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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1916
Page
2
Notice to farmers in Middletown Virginia offering a new Clover Huller and Hay Press with prompt first class work at reasonable prices. Solicits patronage and invites further contact through mail or visit.
By decree of the circuit court of Jefferson County the Special Commissioners offer the Williams farm for sale at public outcry in Shepherdstown on September 9 1916 at 2 p m. The 250 acre tract lies on the Shepherd Grade Pike with 54 acres of apple orchard two residences and various outbuildings. One third cash and two yearly payments or cash. Growing corn and apples reserved and tenant rights expire April 1 1917. Forrest W Brown special commissioner.
Advert says the Manemropsertal Remedy cures stomach ailments including gall stones cancer ulcers and appendicitis claiming thousands recovered. It asserts fast relief and markets the product as unlike any other stomach remedy and lists wide sale locations.
The text outlines license taxes for various trades in Winchester including merchants, marble yards, moving picture shows, orchard spraying agents, pawnbrokers, peddlers, photographers, piano agents, pistol sellers, planing mills, and plumbers. Fees range from 5 to 100 dollars with specifics by capital, activity, and facility type. Deadlines and abatement rules are noted for some licenses.
Public memorandum outlines a transition to an eight hour workday for railroad workers starting September 1 1916. It directs monthly wage accounting, overseen by the Interstate Commerce Commission, with overtime and cost findings to be reviewed by a presidentially appointed commission.
Fifty railroad executives submit a public statement to Washington arguing against an eight hour day and wage hikes totaling about 100 million dollars per year. They warn the move could trigger widespread financial distress, impair transportation, and require arbitration to resolve the dispute.
The piece presents a warning from several rail industry leaders that a strike by highly paid workers would threaten the country’s transportation arteries and democracy itself, arguing no group should gamble with the nation’s life by blocking commerce.
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