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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1902
Page
3
New wash fabrics include silk tissue very silky and durable at 48 cents, silk spot mercerine ginghams at 20 cents, plain striped ginghams 18 cents, A. F. C. ginghams 94 cents, good gingham at 74 cents, 36 inch madras 12 to 15 cents. All are new and in choice styles and offered for preview.
Robinson Bros led by Rufus Robinson announce special shoe values on page eight. The ad emphasizes discounted options and outlines item categories with presumed stock and pricing cues.
A bustling display lists bedroom suits parlor sets rockers dining chairs lounges sofas wardrobes and more. The inventory covers beds tables pianos organs guitars accordions and other furnishings with a wide range of fabrics curtains and accessories.
Establishment offers used buggies carriages hand made wagons and farming implements along with 25 secondhand sewing machines including Singers Davis Domestics Whites and more. Purchases available for cash or on weekly payments, with emphasis on low cost and easy terms. L E Rice Eichelberger Building thanks the public for past support.
Roanoke Virginia agents advertise Pullman sleeping cars on trains 3 and 4 between New York and Knox. Train 28 departs Berryville daily except Sunday at 9:06 a.m. for Washington Baltimore and New York. Write for rates maps time tables car prices and descriptive guides to any agent.
Notice states B V Shade will begin a strict trade system from March 1 1902 offering further reductions on all goods. Debtors are urged to settle by that date.
Bargains announce a daily receiving line of furniture including easels desks and other items. The ad urges buyers to visit Funk at No 7 South Loudoun Street to see discounted pastels medals and related goods.
A 1902 note suit seek to recover debt of John J Oberlin with interest and attach his real estate to secure the claim. John Oberlin is nonresident. court orders appearance within 15 days after publication. Notice to publish weekly in Winchester Evening Star for four weeks and post at courthouse.
Property listings describe two farms near Winchester: 184 acres six miles north near North Frederick grade and 174 acres four miles from Winchester on Senseney road. Contacts include J. Harpeman and Geo. V. Over. Financial terms offer one third cash with balance over one to two years. A separate note mentions a brick house with yard on Washington street and a dentist office on Water Street.
An old soldier and hunter discuss seeing bullets in flight. The hunter explains by standing about five feet from the shooter and tracing a line to the target, noting a dark speck crossing a light ground as a bullet in transit. The exchange covers glycerin-doped bullets and smoke trails as possible indicators.
A heart specialist argues that nine of ten in bed deaths are caused by fear from nightmares. He cites autopsy experience and notes sufferers often wake exhausted and alarmed by vivid dreams, suggesting sleep fear can kill just as readily as fear while awake.
The piece outlines China’s mythic history ending with Kaifungfu’s capital in 31st century B C, then 2205 B C to 298 B C for real and ancient periods, medieval era to 1215 A D, Mongol era, Ming fall in 1644, and Manchu Ta Tsing rule starting 1644.
A collection of brief anecdotes referencing Lincoln and a cabinet official, Lynch law origins, Thackeray, and a Virginia planter. The piece notes a preacherly Lincoln remark on avoiding past mistakes and includes miscellaneous quips about love songs, a glass eye joke, and a joke about people who are always short.
The sale enters its fifth week with about one thousand new garments added yesterday. The collection features quality materials, workmanship, style, and trimmings, with liberal dimensions and no skimpy items. Prices claimed as the lowest ever quoted for muslin underwear.
Fragmentary OCR line mentions General Pas and Washington DC roles but lacks clear event or context. No verifiable names, dates, or actions to summarize into a proper news item.
The notice states a sale at Ball Auction front Rayn opds Satilecpenthanes of Hien on Wednesday March 5 1902. It lists around 100 horses and six good milch cows with calves by their side on farm BRABY.
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