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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1910
Page
5
Readable items show blankets and robes discounted with prices listed in small figures. The fragment mentions oil cloth in two widths and various price points from 60c to several dollars. Strong entities include horse , blankets, robes, oil cloth, and price values.
The annual meeting of stockholders will elect directors at the banking house in Winchester on Tuesday January 10 1911 between 11 a m and 2 p m. Signed H D Fuller cashier. 12 19 11.
Public notice dated Tuesday January 10 011 lists Shenandoah Valley National Bank and Mo W RICE Vice President and Cashier. The message appears as a formal bank notice with a time reference 2 p.m. and a 12-9 m closing or code.
Wholesale wheat and corn held firm with a late turn to steady. Oats rye and hay showed firmness with straw dull and eggs and poultry steady. Vegetables and green fruits remained steady while prices for flour hay corn oats and rye are listed with regional retail ranges.
The Sunday School of the Christian Church will hold Christmas exercises Sunday at 2 30 p m at the Friends Meeting House. The program includes Christmas hymns recitations and addresses by invited speakers. The public is cordially invited. Read the Star ads.
An advertisement urges readers with ringing ears to treat catarrh using HYOMEL. Breathing the solution in a pocket inhaler is promoted to kill germs, soothe irritation, and prevent mucus. The full HYOMEL outfit costs 1.00, separate bottles 50 cents, with money back plan.
Washington society embraces prohibition culture as debutantes and belles adopt non alcoholic punches and white ribbon bands. Mrs William Haywood hosted her daughter Doris Haywood at tea serving grape juice and fruit punch while polite society seeks festive drinks without alcohol.
Opequon Virginia December 23 The annual stockholders meeting reported books in good condition and officers elected for the coming year President T F Fawcett Vice President John Bywaters Secretary Treasurer John Snapp Directors elected included J M Fawcett H T Snapp Conley Glaize and C W Snapp alongside the officers
Winchester residents praise Doan's Kidney Pills for quick relief and lasting cure from Bright's disease symptoms. Mrs. James H. Cooper recounts severe kidney pain and bed confinement before two boxes restored health. Foster Milburn Co. lists Doan's as US sole agents. price 50 cents. Mr. Clay Brown visits North Market Street homes.
Cecil Grace crossed the English channel from Dover in thick fog on a attempt for the De Forrest prize. He landed near Deal on return, faced adverse winds at the Belgian frontier, and finally reached Les Barques west of Calais. Baron De Forrest offers 20000 dollars for the longest flight in 1916 by an Englishman in an English built craft. Sopwith previously marked 190 miles. Claude Grahame White planned to try but wrecked his craft in a test flight.
French aviator Hubert Latham flew a monoplane from Bolsa Chico club near Los Angeles and hunted ducks at high speed. He fired ten times with a double barreled shotgun, killing and crippling birds before landing at the clubhouse after chasing ducks three miles to sea. Guests watched from a knoll as the spectacle unfolded.
Miss Alma Schmidt, 50, of Terre Haute Indiana, begins voyage to Germany via New York accompanied by the bodies of her father, mother, brother, sister and the remains of relatives buried in the United States. The group includes the graves of her father buried 28 years ago, mother 24 years, brother 22 years, and sister who died last spring. Newark Ohio Lyncher Given 20 Years. Montella Watha sentenced to 20 years in the penitentiary for manslaughter in the July lynching of Carl Etherington the dry detective. A motion for a new trial was overruled.
Washington and Jefferson college refused an endowment of 40 000 by a donor to support his widow and six children. The college believes the testator overestimated his estate and returned the funds to the family.
A thief entered J Pierpont Morgan's Newburgh poultry house and stole 14 fine turkeys from his breeding flock sent as Christmas gifts. The loss occurred Tuesday evening and involved Morgan's prized birds once used as presents.
Standard Oil plans to spend millions to develop new oil and gas territory in Ohio. Between 200,000 and 300,000 acres are under lease by Standard and independent producers across eleven counties from Lorain to Hocking.
Passaic New Jersey reports the board of health plans to release Mark Lee a Chinese leper from the tuberculosis hospital allowing him to return to his laundry business. Public sentiment shows little opposition despite his condition. Amber colors describe varieties black white brown green and yellow.
A Brussels cable message reports the birth of a daughter to Countess de Lincay formerly Miss Marie Louise Logan. She is the daughter of Major John A. Logan and granddaughter of General John A. Logan and C. H. Andrews, a local steel and railroad figure. Her marriage to Count Henry de Lincay occurred in New York last winter.
Reading Pa Dec 23 The Philadelphia and Reading railway canceled the entire $10 million in mortgages on its lines and real estate including the shops here. This marks a historic Berks mortgage satisfaction with no debt recorded. The oldest mortgage dated Sept 4 1848 for 1.5 million followed by Nov 16 1857 for 7 million and an additional 1.5 million that year.
At a rail crossing near Clayton New Jersey a cattle dealer’s sled with a red cow became stuck on the tracks. The cow waved her tail from the sled causing both approaching trains to stop and allow the sled to be moved off safely.
The supreme court sentenced Theodore Kalaw former editor and Philippine Assembly member to one year in prison and a 3000 dollar fine for criminal libel. Martin Ocampo former manager received six months and a 2000 dollar fine for libel of Commissioner Dean C Worcester.
Chicago date December 23 Mary Coolbaugh Fuller White daughter of Melville W. Fuller chief justice United States Supreme Court and wife of W H White is dead at her Chicago home.
In Hazleton on December 23 John McCarthy former treasurer of Kent Hazleton borough carried dynamite in his bootleg. A jar caused the fuse to ignite blowing off his left leg and injuring him.
United States weather bureau readings at 8 p m show clear skies in Albany Atlantic City Boston and New York with midwestern and southern values. Brief snow or rain today and tomorrow with fair conditions and moderate winds expected.
Trustees and Special Commissioners will sell at public auction in Winchester Virginia at 12 o clock noon a tract of land one third cash on day of sale and balance in two equal annual installments bonds of purchaser secured by deed of trust and insurance policy on buildings ordered by the Circuit Court in the Haupt mas et als versus Frasher et al case.
W C Hook a Elon college student arrived on the afternoon train Tuesday and stayed overnight with Rev Mr Moore before departing to spend holidays at his Winchester home. Dudley Thellar of Baltimore is visiting Mr and Mrs Albert C Brown on North Market street for Christmas holidays.
A fragmented court notice mentions a date the 16th and an appeal event. The readable text provides limited details on the case or parties involved.
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