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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1917
Page
5
An old drug ad touts Dodson's Liver Tone as a safe, vegetable remedy to replace calomel for liver sluggishness. The speaker warns calomel harms bones and promises a money back guarantee if the remedy does not improve digestion, energy, and bowel clearance after a spoonful. It also claims family-wide benefits and child friendly taste.
Bunker Hill West Virginia September 28. W B Clendening spent a day in Martinsburg. Miss Virginia Morgany returned to New York. Howard King of Hancock visited friends here. E R Henson and son spent Sunday with her daughter on Dry Run. Farmers busy with corn and seeding. Blaine Cline drafted for army to leave for Camp Lee next week. Rev King to be installed as Presbyterian pastor Sunday night. Perkins Glass Cumberland Valley Railroad agent called to colors for Camp Meade. J Fred Laise purchased an auto truck for egg business. John Gain Martinsburg visited Tuesday. Oak Tabbe named timekeeper at Baker.
In remembrance of Isaac Carper who died Sept 30 1916 a year ago. The poem recalls death as a mystery and the family sorrow while hoping to meet the Lord. Signed by his sons and daughter dated April 29 with names and notes of visitors and neighbors mixed in.
Ernest Shull member of University of Virginia base hospital unit leaves for Charlottesville to take the required examinations with fellow unit members.
Commodore Henry B Gilpin of Baltimore heads the Henry B Gilpin Company marking forty eight years in the wholesale drug business. His son Donald serves as captain in the army at Camp Lee Virginia, prompting Gilpin to resume work after years on his Clarke County estate. The firm began as Canby Gilpin and Company in 1869, became Gilpin Langdon and Company in 1886, and in 1904 the Henry B Gilpin Company incorporated to handle wholesale while manufacturing remained with Gilpin Langdon. The family resides at Scaleby Clarke County Virginia and includes wife Hattie Newcomer, two sons Donald and Kenneth, and daughter Mrs Lewis M Allen.
Local items list visits and travels across Canterbury Virginia on Sept 28. Notables include D L Blakemore and Rev Sydenstricker hosting meals in Locust Dale, with several residents visiting relatives in Richmond Harrisonburg Winchester and Middletown.
Mrs. C A Barnes of Charleston Illinois says she has a high opinion of Chamberlain's Tablets for biliousness and as a laxative. She reports pleasant use and satisfactory results, noting her brother also uses them. Available at all druggists.
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