Lincoln and key figures praised after West Virginia debt ruling
The Danville Register and others hail Major Holmes Conrad of Winchester for winning the West Virginia debt case in the Supreme Court. The piece credits his long effort, notes support from Majors Conrad and Anderson, and defends the fairness of testimony from Mr. Pollard amid ongoing litigation involving Williams and the Debt Commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pollard
Conrad
John B. Moon
Times-Dispatch
Poonard
Williams
Major Anderson
Danville Register
Major Holmes
Major Conrad
West Virginia
Supreme Court
Debt Commission
Holmes ‘Conrad
Winchester
Richmond Times Dispatch Praises Attorney General Pollard
A Richmond paper lauds Attorney General John Garland Pollard for his role in a debt litigation case. It credits his arguments before the Supreme Court and the special master with steering the matter to a favorable conclusion for the commonwealth.
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Richmond Times- Dispatch
Richmond
Virginia
John Garland
John Garland Pollard
Pollard
Anderson
Randolph Harrison
Tanner
Melancholy Days Poem Encourages Bright Outlook
A satirical verse urges readers to discard gloom and pessimism. It compares a perennial grouch to Jonah, the pessimist, and suggests choosing cheer to preserve friends and joy in daily life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jonah
Toad
Raven
Catarrh Cure offered as internal remedy by Toledo firm
An advertisement promotes Catarrh Cure as a blood and mucous surface treatment taken internally. It claims local applications fail to reach the disease, asserts the remedy combines tonics and blood purifiers, and promises testimonials. Sold by Druggists for 75 cents with Take Safe Family Pills referenced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. J. Lee & Co
Props
Toledo
Harrison Denies Knowledge of Moss Doping Information
Young Harrison, depicted as highly upright, swears he did not know the information from Moss was anything but ordinary, and authorities at the academy are suspected of scapegoating him and several companions. Friends insist on his innocence and honor amid the investigation.
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Harrison
Moss
Academy
Van
Winchester Echoes on War, Women Rights and Local Oddities
The narrative recounts wartime reflections, suffrage pamphlets, and local observations from Winchester. It notes a 1857 Woman's Rights lecture, Kansas episodes, John Brown trials, and civic sentiments. It also mocks Colorado suffrage rhetoric and lampoons misdirected reform zeal in the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emerson
Winchester
Richmond Whig
Noble Man Sacrificed to Save Others at Sea
A story recalls a seaman who signaled a mother to reunite with a child during a sinking voyage. He assisted others, gave absolution on deck, and perished as his body washed ashore a week later near Queenstown where he was buried.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vanother
Queenstown
Grade promotions list names by class and teacher
A long list of students advancing from second to third grade and from first to second grade is recorded, naming pupils by name with many common surnames and a few teachers or clerks interspersed. The fragment lists numerous pupils including Thelma Fansler Violet Foreman, Thelma Kellican Elsie Lee Mason Isabelle North, and about many others across grades.
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Uave
A Carliste
Sete Ee
Jaewer de Hart
Thelma Fansler
Violet Foreman
Ee Yoathan Dellit Jenkins
Thelma Kellican
Elsie Lee
Oe Mason
Isabelle North
Pinckney Arthur
John Boyd
Carroll Bush
Lee Cain
Harry Cain
Walter F. Dent
Alton Dunn
Manuel Feinburg
Winston Griman
Lee Grant
Earl Grim
Willie Hoar
Boyd Hillyard
Kenneth Henry
Walter Jenkins
George Jones
Robert Triplett
Florence Blanky
Hazel Bursey
Sydney Carpenter
Edith Chapman
Edna Elliott
Margaret Graber
Ruth Grim
Ernestine March
Lillian Perry
Agnes Preffittt
Mary Russell
Coda Reed
Zelma Seabright
Ola Swanson
Kathleen Walter
Public Sale of Valuable City Real Estate in Winchester
Public sale directed by a Frederick County circuit court decree in the M. P. Ebert versus A. G. Rutherford et al case and A. G. Rutherford vs. A. Huffman et al. Commissioners convite the public auction at court house on Tuesday June 16 1915. The property is a brick dwelling on West Water Street Winchester fronting 133 feet and back to Amherst Street with 100 feet frontage on Amherst Street, conveyed to G Rutherford by Jos H Savage et ux on January 3 1911 as recorded in Deed Book 28 page 380.
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Circuit Court
Frederick County
M. P. Ebert
A. G. Rutherto
Als
A. G. Rutherford
A. Huffman
iJs
Coart
West Water Street
Winchester
Water Street
Amherst Street
Tod
G. Ru ‘Ord
Jos. H. Savage
Corporation Clerk’s
Winvee
Shenandoah
North Main Street
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
Thedoah Valley Na Bank
Seeeeerty
Spoomege
Pont
H. C. Stouffer Et Ax
Robt. M. Ward
Sp’l. Com
R. H. R. Kern
Jno
J. W. Baker, Jr
Fredk. Go
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Harry Flood Byrd
Bell
Unite
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Lincoln
Ite House
Brondin
Niagara River
Blondin
United States
New York World
Vana
Sonneborn
Troy
Nemo
Beauty
Ba Wheeler Wilcox
Earth
Whittier
Dombey
Jack Bunsby
Millwood
Eas Ose
Sumter
B. F. Brooke
Baltimore
George E. Senseney
Republican
Mount Hebron
Kansas
William T. Sherrard
Judge Sherrard
Geary
Sherrard
Jones
John Brown
Ner
Harpers Ferry
Waad
Brown
Ss Shilagg
Colorado M. C
Colorado
Rockefellers
Congress
Astor
Mary Ward
Dorothy Woodward
Evan Wood
Kathleen Wood
Clara Shank
Virginia Rehill
Edna Oe de Jones
Nate Em He
Marguerite ’ Nile Triplett
Fr Hartman
Janet Hulyard
Sarah
Pansy der
Edmund Spates
Franklin Ritter
David Lillis
Marshall Kline
Laurens Jones
William Hollis
James Snider
John Seabright
Robert Striker
Herbert Stultz
Scott Hiaymaker
Kenneth Grim
Walter Bayliss
Franklin Anderson
Roomer Table Boarders
King Mf
Broadway
New York City
John Ther
Chambersville
Ieee
S. Washington St. St
Chrismore
Main St
Union Bank of Winchester
N. Main St
App
Wingerter & Jenkins
South Main Street
W. P. Reardon
Sa Sale Oe
Star Office
Emai
Carl Cather
National Bank
Piccadilly St
Fred L. G .Glaize
W. L. "Kuhn
Rathman
B. Cecil St
Chas
R. FicCann
Stephenson
Wason
Peranent
Territo Brown Bi Bros
Rochester
Mies
Ladies of Emanuel Church
Stephensons, Benefit Church
Burpee
Otto Gans
Zanesville
Ohio
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