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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1910
Page
3
An ad praises the toaster stove as a practical modern gift that outlives candy or roses. It emphasizes convenient at table cooking when the maid is absent, with toast tailored to each family member. Also suggests other electrical gadgets like an iron and sewing machine motor.
Auditor Marye reported worse health amid numerous local briefs. Hampton banker Ben Enton faced eleven charges of receiving deposits when insolvent. George Huff paid a political bet in Roanoke. Floyd Nash and Emmett Easterling involved in a fatal pistol duel near Norton. Charles M. Gifford, WVU assistant bacteriologist, drowned skating near Morgantown. Virginia pairs wed in Hagerstown and Richmond area. Rhodes scholarship awarded to Francis Beirne of Richmond. Divorce granted to Nellie Beacht in Rockville. School principal Lee Sallender found dead under a rail trestle. Miss Cor rie Smith died by morphine. sweetheart missing. Davis named Virginia assistant attorney general. Corruptions aside, marriages on bridges and transfers of clergy noted. A diamond found in a turkey near Hagerstown. Kremer Hodges wedding at Harpers Ferry.
Caution against mercury-containing catarrh ointments as dangerous to senses and systems. Recommends Hall's Catarrh Cure by F. J. Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio as safe, mercury free, taken internally. Also notes Hall's remedy is sold in drug stores for 50 cents per bottle and mentions Take-tat's Family Pills for constipation.
Mrs Nina Gore testified before a congressional committee investigating Oklahoma Indian land affairs that she did not believe her husband had accepted any aid from Jacob Hamon. Hamon testified he was asked to obtain a $5000 loan for Gore's campaign but Gore said he could fund his own race.
Chicago reports Michael Cudahy founder of the meat packers leaving an estate worth 11 million. Nine million in personal property and two million in real estate. Widow Catherine receives a 30000 annual annuity from trustees and seven children get 10000 yearly for five years after the widow’s annuity. Trustees include Mary T Cudahy Joseph M Cudahy and Albert F Borcherdt.
London reports an addition to the royal family due in March marking the first birth at Buckingham Palace since 185? The lineage lists child births to King George and Queen Mary including Prince John Charles and six others born between 1894 and 1905, with most children born at York Cottage, Sandringham.
The new $100,000 Woodbury High School in Woodbury New Jersey was destroyed by a cellar explosion fire before assembly. No pupils were present. about 800 students will lack school accommodations for some time. The building had been recently erected and was among the finest in the state.
Irwin S. Uhler, crippled Northampton County lawyer, was found drowned in his bathtub in his home in Fasion Pennsylvania. He fell while preparing to bathe. no one else was at home at the time.
The German potash tax raises prices for United States farmers and fertilizer makers. President Taft and the state department protest, seeking redress after a Berlin visit. The tax targets independent mines to force syndicate control, raising costs for non syndicate producers and end users.
The winter assessment of road builders points to astihaltic macadam with a suitable binder as the core for future highways. Trials have been short, but progress grows as the movement for improved highways advances. Presidents from major railroads and Mr Yoakum join the American Association for Highway Improvement, led by Losen W. Page of the Office of Public Roads.
The Feast of Lights or Hanukkah is noted to begin in December with rituals at synagogues and homes. The observance emphasizes Jewish heroism, duty to faith and country, and includes children kindling eight lights as a symbol of continuity and tradition.
George William Simpkins died before reaching Norfolk hospital after his legs were cut off below the knees while attempting to jump a freight train at Kendall Grove. He was arrested for C.
The drys won the cal option fight by a large margin while the wets faced a smaller vote. The announcement triggered loud partisan reactions as speakers including Seaborn Wright Dr Beamon and Se son addressed the crowd.
A fragmented OCR note records a steady market for vegetables and farm produce. It mentions greens, eggs, butter, young chickens, turkeys, flour, baled hay, corn, oats, and rye with uncertain quantities and garbled terms.
Disjointed OCR notes indicate a Lynchburg election filing involving factions labeled wets and dries. Mention of firms Good Daniel and J. Seadolph Harrison and a Pet filed within 20 days appears amid garbled text with arrivals by Mr. W. W. Dougherty.
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