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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1916
Page
2
To all sufferers of rheumatism whether muscular or of the joints sciatica lumbagos backache pains in the kidneys or neuralgia write to her for a home treatment which has repeatedly cured all of these tortures. She offers it FREE no climate change needed. This discovery banishes uric acid from the blood loosens stiffened joints purifies the blood and brightens the eyes. Address Mrs M Summers Box R Notre Dame Ind.
Aurelia and Alicia Brown nurture a fortune from Franklin K. Powers of the G C D company after a Tuscite Mine dividend letter arrives. Aurelia meets a hopeful suitor as Powers returns changed, while Alicia helps arrange a seaside pursuit of luck and love for the sisters.
A testimonial extols Cardui as a woman's tonic with claims of restoring health after long illness. The excerpt shifts to legal penalties for ardent spirits, detailing fines and imprisonment for offenses, plus jurisdiction rules for shipments and deliveries. This fragment blends medical testimony with staggered legal code language.
The act defines ardent spirits to include alcohol and all intoxicants and limits sales after Nov 1, 1916. It expands the definition of person, sets penalties for violations, allows certain interstate transfers for dispensaries, and outlines enforcement and repeal provisions as approved by the Virginia General Assembly in 1916.
Catarrh is described as a constitutional disease requiring internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure claims to treat the blood and mucous surfaces, prescribed by a physician, using tonics and blood purifiers. The Toledo, Ohio firm F. J. Cheney & Co. markets the remedy with a stated price and a supplementary product for constipation.
The piece opens with Walt Mason verse about tires and resilience, followed by local social notes. Mr and Mrs Arthur Leafe and daughter Nan return from Philadelphia. William de H Washington arrives to enroll at Shenandoah Valley Academy. Mrs Richard Stokes and Masoe Ambler attend the funeral of Sophie G Schley.
A damaged clipping recalls Bobbie, who has never seen a live sheep, and his toy woolly lamb on wheels. While visiting a West Coast sheep ranch, he jokes that the stock must be cheap since their wires are missing.
A Philadelphia Inquirer line notes a bluff may work as well as a bank balance until the balance is struck. The snippet appears in a Want Columns advertisement context.
Peggie Gillespie an American born in Punxsutawney and raised in Pittsburgh died in Paris at thirty four. On her deathbed she wed Henry Letellier a wealthy Frenchman after a life of fashion prominence and racing society in Europe. She had battled tuberculosis and helped in wartime relief before her final marriage.
In Curtisville Pennsylvania Joseph Kunkle 33 a miner after a violent quarrel seized a revolver and told his wife to use it on him or he would on her The six year old daughter Lelia hid under the table The wife fired five shots The husband knocked his wife down and after discovering the girl shot her The dying child was taken to a physician but died at the office door
Mrs. Alice Walker jumped into the East River but her wide skirt spread like a balloon and kept her afloat until boatmen reached her. Miss Gladys Rinker Sprecker left for Baltimore after seven weeks at the home time.
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