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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1914
Page
3
An old catalog style list touts Christmas supplies including Prama Cyprian bottles hot water bottles and safety razors. It notes domestic and imported perfumes in handsome boxes and mentions holly wreaths and evergreens. The text also advertises a tonic for women’s ailments with a doctoring claim and a remedy available at druggists.
Witnesses from the Valley Turnpike Company describe tests of the crash site and vehicle behavior. Dark the chauffeur argues the car coasted with power off and would have damaged the barriers if it reached them. Other witnesses corroborate scene conditions and efforts to replicate conditions after the wreck.
A list of wholesale and retail prices for wheat corn oats hay flour bran meal and live poultry along with miscellaneous farm goods appears. The Carlisle Indian School prepares a comprehensive exhibit and a $13500000 cotton loan fund plan to finance surplus cotton, approved unanimously in Washington by committees to aid Southern states.
Abraham Hottel aged eighty two, longtime Shenandoah County resident and Confederate veteran, died Sunday after weeks of illness at Pughs Run. He served in Company C Thirty third Virginia Infantry Stonewall Brigade and rose to lieutenant, was a member of Shenandoah Camp Confederate Veterans and the Presbyterian Church. Survived by his widow Miss Anne Dirting and six daughters, services will be held at the Woodstock Presbyterian Church with burial in Massanutten Cemetery. Mr and Mrs W O Hottet will attend the funeral tonight.
A Cumberland dispatch reports wide salary reductions across the Baltimore and Ohio route division with many transfers to lower pay posts. Notably, B Granville Shirley moves from assistant trainmaster in charge of power to train dispatchers at Cumberland, a change that echoes in Winchester where he is known to have married into Clarke county.
The war update reports Allied offensives in Flanders, Argonne, Woëvre and Alsace with gains noted despite German resistance at Steinbach. It cites Austrian successes across the Carpathians and Russian positions near Warsaw, plus Servian and Montenegrin actions against Austrians and a retreat from Belgrade amid logistics issues.
The senate approved an emergency appropriation of 1 million dollars to combat the foot and mouth disease. Reports cite widespread refugee flows and dire conditions, as 170000 Jews flee Galicia for Vienna facing starvation while other regional disasters unfold.
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