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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1900
Page
3
A local merchant touts reduced prices on summer fabrics after returning from New York City. Remnants and offcuts are offered at deep discounts, with prints, lawns, jaconets, batistes, dress ginghams, zephyr cloth, and organies listed at prices far below former prints.
Zeb White recounts a Tennessee hillside tale of a wildcat encounter and a quarrel with his wife over a whale swallowing Joner. The couple faces a prowling cat and a lost child Joe Baker, fighting for survival and reconciliation after the fright.
A homely rhyme urges Mary Wood and readers to always do their best. The piece notes the difficulty of sustained effort, the link between conscience and high health, and cites examples from cathedral builders and scientists to argue that worthwhile work warrants thorough, punctual, accurate effort.
Santo Barr's ad proclaims a continuing remodeling sale offering assorted coffee and soap items at low prices. The notice lists items in a hurried, misspelled style and closes with the business name W E Barr and phone 43 on Main Street.
Beginning Sept 17 1900 the Academy will offer a permanent Business Course modeled after Rogers Williams Business College Rochester NY, with Commercial and Stenographic tracks. It includes Commercial Law Arithmetic Penmanship Grammar Correspondence Bookkeeping and Orthography plus shorthand typewriting with high proficiency standards. Special students may join at a small fee.
The Baltimore and Ohio R R announces a series of seashore excursions on Thursdays June 28 July 12 26 August 9 23 to Atlantic City Cape May Sea Isle City Ocean City N J Ocean City Md and Rehoboth Beach Del Tickets are valid sixteen days from sale with stop overs on return at Philadelphia Baltimore Washington for New Jersey trips and at Baltimore Washington for Ocean City Md and Rehoboth Beach Del Tickets and times available from nearest B and O ticket agent.
In chancery William H Pletcher seeks partition or sale of realty at the southwest corner of Market and Piccadilly streets Winchester with a three acre lot known as Hardy lot between Market East extension and Martinsburg turnpike. The deed to Rebecca Fletcher life then to William H Pletcher James P Fletcher and Maria Hardy. Annie C Culmore and George unknown ordered to appear within fifteen days to protect their interests. A copy of the order to be published in The Evening Star weekly for four weeks and posted at the courthouse front door.
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