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Newspaper
Winchester News
Location
Winchester, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1908
Page
2
A New York World excerpt traces the etymology of everyday terms hurrah huzza oyez nay mister esquire and gentleman. It links hurrah to Viking Tur Aic and battles cries to hosanna and Norman French roots. The piece notes social titles and heralds influence on language.
A district nurse recounts a London laborer who kept Sunday finery after a tramp stole his clothes thirteen years earlier. Despite pride and propriety, he wore week-day garments at home and chapel, ashamed to wear work clothes, relying on an Irish tailor whose long-worn suit lasted twenty-nine years.
A London Mail tale recalls a youth who joked about his voice and a famed tenor. He claimed the greatest compliment came when a star praised his singing without accompaniment. The anecdote ends with the boy’s radiant, hopeful smile as the sun shines.
The Sun emits about 600000 times more light than the Moon. Its disk shines 90000 times brighter than a candle flame and 150 times brighter than limelight. It is more than four times the brightness of the brightest spot in an electric arc light crater. The sun’s darkest region remains far brighter than limelight.
The article remarks that fish only bite when in the mood and warns anglers not to push generosity. It likens fishing to waiting for fish to be in the humor and notes poor results when anglers compel bites.
A Philadelphia Press quote notes one speaker saying encouragement came from gas being turned down during a visit. The reply states no encouragement is felt, as a dark room is needed to develop a negative, revealing a sharp exchange on optics and sentiment.
A Washington Star quote warns against those who give advice while others bear the risk. A Philadelphia Record remark suggests the average man overestimates his value unless he feels appreciated.
A San Francisco Call item notes Kate B.’s matchmaking hopes and her family’s piety. When a half dozen young men visit to collect signatures for a high license petition, Mrs. B. eyes the scene and her husband quips Kate has been praying again.
In his early life Colonel Ellsworth, a bold young lawyer and Civil War figure, faced hardship while pursuing his career. In a restaurant he declined a luncheon offer to discuss business, admitting he could not sponge while starving and vowing to talk later, a choice he recalled with pride in Marion Harland's Complete Etiquette.
A wedding morning tale ends in a cab bash as Wangles receives a heavy-heeled shoe to the eye while celebrants toss rice fetters and old shoes for luck. He seeks aid from a doctor after the bleeding, recounting the morning marriage and the puzzling injury amid a crowded urban scene.
A woman reads a letter from her son in college and laments his romance with Belle Lettres. The dialogue references a cautious, humorous tone about love and propriety as Brooklyn Life frames the scene.
A young man is praised for always being first in the office in the mornings. The employer states his thanks and asks why the gratitude is given, and the reply is for how he is noticed. The exchange reflects workplace courtesy in a Chicago Record Herald piece.
A Yonkers Statesman excerpt features a child replying to her mother that to be a future lady she should begin practicing talking now, illustrating a playful family exchange about manners and speech.
A quoted Exchange notes that a woman's age is undeniably hers yet she does not always own it, highlighting social ambiguity around female identity and autonomy. The remark frames age as personal truth versus public perception in a brief philosophical aside.
Office hours are listed as 10 to 12 a m and 2 to ? text shows new phone 432 and residence 633 Winchester. reader guidance incomplete but provides contact details for J M Stevc Sor.
Passenger trains depart Winchester on East Bound, West Bound, South Bound, North Bound, and East/West lines with daily and Sunday exceptions. Key times include No 26 at 8:42 a.m., No 24 at 9:25 p.m., No 27 at 6:22 a.m., No 21 at 8:03 a.m., No 29 at 8:55 a.m., No 88 at 11:59 a.m., No 9 at 6:27 p.m., No 10 at 7:13 a.m., No 32 at 4:38 p.m., No 2 at 3:05 p.m., No 1 at 9:12 a.m., and No 8 at 8:18 a.m.
Daily connections, except Sunday, link L. and E. Junction with C. and O. for Mt. Sterling. Campton Junction connects Nos. 1 2 3 4 with Mountain Central for Campton passengers. Beattyville Junction connects Nos. 2 and 4 with L. and A. Railway for Beattyville. O. and K. Junction connects Nos. 3 and 4 with O. and K. Railway for Cannel City and way stations. Signed L. M. Dowell General Manager and Charles Scott General Passenger Agent.
Campton Ky December Wake Ledford a prominent farmer sues W T Chapman a Pine Ridge merchant in Circuit Court for 500 dollars alleging Chapman poisoned his mare and cow. The suit names Chapman as defendant and cites the alleged poisoning of livestock owned by Ledford in this county.
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