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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1902
Page
3
The store highlights new wash fabrics with prices: silk tissue at 48 cents per 27 inches, silk spot mercerize ginghams 20 cents, plain striped ginghams 18 cents, A. F. C. ginghams 94 cents, a good gingham 74 cents, and 36 inch madras 10 to 12 cents. These new, choice styles invite shoppers to view.
Rufus C. Robinson, manager, announces special values in shoes at the Robinson Brothers store on P street. The sale highlights discounted prices across men and women styles with limited sizes available.
A reader friendly Rice's Busy Corner offers a wide range of furniture and home goods. The listing includes bedroom and parlor suits rockers dining chairs bed lounges sofas wardrobes dressers beds and tables plus lamps curtains carpets and rugs. Musical instruments appear such as pianos organs guitars banjos and accordions along with baby carriages and go carts.
Establishment lists a wide range of second hand goods including sewing machines from Singers and Whites, buggies, carriages, hand made wagons, harness, rubber tires, Milwaukee binders and mowers, farming tools and 25 cent a week pay plans. Purchases available for cash or on easy weekly installments. signed by L. E. Rice from Eichelberger Building.
The article explains a Flatland style analogy to higher dimensions using a sphere, a globe, and a four dimensional space. It contrasts plane geometry with spherical curvature and shows how beings confined to three dimensions would fail to imagine a fourth dimension without stepping beyond their perceived space.
A Scots fishing-season vignette describes fishermen as caddies in woolen jerseys and tight trousers. One caddie replies his name is Breeks but his maiden name is Broon, a playful line from Harlem Life quoted in the piece.
Timetables show routes from Hagerstown to Baltimore and connections to Gettysburg Hanover York and Harrisburg via multiple daily trains. Sunday service includes Fast Mail and links to Frederick and Chambersburg with several departure and arrival times.
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