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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1906
Page
3
News from White Post notes visits by Kennerly Reardon Barbee and others, with several residents staying at local homes. A rainy Sunday halted M B Church services and a Fairview yard party raised 16 dollars for church bene fits while damp conditions affect the community.
Mrs. W B Pingley of Cumberland Md returns to Winchester to visit relatives including Mrs Bertie Anderson Mrs John Natt and Mrs Charles Patton Mr Ellis A Haines and niece Miss Maude Haines call on his daughter Mrs A Pingley Mrs A B Farmer visits sister Mrs Clarence Ping ley Clarence Melester is indisposed A L Pingley threshes 126 bushels of wheat from ten acres on Miss Naomi Haines
Tickets on sale August 29 for a trip from New York with return by September 2. Detailed train times, stopovers, and arrangements available from ticket agents of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
The Cumberland Valley Railroad offers special connections for Grangers Plank Road Picnic at Williams Grove from August 27 to September 1, 1906. The Thursday special departs Winchester at 5 15 a m and returns from Williams Grove at 5 30 p m. Excursion tickets are valid for return until September 1 with weeklong sale at one fare round trip. Two day excursion tickets are available Tuesday to Friday at 1 50 for the round trip.
A dialect filled exchange features Miss Lacinda and Mrs Geangiana debating hair length and patience. The conversation mocks impractical methods and ends with a vow to endure woolly hair until a proper solution appears.
A collage of quotes and anecdotes from Hearst era figures and Twainbuttons. The piece contrasts Senator Hoar handling profanity with humorous exchanges about dogs siege memories and child care, drawing on jokes from Baltimore American and Philadelphia Press about manners and curiosity in society.
A collage of quips and snippets from a bygone era showing a hesitant lawyer delaying opinion over parallel retainers and a comic scene of a novelist facing judgment for fiction. The prose uses dialect to depict characters like Plodding Pete and Mean Little Mike in light satirical vignettes.
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