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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1908
Page
3
In Winchester Mrs. M. W. Affleck reports her son suffered kidney and bladder trouble from infancy, with back pain and nocturnal disturbance. After doctors failed, a box of Dean's Kidney Pills cured him, and she reaffirms the permanency of the relief. Sold by dealers with Flater Milburn Co. as U S agents. remember the name Doan's.
Reports from Bunker Hill and Martinsburg describe a shooting near a mail box that left Miss Ellen Custer wounded in the face neck and chest. The 12 year old son of George Orndorff said not to know the gun was loaded while Miss Custer, 19, faced alleged harassment from local youths. Authorities have not arrested the boy. further details await investigation. Additional notices report the death of Mrs Charles Marks at 26 and other local deaths and funerals in Berryville and nearby communities.
Farmers market day shows steady wheat and grain values with brisk demand for fresh farm goods. Wholesaler quotations list bar corn seven to eight dollars per bushel, oats around fifty cents, hay per ton ten to thirteen dollars, rye seventy five to eighty cents, and potatoes about sixty cents per bushel with side meat at forty to fifty cents per pound.
Walter B Krebs of Mercersburg Pa visits his parents on North Market Street. Mise Jenkins returns home to Martinsburg W Va after camping at Cedar Creek. Powell Cobb of Clarke County spends the day in the city. Preston Callum of Washington Tienes chagian ees Hams on West Waters Street.
A. Hall left this morning for his home in St. Louis Missouri after visiting with his friend Frank Paul near town.
The Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals meets in Staunton starting September 1 for a month long session. Key cases include who bears the costs in the Samuel McCue wife murder trial and the Fredericksburg local option constitutional challenge to voters in total option elections.
Me Brewer and daughters travel to Jefferson county to visit friends. WW Van Miss Attie Newcome of Bruce town accompanies them visiting cousin Daisy Brown near Boyce Virginia.
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