23 Feb 1898
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Newspaper
The Winchester Times
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1898
Page
1
An antique tour through Winchester details houses, landowners, and trades from the town’s past. It notes Harris and Windle families, Braddock street lots, hotels, wagon makers, blacksmiths, and schools with glimpses of early civic life and local industry.
The narrative traces a cluster of early 19th century properties and residents in a Virginia town. It notes former blacksmith and weaver shops, a log backsmith corner, and families such as Copenhaver Lauck Sperry and Wolfe. It highlights land ownership shifts, a skating pond, taverns, and the Ball hatter residence, with ties to local figures and events including Morgan’s company and Cowpens.
A lyrical tribute recounts a lock of Washington exhibited at a fair and a nostalgic voyage through history. Poet Kate McVicar links Washington’s legacy to liberty and virtue, recalling battles, the Potomac, and the nation’s founding ideals without sensational detail.
A dated letter from Fernandina Florida expresses strong endorsement of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for croup and colds in children. The writer Mr. J George Subrer the Druggist is asked to send a bottle and notes quick, effective relief after a fair test. Wheat Drug Co. is listed as a seller.
Chas. Dana Gibson welcomed a son and began a new drawing line of a typical American baby. The February Ladies' Home Journal features the baby on its cover and marks a high standard of native feminine beauty. The illustrator may have portrayed a child from his own family yet preserves the celebrated tone of his work. The office telephone is 63 for any job printing needs.
The article warns purchasers against substituting unknown preparations for the standard Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphites of Lime and Soda, urging buyers to insist on Scott's Emulsion with the familiar man and fish wrapper and the price of $1.00. It emphasizes the long-standing 25 year market presence as proof of reliability and safety.
A dated exhortation on the primacy of decision urging prompt choice and bold action. It asserts that without decisive will no progress is possible and warns that delay leads to failure, concluding with a February 14, 1898 signature.
Mr James Jones of Jones Son Cowden Ill recalls how his wife suffered grippe that worsened to hasty consumption until using Dr Kings New Discovery. After one dose she began improving and several bottles cured her. Trial bottles free at any drug store.
An American merchant uses machine gums and a musket cannon to influence a Moroccan throne dispute while in another tale a flood of Lake Michigan swamps workers and foreboding danger surrounds a tunnel collapse. A boy witnesses British shelling of an Egyptian port in 1882 amid street violence.
An advertisement notes three small things that do much work and promotes DeWitt’s Little Early Risers for stomach and liver trouble. It also contains quotes on language, thought, and a brief croup warning endorsing One Minute Cough Care as safe for children.
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