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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1906
Page
2
The Star offers advertising rates at its office 16 World Building New York. Rates are 2.50 in advance for six weeks and 5 cents per week for carrier delivery. Mail subscriptions 1 year 2.00 in advance six months 1.00 one month 20 cents with postage prepaid.
A contemporary editorial defends President Roosevelt s order to dissolve negro companies involved in the Brownsville riot and denounces Democratic opposition s hostility to the South and ties to corporations. It warns the negro race against shielding criminals and criticizes railroads for risking lives by denying coal transport.
The State Corporation Commission orderedPostal and Western Union to cap intra state telegrams at twenty five cents for ten words or less and two cents for each additional word. When messages travel via both firms the maximum is forty cents plus three cents per extra word. The ruling, issued after a hearing, also drops the repeat clause and sets January 1, 1974 as the effective date.
A sale listing offers Blue Ribbon Cook Books and other volumes at deep discounts, plus Miss Amelia Barr works, Henty Alger and Mende titles. Also featured are ladies coats, fancy handkerchiefs, linen initial handkerchiefs, holiday umbrellas, furs, box papers, children’s items, and blanket bargains with prices from 6c to 50c.
White Post December 21 report lists Guard Bishop from Front Royal visiting Miss Vivian Meade, several Meade family members returning from Washington for holidays, and other residents like Miss Eliza Meade and Miss Dorothy Wythe Meade at home for Christmas.
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