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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1910
Page
4
Fragmentary text describes payments in advance perhaps for a rent or service. Mentions months and advance timing but lacks coherent facts or identifiable names or places to confirm details.
An August 2 Frederick Press dispatch notes the Evening Press in Frederick City faces closure due to expense woes. It explains the city’s wealth and population yet no lasting commercial support for a daily newspaper, citing rising costs and constant pressure to raise prices to cover expenses.
The Philadelphia Press extols Black Twig apples from the Ridge area shown at a recent apple show. Exhibitors included J. N. Company of Berkeley, Jessie Peart Luttrell and Marcellus Luttrell, Wade Hannon of Berkeley, and C. S. Trump connected to St. John's Lutheran.
An advertisement extols Rexall Orderlies as a safe laxative and tonic for constipation. It claims they restore natural function quietly and are suitable for children and delicate individuals, offered in two sizes at 7, 10, and 25 cents. Miller's Drug Store on North Main Street markets them as the community Rexall retailer.
The Washing ton Star magazine sketches Robert W Woolley husband of Marguerite Trenholm of Winchester and recalls a train dining car incident where Woolley paid a fifty dollar bill with ten cents in small change and refused to wait for change saying he would cover the meal price himself.
The 19th century founder Mary Baker Eddy led a Lynn Massachusetts group that formed the first Christian Science association. By 1998 a global network spread from Reston to 6628 churches in many countries, all linked to the mother church in Boston despite criticism.
Mr Gilbert DeHaven of Inwood visited on business. Thanksgiving social drew a large crowd. Residents and visitors from Springfield Winchester Gearardstown and Harrisburg are mentioned with family friends and local officials. Star Ads bring good results.
In Harrisburg Pennsylvania on December 5 a 60 year old Mechanicsburg man Peter Reeser and a 31 year old Kensington Massachusetts woman known as Carrie H W Spade were found dead in a resort room. The door and windows were closed and gas fumes were detected by staff. The coroner's jury ruled premiditated asphyxiation. Reeser left a wife and two Lebanon based children. Spade had a 13 year old daughter and two sisters in Kensington.
Milford Delaware December 5 hunters found a skeleton in a swamp near here with clothing intact. State Detective Walls Georgetown took up the case but could not confirm the identity of the man, believed to be a traveler who dropped dead four months ago.
A 50 cent case of Pape's Diapep sin is advertised as a harmless remedy that digests a heavy meal in five minutes and relieves sour stomach, gas, heartburn, and other indigestion symptoms. The notice invites readers to ask pharmacists to show the package and claims quick, complete stomach relief and no need for laxatives.
Miss Blanche Wright returned home greatly improved from Memorial Hospital Winchester after three weeks of treatment. Courtney Mamilton, former resident, died at his McKeesport home last Friday evening. Hog butchering has continued this week. Mrs. I. N. Carper is very ill with inflammatory rheumatism. Several children ill with mumps. IOOF banquet on Tuesday night a success. Samuel Spessard of Hangers town visited Saturday. Misses Ada Bishop and Anna Gardner, local teachers, spent Sunday with families. Mrs. Edna Rogers of Martinsburg visiting her father J. M. Lamp. Rev G A Luttrell preached.
In Salida two men J. H. Haber and C. J. Dennelly were swept from their wagon in an Alpine snowslide and buried under twenty five feet of snow along with their horses. The incident is reported from the scene with details of the rescue effort.
In Hopkinsville Kentucky an asylum inmate with accomplices seized keys and escaped from the fifth story. Miles had murdered Bessie Smith in Louisville last March. Proctor is an epileptic. In Cairo Illinois Night Sergeant Wilford French was killed at police HQ by Sheriff Bankston of Mound City who then used French’s revolver. Banks ton was later arrested. In El Paso Texas workers began a twelve mile railroad to Elephant Butte dam site for a government project to irrigate 225000 acres with a 19000000 dollar budget.
Refuge Virginia notes a Thanksgiving gathering hosted by Mr and Mrs Park Strode of Stephens City with several local families and visitors from North Carolina and Martinsburg. Other items report visits, shopping trips, a cattle order from Chicago and a cow loss valued at forty dollars.
Topeka Kansas December 5 Santa Fe railroad officials ordered employees who smoke cigarettes to quit the habit or be dismissed from their jobs.
Observations at 8 p m note temperatures and conditions across cities including Atlantic City 32 clear Boston 26 cloudy Buffalo 22 clear Chicago 52 cloudy New Orleans 8 clear New York 24 clear Philadelphia 24 clear St Louis 26 28 snow Washington 30 cloudy Forecast calls for snow or rain today and tomorrow with moderate northeast winds.
List of unclaimed letters at the Winchester post office for the week ending December 5 1910. Names include Mrs M F Miller Hayes George Luttrell Oliver Quay John W Smith Sadie Bentley Kern P M and others. A one cent fee per letter required for collection. Advertise now.
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