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Newspaper
Winchester News
Location
Winchester, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1909
Page
2
Fragmentary newspaper header from Winchester Kentucky notice page dated 1908 shows publication details with misprinted phrases about second-class matter and subscription terms. It references weekly payments and advance billing, but many words are garbled.
Advertising rates listed for various publication durations and frequencies. Rates include per line business notices and pure reading news headings, with discounts for longer commitments and reading notices.
The American Society of Equity Tobacco News launches as a tobacco industry paper focusing on Burley growers in Kentucky, Southern Ohio, and Southern Indiana. It promises county reports, district coverage, editorials, and a mission to unite growers with news, views, and a vehicle for expression.
The new paper aims to spread Amer values across the district and invites public input and contributions. Officers include Dr. G. W. McMillen as President, J. C. Hughes as Treasurer, Lucien Beckner as Secretary and editor, with directors McMillen, Beckner, Conrad, Hughes, and Rankin. The editors promise steady improvement despite early difficulties.
Mr E H Harriman complains about publicity while seeking a simple life in a Texas tent. The nation’s attention follows him as he travels with railroad leaders and faces scrutiny from Wall Street seismographs and stockholders. Francis J Heney calls him “the head and forefront of all the higher-ups.” The piece notes calls for law to favor big railroads over smaller ones and the public interest in his movements.
A historical essay traces advertising as a universal force from infancy to adulthood. It notes babies signaling needs, children using persuasion, and women using fashion to attract attention. It highlights a bow and arrow dealer as a major ad exponent, employing fiction writers, testimonials, and public demonstrations to drive demand.
A quirky scene shows an acrobatic dog drawing crowds with food and shelter while a hen proclaims her wares by wireless announcements. The hen’s approach expands her products worldwide, shaping consumer expectations and shifting blame to dealers for faulty goods.
A historical reflection compares Dr Lyman Abbotts seven plain clauses for the ideal woman with a Berlin tribute to Elena of Italy. It emphasizes practicality and virtue over fashion and luxury, highlighting industriousness, kindness, health, and home devotion as timeless ideals and noting her democratic accessibility and potential nobility.
March 17 Porto Rican legislature adjourned an extraordinary session without passing the budget. Governor Post, assured it would pass, now plans to consult Washington. A clash between the Unionist dominated house of delegates and the executive council over a party law led to the adjournment and renewed budget stalemate.
Caracas March 17 Pedro Ezequiel Rojas, regarded as Venezuela's ablest diplomat, has been appointed Venezuelan minister at Washington. Senor Gil-Borgas becomes secretary of legation.
Washington reports unsettled conditions in Central America prompt the administration to keep three US warships off the western coast. Two armored cruisers from Admiral Swinburne's fleet and the gunboat Yorktown will remain in Central American waters, relieved after target practice at Magdalena Bay.
East Liverpool, Ohio March 17 Mayor May or S W Crawford announces no arrests will be made for working on Sunday after a dispute with the Ministerial Association He says the law should apply to all and not spare street railway workers and will not close poor widow shops while store owners run open
Robert Gaillard stars in Strongheart at the Opera House with a scene showing Columbia College football training quarters between halves. The same program promises a vivid Montana knife duel in the final act, praised as among the most nerve inspiring on stage with Adams and Blevins.
An advertisement touts Dr. King’s New Life Pills as a preventive against appendicitis, claiming they stimulate the stomach liver and bowels to avoid bowel clogs. It lists indications such as constipation biliousness malaria headache and indigestion and notes a price of 2 cents at Phillips Drug Store.
Reading Pa March 17 figures show sufficient anthracite coal on the surface to cover trade for eight months. The Reading company reportedly has at least 2,000,000 tons at storage yards in Abrams Landingville and Mahoney City, with nearly 1,000,000 more tons to be added by month’s end.
Governor Harmon vetoed the pay raise for county recorders citing economy grounds. The legislature had approved increases in salaries and two other bills to extend terms for auditors and clerks failed. Harmon signed the general appropriation bill totaling 7.6 million dollars, including 363 thousand for canals amid prior agitation.
Mr Leslie Page receives a telegram from Somerset announcing the death of his mother Mrs W E Ball. Ball lived in this city and was mother of L B Ford who ran a local furniture store. Body to be brought here Wednesday noon, burial at Winchester cemetery. services at the grave by Rev C E Crafton of Washington Street Presbyterian Church.
Nashville March 17 Attorney General McCain discussed the Cooper Sharp trial predicting a possible disagreement on Sharp’s verdict while asserting others face conviction. He cited a Colorado bond witness who testified Sharp showed a smile of satisfaction after the shooting and noted the absence of that cousin weakens the case against Sharp.
New York March 17 Mrs Margaret Teal wife of Ben Teal stage manager was sent to Blackwell's Island penitentiary to serve a one year term for attempted subornation of perjury in the Frank J Gould Helen Kelly Gould divorce case. She may win release in ten months for good behavior.
William Gillen, working on Charles Doughtery’s Double Beech farm in Falmouth Kentucky, was struck on the head by a falling limb while felling a tree. He initially felt no pain, but soon stopped work. A doctor found a fracture above his left eye and warned the injury could prove fatal.
A simple routine suggests closing the eyes for five minutes every few hours to rest vision and slow crow's feet at early ages. The advice emphasizes eye relief and delaying wrinkle formation with short, regular breaks.
Washington March 17 The contest over the appointment of a collector of customs at Charleston South Carolina ended with President Taft nominating Edward W Durant Jr for the position Durant, a white man, is expected to be confirmed in due course.
A brief aphorism notes that money and knowledge are wholly cognitive, and the less knowledge one has, the easier it is to acquire more. The saying appears in the Kago Record-Herald.
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