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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1913
Page
3
George McDowell 31, formerly of Spartanburg South Carolina, died in a Baltimore hospital after more than 200 operations over three years to remove a throat growth that blocked his breathing. For eighteen months he breathed through a silver tube. doctors sought a final chance to save him.
Mrs Ada S Hatcher Margery and Miss KMS BHU Margaret Lavy return to Winchester from Cambridge while others head home from New York. Adele convalesces in Cambridge and will sail to Baltimore soon. The group enjoyed Potash and Perl first night with Montague Glass applauded. Clergy leaders Morgan Chap men preach in New York on Sunday as the party plans to return home.
Harrisburg reports show transportation contracts for 77 railroads to Gettysburg reunion events. Col. Lewis E. Beitler notes odd items found in rail ticket redemptions and battlefield loot, including a wooden leg, keys, a revolver, clothing, and 17 sets of false teeth.
Public sale of antique mahogany furniture including sofas bookcases dining tables andirons fenders coffee tables sideboards desks beds candelabra elk horns. Thursday August 21 at 11 am at 25 East Water Streets.
Mr Phil FL presides at the annual meeting of the Sedegtate Court Clerks Association in Charlottesville Va. Degold will welcome attendees as papers are read and discussed. A program of entertainments is arranged by Charlottesville residents for the delegates.
Mr Philip Hack of Martinsburg who ran a North Main Street store learned of his aunt Mrs Dayvis's death in Pittsburgh. He and his wife departed for the funeral. Moritz Hack, their son, was fatally injured on a motorcycle ride two weeks earlier and Mr Hack was assaulted by burglars last week.
Local buyers and shippers report wholesale price ranges for corn rye millfeed hay and flour in Philadelphia Baltimore and Washington markets. Retail items include young chickens old hens bacon and canned cherries with varying quoted prices across regions.
The New York chauffeur linked to the taxi in Thaw's Matteawan flight is noted as the possible owner of the taxicab. Floyd and his car were seen at his usual stand in Manhattan around the escape, and Thomas Flood was among four men who registered at the Fishkill hotel and are believed to have aided the plot to free the young slager.
The Tenth Cavalry under Col John C. Greeham completed a cross country march from Fort Ethan Allen to a western post from June 16 to July 10. The force averaged 23.53 miles per march across five states and rugged terrain. Horses aged 5 to 23 endured heat dust and fatigue with few sores, many veterans, some bearing old hip brands. 138 mules accompanied the horses.
President Wilson's program for free sugar on import in 1916 carried the day in the Senate as Democrats supported the tariff bill and defeated all amendments. Most Republicans abstained. Bristow proposed abolishing the Dutch standard color test for sugar, which was adopted. The Dutch standard will end when the tariff bill becomes law instead of next March.
Over forty conversions have occurred during a Ten day revival at the Southern Methodist Church in Kerns town Virginia. The meeting started ten days ago and will continue ten more days with Rev L S Rudasill of Lewisburg West Virginia expected to attend and a noted singer from Fredericksburg Virginia joining this week. Prayer and song begin at seven each evening drawing large crowds.
Miss Mary Elizabeth Cox daughter of former Attorney General James B Cox of Johnson City Tennessee will wed Mr Hunter Mann of Richmond in a October 1 ceremony. Mann son of the late Judge Mann of Petersburg and a brother of Dr Herbert Mann of Richmond. After the wedding they will sail to China where he works for the British American Tobacco Company.
The Winchester fair will offer free grandstand admission except for babies on Tuesday. Highlights include the Flying Gilmores and Russian Dancers, Leona LaMar, and Calbo the Cuban wire artist. Cavalry maneuvers, Roman races, and modern farm machinery will be on display alongside enhanced livestock and poultry exhibits. Special apple and crop prizes honor orchard displays and yield records with silver cups from local banks. Mr Wogan Fay and Robert Worsley lead the organizing team for the 1914 Winchester fair.
Born 1870 son of William and Mary Thaw of Pittsburgh he attended Wooster College and Harvard leaving in 1891. He spent lavishly in high stake poker in Paris and Pittsburgh and met Evelyn Nesbit in 1901 ultimately marrying her in 1903. He killed Stanford White in 1906 and faced murder trials from 1907 to 1908, was acquitted on sanity grounds and committed to a state institution. The legal and financial fallout totaled about 1 million dollars for the Thaw family with further commitments and costs noted through later years.
Wholesale price list shows wheat and corn values in the Baltimore market with August notes. Hay prices for No 1 timothy and standard timothy, No 1 clover mixed and No 1 clover listed. Bees and butter prices noted for various regional dairy products. Live poultry and poultry goods priced including chickens ducks pigeons by unit.
The fall program opens Thursday offering courses in music languages and arts and sciences. Departments list strong teachers including a Parisian French instructor. Katherine ft Carte highlighted among faculty profiles.
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