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Newspaper
Winchester News
Location
Winchester, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1908
Page
7
The article extols birds as key defenders against pests in agriculture. It catalogs species and their feeding habits from chickadees and nuthatches to woodpeckers and swallows, detailing how they search bark, trunks, ground, and air for insects. It notes seasonal migrations, roles of robin, flicker, meadowlarks, quails, and grosbeaks, and argues protection could improve pest control in cotton fields.
The piece argues towns can improve governance by forming advisory committees of 20 to 40 representative citizens to study municipal needs for the coming year and present published findings and recommendations to voters. It urges civic clubs to inform residents, improve transit, sanitation, and smoke abatement, and assist in selecting good public officials.
The pamphlet emphasizes well drained warm soil for best results and notes a well cared for asparagus bed is a permanent asset bringing comfort. It also mentions room for improvement in country roads and that better roads do not require much money.
A Los Angeles Times correspondent argues cemeteries should be park like and beautiful with artful low monuments, avoiding cheap designs. He urges cemetery associations to restrict poor designs, keep tracts garden like, and appoint intelligent directors akin to a park commission to enforce high standards.
Railroad station grounds are vital to a town or city image and traveler impressions. The text urges officials to support permanent, year round landscaping as rail travel expands and larger grounds are developed along new routes.
A national movement opposes mail order giants sapping small towns. Rural districts fear trade centralization in cities if catalogs and mail order publications continue unchecked. Local enterpris es warn that country economies would wither as consumer access shifts online.
Passenger trains leave Winchester on C&O L&N and L&E lines with daily and Sunday-except services. Eastbound and westbound trains run at various times from 6:22 a.m. to 9:25 p.m., including No 26 28 24 and No 27 29 9 82 2 10 on selected days.
The notice lists multiple daily rail connections except Sunday. It specifies Lt. and E. Junction with Trains 1 and 3 to Mt. Sterling via C. and O. Ry, Campton Junction with Trains 1 2 3 4 to Mountain Central Ry for Campton passengers, Beattyville Junction with Trains 2 and 4 to L. and A. Ry for Beattyville, and O. and K. Junction with Trains 3 4 to O. and K. Ry for Cannel City and nearby stations. Messages signed by W. A. Mdowell, Gen. Mgr., and Chas. Scott, GP, A.
President Roosevelt appoints Daniel J. Keefe of Detroit as commissioner general of immigration to fill the vacancy caused by Frank Sargent’s death. W. D. Crum and Martin Knapp are to be reappointed to their current positions as Charleston port collector and Interstate Commerce Commission chairman, respectively. Also notes Dorando Petri versus Tom Longboat slated for Dec 15 in Madison Square Garden over 26 miles 885 yards. In Ohio, no foot and mouth disease found in quarantined Springfield cattle herd. remains in quarantine under state and federal inspection.
In Washington C H Ohio printers and foremen in nearly all publishing houses walked out despite one exception. Publishers deem the demands unreasonable and vow to fight. A related item notes Pope’s Physics in Rome and a public fear of anxiety over a 40s period.
Advertising appeal urging Winchester and Clark County merchants to place ads in the News. It boasts a 1400 daily home readership, growing toward 2000 by Christmas, and links good times to the Fall and Winter trade. The piece stresses capturing moneyed readers in city and rural routes through morning and evening editions.
A fragment notes a quote on public distress and cites Ruskin endorsing public education as the sole cure to foster thoughtful men, implying education as a remedy for civic ills. The readable text presents a concise ethical argument attributed to Ruskin.
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