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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1915
Page
5
Railroad schedules show trains arriving in Winchester from the out‑laid alcove at 9 20 am daily except Sunday and 7 28 pm daily. Daily X and J & Tower, Supt H L A Riboue Gen F A.
In effect November 22 1914 westbound trains run from Strasburg to Harrisonburg with No 27 at 7 40 am No 99 at 12 25 noon and No 14 at 6 25 am eastbound from Strasburg to Alexandria and Washington with No 2 at 5 40 pm and local arrivals to Washington by 9 45 pm Buffet Parlor Car service is listed on several runs.
Train notices list northbound and intermediate services from Norfolk and Western to Roanoke Bristol Bluefield Pocahontas Welch Norton Shenandoah Shenandoah Junction Harrisburg Philadelphia New York and Washington. Include Pullman sleepers cafe cars parlor cars and connections such as Memphis special and Shenandoah Junction links.
An advertisement extols Dodson's Liver Tone as a safe alternative to calomel for sluggish livers. It claims calomel causes cramping and salivation while Dodson's product, a vegetable remedy, does not. Also notes a Baltimore visit by Mr. Matthew Harrison and promotes Chamberlain's Liniment for back pain.
The Harrisonburg News Record reports a horse buyer for English armies will visit Harrisonburg on June 5 to purchase 1000 horses for cavalry light units and horse artillery. Rockingham farmers are urged to supply quality animals, with B F Garber and T G Herrings arranging the inspection at Garber's stable all day.
Berryville residents joined guests from Kansas City and local families at the Hagerstown Decoration Day races. The Highlands hosted Major and Mrs. H W Carpenter with N A Carpenter. Warden and Owen Allen planned a trip to Richmond for the Confederate reunion. Berryville High finals conclude midweek with visitors from Washington DC.
Mr. John Thwaite vice president and Mr. W. P. Massey secretary of the Virginia State Horticultural Society departed for Charlottesville to attend committee meetings of the society.
Twenty-one of the forty nine surviving Immortal 600 veterans, officers captured at Fort Sumter and later confined on Morriss Island and Fort Pulaski, arrive in Richmond for the reunion. Col. J Ogden Murray, organizer secretary, greets comrades as they hold a meeting at Virginia Medical College building.
The article lists Italy's total war strength at about 3,830,202 men with 1,700,000 mobilized. It breaks down forces into standing, mobile and territorial components plus reserves, artillery regiments, and aviation with 420 planes. It details seven battleships, eight older ships, key dreadnoughts Giulio Cesare, Leonardo da Vinci, and Conte di Cavour, and lists cruisers, gun boats, destroyers, torpedo boats, and submarines. It notes William Nelson Page leaving for Richmond, Va., for a state tennis tournament.
Prof. Andrew Comrey leader of Comrey's Band Martinsburg West Virginia was seriously injured when runaway horses drawing a carriage in a Hagerstown funeral cortege dashed into the band Yes terday He was struck on the head by the carriage pole and knocked down then run over He revived later in Dr EB Wareheim's office Several other band members narrowly escaped harm.
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