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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1899
Page
2
By neo one year two dollars, six dollars for three months, fifty cents per column inch. Postage prepaid by publishers. Advertising rates available at The Star Office 17 and 19 East Water Street. All checks and money orders payable to The Evening Star.
The seventy second annual report from the Western State Hospital for the Insane at Staunton shows 1115 patients treated, the highest in the institution’s history. Per capita cost averaged 108.38 dollars, with President Tredway urging an 100000 dollar increase in the annual appropriation to 185000 dollars due to rising insanity and shifting burdens to the asylum.
A Few Suggestions to parties interested in cemetery work states to consider surroundings and select an appropriate monument. It advises originality over copying neighbors and notes that variety in design and material adds interest to a cemetery.
The Gap and Shaft monument is most used at present with the sarcophagus as the favored cemetery memorial. Though named from Greek origins, our sarcophagus differs from coffin shaped ancient boxes. They are low massive markers, sometimes ornate or starkly plain, crafted from a single piece of granite or similar material.
T J Orndorff markets granite and marble at carload discounts by East Water Street Winchester. He promotes artistic monuments over plain stones and suggests lawn cemeteries use one central monument with low grave markers. He warns foundations should extend below the frost line.
A historical view of medieval and early modern Christmas feasts with boar’s head dishes, pageants, and allegories at courts, plus the spread of mince pies, plum pudding, and turkey. It discusses the Christmas greens tradition, evergreen decoration, holly and ivy symbolism, mistletoe reverence, and Franklin’s motto about a continual Christmas.
Snap dragon is a Christmas activity rooted in England where participants of all ages chase raisins on platters lit with blue flames. It is described as dangerous yet harmless, with flames producing eerie effects as players grab raisins in a darkened room.
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