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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1902
Page
4
The suffrage conference within the Constitutional Convention approved a Glass substitute amendment setting a $200 property qualification for permanent status. Soldiers and descendants of owners are exempt. The Cordon amendment, previously defeated, was adopted 34 to 31, triggering excitement and speculation it aims to kill the Glass plan. The afternoon session sought reconsideration but adjourned as votes approached.
Latest market report lists wholesale prices paid in the market with corrected daily figures for Saturday March 15. Boers butter and butter roll values are shown with listed price entries though some text is garbled. Prices appear incomplete due to damaged OCR.
Street-cleaners worked today on East Water street and other points aided by Chris Garrison who has been praised for easing a recent court incident. Beaty and Boyer of Front Royal road bought a 40 HP engine to boost output at their plant manufacturing insulator pins peach crates and boxes. Capt. W. H. Bridgman moved the recruiting office from Winchester to Martinsburg with Sergeant J. Clark in charge.
Local residents and visitors are listed with brief notes on arrivals departures and social goings on. Mentions include Mr. Thomas Keating and back beer, Mr. J A Ramsburg of Frederick City in town, Mr. Robert Mills of Philadelphia at the Taylor House, H Schlack and daughter Mary in town, and multiple sales pitches for laundry soap musical instruments Easter attire and tailor services.
Rev. CG E Krauth of Harrisonburg Virginia will preach at the Lutheran Church tomorrow morning at 11 oclock and again at 730 in the evening.
Jane Grey of South Braddock Street, a widowed colored woman esteemed by both her people and many white friends, was seriously paralyzed last Thursday evening. The notice mentions irregularities in Troy Laundry calls and delivery to Worthington Tobacco Company as a point of prompt attention.
George Edwards, a young farmer near Leetown West Virginia, was knocked to the ground when a bull broke free from a chained stall. He was carried from the barn on the animal's horns and tossed high. He lay unconscious for hours with a broken arm and two ribs.
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