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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1915
Page
5
Train timetable data lists arrivals at Winchester from listed stations with daily Monday to Saturday operations and Sunday exceptions. Superintendent Geo P at the railroad office oversees the schedule and operations.
Train notices show Westbound and Fast runs from Strasboro to Alexandria Washington and Harrisonburg with local and limited services. Parlor car service appears nightly to Washington and Alexandria City. C. W. Westbury is the general agent in Washington, D C.
Timetable notes multiple northbound and intermediate services for the Norfolk and Western line. It lists arrival times and connections at Roanoke Shenandoah Junction Hagerstown Harrisburg Philadelphia York and New York with Pullman sleepers dining cars parlor cars and cafe service noted.
The Winchester bar pays tribute to Major Conrad, renowned for steadfast integrity, public service, and generous charity. A longtime Presbyterian and Sunday school teacher, he argued before the U S Supreme Court for over 25 years and helped Virginia in its Virginia West Virginia case. The bar mourns a life of learning, eloquence, and magnanimity. A resolution honors his memory and a copy is sent to his family. Carson Holliday, ill with typhoid at Memorial Hospital, shows some improvement.
The public forum cites Elihu Root's opposition to women's suffrage as a misfit natural right, arguing government by suffrage should remain male led. He states women have distinct roles, urging protection of wives and daughters and warning that suffrage would erode civilization and gender differences.
Mr Jenkins born December 27 1842 in Baltimore died after a long illness brought on by age. His death followed the 1911 loss of wife Mary Isabel Plowden Jenkins. A Catholic layman of national prominence the news shocked Baltimore’s financial circle and Cardinal received the report at St Marys Seminary during his retreat. The couple spent summers at Bretton Woods New Hampshire and supported charities and churches in the area.
An annual report fragment lists numerous city expenses including Interest 8 306.00 Contingent 1 053.55 Sewers 1 047.01 Police Uniforms 134.60 Poor 369.00 Public Schools 10 000.00 Salaries 3 869.92 and various ward pavements projects and services such as Lights 4 624.80 Fifth Ward Pavements 109.10 First Ward Pavements 183.06 Second Ward Pavements 27.39 plus Fire Co and street cleaning costs, taxes, water works, and hospital or public health items.
A fragmentary page ties a Doan's Kidney Pills testimonial from Winchester resident Miss Julia Jenkins to a late 1910s public finances note. It lists city bonds, sinking funds, taxes, and district accounts, with signatures from the Finance Committee confirming an official bonded debt statement as of June 8 1915.
Mr Carl Kater rode along South Kent street when he fell against a curb in front of Mrs Frank Woodward s home. He sustained a broken left collar bone and two painful cuts on his head. He was taken to the office.
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