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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1916
Page
6
A Winchester notice promotes a Clever Program at Empire Tonight featuring Vodgil and Pictures plus a return engagement by Joe Howard's Parlor Minstrels. The double bill includes a 45 minute clean vaudeville act by women and comedians with a 10c to 15c admission. Shows start near 9 PM with pictures before and after.
Blaze Tracy rides in as the town burns the church and corrupt leaders fall in a crowded melodrama. The cast includes Wm S Hart Clara Williams Louise Glaum and more in Hell's Hinges with a Keystone two reeler and Secrets of Supreme. Admission 10c up as listed.
Aud itor C Lee Moore reports about 12 000 Richmond mailed checks on September 1 total 170 000 and 50 000 from May 1 under act 1888 bringing pensions to 520 000 for the year. Funeral expenses totaling about 500 for 1916 also paid. ages range 68 to 100 with widows of war dead receiving 50 and 33 for later deaths.
Mrs. Frederick Tiers of Paterson New Jersey found a photo of young soldiers with Pershing's army in Mexico. The face of Fred Martin, long missing, matched the image after an inquiry via Representative Don H. Drukker. He enlisted from Kansas City with a cavalry troop and is expected to have a reunion after discharge.
In Culpeper Virginia on September 7 President Wilson and Dr Cary Grayson search for Cooney a half breed Indian boyhood companion who is missing from the station platform a note says he is jailed after a crap game last night. Senator Williams urged Virginia Governor to consider a pardon upon arrival in Washington.
The 16 year old Marguerite Earhart was last seen August 21 and believed to have eloped with Charles H. Baum of Baltimore on a motorcycle. She was found in Hagerstown yesterday with her father. Her separated parents include mother Mrs. Harry Litchford of Alexandria.
An old advertisement extols Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as essential family medicine. It stresses prompt treatment for sudden colic and diarrhoea before a physician arrives and notes the remedy’s usefulness in easing suffering.
William S. Hart plays Blaze Tracy a fast draw expert and dead shot in Hell's Hinges. He masterfully shoots in the air, covers lamps wires with a dramatic scene, and performs a risky horsemanship stunt. The film screens Friday and Saturday with a Keystone comedy and Secrets of the Submarine, admission 10 and 15 cents.
A chicken hatchery project in Ramsomville New York will install five double deck incubators with a total capacity of 102 000 eggs at the Niagara poultry farm. Newtown Giant Incubator Corporation of Harrisonburg signed the largest single hatching equipment contract to date with W R Curtiss Company. The equipment costs 11020 dollars and the farm building will be forty eight by 170 feet, later expandable to meet demand.
Virginia Republican leaders met in Washington to gauge opposition to Senator Claude A. Swanson. The group adjourned with no GOP candidate chosen and planned a Roanoke meeting in 10 days amid strong opposition. James W. McGavock said defeating Swanson with a pure Republican would be unlikely and urged backing Representative Stemp.
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