Winchester's 1890s Businesses Record Local Life Change
The piece surveys Winchester in 1898-99 listing 13 attorneys 8 blacksmiths 9 confectioners 38 grocers and many trades from harness shops to livery stables. It notes no modern supermarkets yet highlights banks garages hotels and mills, and explains how past commerce shaped today amid preservation efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
J. Frank Eddy
City Hotel
N. Main
Evans
Hart Hotel
N. Market
S. Stewart St
Shocky House
W. Piccadilly
Taylor Hotel
City
Miss Fannie Brown
S. Market
P.H. Gold
Rouss Ave
Hansbrough & Carter
Hugh S. Lupton
E. Water
Jas. B. Russell & Son
Bantz
Main
Lewis Jones Knitting Co
N. Kent St
Sing Lee Chinese
W. Water
Troy
S. Main
Oyler & Ebersole
A Decade of Medicare and Medicaid
This 1976 overview notes Medicare and Medicaid reach ten years old while provoking mixed pride and critique. It cites reduced push for universal health insurance, hospital and physician care shifts, rising costs, improved infant mortality and declining death rates, plus concerns about corruption and a growing bureaucracy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Schwartz c
N.Y Times News Service
New York
Lyndon Johnson
New York City
Carter's Triumph Looms At Mayors Conference
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and other city leaders back Carter at the six day U S Conference of Mayors in Milwaukee. Carter, deemed the likely Democratic nominee, plans meetings with Wisconsin Democrats as Ford and Reagan skip appearances. The event highlights urban policy concerns and job program debates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nations
Winchester Gas and Electric Light Corp
Water and
Kent Sts
Evening News
The
News
N. Main St
George F. Norton
Star
R.E. Byrd
W. Water St
the Times
E. Water St
William Byrd
Winchester
William A. Bell
Philip W. Boyd Jr
A. Henkel
W.S. Love
Hunter H. McGuire
W.P. McGuire
G.L. Miller
Julian F. Ward
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
S. Main
Cumberland Railroad
Water St
Milwaukee
U.S
Mary Louise Smith
Robert Strauss
Carter
Ford
Nixon
Newark
N.J
Kenneth Gibson
Elliot Richardson
Dais
Commerce
Richardson
California
Edmund G. Brown Jr
Sacramento
Ronald Reagan
Commerce Secretary
Georgia
New York
Abraham Beame
Coleman Young
Detroit
Henry Maier
Harvey Sloane
Louisville
Peter Fisherty
Pittsburgh
Richard Daley
Chicago
Beame
Miss Your Paper Circulation Hours and Contact
The Star announces circulation department hours Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Saturday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Readers with delivery problems should notify the circulation manager promptly at 667 3200.
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Star
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Winchester Businesses
Pat Robinson
America
Front Royal
Belle Grove
Middletown
Capitol Records
Abex Corp
O'Sullivan Corp
Rubbermaid Commercial Products, Inc
Market
Cameron) St
Loudoun
Lawyer's Row
Rousseu
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
Union Bank of Winchester
German Smith
S. Braddock St
Water
Boscawen) St
Piccadilly St
Cornelius Gibbons
S. Market St
Mainear
Ee Works
Main and Water Sts
E. Piccadilly St
S. Kent St
Snapp's Foundry
N. Market St
A&p
Safeway
Acme
Grand Union
Piccadilly - Market - Main - Braddock - Water Sts
W.S. Cather
George W. Keller
Jno. S. Miller
J.S. Solenberger & Co
William M. Wagner
Henry A. Schneider
S. Main St
W.H. Baker
T.M. Bantz
C.E. Huntsberry
Star Shoe House
Addie Smith
Rousse
R. Worsley
Rouss
Winchester Telephone Co
Western Union Telegraph Office
Fred H. Hable
Main St
Funk & Ray
George W. Kurtz
Medicare
Joseph P. Newhouse
Rand Corporation
Jobs
Bolens
High View
W. Va
Complete Insurance Service
J.W. Arthur, Inc
Boineo
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