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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1913
Page
4
A despondent speaker muses on writing dippy verse and a tinker's curse. He laments falsehood and fleeting virtue, then contemplates remedies like boneset tea while joking about bodily discomfort and the merry globe.
A Virginia note discusses national migration and population shifts, stating figures for natives in the United States and Virginians living in state borders. The piece references the United States population totals and Virginia's native and non native distributions.
A large crowd attended at Fair urch last Saturday for preaching by Rev. Ham sic and a graveside service planned at Fairview Church next day at 2 o clock. Hymns, prayers, and readings were noted as families like Amick and White visited, while I B F KellerImproving by erecting a new home addition.
A Malone New York woman recounts relief from organic inflammation using Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. She credits early reliance on the remedy for curing painful spells and improving health, urging others to trust the product for female illnesses and displacements.
Virginia church leaders led by Rev. W Russell Bowie push a reform requiring medical certificates of health and moral fitness for marriage. The plan seeks ministerial and physician support to secure favorable General Assembly legislation. Episcopal ministers join by adopting a policy requiring disease free certificates for marriages after a set date.
Hopkins receives honorary doctor of laws from the University of Alabama last month, continuing a notable academic tribute recognized on page L of the publication.
Prices in Baltimore wholesale markets show wheat at 104 1-2 in June delivery, corn at 62 1-2, hay ranges with No 1 timothy at 17 50 and No 1 clover mixed at 14 50, eggs and dairy quotes, live poultry values for chickens ducks and pigeons, plus a note on Cecelia Daw returning to Camden with Miss Schlack and plans to visit New York City.
Fragmentary OCR text shows a call to advertise with incomplete wording. The readable portion suggests urging readers to place ads, but no clear names, dates, or institutions are available to ground details.
New post after Sunday states B F Foley will take charge of the Berryville office on Sunday June 15 and E A Lindsey will retire. Emma H Woore of Martinsburg and Dora W Hauptman of Rest VA depart Winchester Thursday for an extended visit to relatives in Clifton Forge VA. William O Woore is a member of E A Sned and Co wholesale furniture dealers in Clifton Forge.
Mr. R Gray Williams returned from Richmond where he represented the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in a trial won by the railroad company though an appeal was noted by the plaintiff.
The ad asserts catarrh cannot be cured by local applications and must be treated internally. Hall's Catarrh Cure is said to act on the blood and mucous surfaces and is not a quack medicine. It claims endorsement by a medical professional.
George William Hausenffluck and Naomi F. Flowers, both of the county, wed at the First Baptist Church parsonage on North Market Street at 6 pm yesterday. Rev W H Carter officiated. The couple plan to reside near Vaucluse where the groom farms.
The firm of J. G. Harrison & Sons of Berlin Maryland will entertain on the lawn of Mayon on July 31. Hosts include Orlando Harrison and the Maryland State Horticultural Society and the Peninsula Horticultural Society. Invitations go to members and officers of horticultural societies in Pennsylvania New Jersey Virginia and West Virginia.
Prof. N J Giddings from West Virginia University displayed cedar rust on small branches from George M Bowers Sr s Inwood orchard. Leaves were heavily speckled with rust and likely to die and drop soon. The outbreak is among the worst in Berkeley county, mitigated only by cedar destruction.
The day’s baseball results include American League games with St. Louis 5 over Athletics 2, Detroit 11 over Washington 0, Cleveland 9 over Boston 5, Chicago 1 over New York 0, and another Cleveland 9 over Boston 5. In the National League New York 5 over Chicago 2, Pittsburgh 11 over Brooklyn 3, Cincinnati 3 over Philadelphia 2, Boston 5 over St. Louis 3. International League Montreal 6 8 Toronto 3 5, Baltimore 10 over Newark 1, Providence 13 over Jersey City 5, Rochester 14 over Buffalo 2. Virginia League Newport News 3 over Portsmouth 2, Norfolk 9 6 over Richmond 5 9, Roanoke 7 over Petersburg 3.
Allen Nicodemus of Martinsburg sustained a broken nose and facial bruises after he awoke from sleep while his vehicle followed another machine near Inwood. He was taken to City Hospital in Martinsburg for treatment after the long trip from Roanoke accompanied by W. H. Frankenberry Roy Frankenberry Benjamin Dooley and John E. Timmons.
Local volunteer firemen back the idea of a Martinsburg homecoming week next fall. They hope the Cumberland Valley Volunteer Firemen's Association meeting could be held here, as Carlisle did for its centennial. Delegates at the Chambersburg convention may be instructed to invite the association to visit next year.
Dr. G Clyde Shuler of Winchester has graduated from the University of Maryland and accepted a resident physician role at the City Hospital. He is highly esteemed in Winchester with many friends both locally and in his hometown wishing him success.
Militant suffragettes tossed an infernal machine from a Liverpool to London train at a bridge crossing in Runcorn. Pedestrians escaped death by narrow margins as the device exploded, tearing a large hole in the roadway and shattering many windows.
A carriage factory owned by Edward Edgerly in central Lancaster caught fire today causing losses exceed $50,000. The blaze origin remains undetermined.
Ridgeway Wisconsin June 12 Rev and Mrs W R Hardesty attended quarterly conference at Payne's Chapel. C F E Ridgeway sold merchandise stock at Summit Point to a Berryville merchant. Frank Swartz of Hazenstown spent Sunday with D M Barrow. L Keller's friends cheer at her convalescence. Louis Hinton improves after a thorn injury. Pearl Cooper unanimously elected Payne's Chapel Sunday school delegate to Martinsburg convention.
A forecast for Virginia predicts rain in the eastern areas tonight followed by fair skies. It notes dry conditions elsewhere with a return to sunshine on Friday.
A brief health notice promotes Chamberlain's Iniment as relief for rheumatic pains. It claims rapid improvement and advises readers to try a twenty-five cent bottle, noting it is sold by all dealers.
Mr W W Glass of Waynesboro Virginia is spending several days in town with his wife and their young son and daughter who have been visiting her mother Mrs M E Baker of North. ee
Trumano G. Palmer, secretary of the United States Beet Sugar Industry, testified that Senator Lodge used his government frank to save sugar interests about $16,000 by distributing 320,000 copies of Sugar at a Glance, a Palmer authored argument against free sugar, sent through the mails under Lodge's frank.
Fragmentary report describes a Cumberland Valley Railroad freight movement on the hump when a down train wreck occurred near Cumbo. Details are unclear but mention of casualties or damage is uncertain.
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