08 Feb 1917
Page 1
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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1917
Page
1
In a sales pitch the speaker declares that gentlemen of the South are increasingly choosing Sovereign cigarettes, praising their Virginia and Carolina stock as finest and grandest in the world.
A fragment from a historic newspaper page includes a dreamlike meditation on a utopian city named Tomorrow and a long letter from Rev. Charles Ghiselin Jr. detailing his Tokyo Kobe voyage in 1916. The letter describes Yokohama customs, street life, prices, encounters with imperial guards, temple worship, and early impressions of Shanghai ahead.
Fragmentary OCR notes mention a health restoration by Vincl in Shepherdstown West Virginia with unclear names and garbled terms. The usable fragment confirms a local health recovery reference and a person or place connected to Shepherdstown.
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