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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1921
Page
13
An itemized note from Billmyer's Bargain Store recalls promised old time prices. The message highlights affordable bargains and customer assurances, reflecting a nostalgic sales pitch.
Reader shares a Chester era column recounting December 1801 court orders splitting the county into two districts, overseers of the poor named, road works and tax tithables described, a 1802 levy list with totals, and a brutal 1802 court sentence for theft and rape, followed by an 1921 note on a Jefferson County teachers institute and local fertilizer contract plans.
Property seeker L Jones requests contact from a landowner with farm or good land available for site and possession this winter. Mail Box 552 Olney Illinois.
Local notes from Sharpsburg and surrounding towns recount visits by William Souder and others, marriages, family travels, and soldiers from nearby areas. Reports mention Howell employed at the B&O, a civil war veteran at the obelisk event, and community efforts to improve the Shepherdstown road.
A Panhandle cow testing table lists owners and animals delivering high butter yields in the six days ending June 30, 1921. Jerseys and Holsteins from H. L. Smith, J. Sperow, W. Ware Jr, Henry Shepherd, McDonald Bros., Thatcher Go, VanMetre, and others appear, with individual cows named and butter figures noted alongside owner. The document also mentions a clothes wringer-dry device advertisement by A. J. Grandstaff and Charles Towa.
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