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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1916
Page
5
Schedule fragment shows daily service to Winchester from stations listed with times around 92 am and 12 am. Notes indicate daily except Sunday and a reference to a supervisor in charge.
Noon local to Harrisonburg arrives at 2 30 pm. Buffet Parlor 21 daily 7 50 pm local to Harrison arrives at 10 10 pm.
The 1916 baseball season closed with Boston Red Sox and Brooklyn Dodgers as pennant winners. The first two games of the World Series will be in Boston at Braves Field, with subsequent games shifting between Boston and Brooklyn until a team wins four. The Washington team finished seventh and the Athletics dropped to last in the American League.
The document outlines prerequisites for license applications for ardent spirits in hotels, including posting notice thirty days prior, weekly newspaper publication, and court scrutiny of the manager’s character. It requires monthly sworn reports on alcohol stock and imposes bond requirements. lists exempt counties for culinary or therapeutic use.
An elderly patient relays relief from chronic constipation after using Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. The ad extols its gentle yet effective laxative action, absence of opiates, and safety for all ages. Priced at fifty cents, it urges readers to avoid imitations and request a trial bottle by mail.
The text lists counties and cities where liquor rules apply and allows licensed druggists or hotel managers to receive shipments of brandy whiskey wine and grain alcohol with records and affidavits. It also bans keeping ardent spirits in clubhouses and similar meeting places except bona fide homes and specifies penalties for noncompliance.
A section of harmful wording outlines that any club or similar group or individual dealing with ardent spirits faces misdemeanor on first offense and felony on second. Members or guests may be competent witnesses to prove violations. The text indicates continuation is forthcoming.
In Mount Williams Virginia on October 6 Henry Crowser remains quite ill with typhoid fever. Esther Williams was a pleasant caller at the home of J. L White on Sunday. Belle Dyke, visiting relatives in Chambersville, has returned home. Allen Bondurant continues un-
Mr Albert Snapp of near this place is attending the Agricultural High School at Middletown Virginia.
J H Binford, supervisor of rural schools in Virginia and acting secretary of the State Board of Education, resigned yesterday to become assistant superintendent of public schools in Richmond. He is a well known state school official with many friends in Winchester and Frederick County.
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