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Newspaper
Winchester News
Location
Winchester, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1908
Page
2
An advance notice announces a new engine and machinery update with day cur rent for light heat and power for fans and motors. It promises estimates on electric lighting and urges that electric light is superior and safe and clean, with metered service available after their recent investment.
We furnish ice in winter as well as summer. The ad highlights Mer P Hackett, promoting reliable ice supply year round.
In Frankfort a tale recalls Justice John M. Harlan who once drafted a life insurance death by own action clause in minutes. An Eastern company officer paid about five thousand dollars for the clause, saying it would save the firm twenty times that yearly. the clause remains in policies today.
Wilgus Mayes a brakeman on the L and E Railroad was killed in a wreck near Fincastle on Wednesday about three. He rode on top of a ballast car that overturned crushing him. Mayes from Dundee had worked about two years and was regarded as honest and sober by his employers. Traffic on the road was tied up with the 5 20 passenger train two hours late Wednesday afternoon.
Louisville Kentucky reports Kentucky presidential results with Bryans 135639 Taft 118287 Watson 1081 Debs 1878 Hisgen 32 Chafin 360 in the statewide tally.
Dr. O S Mills 48 house physician at the Columbus Ohio insane asylum killed himself at Gallipolis leaving a note What s the use Judge Sewell in San Francisco refused to block the Papke Ketchell fight Thursday Human bones found in St Louis thought to be Moundbuilders workmen excavating for a cellar Forward J Stellwezen of Washington named Taft inaugural committee chairman Neighbors in Lebanon Indiana find 2090 in gold coin buried with corncobs after examining the dead David Siaybach Two thousand Findus in British Columbia refuse transport to British Honduras
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