Cumberland Valley Score Line Mystery Captured
Fragmentary OCR shows a sequence of numbers and symbols likely from a scoreboard or betting grid. No clear names, dates, or events are readable to define a specific person, team, place, or outcome.
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1917
Page
5
Fragmentary OCR shows a sequence of numbers and symbols likely from a scoreboard or betting grid. No clear names, dates, or events are readable to define a specific person, team, place, or outcome.
The Rev. Alfred T. Graham presented his resignation as pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Lexington Virginia to the church session on Monday night, but the session declined to accept it due to his ill health. Graham has served ten years in Lexington after earlier years in Davidson North Carolina. Friends regret his health problems and anticipate withdrawal from the pastorate. The church will ease his load by engaging Rev. W. H. Woods of Baltimore to preach for several months, with Graham remaining in pastoral duties.
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A note indicates a person has long been employed at a local mill, suggesting stable labor history and ties to the community.
A Buffalo New York testimonial declares Peterson's Ointment cures piles and other skin ailments. The author, David A. Seymour, claims a 25 cent box will rid sufferers of piles or money back. The ad touts curing many skin diseases and urges readers to try the product.
Herbert R. Willey has been designated as a temporary policeman serving until a regular officer is chosen at the October Common Council meeting. The post pays $60 per month and Willey, from Middletown, is a former sergeant who has resided in Winchester.
Professor Charles G Maphis of the University of Virginia and brother of J L Maphis of Winchester is named to the American Red Cross speakers bureau. Dr Douglas Freeman, editor of the Richmond News Leader, serves as chairman.
Young Mr. Howe was accompanied home by his mother and her grandsons Richard and Joseph Porney of Brunswick who have been visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Melhorn in Harrisburg.
W R Hardesty delivers services at Ridgeway charge churches on September 23 with sermons at Paynes Chapel Arden and Garrardstown. A ten night protracted meeting begins September 24 at Arden with nightly 8 o clock preaching. Mrs Chapman and daughter Lyda return from Berryville Virginia visit to Mr C B Locke family.
Mr. Joseph Howe of Brunswick the son of O. M. Howe a Baltimore and Ohio Railroad man has been ill with meningitis for months in a Norfolk hospital and has returned home to recuperate He serves in the United States Navy and has been aboard the battleship Wyoming
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