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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1909
Page
5
A local dry cleaning and tailoring service advertises made to measure clothing and guaranteed fit. Winchester Cleaning Works offers scouring French dry cleaning repairing altering and pressing at 128 S Main St with contact via both phones.
A public sale will occur on Tuesday August 24 1909 at the Silver Spring Stock Farm three miles south of Rippon WV. Robt R Smith offers purebred short horn cattle Percheron horses Shropshire sheep and Poland China hogs from his breeding program. Sale starts at 11 oclock with 12 month terms and interest from date payable at banks. Richard B Smith administrator and Yates clerk invite inquiries and catalogue requests.
John W. Rosen Berger advertises sewer pipe jars and building materials. The note invites callers to obtain prices before purchase and mentions a location at 10W West.
The Cumberland Valley Railroad runs an eleven day excursion to Oceans Grove New Jersey starting Friday August 27 with tickets for round trip from Winchester at 7 30 am priced seven fifty. Tickets on sale until departure and return after the season.
The Greenway District School Board at White Post Virginia plans to employ teachers for seven months starting October 4 1909. Applicants must send grade certificates and evidence of competency to S A Duling Clerk Box 63 White Post VA with self addressed stamped envelope for reply.
A Scots sergeant in an English post orderlies recruits to prove church affiliation. Some claim atheism to dodge worship, but the sergeant forces work and stables cleaning. The next Sunday the atheists reportedly join the Church of England.
A New York woman lawyer writes back in a witty correspondence about a settlement. She notes she can see a joke even when aimed at herself and mocks male gallantry. The exchange includes a lawyer noting not wanting to contest with a woman. She counters by referencing Adam and Eve and petticoats.
Tourists visiting Mexico during the winter season take home modern pottery as souvenirs. The article highlights Guerrero Puebla Oaxaca Cuernavaca and Guadalajara wares including Talavera from Puebla. Pottery features gray white grounds with Delft blue patterns and occasional browns yellows, often heraldic and medieval in style.
Two properties listed at Summit Point with eight and fifteen rooms respectively. The larger house could serve as a boarding house or sanitarium and both include shade trees a lawn garden stabling and 2% acres of pasture. Potential to convert one into a store room. Terms one third cash balance negotiable. T M McCORKLE Summit Point W Va.
Dr Jeanseime of the Paris Faculty of Medicine notes opium use is common among French navy officers and suggests it may help explain recent naval disasters. He cites 15 percent in colonial infantry, 20 percent in foreign regions, and 25 percent among Europeans in native regiments, with dens in Toulon Brest Lorient Rochefort Cherbourg and Paris.
A description of stage money used in melodramas and plays noting its Washington origin near the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. The fake currency, engraved on green paper like real money, funds both professional and amateur theatre and predic tions, fueling a small but busy industry.
Article notes Manila harbor and Passig River spend nearly four and a half million dollars in the past year. Describes breakwaters docks channels and ongoing improvements as the harbor becomes the best and safest in the Orient. Also contains a humorous anecdote about a servant and Mrs Reed from Lippincott's.
Fragmentary society notes recall a bride being led to the altar in old fashion, with family figures described as guiding the way. The piece hints at a ceremonial rise of a bride toward marriage and the social resonance of the moment.
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