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Newspaper
Winchester News
Location
Winchester, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1908
Page
3
Lucy and her mother debate travel plans amid memories of Betsy Ross, the Hudson coast, and Washington Irving. They discuss Cadets, Tarrytown, and a spy linked to Benedict Arnold, expressing eagerness for more historic exploration.
The fragment mentions mountains and visiting Rip Van Winkle haunts and Philadelphia trips with lines about resting and visiting Philadelphia, attributed to the Philadelphia Ledger. No clear event, person, or date to anchor a news item.
A nostalgic verse recalls a mother guiding a child through evening baths. The speaker, now grown, muses on the lessons once learned and wonders where other mothers acquire such wisdom. The poem reflects fond family memories and gratitude for parental care.
The emblem fish of Bermuda, the angel fish, astonishes with color from pearly opal to intense purple and canary yellow to deep orange. Its shimmering blues, turquoises, ambers, silvers, and golds enchant visitors and inspire Bermuda jewelers to decorate souvenirs for home stayers.
While in London Voltaire faced a hostile crowd that targeted him as a Frenchman. He stood on a stone and delivered a defiant speech calling the English “Brave” yet noting his unhappiness at not being born among them. The crowd then carried him to his lodgings.
A South African vision imagines a future where travelers reach Pernambuco and cross Africa to Valparaiso in under four days without changing trains, reflecting financier and railroad ambitions for rapid, uninterrupted continental transit.
A passionate plea against alcohol from a speaker who denounces the liquor trade as a source of crime and ruin. The speech catalogs social ills from poverty and imprisonment to broken families and murdered innocence, arguing intemperance destroys morals, health, and national honor.
Montgomery Alabama October 31 Dr Shirley Bragg state jail inspector and nephew of Gen Braggton Brace shot and killed himself yesterday morning after years of illness He was 53 years old.
A digest of Halloween customs and origins from Britain and Ireland through early American practice. It describes druidic rites, bonfires, and fairies, then details games like kale pulling for marriage fortunes, nut and apple divination, edible party favors, and playful contests with buns, cat decorations, and floating needles to forecast fate.
In Elliottsville Rowan county, John Johnson shot and killed Mary Conn and lightly wounded Mary Hunter after an earlier confrontation over Johnson whipping Conn’s child. Johnson knocked them down with a chair, Conn grabbed a revolver, he wrestled it away and fired twice. Hunter was struck once as she approached with a chair but survived with minor injuries.
A historical oddity suggests a home remedy, claiming heating the heart of an onion and inserting it into the ear will cure earache, reflecting period health beliefs rather than medical guidance.
Elijah W. Sells testified in the divorce suit filed by Mrs. Katherine Clemmons Gould that a lady’s drinking limit is a pint of champagne at dinner. The witness, a cousin of Mrs. Gould, described years of familiarity with the Goulds and outlined a domestic plan tied to marital conduct.
New York October 34 witnesses testified that Standard Oil benefited from a lower preferential rate than any other ship line. George B Ferguson, a Central Vermont railroad clerk, described tariffs in force and confirmed a special rate issued to the Standard Oil company during the government suit to dissolve the firm.
Louis Minoli, a granite cutter, found his wife 19 and their year old baby Caesar dead in bed with throats cut. Coroner ruled the wife killed the child then killed herself with the same razor. She left a note saying she loved him but could not be a housekeeper.
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