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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1921
Page
4
Notice to the public announces a general garage business at Shenandoaly Junction. The party offers all kinds of repairs at reasonable rates and keeps supplies including oil. They will carry passengers to any point and meet trains at the Junction when notified.
A surviving Pitt Beaufort county figure recalls the Klan’s origins during Reconstruction. The piece argues carpetbaggers and scalawags corrupted Southern politics, praising Klan members for defending white supremacy and resisting federal overreach, while denying widespread violence and portraying the movement as righteous defense of the South.
In an eastern city a teat shows two large steam locomotives defeated by a single modern electric locomotive. The Clectric started with a handicap, then, as the current came on, reversed and forced the steam engines backward. The two steam engines are to be used on the Pacific Coast end of a transcontinental line. The electric engines are gearless, weigh 530000 pounds, run on 3000 volts DC, have 14 axles with 12 motor armatures, and can exceed 65 mph with twelve cars. Also a classroom exchange defines skeleton. Subscription note: $1.50 per year.
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