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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1901
Page
3
The Shepherdstown Register notes a restless mood in 1901 with remarks on the West Virginia bar on vacation, trusts smuggling profits, and debates over pensions and tariffs. It cites Pierpont Morgan, Apininaldo rumors, Judge Jackson, and disputes over steel prices, fought with a skeptical political tone.
A visitor tours Maundenville’s West Virginia penitentiary, noting five acre grounds, circular entry cage, busy workshops, and 859 inmates with 600 at work. Observers describe disciplined labor, varied trades, and the grim nightly confinement. Guards, including Winchester arms, deter escape as convicts strive for better grades and privileges. The piece contrasts day contrasts with feared night, cites federal prisoners from Atlanta, and praises Warden Haddox. It closes with reflections on mercy and the hard way of the transgressor.
Notes from nearby report a Williamsport parsonage to cost 2500 dollars. Several accidents and fires are described in Berkeley and Frederick counties including a fatal poisoning, a lightning strike, and a buggy harness incident. Local school changes, marriages, and minor crimes fill the page with brief updates from Martinsburg to Capon Bridge.
The text states Fly's Cream Basin cures nasal and head cold conditions through a purifying healing treatment. Sold by Ely Brothers at 56 Warren Street New York or mailed for 0 cents, with the remedy spreading over the membrane and providing improved relief after absorption.
Pennsylvania Railroad buys a controlling stake in Ohio River Railroad. A street car crash at Ceredo injures three, with Mrs. William Noun in critical condition. Two freight wrecks mar the West Virginia Central near Piedmont. A boy Melville Fuller is killed by a toppled car. Minnie Waddell, 12, shoots a burglar at Griffitheville and stands guard overnight. the burglar Walter Morrie is mortally wounded. A lightning storm at Morgantown damages the suspension bridge and crops. Stephen Kay, 14, dies and seven others fall ill after drinking belladonna tainted wine in New Haven. Mrs. Minnie Callahan learns her husband William Callahan is alive. she returns home in disgust. On a steamboat, Richard Paul and Tarde Reed renew old feuds from the Civil War with a brutal exchange. The Berkeley Springs hotel company is formed with twenty thousand capital to develop springs and bottled water. The State Educational Association urges free school books and music in public schools. New officers are elected at Mountain Lake Park. The Knights of Pythias debate endowment fund solvency in Chicago, signaling possible increased assessments. The Badger endowment deficit reaches two hundred twenty-five thousand dollars. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is advertised. Rabies is confirmed in Seeckerick county cattle. Civil government begins in Manila, Taft governs, Chaffee commands. Speer’s Port Wine advertised for weakly persons. Navy recruiting accelerates in the South.
The Henry Kyd Douglas Camp will assemble at Headquarters in full uniform at 6 p.m. July 14 with a march to the cemetery for services at Comrade Harry Strider's grave. From there to the Presbyterian church for an annual sermon by Rev. Dr. Ghiselin. Fathers and daughters invited. A lawn fete and military encampment planned with drill and duties for members.
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