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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1908
Page
2
The notice lists women’s undergarments with prices: 25 cents drawers 50 cents drawers 65 cents drawers 75 cents skirts and gowns 1.00 1.25 for gowns and skirts. It presents a sales ad style catalog from a historic store.
Local dealers quote today’s grain prices with wheat at 96 cents per bushel and corn at 3.00 per bushel, oats 60 cents per bushel, hay 10 to 13 dollars per ton. Live stock prices show beef and veal values and pork data among market quotes.
Mrs Mary Virginia Rainsburger of Winchester Virginia says kidney pain caused backache and fatigue. After using Doan's Kidney Pills bought at Franck Baker & Son's drug store she recovered fully by 1903, remains symptom-free in 1907. Sold everywhere price fifty cents Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY agents nationwide. Remember the name Doan's.
Speaker Byrd outlined two bills to reform the R F and P railway. The first would allow a railroad to adopt a charter under general law, while the second enables the board of sinking fund commissioners to exchange stock and obligations for new stock under the new charter. The state would maintain one sixth ownership and directors proportional to stock.
Mrs. Sallie Bowers wife of Joseph Bowers died Monday at four o clock at her home near Bunker Hill Berkeley County after a several months illness due to dropsy. She was 45 and survived by her husband and son Edgar. Funeral services were conducted at the Episcopal Church by Rev A J Willis and burial followed at the adjacent cemetery.
Special to The Story Brucetown Virginia February 19 Julian Snapp has been ill with pneumonia and is recovering. He was the last patient attended by Dr W J Best before his sudden death. Frank Brady is recovering from a severe grip. Annie Brady remains ill. Mrs Charles Potter of Winchester has returned home after visiting her mother. Mrs Grant Clara Bromley of Best visited Revs H V Wheeler and family. Major Carl M Best of Millersburg Kentucky and Fad Best of Oklahoma City returned home last Friday. Mrs Dr Yates and three sons will return to Falle Church Friday.
Berryville Virginia notes list several residents visiting family in Staunton Wickliffe and Farmville while others return from trips in Baltimore New Haven Charles Town and Cincinnati Measles at the college prompts students to go home and Mr Charles Moore recovers from tonitis at Alexandria Streets and Brentwood home of George A Bowen treatment updates movable with small town life details
Aged resident Stephen Kline of Little Capon between Shanks and Barnes Mill died at his home on Sunday night at about 80 years old. The remains were interred in Three Churches yesterday.
Mr and Mrs Christian Geisler of 3434 A Street Philadelphia celebrate fifty years of marriage. Geisler credits Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey with cures for chronic bronchitis and his wife for grip and indigestion, noting rapid health improvement and daily progress.
An advertisement proclaims Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey as a thoroughly malted distillate offering a tonic stimulant effect. It describes digestion benefits and palatability, claims it suits sensitive stomachs, and notes availability from druggists grocers and dealers for $1 a bottle with a free illustrated medical booklet and testimonials.
Laws Virginia reports no sermon at the Baptist Church due to pastor illness Rev Stenham. Sickness touches several locals with Stickley, McKay, Grubbs and Hammock family matters and attendance at family funerals and weddings.
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