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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1916
Page
5
Train arrivals listed for Cumberland Valley with daily schedule details and station names. Includes dispatch times and superintendent signatures, noting exceptions for Sundays and locations like Winchester and Towon.
A partial timetable listing outbound and inbound services along the Norfolk and Western system. It notes No 13 at 9 18 am to Roanoke and intermediate stops including Parlor Car and dining cars, plus connections to Shenandoah, Bristol, Pocahontas, and Wea ton. Westbound No 28 at 9 32 am serves Hagerstown Philadelphia and New York with Shenandoah Junction connection.
Banks announce closures for Monday December 25 1916 a legal holiday payments due that day can be settled Tuesday December 26 1916 WM G Hardy cashier Shenandoah Valley National Bank H D cashier Farmers and Merchants National Bank L B E Grim cash register Union Bank of Winchester John I Sloat cashier Commercial and Savings Bank of Winchester
Delegates and thousands of visitors pack Norfolk during a congressional gathering on International Reconstruction. Speakers include Dr. Wellington Koo and Mayor Rose, with praise for Panama Canal plans and Southern manufacturing. Governor helps break ground on a future fort as optimism for a Greater South grows.
Mr and Mrs Charlies Marshall Baldwin and Miss Dorothy Oden of Detroit are guests at Miss Pinky Sheetz home on South Stewart Street. If an open air school is in session, consumptive children need warmer clothes. Buy Red Cross Seals to help them.
A Christmas musicale by Miss Minnie Adler Miller’s pupils at her North Braddock studio on December 15 featured a lively program of solo and ensemble pieces. Santa announced the Polar Bear Symphony with makeshift instruments, followed by games and refreshments, concluding with a varied list of classical selections and readings performed by named students.
Whitacre Virginia December 20 Kitty Mason died at the residence of George T Reynolds near here last Thursday night She was 89 years old and died after failing health Her maiden name was Mason Her husband died years ago and no near relatives survive Reynolds is a nephew Funeral was held at Wesley Chapel with J W Brannon and Rev C V Van Der Linden officiating The article also notes local activity including a new school opening and various residents moving or traveling between nearby towns.
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