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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1916
Page
5
Cumberland Valley timetable dated May 28 1916 lists train arrivals in Winchester with daily runs except Sundays. Superintendent B A Ripple and Gen 2 are referenced in the text.
Train schedules show No 13 9 18 am Bristol intermed stations Pullman Sleepers Dining car to Roanoke Parlor Car to Roanoke Bristol No 1 2 27 am Roanoke Bristol Blue Pocahontas Welch Norton intermed stations Pullman cars cafe car Shenandoah Gary connects at Roanoke with Memphis special No 77 638 pm No 28 9 32 am Hagerstown intermed Harrisburg Philadelphia York connection Shenandoah Junction or Washington
Under a 1905 deed of trust, a substitute trustee will sell at public auction in front of Winchester's County Court House at noon Saturday July 15 1916 the 100 acre farm on both sides of the Front Royal Road four miles south of Winchester Virginia. The brick dwelling and outbuildings are on the property. Cash on bid with balance in two annual notes bearing 6 percent interest, secured by deed of trust and insurance.
A Pottsville mother, Mrs. Wm Leonard, writes that her baby with a bad cough found relief after using Foley's Honey and Tar. The advertisement promotes the non opiate formula as a reliable family cough medicine and notes it is sold everywhere.
Arthur W. Thompson is elevated to the highest Baltimore and Ohio Railroad post next to President Willard. Thompson rose from rodman to chief operating official through rapid promotions, with a career spanning the Erie and Pittsburgh and Lake Erie before joining B&O in 1899. He lives at 193 Edgevale and Roland Park with his wife, daughter, and a young son.
Pursuant to a Frederick county Virginia circuit court decree dated June 21 1916 I offer for public sale at the Winchester court house seven passenger 1913 Cole automobile in first class condition visible at Derminer's Garage Braddock street Also a seventeen jewel hunting case gold watch inspectable at Robert Denny Jewelry Winchester Va Cash terms Special Comm Luther Pannett 6 27 4111 7 8
A 1916 verse by H. O. Pierce laments undeclared war in Europe and notes he will travel to Rio Grande for a preparedness parade while avoiding confrontation. The poem shifts to diplomacy and mock defiance against Mexico and the Kaiser. Also mentions Philadelphia visitors Bertha R. Shearer and Mrs J W Shearer visiting South Main Street, Zirkle home.
Special commissioner offers at the Winchester courthouse in Frederick County Virginia a Middletown house and lot seized by Sanford R Edmondson for sale August 5 1916 at 11 am. Terms: one third cash day of sale, balance in one and two years secured by deed of trust and fire policy, or cash. Auctioneer Roy P Duvall. Bond filed per decree in Circuit Court.
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