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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1916
Page
5
Trains arrive in Winchester from listed stations at 9 20 am daily except Sunday 11 45 am and 7 22 pm daily. Superintendent F A Ripple and General P A Rippple noted.
No. 3 9 18 a m serves Bristol and intermediate stations with Pullman Sleepers and Dining Car to Roanoke and a Roanoke Bristol Parlor Car. No. 1 2 27 a m serves Roanoke Bristol Blue Gold Pocahontas Welch Norton and intermediate stations with Pullman Sleepers Winston Salem cafe car Shenandoah Gary connects at Roanoke with Memphis special for points South. No. 27 6 38 p m serves Shenandoah and intermediate stations.
A veteran reader sends verses about the Civil War era and a Hindu poet Rabindranath Tagore. The piece includes T. H. Marr’s moralized poem My Suit of Confederate Gray and reflections on Tafore’s 1915 lectures at Bolpur University.
A reflective column recalls acts of kindness and intolerance, contrasting a worker named Jerry Murphy who risked his life to save nestling birds with sharp social critiques of bigotry. It also parodies Billy Sunday antics and notes a Baltimore bride’s fatal quarrel over a marriage certificate frame.
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