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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1910
Page
5
H C Marten's establishment in Shepherdstown West Virginia markets tin and sheet iron ware as a wholesale and retail dealer. The listing notes products including hardware oils paints leather pumps putty glass and stoves and references white lead and related items.
L Turley Curd of Wilmore Kentucky declares he was given up as hopeless for dropsy before using Dr Miles Heart Remedy in 1902. He claims his swelling ceased, heart fluid reduced, and he recovered enough to work on his farm, praising the remedy’s tonic action on heart nerves and muscles. The ad notes the product is sold by druggists with a money back guarantee if the first bottle fails.
A tale recounts young men in Lancaster Missouri displaying a petrified man found on a farm while plowing. The crowd paid admission, an inquest was threatened, a coroner used a mallet to inspect, and the fate of the exhibit included a sale to a traveling show for 60 dollars. The story ends with a ponderous remark about paupers in England and a London encounter.
Joseph Vastello, jailed in West Virginia, claims he and two foreigners killed Contractor Samuel T. Ferguson near Washington Pennsylvania on September 25, 1903. He says the hanged Milovar Kegovich and prisoner Milovar Petrovic are innocent, and that two foreigners fled. Vastello reportedly gave a consistent story to Captain G. G. Dawson. An unrelated ad section touts Mother Gray's Australian Leaf for female issues and Allen's Foot-Ease for new shoe comfort.
A fragmented OCR record lists daily and Sunday train numbers, routes, and connections. It mentions Pittsburg and New York Express, Cumberland and Bing Association lines, and connections with N. & W. south, with various departure times and signal stops.
Rastus Dunning, a well known Black man, was tried in police court Monday for selling liquor in violation of the dry law. He was fined $100, sentenced to 30 days in jail, and required to post $500 bond for good behavior.
Editor responds to Maryland focus on Brown Tail Moth risk and calls for nationwide notice to West Virginia Experiment Station when nursery stock is bought outside the state. Credits Maryland Horticultural Department and local nurserymen for active inspection, urges universal safeguards for stock imports, and notes unrelated ad and dialogue snippets at article end.
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