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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1910
Page
5
The item line lists 6c yard 22¢ pair 48¢ 78¢ wide 50c oil prices ranging from 0 to 4.50 dollars and from 2.00 to 6.00 dollars with 1.00 to 125 dollars noted. The fragment suggests a classified sale or shop catalog with varied unit prices.
Michael Donohue becomes the first Democrat elected to Congress from Philadelphia in twelve years, signaling a political shift in the city. The victory marks a notable change in representation and party strength citywide.
Rome reports severe storms in the Italian Riviera causing floods in San Remo with residents escaping rooftops by rope ladders. Rail disruption from Bordichera to the French frontier and widespread river flooding threaten towns along the Tiber with a hill near Pontenuovo undermined.
Madrid reports a second, harsher cyclone causing widespread floods across Spain. Seville’s lower areas submerged, towns like Alcala, Caceres, Aranjuez, Castillo, Castleilla, Villaseca and Malaga suffer washed railways and derailed trains. Val ladolid bodies seen, coast shipwrecks. telegraph links almost cut.
Philadelphia report notes the torpedo boat destroyer McCall built at New York Shipbuilding Camden N J achieved 33.04 knots over the measured mile on the government range at Delaware Bay Entrance. It is among the new oil burning navy ships.
York Pa Dec 12 the borough school board prohibits gift giving in West York public schools this Christmas noting the custom has grown to distort and destroy the true Christmas spirit.
Astatic cholera continues to rage in Funchal. Official reports show 422 cases and 136 deaths since the outbreak began. Every physician has been pressed into service by health authorities.
Observations from U S weather bureaus at 8 p m show varied skies and temperatures. Atlantic City 22 cloudy Boston Cloudy Buffalo Clear Chicago Cloudy New Orleans 60 cloudy New York 20 snow Philadelphia 24 snow St Louis Cloudy Washington 34 partly cloudy Fair weather expected today and tomorrow with light variable winds.
Boston reports Mary Baker G. Eddy died after pneumonia with no successor planned for the Church of Christ Scientist. The mother church in Boston will be governed by a self perpetuating board of directors with no public funeral and a private Newton residence service.
Two Denver banks ordered 60 000 pennies from the east to meet local demand. They pay 55 percent premium as express charges, enabling the pennies to be sold for less than cost to the trades.
United States marshals seized 5000 pounds of canned eggs shipped into Chicago. District Attorney Sims called the product spoiled and said a test found 34,090,000 bacteria in a teaspoonful, with at least 1,000,000 of the gas producing variety.
This short editorial urging restraint and empathy suggests we consider others' difficult circumstances before harshly judging them, noting surface appearances may hide deeper struggles and calling for thoughtful restraint in words.
If you have constant ear ringing from catarrh visit Franck Baker & Son for a HYOMEI inhaler. Breathe several minutes daily to kill germs ease irritation and stop throat mucus. Complete outfit $1. separate bottles 50 cents with money back offer.
A compact moral reflection on the value of reputation noting that money can be recovered but a tarnished name cannot. If one loses name and cannot recover it, one has little hope or purpose in life. The piece presents a cautionary view on social standing and integrity.
Advertisement extols Pape's Diapepsin as a safe remedy that digests food and relieves stomach misery in five minutes. It claims to prevent sour risings belching gas and heartburn and to cure dyspepsia and indigestion with a 50 cent case available at drug stores.
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