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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1902
Page
3
New wash goods headline prices include Bilk tissue 48 cents for 27 inches, silk spot mercerize ginghams 20 cents, plain striped ginghams 18 cents, A. F. C. ginghams 94 cents, dress gingham 74 cents, 36 inch madras 10 and 12 cents. Many new styles praised as choice. Let us show them to you.
Rufus C. Robinson, manager of Robinson Bros, promotes special values in shoes on page eight.
A catalog of furniture and household items listed for sale at Rice's Busy Corner includes bed room and parlor suites, rockers, chairs, desks, tables, wardrobes, dressers, beds, upholstery, curtains, rugs, trunks, baby carriages, pianos, organs, guitars, mandolins, banjos, autoharps, accordions, strings, and related accessories.
A local dealer advertises sewing machines including Singers Davises Domestics Whites and more available at 25 cents a week, plus 30 secondhand sewing machines. Also listed are buggies carriages farm wagons and various farming implements with cash or easy weekly payments. L E Rice EiChelberger Building thanks patrons and promises best attention.
A couple visiting from near Winchester stopped at a hotel in Hagerstown. The bride wore a blue dress and appeared demure while the groom, a jovial local with a hearty laugh, drank heavily as friends bought beer. They left without their groom returning, and observers speculate they may walk around the world. the hotel bill ran fourteen dollars.
The Clarke Courier editor cites spring like a bluebird while Tar Star offers a counterpoint about a groundhog grunt amid two feet of fresh snowfall. The playful exchange reflects optimism and patience during winter.
A social at Valley Female College on Friday night March 14 organized by the Epworth League of Braddock Street Methodist Church promises an engaging program with tableaux quartettes orchestral music and other features Miss Nelson Farr will recite a silver offering will be taken at the door and refreshments served.
City Clerk Gray records a lone caller Frank McNulty of Middletown N Y seeking a license to wed Sadie Bell Dunlap daughter of James W Dunlap. The groom elect is a painter. The Union Bank of Winchester offers 3 percent interest in the savings department. Mrs Rebecca Renner returns home from Millwood while Vernie Renner visits town. SCHNEIDERs Grocery advertises fresh fish and produce on Braddock Street. L E Rice offers wood delivery in any quantity.
Taking effect Sunday September 20 1901 rail times for Hagerstown to Baltimore and connections via Highfield Cherry Run Chambersburg Shippensburg and Quinsonia. Daily trains except Sunday with Fast Mail Sunday service and arrivals in Baltimore 7 30 am 12 05 pm and 8 00 pm and connections at Bruceville for Frederick.
A brief 1990 summer timetable lists a SOUTHBOUND schedule among Washington Alexandria Strasburg and Harrisonburg. Includes references to H Hagowics Gen Pas Agt Washington DCO L Brown General ent 706 Fifteenth Street W Frank Gannon 3d W P and Gen Manager for the routing and duties.
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