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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1902
Page
2
Daniel Miller private in Co E Martinsburg West Virginia National Guard suffered a severe eye injury while handling a loaded blank cartridge for Decoration Day exercises. He dropped the cocked pistol and the cartridge exploded, burning and disfiguring his face and injuring both eyes.
Correspondent notes June 2 in Rerner Virginia as J N Fritz passes through with a well machine after completing a well for H L Suddith near Canterbury. Refuge will hold all day services on June 29 with Rev H A Brown at eleven in the morning and children's services in the afternoon.
John F. Maddox, previously charged with embezzling about $600 from Shepherdstown, had a hearing that day and was dismissed as the shortage was not a criminal offense. He was later rearrested on a warrant from W. G. Wilson, manager of a local trust company. The report also notes a nonlethal power outage caused by a broken wire near the colored Baptist Church and a garden tools theft on North Market Street. In Alexandria, Virginia, Miss Mary Donaldson Powell and Mr Louis Slesman Scott plan to wed on June 4. she hails from a prominent Virginia family.
Rail promotional listings detail limited time excursion offers from Norfolk and Western Railway for groups including Federation Womans Clubs in Los Angeles May 1 to 8 and Traveler's Protective Association in Portland June 8 to 7, with other events in San Francisco Denver and Salt Lake City. Contact W B Beyn or F Braun for rates and sale dates.
Encampment National Guard of Penna at Gettysburg announces excursion tickets via Western Maryland Railroad from July 11 to 19, 1902. Round trip fare offered at one fare, return valid through July 22, inviting all to visit the historic encampment.
A New York bachelor author offers to lease a poem writing machine for five dollars a month. A spinster author replies that the Blank typewriter is hers for keeps after improvements, costly to replace, and intended for a responsible owner. The Life of Circus People notes circus families stay tight knit across generations.
The article cites a dynamical theory of heat estimating the sun’s energy output and predicts contraction of the sun’s mass, implying a cooler future and animal life lasting about 10 million years. It then shifts to lawyers advertising, noting some lawyers publicize in newspapers and profit from it.
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