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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1908
Page
5
Two youngsters dig in a yard as a passerby overhears a little girl telling Jack to keep digging and wait for the old devil to come at night. The fragment suggests a grim warning or superstition tied to a forthcoming danger or threat.
An early passage questions savoring current pleasures without dwelling on future woes. The speaker urges enjoying today rather than burdening happiness with anticipated troubles.
The city weighs a fifty thousand dollar bond plan to install nearly eight miles of sewerage with a disposal plant. Revenue from five dollar private connections would cover interest and grow into a sinking fund. Health officials warn cess pools risk contaminating Rouss Spring, urging removal of cess pools and a city sewer to curb surface drainage and mosquitoes.
An old advertisement fragment offers a $100 reward for an incurable catarrh case with Hall's Catarrh Cure. It cites endorsements from Walding Kinnan and Marveln wholesale druggists in Toledo Ohio and claims the remedy cures internally by affecting blood and mucous membranes.
A. J. Ritenour of Winchester Virginia testifies backache and kidney pains vanished after using Doan's Kidney Pills bought at Franck Baker & Son's drug store. He says frequent dark secretions and bed confinement ended with a short course of the remedy. Price fifty cents. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole US agents. Remember the name Doan's.
Rail schedule details for Norfolk and Western lines to Harrisonburg Staunton Lexington Harpers Ferry Hagerstown Frederick Washington Baltimore Martinsburg Chicago Pittsburg Cincinnati St Louis Louisville and other connections. Lists departure times 6.00 am to 9.28 am and evening services with Pullman sleepers and cafe cars, plus connections at Shenandoah Junction Roanoke and Roanoke Bristol. References contacts W B Bevill and Bragg in Roanoke Va.
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