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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1924
Page
5
The article recounts testimony from Mrs Sweetin describing how a man coerced her into poisoning her husband. She says he manipulated her for a month and dictated poisons and notes urging more poison. The testimony includes references to others receiving peaches and incriminating notes.
A fragmented list names king Louis XIII and figures such as LeBiere, Leonard Gordon, Duke of Buckingham, Cardinal Richelieu, Richelieu’s officers Treville Rochefort Athos and Porthoip D ers, plus innkeeper Planchet and numerous ladies and guards. The piece reads as a cast roster with actors and roles including Beadrift and Queen Anne among others.
The Union Trust Company of Springfield reports a $100000 registered mail consignment and asks police to locate William J. Hamitan, 46, a bank messenger. He was sent to the post office at 9:30 this morning to fetch the money with another guard, but he went alone and has not returned.
An old advertisement claims Hall's Catarrh Medicine relieves catarrhal inflammation with an ointment for external use and an internal medicine tonic that cleanses the blood and mucous surfaces. The copy notes availability from Tastee Co. in Toledo, Ohio, and that druggists have carried it for over 40 years.
Funeral services for Rose Lee Jackson wife of a Parry were held at Braddock Street Methodist Church in Hagerstown Md. Interment followed at Mount Hebron cemetery. Rev B W Switzer and Rev D F Butsler led the service with choir renditions of Jesus Lover of My Soul Abide With Me and Lead Kindly Light. Pallbearers included I N Good H D Fuller and others attended from Maryland and Pennsylvania.
Theodore Roosevelt is nominated by the New York Republican state convention after a fraction ballot vote. He leads Col. William Hayward and others, with nomination by acclamation on Odell's motion. The platform denounces the Ku Klux Klan and affirms equal citizenship regardless of color creed or race.
At the White House President Coolidge would not immediately act on a Philadelphia Law Enforcement League plea to intervene in the dispute between Mayor Kendrick and Public Safety Director General Smedley Butler. He plans to spend tonight in Philadelphia for the 150th anniversary of the Continental Congress meeting.
An old style advert claims a fragrant antiseptic cream clears nasal passages and relieves cold or catarrh. It describes opening the nose, stopping snuffles, and easing headaches with a palm small bottle applied in the nostrils. It promises instant relief and free breathing.
Distress warrant sale offered by Sheriff Luther Pannett of Frederick County Virginia. Household and kitchen goods including beds dining sets lamps carpets and more to be sold October 7 at 10 A.M. at the Seca residence on West Piccadilly Street near Elix's Club. Cash terms. Dunn & Duvall aucs. 9-25-14
Readable bits show a short local item with names and place references. The fragment hints at a brief public notice or community note involving residents and a location, but details are unclear in this clipped OCR.
Junior Brown about 19, son of Mr and Mrs Charles W Brown, living on National Avenue, was injured on the head yesterday at Boyce Clarke County when a Northern Virginia Power Company pole fell while workers were installing new poles near a burned merchandise store. He was brought home by fellow employee H P Woltz and treated by three doctors. hematoma of the scalp reported but condition improving.
Edwin E. Hyde of Frederick Maryland remained in serious condition at Washington County Hospital after a collision with A H Jackson’s Cadillac from Winchester in which Mrs Jackson died. Hyde’s attending physicians said there was no ground for rumors of greater injuries and if he holds steady he may recover.
The Rev. W.G Winton of the Methodist Episcopal Church South at White Post announces Sunday services with a day school at 10 a.m. and a preaching service at 11 a.m.
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