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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1915
Page
3
An advertisement from Miller's Drug Store promotes a cure for chronic coughs. It asserts satisfaction or money back and lists Vino as a contact at 711 Street. The copy emphasizes druggists and nationwide store presence.
The finance committee reported city expenditures totaling 12,000 for sewer beds Imhof tank and damage suits. Council considered borrowing 10,000 to support public works as taxes and revenue expected to reduce floating debt from 15,000. Dr Bell announced a contract with Northern Virginia Power Company for electrical service.
A vivid report recalls an Austrian air raid over Venice during World War I. The Grand Canal scene unfolds with sirens, explosions, and a mortar burst near the Custom House as Italian and Allied defense respond.
A fragmented newspaper snippet contains a Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound testimonial praising its benefits for female troubles and a tax revenue report noting 1937 figures for New York and Pennsylvania. It also mentions Mrs Louis McCoy-Nurton and her children departing to Annapolis to join Commander Nulton for the summer.
Fires and alarms resume as a second bomber returns along the same route. The machine parades under moonlight then vanishes in clouds, moving through a hail of shrapnel while crews observe it gliding in the night sky.
Reports say Russia holds its lines in the east as Teutonic pressure wanes. British forces gain 200 yards of German trenches north of Ypres. Sir Ian Hamilton commends Allied bravery at the Dardanelles against Turkish forces. The German warship halts the American steamship Platuria with petroleum bound for a Swedish port. Russia apologizes to Sweden for entering Swedish waters after a German mine incident near Kiel.
Taxpayers in the internal revenue District of Maryland paid 1 820 596 60 dollars in income tax for fiscal year 1915 ending June 30. The district covers the District of Columbia Delaware and Virginia counties Accomac and Northampton and Maryland. The district’s share of total tax collected was about 23 percent, with individuals providing 1 164 546 31 dollars in revenues while district revenues totaled further.
A jail inmate Holt killed himself after a guard watched the cell to prevent self harm. Jeremiah Ryan heard a suspicious noise then found Holt dead on the iron grate with a severely cut face, face down beneath the cell door.
The funeral of Mrs. Sarah Orndorff wife of W R Orndorff of Hagerstown will be held at 2 PM from the Mortuary Chapel with burial in Mount Hebron Cemetery The Rev W T Walters pastor of the Christian Church will officiate Pallbearers are six nephews H A Boyd R Alva C Nelson Roy Richards and C H Cooper
Announcement of the quiet marriage of Boyd Newlin and Margaret L Mort on June 30 in Rockville Maryland. The couple traveled by train to the parsonage of the Methodist Church South where Rev Frank Richardson united them. They honeymoon in Norfolk then plan to reside in this city with Newlin in the laundry business.
Apples requested at the Virginia depot warehouse beginning July 10 by Kern and Campbell.
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