Brazilian Gypsies Arrive in Winchester With Family Group
A group described as Brazilian gipsies including three men three women and 12 children arrived in Winchester this morning. They came from Staunton via the Valley pike, traveled in five wagons with supplies, and planned to camp in the suburbs. The men sought permission to tell fortunes while the women and children stayed at the Patterson and Kidwell restaurant for lunch.
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Valley Pike
Staunton
Roosevelt
Patterson & Kidwell
East Water Street
Baker
Virginia
Statement of the financial condition of People's Bank
A sworn statement from J Harvey Canter cashier lists the bank's assets and liabilities as of May 29, 1907 at Stephens City Virginia. It shows loans and discounts 37070.52 dollars and other items including banking house furniture and fixtures notes due from banks and specie with total assets 87070.52 dollars and liabilities including capital stock and deposits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
I. J
Harvey Canter
People’s Bank
Stephens City
Virginia
Pelief
J. Harvey Can‘rur
Ae L. A. Adam John M Eoske
C.E Cougill
State of Virginia
Keating Hinted for State Comptroller in Cumberland
The Baltimore Sunday Sun features a strong likeness of John Keating of Cumberland Maryland. He is named as a possible state comptroller, similar to a treasurer, with ties to Winchester and Cumberland figures including Clark Distilling Company president James Clark. He serves as vice president of the Farmers and Merchants' National Bank in Winchester and has many friends there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore Sunday Sun
John Keating
Cumberland
Keating
Win
Chester
William and
Thomas Keating
James Clark
Clark Distilling Company
Farmers and Merchants’ National Bank
Winchester
City
All Out Card Triggers Home Sabotage Tale
A Denver woman locks up and posts All out Dont leave anything on the door. On return she finds the house looted and the note turned to Thanks we havent left much. Also notes Vienna dressmakers strike and British notes about Father Prout.
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Denver
Life of Sea Anemone Reveals Longevity
Scientists note that a sea anemone has been found to live up to fifty years, highlighting remarkable lifespan in simple marine animals.
Quote on advice and wisdom from a judge
A judge notes that many people who habitually offer advice would never yield wisdom even if their main source of insight were cut off. The remark critiques constant talking without substance.
Nervous Women and Silk Skirt Anxiety
A brief remark contrasts highly nervous women with those unsettled by the constant rustle of silk, noting such anxiety as extreme. The line appears in Fliegende Blätter quoted by The Evening Star.
County Couples Licensed To Wed In County Clerk WalkIn
William Teets 21 and Ollie V. Dicks 22, both county residents, secured a marriage license Saturday evening. Philip Carper 21 and Martha Brown 19, also county residents, received licenses with the latter couple wed that same evening by Rev. S K Wine of the United Brethren Church.
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Ing
Geo W. Teets
Jacob Dicks
Philip Carper
James W. Carper
Miss Mar
Rev
S. K. Wine
The
United Brethren Church
Fire Rages Through Nashville Wholesale District
A severe blaze threatens Nashville's wholesale district as flames engulf the business area this afternoon. Residents are alarmed as the fire rages and concessions are refused in the wake of a pending strike by telegraphers.
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Nashville
Union Telegraph Company
Telegraphers’ Union
Yeakley Purchases Farm Near Welltown for 37500 Cash
Mr. G. H. Yeakley buys the late William R. Yeakley’s farm located 414 miles north of Winchester near Welltown. The cash price is 37500. Advertise in The Star.
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G. H. Yeakley
William R. Yeakley
Winchester
Welltown
Report of the Union Bank of Winchester 1907 condition
The Union Bank of Winchester in Winchester Virginia filed its 1907 report with the State Corporation Commission. The balance sheet lists loans and discounts 241 141.55 overdrafts 1 778.75 and stocks bonds and mortgages 2 633 33 with real estate values and other items totaling 805 847.13. Cash items include checks currency and denominations and the bank shows deposits and capital stock figures with attestations by cashier Lee R Grim and directors George W Kurtz William Atkinson and H S Lupton. The document is sworn before N P Herbert S Larrick on January 24 1907.
