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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1926
Page
5
Danville Va experienced its second serious fire loss in six years as about six downtown businesses were damaged or destroyed in a blaze that swept through the heart of the business district on May 7.
Fire traced to Gilmer's center of block destroyed Woolworth's Bijou Theatre Crews Coffee Wunsford's Studio and local armory with over 200 jobs lost. FireDiscovery 6 30 a m reached alarming by 7 30 a m two firemen injured as National Guard patrolled amid water and smoke damage to Raines Thompson Mahani Harnsberger and Kaufman stores. Origin of blaze unknown.
In Greene county at Nimrod on Sunday, Bernard Shifflett and Edgar Morris dueled after Morris threatened to shoot Mrs Shifflett. Shifflett’s shots struck Morris’s horse, and a Morris bullet reportedly pierced the sleeve of Shifflett’s child. Morris had earlier found his daughter with Robert Morris’s family.
Mrs. Shifflett denies aiding in the alleged Morris girl abduction while the man on the horse behind her fears shooting his daughter. Greene county officers have made no arrests and the case is expected to be aired in court. The duel left several unharmed, deemed miraculous.
Whitacre Va May 7 a son and daughter of the late Capt Herrell of Washington visiting the Apple Blossom Festival at Winchester drove to this place with friends to spend moments at their father's old place of business. Most of his old associates have passed on, but hills once familiar remain. George Kimble traveled to Baltimore to Johns Hopkins Hospital Wednesday for further exam of a baffling disease.
The Star presents a daily corrected market report with numerous wholesale prices for items such as butter flour and feed. Reads like a catalog of local commodities including local flour barrel price ranges and mixed feed costs, with scattered figures and unclear OCR details.
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