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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1902
Page
2
Mrs Lafayette Jackson, injured by a fall at her home on South Market Street Thursday evening, is resting easier today. She is confined to bed with pain from a sprained limb.
The column lists church services for Sunday across Lutheran, Centenary Reform, Union Sunday School, Baptist, Presbyterian, S M F Church, Methodist Episcopal South, Christ Episcopal, and United Brethren churches with sermon times, Sunday School, Epworth League, and visiting clergy. It also mentions Jennie Wade departing for Winchester and travel fares to Washington and Baltimore.
Guides urge visitors to see John Knox’s grave in Parliament Square Edinburgh but a second sunken slab a few feet away reads Wilking Patent Hydrant drawing tourists toward a modern water works rather than the reformer’s tomb.
In a New York Weekly note a grandnephew boasts of securing his great-aunt’s funds for benevolent causes. The aunt reflects on his concern for misery and reveals the will dedicates her fortune to aid for poor friendless orphans.
An American traveler and a companion ride Paris to Nice and share a compartment with a stranger who turns out to be Lord Russell of Killowen, English lord chief justice. The man presses for card games and urges teaching obscure games, raising suspicion of a con. The travel tale ends at Nice station with the British judge’s card shown.
A historical note contrasts 1780 Derby travel with modern rail access, detailing long journeys and lavish hospitality versus today’s quick rail trips. It also offers a health tip on feeding the weak, recommending baked milk and cautioning against very sweet or sour foods for delicate stomachs.
A fragment shows a clipped exchange where Slopas challenges a Darwinian view, arguing about creation and dust. The reply hints at a debate over human origins and nature, set in a terse dialogue snippet.
Frederick County court orders defendants not Virginia residents to appear within 15 days to protect interests in a suit to enjoin disposal of goods and to have the trust administered. Publication set in Winchester Eventual Star for four weeks and posting at the county courthouse.
Notice of a May 18 1902 change for southbound service with a close car connection at Harpers Ferry for all western points. Details include rates tickets and contacts at the B and O railroad offices.
A river bank encounter with Rev Mark Gu Pearse of London reveals three fishing rules: stay hidden, stay further unseen, and stay even more unseen. The narrative shifts to a gossip moment about Miss Blank, whose family fell on hard times after her father’s failure, forcing her into a modest suburban life, unrecognized by many.
An aged style ad touts Wyatt's Little Vegetable Pills in a wooden bottle for 10 cents. It claims benefits for digestion and fullness after eating, cites a Virginia reader testimonial, and notes free samples by E. M. Daven with drugsellers carrying the product.
On Friday July 26 a leather holder containing a pencil and fountain pen was returned to 726-9 Tauw Orriee.
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