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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1902
Page
3
Corrected daily December 25 listing wholesale prices for butter eggs apples and potatoes with notes on chicken and grain items. Text is garbled with many unreadable sections but preserves the general scope of wholesale pricing and market movements for produce and related goods.
Notice to contributors asks writers to use only one side of the paper for column submissions to avoid division by several compositors and to speed up publication.
Advertisers must submit changes of ad to the office by 10 a.m. to ensure better service. Late changes delay publication and harm the appearance of the paper and its ads.
A New York Mail and Express item promotes using a curved wooden pipe held in the mouth to induce sleep. The method involves 60 to 100 slow puffs while lying flat, keeping the pipe in place to prevent wakefulness.
Daily trains run with the fast mail from Baltimore arriving in Hagerstown at 3 0 am and departing for Baltimore at 4 12 pm. A second train leaves Hagerstown at 2 0 am and reaches its destination by 8 30 pm.
In effect November 28, 1902 the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad offers close connections at Harpers Ferry for westbound travel. For rates and tickets contact the B&O offices, D. B. Martin manager passenger traffic, or T. B. Parton agent at Winchester.
Harper's Weekly notes the lord mayor of London governs only the City of London not Greater London, with 38 000 residents at night and just over 300 000 by day within 650 acres. The mayor’s real power lies in ceremonial duties and rights dating back 400 years, while much authority rests with the London county council.
A terse fragment describes an old farmer who came home by the fire after a wet evening. The text hints at a hazardous or Trick erous scene but lacks full details or clear action.
Timetables for daily passenger trains from Hagerstown and nearby stations to Philadelphia Washington Roanoke Knoxville and beyond. Pullman sleepers operate to Welch New York and Knoxville. through coaches to Philadelphia. Additional local trains run daily with morning and evening departures from Harrisburg Carlisle Mechanicsburg and Dillsburg.
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