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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1909
Page
2
Bargain event touts $10 and $12.50 tailored suits with $5 discounts and $7 broadcloth items. Featured are furs, children's sets, aprons, gingham, cambric, and underprice coats and book bargains. Store promises quality at less than cost with new arrivals and special doll lots.
A Goldsboro reader recalls severe neuralgia and multi site pain relieved by Cardui the woman’s tonic. The ad urges readers to take Cardui during illness and as prevention and notes a free 64 page home treatment booklet from Chattanooga Medicine Co.
Young men from Winchester prepare for a full day in Martinsburg tomorrow as they are initiated as Knights of Li es. A Cumberland Valley Railroad special train departs Winchester at 7 pm with many West Virginia and Maryland candidates. They attend high mass at St Josephs Catholic Church, dine at hotels, and the ceremony concludes with a banquet at 7:30 pm in the church basement. The Winchester train departs Martinsburg at 10:10 pm Sunday night.
Wholesale market notes show wheat closed quiet and unchanged while corn held steady and a shade higher. Oats and rye were quiet and firm respectively accompanied by steady hay and quiet straw. Eggs remained at 28 cents though poultry prices softened slightly.
A historical note recalls early Western ships firing salutes in Tokyo Bay and the Mikados palace being cautious of foreign access. It says Japan now builds a sea port canal to defend the imperial palace, with Tokyo authorities planning a large harbor project to shelter ships.
The piece questions Rev Anna Shaw's peace claim arguing history shows both Northern and Southern women supported war. It suggests women respond to military displays and may urge sons to fight, challenging the idea that female suffrage guarantees peace.
A 100 year old resident of DeWitt Missouri, Grandma Sanderson, shares her long life and health. She credits Peruna for her recovery from a severe cold two years ago and recommends it as a tonic for the elderly, noting she uses the product nightly and praises its herbal origins. She offers to send a photo from shortly before her hundredth birthday and mentions Peruna tablets as an alternative.
The large hydro electric dam across the Shenandoah river at Luray is completed except for installing the sluice gates. Engineer N Wilson Davis of the city directed the project and the cam is praised as an excellent piece of work and expected to withstand all tests.
Miss Tucille Faulkner spent days in Baltimore last week. Dr. Moore of Washington visits Rev. J.P. Stump. Mrs. Bowers of Gerardstown W V visits her brother. Miss Stella Hensell of Charles Town stays with her parents. Mr. W A Didiwick and family moved to Strasburg Va. Mr. Haller Heater convalesces. Mrs. M L Larrie rs visits Winchester. new furniture for a high school hook arrives. Grace Phil d ... rehearsing a Cantata for Christmas.
The piece notes 1906 saw over 5 million sent to Italy from the United States as remittances, with average sums around 40 dollars. It highlights how returning immigrants pay mortgages, boost living standards, and influence both origin and destination economies, while questioning effects on debt-burdened European regions and U.S. finances.
J. S. Myers of near Cumberland, an agent of the United States Leather Company and owner of the Winchester tannery net, was held up by two men a few nights ago and robbed of 140 dollars. His horse was shot from under him and the assailants fled with the money.
Intelligence reports the death of Mrs Emma Brian Marks wife of Rev Charles A Marks after a long illness at the home of J R Brown in Gapland Maryland. Rev Marks a well known retired Lutheran minister of the Virginia Synod.
Keep in good health advice promotes internal cleansing and claims Castor-Lax Castor Oil in Powder is tasteless odorless and safest laxative. Prescribed by leading physicians and sold in 25c and 1.00 sizes at reliable druggists.
German scholar claims brains of Mommsen Von Helmholtz and Menzel show genius linked to hydrocephalus. In contrast American financial minds are said to have water in the stock rather than on the brain.
A Milwaukee man sued for divorce after his wife refused to talk to him, prompting readers to reflect that some men may not appreciate what they have.
The Australian premier states that Germany must fight Japan for control of the Pacific, noting a widespread belief that someone else will confront Japan, a view shared by all except Japan itself.
A New York man declares that 90 percent of women are utterly selfish and suggests his wife refused to support the family by taking tin washing, reflecting personal experience rather than broad fact.
High View notes report Mr George Line and son from Dayton Ohio visiting relatives. R M Johnson ill at home. Lydia Creswell of Hook's Mill visits Beall Garvin. Asa Larrick hosts party for son Walter turning 21. Rev W T Walters to begin protracted Christian Church meeting December 7 with Rev W C Garland from Cumberland Maryland expected to assist.
John R. Miley formerly of Winchester reportedly purchased a farm east of Moorefield Hardy county West Virginia from William Crites for $2500.
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