Star Starved Page Note Briefly Mentions Rochester
A fragment from a Rochester area page references a second class item and a numeric mark. The unreadable line hints at a dated service or entry but provides no clear events or names.
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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1912
Page
4
A fragment from a Rochester area page references a second class item and a numeric mark. The unreadable line hints at a dated service or entry but provides no clear events or names.
A December 2 note recalls Thanksgiving joy with family scenes around a roasted bird and pies. Amid gratitude and abundance, references to apples, wine, and prosperity reflect community cheer as Walt Mason’s verses frame the holiday mood.
At Mount Pleasant the friends of Miss Jennie Shiley hosted a Thanksgiving social with music and games. Refreshments were served at 11 30 PM as guests left satisfied with a pleasant evening. Mrs Harry Lamp and daughter Beulah visited Mrs Isaac Some neighbors enjoyed a coon hunt last week with their escorts and a corn king, Theodore Gough.
Hundreds of latest and old titles for boys and girls. Each book contains the complete story as noted. Priced at 10 cents. The Geo F Norton Pub Co, 122 124 N Main St.
At Stone Bridge Virgie Armell and Wadie Silman spent a day with aunt Mrs Arthe Rosenberry in Bayard. Mr B A Silman butchered a 350 pound hog and Mr Walker Grubbs killed one nearly as heavy the same day. Catherine Atkins is much improved.
Professor Perry G. Holden resigns from Iowa College to join the IHC Service Bureau in Chicago. The bureau aims to boost agricultural education and farm prosperity across the United States and Canada through direct farmer outreach, bigger crops, better roads, and progressive farming practices.
The note suggests a student’s mental strain mirrors a car ailment called spavin, implying overload and fatigue. It presents a metaphor linking study pressure to mechanical impairment without detailing remedies or outcomes.
In Cortland street an ape escaped from a shop cage and attacked a display, smashing a glass case and wriggling snakes. Police, aided by five officers, attempted to subdue the animal. The keeper arrived, the ape returned to its cage, and snakes were boxed for removal.
London women embrace lizard ornaments as a new old fad. Live lizards sell in hundreds with varieties such as green horned galletts and blue dalmatians favored. Creatures 12 to 18 inches wear gold collars and chains, crawl across dresses, kept in glass when idle.
A man described as a Spanish gentleman from Ecuador, Gabriel Sancheze, was found hiding in the kitchen stee of the La Lorraine in New York while peeling murphys. He arrived as a stowaway. In a separate note, Ann Arbor residents Tien Frankins and Mae Watkins, a co ed couple, are mentioned in a personal inquiry about marriage.
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