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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1903
Page
2
The Rural Free Delivery is praised as a major advancement with wide benefits, while Clarke County bridges prompt a civil discussion. The Clarke Courier urges a new telephone system, noting current service is mediocre and emphasizes progress and rural connectivity.
The piece notes President Roosevelt and public figures across opinions discussing free delivery and the aim to fairly judge all leaders, acknowledging occasional errors as a human shortcoming in judgment.
The piece urges continued rural free delivery expansion, praising its benefits for country districts and urging fair pay for postal workers on new routes. It links Rural Free Delivery with telephone, bicycle, and trolley use to reduce rural isolation and curb urban population concentration, while supporting road building as beneficial to the countryside.
A patchwork of campus humor snippets from Ivy League student papers including Columbia Jester Princeton Tiger and Yale Record. Jokes touch on dances mothers home life and fashion with light digs at university life and student behavior.
A playful line mocks a lion unable to bear two powers of the eye. Signor Quellino is referenced as the comic narrator. The scene imagines a feeble animal and a humorous misreading of strength.
An advertisement promises a hundred dollar reward if Hall's Catarrh Cure fails to cure catarrh in all stages. It claims the remedy works constitutionally by acting on blood and mucous surfaces and notes accompanying Hall's Pills as best. Testimonials and contact details for F J Cheney & Co of Toledo appear.
An advertisement claims Bodily pain loses its terror with Dr Thomas Electric Oil. It promises instant relief for burns cuts sprains and various accidents when kept at home.
Joseph Funkhouser of 214 West Cork Street asserts exposure and heavy farm labor caused his kidney disease. He credits Dean's Kidney Pills from Franck Baker & Son and praises the product, urging others to buy from Foster Milburn Co. as US sole agents for 50 cents. Remember the name Deans.
Market report lists corrected wholesale prices for Butter Eggs Young chickens Wheat Corn Oats Rye in cents per unit or per bushel with figures shown as 17 27 7 80 60 85 and a noted odd entry for Corn per barrel. December 9.
The notice advertises a sale on boys' suits at special prices from 50 cents to one dollar below regular, inviting shoppers to seize an unusual opportunity to purchase boys' Christmas clothing.
Our loss is your gain with major reductions on men s suits. Eight fifty for prices like 575, ten dollar suite for 7 50, twelve dollar suits for 9 25. Limited quantities, act fast.
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