and the Law based on the Jack De Sauley case. The photoplay promises lavish production with a sensational domestic tale of crime and its consequences. Showtimes are 7:30 and 9:00 with admission 10 cents. War savings stamps urged.
Resident students and teachers arrive September 17. Schools open at 9 a.m. September 18. Go if
An eight room dwelling with bath and garage plus poultry house and cistern water sits on a 60 by 110 foot lot in a central location. Price listed at 3000 dollars. A tenement block is offered at a price yielding twelve percent gross on rent. Limestone farms include 93 acres 308 acres and 150 acres with strong value.
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