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Washington
Connecticut Avenue Terrace
Connecticut Avenue
Hugh S. Lupton
Rouss Avenue
Winchester
Frederick Hatcher
Colorado
Washington, D. C
Robert E. Heater
I. Lee R. Grim
Lee R. Grim
Geo. W. Kurtz
Wm. Atkinson
Lupton
State of Virginia
Frederick
Herbert
Larrick
Petition Seeks Parlor Cars for Valley Trains
A petition from Harrisonburg Virginia asks Southern Railway to add at least one parlor car to the early morning train connecting at Strasburg Junction with the Baltimore and Ohio line arriving Winchester at 9 31. The petition also requests one on the evening Harrisonburg bound train linking at Strasburg Junction with the B and O leaving Winchester. The petition argues parlor car service would aid travelers, especially ladies and children.
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Harrisonburg
Southern Railway
Washington
Strasburg Junction
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Winchester
Fire Damages Naylor Block As Firefighters Prevents Destruction
Fire swept the Naylor block near the Southern Railway depot in Front Royal on Saturday but rapid firefighting saved the buildings. Insurance covers the damage. Alaska homestead prospects outlined by C C Georgeson suggest 320 acre parcels for up to 2 8 million families and a potential 3 million population. Sir Edward Elgar, visiting New York and Pittsburgh, deflected questions about criticizing American composers, saying he has too many friends here to discuss their work.
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Naylor
Front Royal
Southern Railway
Edward Sir Edward Elgar
New York
Pittsburg
Wyman and Her Tips and Other Late News Bits
A miscellany notes women tips on tips and fault, coal dust research seeks elements making dust dangerous, New Orleans supper items include six fried oysters and chicken salad, Royal Family name origin traced to Zolerin ancestor, Zollern to Hohenzollern.
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New Orleans
Zolerin
Hohenzollern
William
Roumania
Burchardus of
Zollern
Monument to Ovid Planned at Bulmona by D Annunzio
A movement to erect a monument to the poet Ovid at Bulmona the ancient Sulmo of Samnium has been initiated by Italian poet Gabriele d Annunzio who helped bring the project forward.
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Ovid
Bulmona
Sulmo
Samnium
Gabriele d’Annunzio
Frederick County Court Notice In Chancery 1907
In the Clerk's Office for Frederick County Circuit Court a suit by W. Lockhart against J. Pleberlig seeks $500 and costs plus attachment of timber rights and lands in Frederick County including 40 acres on Jesse Pugh farm near Gore and lumber in Cumberland Valley yards at Winchester. Defendant not resident. required to appear within 15 days after publication. notice in Evening Star Winchester for four weeks and posting at courthouse front door.
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Frederick
Vere
Chas
W. Lockhart
J.C. Pleberlig
Jesse Pugh
Gore
Montgomery
Cumberland Valley Railroad Company
Winchester
Court House of County
Ci Court
Amos E. Marker
Catherine’ Glassford
Isaac N. Jares W. Wisjaceck
Wm. Buncutter
Virginie
Buncutter
Bgp
Oat Buncutter
Catherine Iford
Virginia
William Buncutter
James Buncutter
George
E. M. Cunnia
Evening Star of
Fredrick Ghaskex
Frank Sanuel
Herbert
Larrick
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the Peoples’ Bank
State Corporation Commission
Cee
Vienna
London Evening News
Shandon
Trish College
Rome
Rey
Father Prout
United States
Jack
Evening Star
William Teets
Miss Ollie
V. Dicks
County
County Clerk’s Office
Tha Brown
John
Tenn
Union Bank OF Winchester
Wir
Et Fay
National Toilet Company
Parts
Tsam
Aetna Insurance Co
Hartford
Conn
Cash Capital
North Braddock
Imaviuilics
Fannie C. Brown
University OF Virginia
Howard Winston
Charlottesville
Baltimore and Ohio
Alaska
C. C.georgeson
United States Deciment of Agriculture
Laskan Investigations
Wyman
Associ Razor
Rial
John S. Miller
Jas
P. Reardon
State OF
Grewit
HE. McKinster
Phil. H. Good
Circuit Court
P. Q
Manuel Eas Piatiff
Frank
S. Manuel
Maward Conner
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