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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1902
Page
3
The article contrasts lavish municipal funerals for the rich with humble rites for the poor. It describes wealthier funerals with a band, a black-clothed hearse drawn by ponies, and pomp, while poorer funerals show a lone father with a white coffin on his head or a coffin carried on bamboo poles. Some burials take place in wall niches with biographies embedded in cement.
An excerpt contrasts 19th century fashion symbols and ritual attire from the Danube to the Golden Gate, noting useless collars and buttons as cultural forms. It mentions Brahman caste head coverings for weddings and feasts and women’s dress influenced by tides, with a tale from Mohammedan fables about fate and the angel of death.
The text recalls Admiral Nelson's sole battlefield defeat at Santa Cruz in the Canary Islands on July 24, 1797. British ships attacked a strongly fortified town with fifty guns, but the operation failed due to the mole and lack of land support. Casualties reached 150 dead and 100 wounded. Nelson lost his right arm. Two captured flags remain in Santa Cruz cathedral.
An English paper reports a postman with a Stirling to Blairdrummond route who rode six miles on weekdays and walked the same distance on Sunday due to a ban on using the bicycle. An investigation confirmed his explanation. The note ends with other light anecdotes and a malaria remark about the lower Elbe region.
Disjointed OCR notes reference a 1882 piano sale with 50 pianos and prices, plus entries for 1889 and 1890. The text is garbled but indicates a list of instruments, quantities, and monetary figures from a bygone auction catalog.
Historic timetable lists Hagerstown departures for the Fast Mail at 7 02 am and 4 12 pm with connections to Gettysburg Hanover Spring Grove York. Other routes include Hagerstown to Cherry Run Chambersburg Shippensburg and via Cut Off to Baltimore connections. Trains run daily except Sunday with Frederick service via Bruceville and notices signed by B and G Griswold and Landsrect.
November 10 1902 timetable lists additional east bound local trains running daily except Sunday from Carlisle and Meyersburg with departures at 6 30 am 7 04 am 12 40 pm 3 15 pm and other runs 5 54 am 7 29 am 8 12 am 1 pm 2 30 pm 8 36 pm. No.8 and 110 daily services to Harrisburg and Philadelphia.
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