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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1908
Page
2
Advertisement lists trip rates and schedules for lodge members with travels to multiple cities and dates. Mentions Knights of Pythias and Ancient Arabic Order Mystic Shrine events with encampment periods and ticket details.
Fragmented OCR listing times and values across multiple intervals in Bay area transit or schedule data. Readable items include various times such as 10.12 am 9.44 am and 6.32 pm with scattered monetary figures and codes, but no coherent narrative or clear event.
Samuel McDonald, a well known Hayfield area resident over 70, suffered a peculiar illness after returning from his son David McDonald’s home. Lost on the way home he walked about 25 miles overnight with two milk buckets, exhausted and ill but now showing some improvement though still serious.
Special to The Star White Hall Va July 9 Dr B B Smoke will join Virginia's delegation at the International Tuberculosis Congress in Washington early fall. He accepted the governor's appointment to attend sessions. Also noted is a local property sale and a health update on Miss Ollie Stade recovering from a copperhead bite.
The village post office and a store building have been sold by Mr. L W Hubbard to Mr. Frank Strother, who has taken possession of the property. Mrs Katharine Lamp, who had been critically ill, is recovering.
Robert L. Downing after 32 years in theatrical life renounced his former name and preached at a Methodist church in Frederick. His first public appearance featured a reading from a work titled A Voices From the Wilder, impersonating John the Baptist. The piece critiques Sunday churchgoers who attend for appearances, urging genuine faith and engagement beyond leisure. Also notes local visits, school and business news, and a preaching schedule for next Sunday at 3 30 p m with Sunday school at 2 15 p m.
Fragmentary notes from Burnt Factory at Van July reference J D Wright and a Mrs. with unclear roles. No clear event, date, or outcome is established in the readable text.
Summit Point residents note Mrs. Mary C. Murdock has been visiting Charles Town and is now back at her Summit Point home. Cavalrymen marching through the village caused excitement on their route to Harpers Ferry. Mrs. James Gugman remains indisposed and recovering from illness in Warhingiles, D. C.
Mrs James Sullivan and Miss Mattie Long of Harrisonburg are guests of Mrs Robert Spates on South Market Street.
A vintage recipe suggests mixing 2 cups English walnut meats with 1.2 dozen figs cut fine. Soak in a pint of boiling water, then cool and thicken before folding in figs and nuts. Serve with whipped cream for a generous, economical dessert.
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