Desperate Bedford City Fugitive Captured in Richmond
Thomas Preston alias Robert Baker, sought in Bedford City for the murder of Michael Dusty, was arrested in Richmond on a Clay Street car by Baldwin detectives. He resisted arrest with a pistol but was overpowered. he admitted identity after verification by City Sergeant H V Jordan. The case ties Preston to a fatal dispute over $2. remains of Dusty buried in Winchester after funeral.
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Liberty
Thomas W. ‘Preston
Robert Baker
Richmond
Baldwin
Main Street
Preston
Bedford City
Mary Custy
Milwood Road
Winchester
Jordan
Dusty
Detroit
Pittsburg
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Albany
Buffalo
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Washington
Norfolk
Holt
Church Streets
Short Nineteenth Street
Little
Nanne
L. L. Scherer
Baldwin Detective Agency
Egevy
The
Eagles
Scherer
H. W.wright
P. J. McCarthy
Duke
Chesapeake and Ohio
Church of the Sacred Heart
Delightful House Party at Boydville
During the holidays Mrs. Charles J. Faulkner has entertained many young friends at Boydville Martinsburg West Virginia. Attendants include Mrs Kate Whiting Miss Lina Chrisman Miss Lillian Whiting from Hampton Virginia Rev John E Ewell of Clarksburg WV and Messrs Harry F Byrd and Robert Y Conrad of Winchester
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the Star
Martinsburg
W. Via
Charles J. Faulkner
Boydville
Kate Whiting
Lina Chrisman
Lillian Whiting Young
Hampton, Va
John E. Ewell
Clarksburg
W. Va
Harry F. Byrd
Robert Y. ‘Conrad
Winchester
Narrow Escape For Allensworths At Hotel Victor
Capt W S Allensworth and his family narrowly escaped asphyxiation in Hotel Victor Manassas Sunday. A guest woke from barking to smell gas and found the Allensworth family unconscious. Allensworth, former Southern Railway passenger conductor, is proprietor of the hotel.
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W. S. Allensworth
Southern ‘Railway
Hotel Victor
Manassas
Allensworth
Aptain Allensworth
Christmas Program at Market Saint Church Draws Large Audience
An attractive Christmas program was held at Market St Church last evening with about 200 attendees. Sunday school superintendent E. B. Sartelle led the event, which included recitations, choruses, a children’s drill and distribution of sweets and fruits as gifts to scholars and teachers.
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School of Tear. É Dist Episcopal
E. B. Sartelle
Arther —Slagle
Chloe Pangle
Ji Helen Wood
Messiah
May Capper
Snow Brigade
Miss May Stouffer
Cssory
Pictures You Have Never Seen Before at the Auditorium
A theater ad announces a great picture show tonight at the Auditorium featuring new reels not shown in Winchester. It lists Belle of the Harvest Marriage of Love A Female Spy The House of Cards and Woman's Jealousy with a note that missing a night means missing a feature. Also a private sale for the suburban Hawthorne property near the old Town Spring Frederick County Virginia.
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Winchester
Hat Sale At Miss Clinpe S Shop
Hat sale offers choices from 25 cents to 1 dollar at Miss Clinpe s shop. The notice urges readers to make a New Year resolution and take shares for 1910, signed Special Organizer A G Borrs.
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Miss
A. G.borrs
Lost pin with emeralds diamonds pearls from Amherst area
Lost stick pin with leaf design emeralds and diamonds. Reward offered for return to state office. Contact Amherst North Main or South Main streets area.
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Amherst, North Main
South Main Streets
Stat Office
Court appoints city assessors for Winchester real estate
Judge Atkinson directs order naming G. Clarence Mil as assessor and Adam Forney as his assistant for Winchester real estate and improvements. They begin January 15, 1910. The appointment is seen as highly important and aims for fair, equitable reassessments across the city and Virginia.
