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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1913
Page
4
Fragmentary remarks rail at government and voters with garbled diction. The text references scams and reform, a convict, and a harsh metaphor about rooms and punishment, all attributed to a quoted Walt Mason style.
Mountain Falls notes report visitors and local visits as residents travel to see friends and relatives. Grimes notes mention C E x visiting, D H Hensell illness, Warren Howard and John of Bloomington visiting, and William Vanzee from New York staying several weeks with John Dick.
Dr. H F Getzendanner of Prederick Maryland writes from June 13 1915 praising Amyl Kijo and Kijoine as superior germicides for sick rooms surgeries and first aid. He notes their effectiveness against insect bites sunburn dermatitis and inflammatory injuries and offers to provide further experience from hospital work to support continued use by physicians and state health boards.
Mr Henry B Pitzer is living with his parents at Stony Mead after studying at Dayton Va for a year. Mrs Harry Markel of Winchester visited relatives here. Mr and Mrs John A Dick welcomed a fine girl on Thursday with both mother and child reportedly in good health.
In Bunker Hill West Virginia residents clamour over frequent auto escapes through town. City posts eight mile per hour limit with fines for faster driving. Hospital report notes Mrs I M Sutton improving after operation at Martinsburg City Hospital. Local men Charles Cross and J L Clendening attend Masonic meeting at Middleway. Miss Anna Gardner of Shepherdstown and Miss Edith Williams of Martinsburg visit Mrs L Hoffman.
Mrs Samuel Baker and her sister Miss Heist have gone to Washington to spend several weeks with Mrs E E Fellers, the Baker family's daughter.
An unclear advertisement touts a foot care remedy with inflated claims. It mentions Tevengood Strick, Latro druggists, and a figure of $700 spent on feet, promising rapid results and advertising charges.
A customer testimonial extols Saxo Salve as a cure for eczema, salt rheum, tetter, and barber’s itch with dramatic relief from a severe hand condition. The ad urges trying the antiseptic remedy with a money back guarantee and highlights related tonics like Vinci cod liver and iron.
WHITE HALL Va June 17 One of the year’s best features was the children s day service at the M E Church Sunday Despite a small membership the church presented a top program this year Superintendent G T Taylor led the training and those who participated earned praise The crowd was large and attentive to recitations drills duets choruses and more textures
In Berryville Virginia on June 17 Mr and Mrs George Pine hosted a daytime party for their son Cyrus Pine. Mary Humston won the peanut contest prize a box of candy while Master Marshall Russell took the booby prize a box of stationery. Refreshments of ices cakes fruit and candy were served in the dining room and the evening was enjoyed by all.
In BUNKER FF UL West Virginia on June 17 a Children’s Day program was held at the Methodist Episcopal Church. The program featured music by the school, prayers, recitations, drill performances by boys and girls, and multiple solos and class exercises led by students such as William Gold Mildred Pitzer and Elizabeth Henson.
The article notes the famed needle point paradox and Crookes suggestion that changing angels to devils exposes a hidden biological insight. It claims 600 deadly microbes could stand on the needle point, illustrating a provocative link between theology and microbiology.
The document records financial items under Virginia State Corporation Commission review dated June 12 1913 with amounts for overdrafts secured and unsecured loans 84867642 dollars, cash assets 922128. negative balances and equity entries show capital stock 10000 dollars and 6000 dollars paid in, dividends unpaid 7 50, and notes payable and reserves including accrued taxes 3 62. J M Steele L A Adams and H A Dinges are listed as directors with Eugene F E Chiles as cashier. A sworn statement was made before Geo A Samsell notary public whose commission expires 1914.
Dr. Guy C. Brinkley, a prominent Savannah physician, was shot four times in his private office by Mrs. Eugene H. Whisnant who then killed herself. The dead woman, 23, was Miss Kate Kittles, longtime Savannah resident, with an unidentified sister as a possible accomplice. Police hunt for the suspect.
Lyons France June 17 a bacteriologist discovered his son making mud pies in a public playground. He brought one home for testing and found 10 215 000 microbes per small sample including 1 800 000 diphtheria 300 000 smallpox 2 450 000 measles 3 000 000 tetanus 9 000 dysentery 575 000 pneumonia 620 000 tuberculosis
Court proceedings resume in the Bosserman trial with witnesses including Jailor Hutcheson and Charles Worth testifying. Lawyers argued for jury instruction while defense claims lack of evidence as proceedings head into possible evening verdict in Virginia court.
The article notes a snake spotted beneath a bush and killed after being cornered feet away. It measured over six tenths of a foot, thick as a man's arm, with a spotted back and white underparts marked by a brown stripe. Colonel Lewis suspects it escaped years ago from a snake show at the Inwood fair.
A social reformer inspects the slums and laments the scarcity of good men. A plainclothes officer retorts that good men are often made scarce when needed, in a brief Philadelphia-era vignette.
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