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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1901
Page
4
A Star report quotes a city official attributing the wall collapse to warm weather and thawed ground. He disputes a link to prior blasting, noting blasts on Dec 9 10 and 11, with wall failure not occurring until 82 hours after the last blast, about 34 days later.
The speaker defends farming as a superior lifestyle noting advantages of seclusion and cheap living. A rural delivery era arrives bringing city goods to farm doors, while implying farmers enjoy fresher nature’s offerings. He argues country poverty is less severe than urban slums and claims country-born people are about half better off than city-born counterparts.
The document lists wholesale prices paid for produce and grain in a market, with daily corrections and various items. Butter, cheese, and other goods appear with numeric price entries, though many words are garbled. The legible values include butter around 16, cheese around 40 to 70, and other line items with mixed figures.
Baltimore and Ohio official J P Maxwell and brakeman C B Sharp were killed near Keyser West Virginia when a caboose burned. Maxwell’s head was destroyed by the flames, a stark, fatal accident reported from the scene.
Julia I. two year old daughter of William Jefferson died early this morning at her grandmother Carrie Cary home. Funeral will be tomorrow at 2 pm from the home. Bettie Kurtz, visiting Marie Lucas, is with her sister Mrs F O Headley in Baltimore. Hunter B Grimm, brick and mason contractor for Shepherdstown college, spent Sunday at home and returns to site. expects to work through August. Rev G G Everhart, now at Harrisonburg, will officiate a marriage in Vandersville. L E Rice offers oak rockers for $1.48 this week.
A personal notices column records several items from the Valley region. John T. Hottel dies at 92 in Woodstock Virginia. Rev W L Seabrook visits Clear Brook. Bessie Maupin returns near Opequon. Eva Bryarly heads to Washington for holidays. Rev Dr James R Graham and daughter Evie travel to New York for holidays. Glaize and Brother operate a planing mill on Fairfax lane and Schneider’s Grocery cans produce. the Lewisburg Institute burned with $30,000 loss. Judge Atkinson names Alex Baker administrator for J Sm’t Gilkeson estate. J E Drury of Hagerstown inspects the local Metropolitan Insurance branch.
Very little business was transacted last night by Ashby Camp, with the exception of some bare routine business.
The Mobile Register notes regional differences in dining phrases. New Englanders buy a table spread, southerners a tablecloth, Nova Scotia asks the servant to lay the table, Americans call set the table, and hosts vary from Sit by to Please sit down, while city folks announce dinner is served.
A compact collection of notes on creole identity in the United States tracing origins from French and Spanish parents, with mentions of Louisiana. Includes brief quotations about trust, commissions, and everyday linguistic usage from period sources.
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