Arraignment in Hagerstown for Winchester-linked Defendants
Lucy Sprouts Homie Davis and Nora Johnson were arraigned before Justice Hoffman on general disreputability charges. Davis and Sprouts were fined one dollar plus costs and jailed thirty days each for nonpayment, Johnson was acquitted. Hoffman warned of stricter punishment and urged Johnson to return to Winchester if she cannot reform.
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Lucy Sprouts
Homie Davis
Nora Johnson
Winchester
Hoffman
Hagerstown
Barber
Nora
House of Correction
Cheap Holiday Excursion from Winchester VA
Excursion tickets will be sold from Winchester Virginia at the low rate of 9.80 for the round trip valid for return five days from date of sale. Return portion must be stamped by the depot ticket agent in Jersey City before passage and can stop at Washington on return within a final limit. Sleeping car accommodations limited. apply early for reservations. Inquiries to Baltimore & Ohio Rail Road ticket agents for train times and details.
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Winchester
Jersey City
Washington
Baltimore & Ohio Rail Road
Runaway B&O engine slams into city causing fatal scalding
A Baltimore & Ohio freight engine ran away last Friday, derailed after crashing into an embankment. An open throttle from a broken spring caused the incident, killing Joseph Riley who was in a building struck by the locomotive. Engineer Clarence Fraley and fireman G. M. Campbell escaped.
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Cumberland
Baltimore & Ohio
Joseph Riley
Riley
Clarence Fraley
G. M. Campbell
Fourteen Year Murder Sentence in Woodstock Case
The Commonwealth court in Woodstock returned a fourteen year verdict against Wesley W Craig for murder of Bruce Lonas on December 18 1900. Added to seven years for arson the total sentence is twenty one years. A separate item notes a Dixie Tobacco Company cigar factory fire at Bedford City and an accidental shooting of W P Pope at Port Powhatan Virginia with possible amputations.
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Woodstock
the Commonwealth
Wesley W.craig
Bruce Lonas
Dixie Tobacco Company
Bedford City
Edward S. Tefft
First National Bank
Syracuse
N. Y
E. Finley Kitson
Syraacuse
New York Life Insurance Company
New York
Dwards
Teftt
H. R. Bryarly
Bro
Loyalty and vanity mix in late night school tales
A New York boy in Canada insists New York is the largest city in the world, despite the teacher’s correction. He repeats the line in every exam sentence, earning fifty lines with the refrain that New York is the biggest city.
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New York
Canada
United States
London
New York Tribune
Wordplay in a Kansas City Journal classroom joke
A Marysville schoolteacher asks students to name the tense in I am beautiful. Johnny answers past, highlighting a witty classroom moment. A teacher asks for a definition of vice versa and a bright boy replies with a joke about sleeping feet toward the head of the bed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marysville
Gram‘mar
Kansas City Journal
Farmer Gabriel Musselman Dies After Imagined Suit
Gabriel Musselman a farmer near Luray died last Friday from strychnine poisoning. He believed he faced a heavy damage suit filed by a young woman and acted on that delusion in taking the poison.
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Gabriel Musselman
Luray
Musselman
Ladies walking skirts on sale for holiday excursion fare
American Stock Co advertises Christmas and New Year Holiday Excursion Rates via Norfolk and Western Railroad. Tickets available December 21–25 and December 30–January 1 from all stations, return limit January 8, 1902. Skirts priced at $1.19 each in grey blue and black.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Baetjer , CO
American Stock Co
Norfolk & Western Railroad
New Passenger Coaches Under Construction at Chambersburg Shops
The Cumberland Valley Railroad shops in Chambersburg are building four new passenger coaches of the latest pattern with vestibules for service on the line. Also an advertisement offers fresh oysters from Noonan at 7 North Main Street, phone 5.
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Cumberland Valley Railroad
Chambersburg
Noonan
North Main Street
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the Evening Star
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Evening Star Publishing CO
H. Hansbrough
Fast Water Street
Telephone
Pubatte Bea
Water Eran Star
New York City
O. Railroad
C. F. Barr
Masonic Temple
E. T. Pope
James River
Port Powhatan
C. Fred. Barr
Holly and
Santa Claus
Sam Jones
Jones
Turner
Great Britain
Cogallant
S. Rosenmeyer
Henry
R. M. Henry
N. Market St
the New York Life
William Byrd
Washingaton Street
Hansbord
Lutheran Church
W. Wigginton
Crisman & CO
Brody
Nanas Teas
Hansbrough & Carter Bldg
M. H. Reardon
W. E. Heffman
Branco Store
East Piccadilly Street
I. S. Heffman
Geo. Windle
E. Monmouth &T
W., W. and B. Turnpike Company
Grimes
Joan W. McKown
Virginia Lightning Conductor Co
Eskay
Ownes, Terms
Churces
Wright's
Jos. Wricut, JR
Wincester
Shenandoah Valley Narrowal Bank
Cashier
T. T. Wall
Wy Estkin
Maryland
R. R
Baltimore
Highfield
Gettysburg
Hanover
Spring Grove
York
Baltimore and
Hartsburg
Cherry Run
Hagertown
Shippensburg
Quinsonia
Frederick
Bruceville
Star Times
J. E. Affleck
George H
Miller’s Drugstore
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