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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1910
Page
3
A Hyomei inhaler kit with bottle of Hyomei costs one dollar and includes an inhaler and directions. An extra bottle can be purchased for fifty cents with a guarantee to cure catarrh croup asthma and sore throat or money back.
The narrative describes rapid flood rise in the Shenandoah and Potomac basins with water backing into tail-race areas and inundating Harpers Ferry streets. Reports from Riverton note rising south fork and eight inch per hour increases, while Back Creek and Hogue Creek cause extensive damage to surrounding farms. Waters show signs of retreat later in the afternoon.
Mayor Mahool and City Councilman Heatwole discussed Baltimore’s stake in the Valley Railroad of Virginia. Baltimore owns 1 million dollars in stock and aims to prevent adverse treatment by the majority owner, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Heatwole favors selling to the Southern Railway to block Chesapeake and Ohio.
A Cincinnati Times-Star correspondent shares humorous and somber excerpts about Irvin Cobb in Paducah and a London Truth quote revealing French soldiers' weary view of war. The pieces contrast Cobb reading a death warrant with French soldiers lamenting dull training and France’s chances against a vast German force.
Reports say Clarke county river overflow submerged many bottom croplands and damaged small bridges on the Chesapeake and Western Railway between Harrisonburg and Elkton. The Southern Railway repaired Broadway damage and trains run normally. Iran Goode, a known lumberman, drowned near Moorefield West Virginia while crossing a swollen stream.
Mrs. Margaret E. Jewell of Milleton reports relief from catarrh and stomach trouble after using Cooper's New Discovery. Her husband, longtime rheumatism sufferer, also benefited, stating the medicine gives great relief. The ad urges weak stomachs to seek Casper's New Discovery, noting strong demand and authority Franck Baker & Son.
Springfield resident B F Kelley describes a year of kidney and bladder trouble with dull headaches and painful urination. After taking Foley Kidney Pills for a few weeks the headaches disappeared and bladder function returned to normal. Franck Baker & Son, Druggists.
Obituary honours Elizabeth S Hurley a longtime superintendent of the Children s Aid Society s Elizabeth Home for Girls in New York. She served 54 years guiding more than 20000 girls and sending about 8300 annually to positions while training them in various skills, with 12000 women led to useful lives.
An English pendulum at Birmingham measured Greek earthquake waves traveling about two miles per second. The largest wave was about 28 miles long but only a half inch high, according to the investigator.
A guided walk describes four gardens reflecting personality traits. A thriving floral display signals a gay host who shuns advice, a spare seed dominated plot shows a precise, reserved owner, another neat orderly layout hints at wealth and detachment, and a wild flower setting offers warmth but doubts about housekeeping.
A Sunday School teacher sent a chair to a little girl by freight. It arrived broken due to train brakemen. She urged railroad representatives to fix it and warned not to break the chair or a child’s heart. An employee agreed to repair it and did. The chair finally arrived intact with a defiant inscription.
An old bachelor argues for using J as the middle initial to prevent nicknames. He cites examples of William J and asserts that no William J is ever called Bill, except jokingly, and even then not to his face.
An English traveler named Reed reports that a stone from Ceylon, thought to cure snake bites, may work by being porous ivory or stag horn that adheres to the tongue and draws venom from wounds. He notes it also seems to relieve bee and gnat stings.
Mr R Gray Williams was invited by the University of Virginia authorities to welcome the graduating students into the alumni at a luncheon in the University Commons Winchester. The speech drew great enthusiasm with an ovation for Williams and a principal address by Dr Edwin Anderson Alderman.
The John Kerr Public School held its commencement this morning with diplomas awarded to graduates Miss Devore Plank Henrietta Holler Fuller Goldie Love Metz Sarah Floyd Walter Nancy Frances Keating Ethel Catharine Holler Mary Bronaugh Lawler Eisie Marie Maphix and Edwin C Yost Charles C Herd John H Rosenberger Harry Epper and Charles Harold Lang. The program included invocation by Rev W W Carter educational addresses musical solos and the presentation of diplomas by Supt M M Lynch.
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