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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1915
Page
5
Train arrivals at Winchester list multiple daily times with exceptions noted. Schedule includes morning, afternoon, and evening slots from various Philadelphia-area stations, specifying daily patterns and Sunday omissions where indicated.
An advertisement extols Gets-It for corns calluses and warts promising quick painless removal. It claims no fuss and no pain with a single application and notes sales through KE Lawrence & Co Chicago and Keller Drug Co Winchester. It urges readers to try the product as the world’s best corn cure.
Westbound and fast round trips from Strasburg list No 23 daily at 7 30 am to Harrisonburg arriving 9 30 am No 49 noon local to Harrisonburg arriving 2 30 pm No 21 7 89 pm buffet parlor car local to Harrisonburg arriving 10 15 pm Fast from Strasburg No 14 8 25 am limited to Alexandria and Washington arriving 11 50 am No 2 5 10 pm local to Alexandria and Washington arriving 9 15 pm buffet parlor car
Northbound No. 28 at 9:32 a.m. serves Hagerstown and intermediate stations Harrisburg Philadelphia and New York with a Shenandoah Junction connection for Washington. No. 14 at 7:54 p.m. provides Hagerstown and a Pullman sleeper to New York. No. 2 at 12:54 a.m. serves Hagerstown with a Pullman sleeper to New York and Philadelphia.
Dr Thomas H Norton of the Department of Commerce announced a process to manufacture dye stuff materials from crude American sources. He said the method could solve the dye supply problem caused by German shortages during wartime and that the owners could supply the product, with market release within two weeks.
The eighth annual Frederick County Sunday School Association convention will be held Friday and Saturday September 17 and 18 at the First Christian Church in Winchester. The program lists devotional services, talks on organization and superintendent duties, teacher training, and conference sessions, with details for Friday and Saturday sessions and parade notes.
Rev. George W. Stover, United Brethren pastor, will preach Sunday at 11 am and 8 pm then travel to Singers Glen Virginia for the annual conference beginning September 14. The gathering, led by Bishop W M Weekely, includes about 100 preachers and covers Virginia parts of West Virginia and Maryland with 14,489 members.
Washington report announces the engagement of Dasha Allen to Lieut. Joseph W. Viner Eleventh Cavalry U S A stationed at Fort Oglethorpe Ga. The December wedding will take place at Fort Oglethorpe where Col Allen now commands. The Allen family long social leaders in Washington are noted for horse riding and hunting.
Warfield Lee of Catlettsburg recounts a Civil War era tale of a dead Arlington Heights widow and the birth of Robert E. Lee fifteen months later. The witness, a Lee descendant, shares details of the haunting voice and Lee family history, noting scars from war and decades of residence in Catlettsburg.
The 10 year old daughter of Mr and Mrs M H Armel of Martinsburg West Virginia died in that city Tuesday. Her body was brought to this city at noon yesterday and taken to Armel in this county where interment occurred in the local graveyard. Miss Nannie Birkle is visiting relatives.
Paris reports German forces using liquid fire and heavy artillery to assault French trenches in Alsace and the Vosges. French counterattacks retook ground. further actions continue in the Argonne and at Artas as the war widens on the western front.
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