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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1910
Page
2
Classified note announces sale of Weary durable cardboard trespass cards at The Star office priced per dozen. Card wording concise and ready for distribution. Includes implied limited availability and local sale context.
A local shop touts a new stock of horse blankets fur and plush robes plus a selection of buggies and spring wagons. The ad promises ongoing arrivals with something new coming and going.
Daily weather and station notes fragment mentions Noll and Sun with partial station identifiers. Contains unreadable OCR text lacking clear events or names. Summarized from the readable fragment as a generic brief station notice with no actionable items.
Unsigned substitute trustee will sell at public auction in front of the Court House on December 17 1910. Sale covers 79 acres more or less belonging to Sister McKee near Gore Virginia. Terms and further details provided in hand bills. J M Steck substituted trustee.
Mr. Isaiah Funkhouser and his son visited the town yesterday, stopping by local sites during their trip from Lebanon Church.
Mr. BD W Lackey left for Currie North Carolina this morning after supervising macadam street work since August 15. He oversaw 45000 square yards of pavement equivalent to over two miles of 12 foot roadway at about four thousand dollars. The project is permanent and well received by the public.
Deputy Collector Archy A. Lewis from Harrisonburg reports a decline in illegal distilleries across Virginia. Few stills remain active with output booked for weeks. locals can no longer enjoy illicit juice and autumn apples now mostly end as apple butter or simple porch caps.
Mr. James J. Lumley will address the Golden Rule Bible Class at the Southern Methodist Church at 9 45 Sunday morning. All men are invited to attend.
Mr. John Hammer brother of Charles A. Hammer the Harrisonburg lawyer collapsed and died in Elkton Virginia from apoplexy while employed as a stave cutter in a local barrel factory. Other notes report R A Wickersham visiting in the county, Elizabeth Hughes staying with Biyan Stuart, Mrs C W Chandler and Maggie Spangler returning to Strasburg, the Kline sisters visiting town, William Knight returning to St Louis, and Eula Walter returning to Baltimore after visiting J M Orndorff family.
Frankfort Ky Dec 3 Jim Howard once convicted and pardoned as the principal in Governor Goebel s murder will run for the state senate. He will be backed by Congressman elect Caleb Powers in the race signaling a notable political comeback and party support.
The United States government will place about two weeks from now 14000 raw sealskins from male seals killed off the Pribilof islands in Alaska. Commissioner George Bowers travels to London to represent the government at the sale. The skins, deemed unsuited for domestic use, are expected to fetch over 75000 dollars and mark the largest sale in years to conserve the Pribiloff herd.
Miss Cecelia Delp of Heller town Pennsylvania carried a bullet in her head since being accidentally shot by her brother ten years ago. Six operations failed to locate it until Dr. Laplaz of Philadelphia found its position on December 3. The bullet is to be removed on January 11, her birthday anniversary.
Washington dispatch reports the Republican members of the Ballinger Pinchot investigating committee will finish their report and submit it to the full committee next week after a conference led by Senator Nelson.
Dr John C Da Costa emeritus Gynecologist at Jefferson College and chief consulting gynecologist at St Agnes hospital is critically ill with uraemia and kidney trouble in Philadelphia aged 71 with little hope of recovery.
Mrs. C. E. Berry returned to Washington following a visit to her father Professor J. A. Hie at his home on Peyton Street.
Augustus Zost, aviator, fell sixty feet in a Curtiss biplane at City Park race track New Orleans and was painfully bruised. He was taken to a hospital after the tail of the plane snagged a tree during a turn, sending the craft to the ground.
Miss Mary Jones of Chicago reports long battle with chronic catarrh of the powers and stomach and credits Peruna as a tonic that brought marked improvement after six bottles. Mrs. B. H. Jackson also notes a catarrh of internal organs yielding to Peruna after ten bottles, claiming a permanent cure.
An unnamed advertiser claims a home remedy for nervous debility and diminished manhood, describing a physician created prescription that allegedly restores vigor without medicine, and offers to mail a copy free of charge to any man who writes for it. The notice urges men to avoid patent medicines and notes Detroit address for Dr A E Johnson.
Many people suffer a persistent cough after influenza and Chamberlain's Cough Remedy can promptly cure it. Do not let the cough run on. purchase from Franck Baker & Son.
On behalf of the owners the Price Mullen property at Main and Clifford Streets, Winchester Virginia is offered in multiple parcels including a wooden shop, a stone and brick house, and several lots. Terms require one fourth cash and three equal yearly payments with interest, secured by deeds and insured buildings. R E Barton attorney.
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