Hoses Briggs Bets on Madame Lagrayere Course
Horace and Marjory Bascom run a shady correspondence course promising social polish. A new client arrives, an elderly heiress may invest five thousand dollars, and the pair plan a big ad push to sell “The Manual of Good Breeding” designed to mold a well bred gentleman or lady in twelve lessons.
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Hoses Briggs
Miss Bascom
Madame Clara Lagrayere
Horace
Bond
Marjory Bascom
Marjory
House Divided Above All: Caruso Will Divides Port Chester Home
Nicholas Caruso's will partitions his Port Chester New York residence among three sons. James receives the first floor and a porch box. Joseph gets the second floor cellar and back porch. Angelo takes the third floor attic and two finished basement rooms.
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Nicholas Caruso
Port Chester
N. Y
James
Joseph
Angelo
Gardener Receives Victorian Medal for Horticulture
Joseph Lowe of Uxbridge England earns the Victorian medal for notable services to horticulture. The award recognizes his long standing work cultivating plants and promoting garden cultivation in the region.
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Joseph Lowe
Uxbridge
England
Inter City Rotary Meet at the Endless Caverns
Rotarians from Harrisonburg Winchester and nearby clubs plan an inter city gathering at Endless Caverns on Friday October 26 at 2 p m. The event aims to showcase the Valley of Virginia as a tourist route and a home for farmers and business people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Valley of Vir
Charhistle
Winchester Rotary Club
Charlottesville
Harrisonburg
Bill Keister
Man seeks divorce after learning wife wed another man
James Allen, a colored man, went to Hagerstown Clerk Edward Oswald seeking a divorce. He claimed Mary Nichols had secretly married Jerry Payne of Front Royal, Virginia, on July 22, 1897, and that Payne is still alive and married to Mary. He left after advice on next steps.
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Hagerstown
James Allen
James
Edward Oswald
Mary Nichols
Gerstown
Jerry’ Payne
Front Royal
Jerry
Warren County
Mary
For Sale Two-family dwelling and building lots
For sale two dwelling units each with five rooms on South Main Street. Monthly payments available at $2,700. Also 68 foot and 50 foot building lots priced at $2,500 and $750 respectively. A 60 by 150 foot lot sold in five portions at $500 each with easy payments.
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Main Street
South Main St
Farm Loan Terms Offer Long Term Amortization
Loans available in sums of 5000 dollars and larger at six percent interest on a long term amortization basis. Loans made only on improved farmland and without cost to the borrower.
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The
Winchester
Arly
H. B. McCormac
Shirley Carter
Treas
Office of Dept. of Agriculture
Mubg
Bureau of Agricultural Economies
United States Department of Agriculture
Martinsburg
West Virginia
F. H. Scruggs
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
U. S. Department of Agriculture
W. Va
Madame Gray-Shevinne
Empire Theatre
Snapp Foundry, Inc
North Market
Funk & Son
South Main Street
ST. Paul’s
Clara Delafield
Western Newspaper Union
Inter City
Good & Co
Hopewell
Tubize Artifical Sik Company
West Clifford Street
Fred L. Glaize
Hansbrough and Carter
Erty
Hansbrow Cient Insurance
Norristown
Pennsylvania
Herman H. Hable
National
Chapman Autonee
M. Stine
W. Hockman
Bartonville
Kohler and Campbell
Chas. M. Stieff
A. Fordson Tractor
Care Star Office
J.” Care’ Star
Braddock St
Cumberland Valley
Falling Waters
H. E. Hardt
Arcadia Orchards
North Avenue
National Avenue
Wash
Valley of Virginia
Baltimore
Care Star
Elkton
Harry Wingfield
Emma Wingfield
Saturday Evening Post
KAY Mills
Dept
N. T
Broadway
Cincinnati
Ohio
Camille
FS. Emmert Son & Co
Hartshorn
Moling & Seal
W. C. Plundeke Co
Huntsberry
Winsuwever
Smith & Wray
Berryville, Va
Jurgen
Sylvia
Boston Evening Script
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