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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1901
Page
3
A Virginia bank cashier attests a true bank statement showing liabilities and capital, with notes on net profits, deposits, and national bank notes. The document includes a schedule of rail connections between Washington Alexandria Strasburg and Harrisonburg with station times and routing details.
Chester white pigs offered for sale by Martin Wisecarver at 802 West Amherst Street. Horse blankets and robes priced from 75 cents to 7 dollars 50 cents. Seller W E Barr lists 160 Main Street in the nearby ad dates.
Train 28 leaves Berryville daily except Sunday at 9 05 a m for Washington Baltimore and New York. For rates maps time tables and sleeping car pamphlets write to any agent F Braae traveling passenger agent and W B Bevill general passenger agent Roanoke Va
Paris financiers were defrauded by a swindler who used iodide of starch to write bills that vanished. Posing as wealthy with tied funds and Chinese concessions, he collected large sums and fled when the method was uncovered, leaving blank signed papers and no way to repay. The police traced the disappearance to the invisible ink.
The text covers river speeds and depths of seas and rivers, comparing Nile Thames English Channel Irish Sea Baltic Adriatic Baltic depths 43 yards Adriatic 45 yards. It notes Paraná as 2,200 miles long, Amazon as continent’s second longest, Askal Chin lake height 16,600 feet, Dead Sea 1,290 feet below sea level.
Sir William Meredith once a famed Ontario lawyer and prosecutor faced a hostile London crowd during a political campaign. A spectator shouted about his hair, provoking laughter until Meredith retorted that he had already had the critic’s hair cut, winning the audience.
The text explains quick first aid for fainting by laying the person flat with head level, exposing the neck and chest, fresh air, water on the face, and ammonia vapors. It suggests heart friction if revival stalls. It then quotes a Chicago Tribune cartoonish exchange about marrying on a train and repenting later.
The National Magazine urges readers to transform their bodies into noble works, noting we all act as sculptors and painters of ourselves. It warns that virtue refines features while vice mars them, urging plain faced people to pursue beauty in daily life.
Notice directs travelers to make close connections at Harpers Ferry for all points west. Rates tickets and baggage checked available at any B and O Railroad office. Martin, Seaterae Traffic. B Parton, Agent at Winchester.
Schedule lists for Western Maryland routes from Hagerstown on Sundays starting Sept 29 1901. Connections at Highfield to Gettysburg York Eastern Extension and other Baltimore and Harrisburg division points. Trains cover Hagerstown to Cherry Run Chambersburg Shippensburg and via Cut Off with Band CVR Bat Quinston to Baltimore.
Notice states that on January 23, 1902, a survey will be made of a 17 acre tract in the name of Alexander Carter adjoining Armel, purchased January 2, 1901, for delinquent taxes. Baker signs the notice.
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