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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1902
Page
2
Hon. R. E. Byrd will address a large citizen audience in the old Court House Hall Winchester on Saturday January 18 at 1 30 pm. The talk covers the proposed new Constitution and changes in voting rights and invites Frederick County residents to attend.
Notice to subscribers requesting prompt reports to the office for issues with delivery or carrier civility, citing possible post office delays or errors.
A Virginia editorial reprints Free Lance criticism of the Constitutional Convention as a hackneyed, undemocratic effort. It cites potential voter rejection, calls for parliamentary time limits, praises the 1829 30 Convention led by Madison Monroe and Marshall, and notes the current body has sat 200 days with little progress.
A Baltimore and Ohio Railroad excursion offers a round trip from Winchester Virginia to New York City for 9.80 dollars, valid five days from sale. Stopovers allowed on return with Washington as a permitted stop, tickets stamped by Jersey City depot, limited sleeping car accommodations, reservations via the ticket agent.
Gries and Ward of McRae Greis Ward travel to the home office in New York for a short period. Mr McRae stays locally to supervise county operations. The partners, heavily invested in timber land near Shockeysville, buy lumber for domestic and export markets.
Winchester editor notes a reported elopement between Ward Newbank, a married man, and Miss Minerva Davis of near Gainesboro Frederick county. The item questions the county’s virtue and cites the Warren Sentinel critique of local morals.
Our Yeadow Mills correspondent reports former State Senator McCune has opened a private school in Strasburg. The curriculum is expected to include an anti flirtation course.
Rev. T. K. Cromer pastor of Centenary Reformed Church will preach Sunday morning at 11 o'clock in the Reformed Church in Shepherdstown and at 3 o'clock in Kearneysville.
A Spanish cowboy Manuel de Silva Braga stirs a sensation near the Pine Ridge reservation by declaring in his cup that he blew up the battleship Maine. The report ties a local improvised claim to a dramatic event with further notes on travelers, a bank rate, and a Martinsburg typhoid death.
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