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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1914
Page
3
A vintage ad promotes Catarrh Balm to relieve nasal congestion from cold or catarrh. It claims quick relief by spraying in the nose, opening passages, reducing hawking and foul mucus, and easing sleepless nights.
Mrs Wajter Gano visits her mother Mrs Margie well and Mrs Pauling Held spend Thanksgiving with Rev Hamrick in Inwood. Mrs Christian Ghirley of Martinsburg visits grandmother Mrs Morgie Weidman amid illness. Families including Morgan and Crim attend gatherings in Martinsburg Raceview and Burnettsville area. John Abrell sale largely attended on Tuesday.
Governor Ferris urges citizens to cooperate in the anti tuberculosis campaign, arguing human health matters more than hogs or cattle. He states Michigan is making a vigorous effort to stamp out tuberculosis in men women and children. Christmas Seals are referenced in the appeal.
Miss Gertrude Hlimelright of Cherry Grove school spent Thanksgiving in Winchester visiting friends.Mr and Mrs J P Preffitt of Fatweett Gap joined the Snapp family in welcoming Hollis Snapp of Hagerstown Md and Mr and Mrs J iz Snapp. Mr and Mrs Adam Forney of Winchester also visited relatives. The notes cover neighbors and local holiday gatherings in Rosenberger Va dated December 3.
The week long fog from the Atlantic Ocean blankets Winchester and the lower Shenandoah Valley. Pilots call it the worst in 19 years and shipping is tied up with vessels ordered to remain in port. Coast guards and life savers stay vigilant as collisions injure people and horses in dim evenings. Norfolk reports heavy fog at Cape Henry and Cove Point making ship passage unclear.
A report depicts Betty living in a squalid home with her ill mother and shared bed. The room serves as living eating and sleeping space with a bed beside a stove and an open cuspidor. Betty clings to cheerfulness as the Red Cross Christmas Seals urge readers to buy and help Bettys recover.
An old cobbler explains a plan to place a seal on the sole of every shoe he taps to raise money for tuberculosis relief. He expresses reluctance to write letters or send packages and mentions his lone companion, the old woman.
President Wilson expresses deep interest in the Red Cross Seal and Anti tuberculosis Campaign. He hopes the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis grows in efficiency and that Christmas Seal sales continue to fund the work nationwide.
Public interest surged in Richmond as Secretary J D McAlister of the Anti Saloon League announced his retirement to become superintendent of the Tennessee Anti-Saloon League. Virginia workers had aided the league's recent victory and now faced offers from temperance groups in other states.
Prices offered by wholesalers for wheat at Stephensom about 1.06 per unit, old and white corn around 4.00 to 3.60, milled or new varieties varying. Timothy hay baled 19, mixed hay baled 17, straw 8, flour retail 6 to 6. The list includes broken, unclear text and garbled sections.
Fragmentary Santa story shows a mother scolding her child for coughing on Christmas Eve. The child fears Santa will not come if the cough continues. The dialogue hints at a tuberculosis stigma tied to holiday legends.
A reflective remark notes that few fall to the lowest depths while many with talent rarely rise to great heights. The author cites J M Barrie as the source of the sentiment about human capability and aspiration.
Readable fragments describe prices for butter potatoes turkeys and bacon with scattered notes on supply and wartime movements. The text mentions German eastward moves and Allied plans to strike west, plus a report from Pretoria about General Christian De Wet.
A Russian report says German violence has waned and Russian forces advance south of Lodz with indications they are near Cracow. Analysts anticipate a major western battle but no clear start yet. Reports also claim German evacuations of villages along the Yser.
Mrs Woore and her husband Mr Oliver Woore faced a week of illness with a bruised condition. Attending physician Dr Bell offered care and updated the family on her gradual recovery.
Michael Higgins died Wednesday in Cumberland at age 1? years. A former foreman on the eastern branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, he is survived by a daughter and two sons.
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