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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1915
Page
4
Public schools in Virginia show record attendance and rising interest as officials modernize the system. State Superintendent R. C. Stearnes receives praise for steering reforms and boosting trained teachers while wartime debt and costs loom for future generations.
A Northern observer commends Virginia schoolmen for adopting modern educational ideas. The passage credits farmers organizations cooperative education association and united labor with inspiring teachers principals and superintendents to elevate the state's school system.
A reflective meditation on life's voyage ending in tragedy. Even happiest hours yield a near certainty of final wreck and death, as all lives converge toward mystery and final sorrow.
A moral reflection states that people and events may delay accountability, but final payment of one’s debt remains unavoidable, warning that time postpones but does not erase consequences.
Hongkong is a part of China but politically belongs to Great Britain since 1841 42 when ceded by the treaty of Nanking. This reflects the colonial arrangement following the First Opium War and established governance under British rule.
An advertisement claims catarrh cannot be cured by local applications and must be treated with internal remedies. It extols Hall's Catarrh Cure as a blood purifying tonic that acts on mucous surfaces, marketed as a real prescription from leading physicians and urging readers to send for ENEY & Co. Toledo. It also promotes Emily Pills for constipation.
In a New York supreme court suit a sister seeks 20000 from the 1500000 estate of Albert H. Lawrence born Leszynsky who was murdered in Mexico after a shipboard courtship with Virginia Pernet. Lawrence warned secretary of a coming killer and began preparations as he faced a foretold doom.
Lawrence was killed with his own revolver after Baillet seized the weapon at the plantation. The wealthy planter left most of his estate to his wife, once valued at over 3 million dollars but reduced to about 1.5 million. Hannah and Ray Leszynsky sued in Mexico and New York over the will as their mother allegedly assigned a $20,000 claim to them.
Mrs. Dora Caton confronted a burglar at her New York apartment using a long hatpin and escorted him to a police station. The dramatic incident ended with the suspect in custody and the homeowner unharmed.
A poem contrasts peaceful rural life with calls for aggression. The speaker condemns jingoism and prompts readers to reject warlike cheers, urging restraint and reflection amid global conflict. The tone is satirical and critical of incendiary patriotism.
An old warning warns against calomel a mercury preparation claiming it harms the body causing cramps and weakness. It promotes Dodeon s Liver Tone a vegetable tonic as a safe alternative that will not cause salivation or stomach upset. The ad urges trust in a druggist and cautions against dangerous tonics.
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