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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1913
Page
3
An old Toledo advertisement notes J Cheney & Co offering a catarrh cure and pills. It mentions a firm partner in Toledo and lists Mr and Mrs Athey visiting relatives on North Kent Street in Buffalo street area, reflecting period commerce and family notices.
Miss Gertrude Higgins returns to Washington after visiting at the home of her brother in law and sister Mr and Mrs William T Sullivan on National avenue.
Mr B W Baker arrived this afternoon from Washington where he has visited his son today and daughter Mr and Mrs Moktenny Berry.
Mrs Eva Lanham who has been visiting relatives in town for several days returns to Martinsburg West Virginia today. She is accompanied by Miss Lillian Chapman. Mr Clinton Athey leaves tomorrow for Menova Pennsylvania to engage in business after visiting his parents at their home on North Kent Street.
AEWS reports outline Anglo German alliance tensions affecting American trade with limited official confirmation. London notes a warning to mind its own business in Dagumen affair. New York reports a dead body found with stab wounds at Pitt Street. Mississippian inquest follows Christmas Eve panic. Yunnan regiments declare independence with new president. Mme Nordica states her husband’s arrest, Tesman ship is safe with her aboard.
Prices in the Baltimore wholesale markets on December 29 show spot and futures figures for wheat corn hay and dairy products. Butter eggs live poultry and geese values are listed with regional Virginia and nearby references. Local residents Mrs Emma Barker and families are noted traveling and visiting Washington Rockville and Bag.
Mr Charles Ridgely White returns to Baltimore after spending part of the Christmas season with Mrs White and their child at the home of her mother Mrs M H G Willis on South Washington Street.
Young Don Harm er, 12, son of Harmer of the city, wins a 29 pound turkey at a shooting near Stresburg, Ohio. Oscar Searrett of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad passenger department and Master Gordon Harm er attend the event as witnesses.
Announcement from Baltimore notes Miss Nellie Bankard will wed Joseph L Woods son of Rev. Dr. and Mrs. William Woods. The ceremony will be at the Bankard home on New Years Day, performed by the groom’s father Rev Dr Woods of Franklin Square Presbyterian Church. The couple’s families include prominent Baltimore and Manchester connections.
Mr James L Hatcher of the Navy Department visits his mother Mrs Ada Somerville Hatcher at Fort Loudoun Seminary on North Main street. First Lieutenant Julian Hatcher of the United States Army Ordnance Department also visits and is stationed at the Army gun factory at Waterwall, Noyl, on business linked to a War Department adoption.
Virginia Sumption, a long established Warren County family member, died at her Front Royal home after a two year illness. She was about 74 years old and buried at Prospect Church Cemetery. Nieces Miss Bhima Heflin and Mrs Sue Maron of this city attended the funeral.
Mrs James Brown and her daughter Miss Maude Brown depart for a visit to Washington and Baltimore this morning. The journey marks a planned trip likely by rail with no stated return.
A guide from Boy Scouts of America on winter bird feeding. It outlines preferred foods and feeding setups to attract species such as chickadees nuthatches creepers and jays, and notes success with bluebirds robins thrashers and vireos with patience and regular feeding.
Reports in 1912 show peat mining was largely idle aside from a single plant producing dried cylindrical peat blocks. Fertilizer peat output reached 41,030 short tons, with about 8,000 sold air dried, valued at $186,522.
Dispatches from Rome report the statue of Edgar Allan Poe by Sir Moses Ezekiel was destroyed when a customs house in Rome burned. The sculpture awaited shipment to Baltimore after valuation before boarding a U S. bound vessel.
Vernon Lee critiques English houseboats moored along the Thames describing their flowers, awnings, and hire fleets as the luxury of England. She contrasts their comforts with the grim Bermondsey and Lambeth docks and calls them a refined symbol of a prosperous but alienating civilization.
A newlywed couple in a shop scene debates cigarette contents and health risks. The wife dismisses claims of nicotine valerian morphine and corn, while the husband argues the cigarette is a bargain and worth the cost. The dialogue satirizes gendered logic and consumer ignorance.
The notice lists wholesale quotes from buyers and shippers in Philadelphia Baltimore Washington and other cities for Wheat Corn Timothy Hay mixed hay flour bran middlings meal butter old hens and potatoes with prices per unit and retail ranges.
An advertisement touts a laxative product named Bromo Quinine claiming to cure a cold in one day and grip in two days with TM signatory by W. Grove. The note mentions a 250 quantity.
A garbled timetable item describes routes between Bristol Pullman and Roanoke intermediates, Elkton and Philadelphia via Sheoah Junction, and a New York service with sleepers to Washington. Names and times are partial and unclear.
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