City plans street work and water system upgrades
Common Council approves a $10,000 first year street tar binder program with later light treatment, funds by issuing bonds to pay Handley Board notes, and sets a 1917–year plan. It also authorizes purchase of road machinery chlorinating equipment and a pumping station meter, plus a special meeting to finalize budget.
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Kent Street
Rouss Spring
Handley Board of Trustees
Handley Board
Mr. Willys
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Ad Claims Cure and Reward
An advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a cure for catarrh with a one hundred dollar reward for incurable cases. It claims 35 years of use and notes the medicine works through the blood to heal mucous surfaces and expel poison. The pitch urges immediate use, promises health improvements, and offers testimonials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo Ohio
Dodson's Liver Tone Offers Calomel Alternative
A vintage health ad touts Dodson's Liver Tone as a safe, vegetable substitute for calomel. It claims calomel causes salivation and weakness and promises relief from biliousness constipation and sour stomach with a pleasant remedy suitable for children and adults.
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Dodson
Middletown Briefs Record Local Moves and Visits
Middletown Virginia notes list many visitors and moves. Families from Martinsburg Cumberland Westernport Baltimore and Cumberland attend Mrs James Dellinger’s funeral. Other items mention others traveling to Woodlawn and Washington and a local home purchase on Rail Road Avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middletown
A. R. Sperry
Martinsburg
W. Va
C. Lewis
Clementine Lewis
Cumberland, Md
Harry Dellinger
Westernport
Louis Dellinger
Baltimore
Bruce
Charles Dellinger
J. W. Horn
Washington
J. W. Rhodes
Barbara Dellinger
Cumberland
C. Campbell
Taxable Values of Local Railroads in Virginia
The annual State Auditor report lists railroad values in Virginia. Winchester to Harpers Ferry line reports roadway value $168 300 and depots etc. $12 928 with state tax $187 23. Winchester and Strasburg line shows track and buildings $296 756 and tax $296 75. Cumberland Valley line in Virginia carries value $170 253 and tax $170 76. Rolling stock values $29 916 for Winchester Potomac and $40 919 for Winchester Strasburg with taxes $1 404 84 and $2 267 29 respectively. Cumberland Valley rolling stock in Virginia valued at $7 189 with tax $1 472.
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Baltimore and Ohio
Winchester and Potomac
Winchester
Harpers Ferry
Winchester and Strasburg Railroad
Winchester and Potomac Railroad Company
Winchester and Strasburg
Cumberland Valley
Virginia
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Etta
Anna Grim
Harry Hardesty
Berryville
Thrush & Stough
Hagerstown
Shippensburg
Harvey B. Sfl
Bell Phone
Perkshire
Ait North End
Kent St
Medico
ASK Franck Baker & Sor
Pharmacists
H.& W. Seabright
Jerome C. Rice Co
Cambridge
N. Y
Miller’s Drug Store
Susan EB. Blew
Portlandment
Berkeley Lime Security Cement & Lime Co
J. W. Rosenberger
Glaize Bros
Lin. Ypucts
Yitiraisdime
Common Council
Wort TM
Market St
Gerrard
Willlicthantoste
Monmouth
Evans
Nose
National Avenue
Fairmont Avenue
Piccadilly St
Braddock
S. Main St
Cort
Gerard
S. Brad
Peyton
Main
Fairmont
Valley Ave
Amherst
C.V.R.R
Dsay
Laura Suellen
Strasburg
Ellen March
R. A. Larrick
Raiload Avenue
L. R. Markwood
the State Auditor
Chamberlain
Footer
Footer’s Dye Works
C. A. Heller & CO
Country Club
Willys-Knights
U.S
John N. Willys
H. C. Borden
North Main St
Bell
Ohio -Overland Company
Toledo
The
Willys-Overhad Co
Orient Automobiles and Light Commercial
Ford
Cadillac
S.main ST
W.P. Anderson’s Meat Market
N. Main St
A. B. Wyndham
Boyce, Va
Burpee
Fred Ss. Boyd
Boyce
Clarke County
Chester
Dunn & Duvall
Autts
M.L. Capper
J. Y. Hess
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