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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1910
Page
5
A fragmented sale advertisement lists various prices for goods such as fabrics, aprons, blankets, oil cloth, and miscellaneous household items. The items include ready made aprons, flannelettes, horse blankets, plush robes, and blankets with prices ranging from several cents to a dollar, reflecting a holiday catalog style. The text shows a crowded price list with limited readable context about quantities or sellers.
Advertorial testimonial claims TIZ draws out poisonous exudations to heal corns bunions callouses and tired swollen feet. Cites Sam A Hoover and Progress as praise with 25 cents per box retail and direct order from Walter Luther Dodge & Co Chicago Illinois. Two tablets and directions follow.
A Frederick Maryland woman Miss Sallie Conrad Fauntleroy a niece of Major Holmes Conrad compiles a 1911 calendar with historic illustrations of Fredericktown. Each month features a landmark such as the National Road Old Stone Tavern Swinging Bridge Braddock Heights and more with descriptions and poems.
An old advertisement touts a homemade Pinex and sugar syrup cough remedy. It promises a plain syrup with water, a pint of Pinex, and sugar or honey, claiming fast, reliable relief for coughs, bronchial trouble, sore lungs, asthma, and whooping cough with a money back guarantee.
Mrs Sallie A Lidie wife of Goleman Lidie and daughter of Mrs Fannie Faggitt of Winchester died suddenly last Wednesday from a hemorrhage at her home 208 Carroll street aged 46. She leaves her husband eight children including Morrison offspring and relatives in Frederick and Washington. Services were at the house Saturday conducted by Rev U S G Rupp. interment Mount Olivet Cemetery.
Mr. Jack T. Henry, who fell on Main Street days ago, is under treatment at Memorial Hospital and is reported to be slightly improved today.
Sixty thousand copies of the annual report of Commissioner Xavier of the Virginia Agricultural Department will be ready in a week or two. The 2000 page book will be sent free to farmers statewide. J M Diffendal, a Baltimore salesman, has been in the area on business.
In wholesale markets wheat and rye show firmness with oats steady and hay firm. Corn edges firm then steadies. straw quiet. Butter and poultry stable. egg demand uncertain. Retail flour ranges 5.60 to 6.00. baled hay about 16 per ton. Compact reading includes disjointed OCR lines and stray numbers.
The weekly list for the week ending December 10 1919 notes unclaimed letters requiring one cent postage. Recipients include Evelyn Hunter Wade Bird J F B Mizer Nannie Robinson Martha Beety A B Sphar Henry Unger P M Bentley Kern and A G C Kennell of Chicago registered at Hotel Evans last evening.
The Village Improvement Society and the Daughters of the Confederacy will hold a doll parade in Shepherdstown on Thursday. Mrs. R. D. Shepherd lends support and has received dolls from W. R. Hearst Maude Adams Mrs. Charles Frohman Fiske and other New York friends.
Sunny Monday Laundry Coop soap is described as resin free and safe for woolens flannels and fine fabrics avoiding shrinking. It claims to leave garments soft and fleecy and includes a dirt starter to reduce rubbing wear and tear.
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