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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1908
Page
4
A political obituary tone accompanies a mocked decline of Hearst and Hisgen with Georgia as a graveyard for Graves and workers left jobless by a paymaster's demise. The piece frames the Hearst newspapers as folded into a political corporation and predicts broader media shifts.
Editorial notes praise Captain Micajah Woods of Charlottesville for his leadership in the Virginia Bar Association and his standing as a citizen. The article laments the destruction of Count von Zeppelin’s airship near Stuttgart, describing a record flight ended by a lightning strike and the loss to aerial science and the German scientist’s ruin.
A remarks piece applauds women who discard the Merry Widow hat and go hatless, praising hair as crowning beauty and urging support for this fashion shift. It argues the change may reduce social burdens and improve matrimonial prospects, calling for public praise of sensible American women.
The piece notes additions to the Annanias Club and reports Secretary of War Wright Loeb and the President giving differing accounts on eight suspended West Point cadets. It also discusses tariff politics, governor Swanson’s vacation, Taft’s church visit, and Botetourt tomato canneries with 8,000,000 cans produced.
Personal notices list an auctioneer A G Swanson promoting a sale of fine furniture at Court House on Saturday August 8. The page also notes visitors and residents in town including Mr and Mrs Peter Wreden Waren from New York with their son at the Bakers on Washington street, and several other travelers and locals from Norfolk Richmond Washington Berkeley county and Relief.
Private sale of the late Ron M. Conpér family farm near Mountain Falls Frederick County Virginia fifteen miles west of Winchester two hundred ten acres with four nine room residences a large barn outbuildings springs orchard tim ber and good grain grazing land in a favorable neighborhood to be possessed this fall terms to Mrs Annie E Cooper 3.6 w Bloom Frederick Co VF
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