The Union Press in Winchester Lays Newsstand Goals
The article notes The Evening Star in Winchester Virginia consolidating with The News Item in 1907 to form the only Winchester daily. It describes the paper’s publishing rules and subscription rates and highlights the Cumberland and Shenandoah Valleys Publishers Association advocating tariff repeal on wood pulp and white paper. It also mentions Hobson pushing for war and his Merrimac/Washington crossover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
Evening Star Publishing Company
EF. Byrd
D. B. Conrad
John Hoover
the Star
News-Item
Evening Star
MAFL
Publishers’ Association of
Cumberland and
Shenandoah Valleys
H. F. Byrd
Congress
Punch cartoon lampoons Roosevelt as eager patriot on hobby horse
A Punch cartoon depicts President Roosevelt as a spirited rider on a hobby horse shouting Follow me. It satirizes the President’s vigorous calls to the nation and his energetic, relentless progress rhetoric from an American humor vantage point.
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Punch
Roosevelt
Foraker of Ohio in Politics and Roosevelt
The piece contrasts Foraker with Roosevelt, praising his courage in a bad cause while condemning his sharp sectionalism and role as a corporate interests champion in the U.S. Senate. It depicts him as fierce yet dangerous in modern politics as he acts for powerful masters.
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Foraker
Ohio
Roosevelt
South
United States Senate
Magnitude of wealth and tariff critique dominates editorial
The Richmond Journal laments a vast $160,000,000 given away by a vigorous man and millions more still left, calling the income a sore incubus. It blames a protective tariff and a sluggish public will for sustaining a malignant system and notes a dangerous tendency to deny civilization’s darkest forces.
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The
Richmond Journal
Father and son ruled in murder case near Bluemont
Jackson Willingham aged 71 and his son Andrew aged 19 were tried in Loudoun county for the June 24 murder of Robert Carlisle near Bluemont. The father was acquitted as an aider abettor while the son was convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to 141 years. A motion for a new trial was to be argued Thursday. Both defendants are illiterate and represented by court appointed counsel.
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Jackson Willingham
Andrew Willingham
Warren County
Front Royal
Hardesty
Loudoun County
Robert Carlisle
Bluemont
Star
Middletown News Roundup of Local Visits
Dec. 18 Middletown reports several visitors and illness notes. James Hamonson of New York visits relatives. Mrs. Bradley Johnston of Cedar Ville stays with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Keith. Nettie Willey of Berryville visits Mr. and Mrs. John Willey. Mrs. Victor Nibert of Hagerstown spends weeks with aunt Mrs. James Ridings. Ella Gleaver of Tennessee visits sister Mrs. James Larrick. Parson Stump visits his parents Rev. and Mrs. J. P. Stump. Vivian Edmondson and Charles Edmonson have been ill recently.
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Middletown
James Hamonson
New York
Bradley Johnston
Cedarville
Geo. Keith
Nettie Willey
Berryville
John Willey
Victor Nibert
Hagerstown
James Ridings
Ella Gleaver
Tennessee
James Larrick
Parson Stump
J. P. Stump
Vivian Edmondson
Charles Edmonson
In Memoriam Bessie V McCoy Remembrance Notice
In Memoriam McCoy ts a loving remembrance of our daughter Bessie V McCoy who died three years ago today December 18 1904. Deep in our hearts her memory lingers love remains and a place is vacant in our home. A voice we loved is forever still and we miss her still. By Her Father valid Mother. Read The Evening Star.
May Sell To A Winchester Co
At a meeting of the Junior Hose Company in Hagerstown Maryland the secretary was told to contact manufacturers of fire apparatus about buying a new hose carriage. The Mail newspaper says a Winchester company may buy the Juniors old hose carriage. The Charley Rouss Fire Company won a $4000 engine and hose carriage automobile, capable of three water streams, hailed as the finest of its kind this side of Baltimore.
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Junior Hose Company
Hagerstown
Mai l
Winchester
Charley Rouss Fire Company
Baltimore
In Memory of David Fries by His Wife Julia Fries
The notice recalls the death of David Fries on December 18, 1906 and expresses the widow Julia A Fries mournful longing and faith in resurrection. It notes a trespass notice at Star.
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Moru
Julia A. Fries
Divisions of the World and Visual Insight Notes
Quotations and brief observations compare social division with need and perception. Cervantes cites two families, while Peru's cotton history hints at economic breadth. A note on eye movement discusses how looking straight ahead limits peripheral training and the eye’s range.
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Cervantes
Asian kettle drums carried on camels in Asia
Immense kettle drums are carried across camel hides and in the trains of crowned rulers. The drums wear Borgeous trappings and a seat is prepared for the player on the drum panels.
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Asia
Dressmakers Strike in Vienna Draws Mixed Support
Twelve thousand dressmakers are on strike in Vienna with married men reportedly backing the action. The report notes broad sympathy from Austrian capital residents as the labor dispute unfolds.
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Vienna
Traedon Einsatzg
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Hobson
Merrimac
Clies
Castor
Gastoria
Bears
Castoria
News OF Middletown
Winchester Co
David Fries
Office
H. W. Clowe
West Piccadilly St
Main St
Winchester Gas Co
Berry Ville
Virginia
Scheuer’s
Front Royal Virginia
Japan
Nickel
Standard Oil Company (Incorporated
G. Te Brawner
McDonald Inn
Siperens
G. L. Brawner
Georgia Nixdorf
E. E. Greenwalt
Albin
Martinsburg
Charles Town
Geo. C. Wallace
Ase Evens
Thos. Kremer
T. M. Barr
Star Office
Boyce, Va
Fred Barr
Peru
New York Press
Shadow
Cardus
R. H. Lawson
Sprott
Ala
Mauriine Cone
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