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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1917
Page
6
The Empire hosts John W. Vogel's Big City Minstrels on Friday September 28 as theater parties surge as a popular social fad. Several parties already planned for that Friday night reflect the growing trend and enjoyment.
A local manager chafes at the proprietor over a large percentage of investment in the Big City Min strel venture. The oversized expenditure for the entertainment outfit becomes evident as the deal unfolds.
John W. Vogel's Big City Minstrels will perform at the Empire Friday September 28 with a curtain price of 50 cents and 20 cents. The show promises a well equipped street entertainment and salaries for fifty people as part of the act drawing on a history of touring troupes and popular demand.
William Courtney leads a five part feature with lavish settings and superb supporting cast. The program includes cartoon comedy and a late Pathe News with admission priced at 10 cents for adults and 5 cents for children.
Shirley Bushrod Price and Lucy A. Kline married today after a county license. Price, a Clarke County native, once ran Selz Shoe Store on North Main Street and now works in fruit growing. The bride is the daughter of Snowden Kline of Vaucluse.
A beauty tip describes making a facial lotion by mixing juice from two fresh lemons with three ounces of orchard white. Strain to remove pulp, bottle the liquid, and shake well for a quarter pint of skin and complexion lotion. Applied daily, it aims to bleach and smooth skin on face neck arms and hands.
Mrs W H Williams of Stanley New York reports that Chambéralin’s Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy relieved her father's diarrhoea after three doses and cured him. The ad notes the product is for sale by all druggists priced OO.
Hyomei claims to cure catarrh and related respiratory issues with daily use. The ad promises the product will end symptoms or cost nothing, noting a portable inhaler and liquid solution available for a few cents. It emphasizes breathing rather than stomach dosing and asserts rapid relief of air passages and head discomfort.
Middletown Virginia September notes list several residents and visitors. Mrs McLoughian of Mason and Dixon visits Mrs S G Larrick. Miss Helen Keith visits town. Rev D L Blakemore preaches at Grace M E Church South. many others visit relatives in Maryland Washington Winchester Hagerstown Woodstock and Pittsburg.
Miss Anna F. Hedrick daughter of Prof and Mrs Henry B Hedrick left Hayfield Virginia for Poughkeepsie New York to enter Vassar College for four terms. She graduated from Yale High School Haven Connecticut in June and will join her mother Mrs. Hedrick at Burcroft during vacation.
Hannah F M Hedrick plans a West Point stop en route where Benjamin Hedrick attends the United States Military Academy. Frances Larrick becomes principal of Carpers Valley School. Rev Norman E Cooper of Gettysburg Union Theological Seminary visits Hayfield. A L Maced to Walton NY and M H Rosenberger reports a harvest of about 1000 barrels of apples.
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