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Winchester
W. M. Atkinon
Corporation Court
G. Clarence Milas
Adam Forney
Virginia
Erty
Iis
Megers
Miller
Forney
Atkinson
T. W. Harrison
Circuit Court
John Co. Cammer
Frederick County
Cc.p. Bailey
Phili Shade
Berryville Pike
Rushing Work On New Bridge Over Cedar Creek
Work on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad bridge over Cedar Creek progresses with the old structure to be rolled out next Sunday and a new bridge set in place using modern metalwork. Sills are nine feet high, matching the Narrow Passage bridge. no accidents yet but riveting and high climbing pose danger.
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Baltimore and Ohio
Cedar Creek
Only Seventeen Druggists Passed in Virginia Board Report
The Virginia State Board of Pharmacy annual report shows 17 of 139 examinees passed for pharmacist certificates. Three exams were held. 122 failed. Thirty-two of 122 passed as registered assistant pharmacists. 64 men took the assistant pharmacist exam with 21 passing and 42 failing. A lost brown purse containing four dollars is reported on Washington or Water Street with reward at the Star office.
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Perrsons
Virginia
State Board of Pharmacy
Washington
Water St
A Cold Wave Feeds Market Report
Brewers' grains and alfalfa based feed called BADGER Feeds praised as superior to brand and middlings and cheaper than corn. Available from Winchester feed men or P. M. Funkhouser, 22-1p-tf. re aan.
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Winchester Feed Men
P. M. Funkhouser
Winchester
Savings in 1910 Shares Offer by A G Botts
Mercantile 1910 offers to take shares now for savings in 1910 at 60 cents per share per month. Special Organizer A G Botts located at 27.1p-31.
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A. G. Botts
Virginians Wed In Wee Hours
Miss Mabel D. Davis of Elkton and Mr. Thomas J. Strider of Shenandoah were married at the First Baptist parsonage in Hagerstown at 2:30 a.m. by Rev. H.K. Thons, after arriving on the Norfolk and Western train. A cabman ferried them to Court Clerk Edward Oswald to issue the license, then Rev. Mr. Thomas performed the ceremony when a minister was found.
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Mabel D. Davis
Elkton
Thomas J. Strider
Shenandoah
Hagerstown
First Baptist Parsonage
HK. Thonas
Norfolk and Western
Edward Oswald
Lcense
Thomas
Virginia Horticultural Society to Meet in Winchester
The Virginia Horticultural Society will meet in Winchester January 5 and 6 with a mammoth apple exhibition and lectures for fruit growers. The piece lauds Winchester as Shenandoah Valley’s heart and Virginia’s rich soil, praising horticulturists as scientists and key land value contributors.
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Baltimore
Virginia Horticultural Society
Winchester
Virginia Horticultur@l. Society
Virginia Horticulturists
Shenandoah Valley
Old Dominion
Shenandoah
Nature
Vicginia
Virginia
Union
Maryland
Notable residents depart after visit to city
Mr and Mrs Joseph HB Herbert of Towson Md and Mrs Henry Mecekeee of Baltimore left today for home after visiting relatives. Frederick Paulknier of Kentucky connected with the United States legation at Peking is reported to have absconded with legation funds.
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Joseph HB. Herbert
Towson
Henry Mecekeee
Baltimore
Frederick Paulknier
Kentucky
United States
Peking
Severe Weather Ahead Strains Railroads and Rivers
Special bulletin warns of a cold wave hitting Virginia with snow two inches or more and rivers frozen. Railroads report delays between New York and the South as drifting snow disrupts schedules. Ohio River tensions rise with piers under high water and river traffic prepared for record conditions.
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Cumberlandsion
New Ydelphia
Ontimore
Ohio’ Railroad
Warpers Ferry
Whcre
Cunroberland
Ohio
Ohio River
Pittsburg
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Gusty
Thomas Preston
Richmond Police
Ieral
Allensworths
Brucetown
Lotf
R. Gray Williams
Market-St. Church
Friends of Sunday
COURT
G.C. Miller
J. C. Cammer
County
Re Aan
the Horticultural Society
Aera
Warblington
Brees
Pittsbar
Cal Harbor
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