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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1902
Page
3
The listing includes H. H. Haggwpwix, Agent for Washington. D. L. Brown, petty Agent at 736 Fifteenth Street W.. Frank Gannon of 84 W. PF. and Gen. Manager.
Trains 3 and 4 offer Pullman service to New York and Knox. Train 28 departs Berryville daily except Sunday at 0 m for Washington Baltimore and New York. For rates maps timetables and reservations contact the General Agent in Roanoke Virginia.
An obliquely phrased ad lists French candy Walnut candy Peanut candy Oranges Bananas and Grapes with prices noting bags of mixed fruit. The fragment also mentions 12 15 likely price figures and lapsed text ete Nae.
The notice lists trains taking effect Sunday September 29 1901 from Hagerstown to Baltimore and via connections to Gettysburg Hanover Spring Grove York Eastern Extension and other points. Schedules show departure times 7 02 am 2 00 pm 4 12 pm and arrival times 7 30 am 12 05 pm 8 00 pm with Fast Mail as the only Sunday train and connections at Highfield for multiple towns. Other routes include Hagerstown and Cherry Run Chambersburg Shippensburg and daily operation except Sunday with band CVB Bat Quinsonia to and from Baltimore and a Baltimore fast mail arriving 7 30 am and leaving Fortimore 4 12 pm daily.
The Evening Sar reports on Middletown events including a newly formed brass band preparing instruments and outfits. Railway mail clerk F J Larrick visits home in Middletown after a sore arm from a accident. The Missionary Anniversary at the Methodist Episcopal Sunday School is set for March 16 with an engaging program. Guests Miss Spangler and Miss McIntorff visit Miss Zelma Willey as Ernest Willey recovers from pneumonia and Rev W G Eggleston shows gradual improvement.
Eminent Baltimore medium Queen Lenora offers fortune readings from cradle to grave. She advises on business, love, courtship, and friendship. Readings priced at 25 50 and 1 dollar. Office hours 9 am to 8 pm. Ladies only. 2-24-6t.
Caron Springs West Virginia March 12 sleighing party started for church but stranded by mud and returned home safely. Mrs Samuel Mason improving. She visited her father in law's home after treatment in Winchester. Miss Ella Groves' horse fell but she was uninjured. Brad Johnston closed his school with a fine evening entertainment. Joseph Cooley returned from Sharon Pennsylvania. Rev D W Griffin preached his farewell sermon for the year.
Millwood Virginia players discuss a trial baseball game set for Saturday as Maj. Beverley Randolph visits Warrenton to see his daughter. The item notes local social updates and business ads including new stock offerings and bank interest rates.
An advertisement in Tae Star claims to deliver the results readers seek. The notice emphasizes satisfaction and promise of value to customers.
Joe Haines, a 17th century comedian known as Count Haines, was arrested by two bailiffs for a £20 debt. He asked to speak with a bishop relative in a coach, promising the debt would be paid. The bishop agreed to settle, and the next day the lord fulfilled the promise, paying the bailiffs in full.
The article portrays Bulgaria as a land of contrasts with a peasant society dominated by farming life. It describes the Bulgarian peasant as sturdy and suspicious while noting lingering Turkish influence in Sofia and the sobranje parliament where deputies are paid in silver francs. It ends with a wry observation on the lawmakers’ behavior as they mingle wealth and politics.
Train No. 14 on the Southern Railroad struck several loaded flat cars near Manassas Junction yesterday morning. Fireman Weston Atkinson was killed and Engineer Thomas Bowen was seriously injured. Both men are well known to the Valley Branch Railroad and often meet at Strasburg Junction.
Local listing advertises items including herring ginger snapps Scavola Flour Cosmotica Poultry Powder and Smittle Powder sold on a guarantee. J. B. Winkfield reachable at Phone 211 on North Market Street.
Partial readable text shows a damaged local notice or advertisement fragment about a business location on East placadthyste street. It hints at customer service and prompt attention during a season but lacks clear details or complete statements.
Additional local trams depart Hartisburg with stops at Chambersburg Carlisle Mechanicsburg Lisburn and intermediate stations. Trains 1 3 and 9 operate Harrisburg to Hagerstown. Through cars connect New York Knoxville and Philadelphia via trains 1 2 4 7 10 with daily service. Sunday schedule listed.
Messrs Maurice Sumption and Norman Leafe accepted the agency for the Trey Steam Laundry of Hagerstown Maryland. All orders left at Genesion Tobacco Sonor will receive attention.
All persons are notified that they cannot unload lumber in any side drain areas of the property. Sup t N W Fike, 310 2W St, issues the precaution and directs compliance.
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