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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1903
Page
3
The piece vents about Wall Street volatility with Rockefeller Morgan and pension plans amid a looming presidential campaign. It endorses a West Virginia state primary to replace conventions, notes lynching debates, and critiques Pennsylvania politics, suggesting a broad critique of national finance, governance, and reform.
The Hancock Cement Company has been organized with capital stock of 250000 dollars to develop cement rock on land bought from the Bowles heirs near Hancock. Also notes a second Uniform Teacher examination held at Graded School in Charles Town with six applicants. several local incidents include a train car incident in Hagerstown, legal appeals in Berkeley County, a distillery manager's suicide, a local death, a Norfolk & Western brakeman’s injury, and multiple fires in Martinsburg raising alarms.
An old advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as an internal treatment that reaches the disease seat, claiming great purifying and mucous-surface effects. It notes testimonials and lists Chaney & Co as proprietors, with a price of 40 cents, typical of period commerce.
William K. Johnson colored dies in Paw Paw aged about 112. Survived by 8 grandchildren 27 great grandchildren and 43 great great grandchildren. He recalled War of 1812 incidents. Also notes on Ernest B. Morris arrest for alleged mail of indecent matter and parole law for prisoners. West Virginia aims to attend West Virginia building dedication at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition on June 20, 1904 with ties to state birthday events.
The notice warns about counterfeit gold used in printing and frames, urging readers to check the private stamp on Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters bottles. It also reports a partial derailment of No. 4 passenger train near Buena Vista last Friday, with no injuries, noting axle and brake car derailments and postal clerk Joseph Bell among the occupants.
Fr Gulledge of Verbena Alabama praises Hucklen's Arica Salve for piles burns and aches after a failed medicine. Advertisements tout Ely's Liquid Cream Balm for nasal cures. A devastating Norfolk style ammunition plant explosion in Lowell Massachusetts kills 22 and injures 50 plus wide blast damage. A gravel train derails a passenger train near Alexandria Virginia injuring clerks and railroad workers. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad plans a four track Chicago to New York line. An Albany Chemical Co. representative reports relief from diarrhoea with Chamberlain's Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy.
The San Francisco Call reports Stephen B. Elkins Jr. staying in a local restaurant and visiting Edna Wallace Hopper as he pursues marriage, facing parental disapproval from Senator Elkins. The piece also notes a Confederate Battle Abbey fund rising to 300000 dollars, plus a major skin graft operation at Baltimore City Hospital and a lynching in Danville, Illinois.
Directory lists pastors and service times at Presbyterian in Shepherdstown Kearneysville and nearby towns. Included are Rev Charles Ghiselin D D and others with morning and evening services and Sunday sermons across multiple churches and locations.
At John W. Rowan Camp I G VI meeting in Cheries Town May 20 1053 a committee was appointed to reorganize the Camp. Members include A. Hopkins Gen H Hagiey W Merchant R P Chew John S M Daniel Jann P J Holmes Gen W Haines Richard Benders EH McDonald Wm Timberlake S C Young and G Prank Gial Jaber. Committee to meet August 1 at the court house to report. Ones Mount. Acting Commander.
Announcement offering excursion tickets for summer travel to resorts and principal stations along the Norfolk and Western line. Details include valid period from June to September, return passage, and requests for information on mountain spring sites, boarding houses, location, elevation, and rates in Virginia. Signed by W B Bevile, General Passenger Agent.
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