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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1912
Page
2
A Wichita, Kansas reader touts Cuticura Ointment and Soap for a sore and facial smarting. The letter praises the products as best soap for wash and skin healing, noting faith and cost considerations.
The snippet notes visits to the Isaac Carper home on Sunday by William Craig of Macedonia and Lloyd Carper of Winchester who is opening the week at his parents’ home. Nat Hawkins of Boyce calls Monday, Katie Carper and Evelyn Keliian depart for State Normal at Harrisonburg, and Philip Revell visits Samuel Mills on Sunday. Floyd Adams moves his engine from the saw mill to bale. James Beacher and Mrs Beacher visit George Kertis’s home.
Mrs Stuyvesant Fish comments on class feeling and social divisions while a Milwaukee based company promotes a limited time offer at Miller's Drug Store in Winchester. Palm Olive Soap six cakes and Palm Olive Cream one jar offered for 50 cents while stocks last.
An advertisement promises a physician tested cure for nervous debility and manhood weakness. It claims a quick, private home remedy realigned by sending a free copy of the prescription to any man who writes to Dr. A. E. Robinson at 4744 Luck Building, Detroit, Michigan, noting rivals would charge $3 to $5 for a prescription.
Representative John Lamb touts Virginia’s development in agriculture and industry over ten years, noting rich mineral resources, rising farm values, coal exports from Hampton Roads, strong cattle exports, improved roads, and active chambers of commerce pushing growth. Hampton Roads ships more coal than any port last year. Virginia ranks second to Texas in Southern wealth.
Cross Roads Va June 21 preaching at Fairview Church next Sunday at 11 am and 3 pm led by Rev H I Sloop. Sunday school at 830 am. Rev Sewell Gocad preached at Fairview school house last Saturday night and will continue before the third Sunday each month. Community visited by two heavy rains with a wind that blew down trees. Ground conditions improve for buckwheat planting as plowing resumes after dry weather.
Mrs Sigurd Hansen writes from this city that after seven years of female health issues and doctor visits she found relief with Cardus. She reports improved appetite sleep and health and notes her doctor says she looks better than ever. Cardus is touted as effective for the womanly constitution with a fifty year track record and a 64 page home treatment booklet available on request.
Train times and connections listed for No 13 9:05 am to Bristol and intermediate stations with Roanoke service, No 1 3:16 am to Roanoke and Shenandoah, No 23 9:32 am to Hagerstown Philadelphia and New York with Shenandoah Junction link, No 14 7:04 pm to Hagerstown with New York sleeper, and No 2 12:50 am to Hagerstown with a New York sleeper. Signed by Bevill and Saunders, Gen Pass Axt. Assistant FP.
An advertisement touts Chamberlain's Tablets as a pleasant laxative with no unpleasant effects, encouraging readers to try them for easy bowel movement.
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