Winchester Contest Offers Gold Watch for Top Lady Vote
The Tie Star and Times announce prizes for Frederick County Winchester area women. First prize a gold watch with chain, second a parlor furniture set, third a silver service, fourth a silver toilet set. Eligibility includes white unmarried ladies. voting runs March 20 to June 30 with coupons in each newspaper.
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Star and Times
Winchester
Frederick
Sibert & Denny’s
Geo. W. Kurtz’s
Hinkins
Clowe’s
the Times
Tur Star
Uniformed Station Porters at the Baltimore & Ohio R R Station
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad has placed six uniformed Station Porters at its Washington City station to assist travelers. They meet trains and help with baggage, focus on elderly passengers, ladies, and children, and do not solicit tips. They wear blue uniforms with a red cap and B and O insignia.
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Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Washington City
Capitol
A Much Abused Stomach and the Johns Hopkins Operation
Arthur Shutt nicknamed the human ostrich underwent stomach surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore last Thursday. Surgeons removed a mass of ingested objects including nails of various sizes, wire, a pocketknife, blades, screws, pins, tacks, glass, watch chains, and iron chain totaling extensive quantities. He claimed he meant to chew them but no one believed him as spectators jeered and he swallowed them all.
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Arthur Shutt
Johns Hopkins’ Hospital
Baltimore
Cripple Engine Repaired After Baltimore Yard Incident
Riggers restored a derailed passenger engine in the Baltimore and Ohio yards on Saturday evening. At 9 06 p m the crippled locomotive was moved to the shops for repairs after substituting a forward axle and repositioning the driving wheel. The committee to report tonight will discuss funding for a memorial to General Daniel Morgan. The Union Cornet Band funded a donation corrected from Union Bank, with payment finalized Friday.
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Baltimore and Ohio
Union Bank
Union Cornet Band
Reuss
Floor Coverings See It For Beauty and Design
Spring line of mattings and carpets offered for the best retail trade. Prices range from 124 to 35 cents for various matting and fabrics, with standard all wool ingrains at 60 to 50 cents. Special closeouts from an agent undercuts competing stores. We measure rooms and lay carpets. if not as promised, you pay nothing.
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Brussels
Henry Baetjer and Co introduces business courses at academy
Beginning September 17 1900 the academy adds a permanent Commercial and Stenographic course modeled after Rogers Williams Business College Rochester NY. Courses cover Commercial Law Arithmetic Penmanship Grammar Correspondence Book-keeping and typing. Regular students attend free. special students pay 4 dollars monthly for instruction.
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Rogers & Williams Business College
Rochester
N. Y
Unclaimed Letters at Winchester Post Office
Week ending March 18 1900 lists unclaimed letters for Mr Bottom Mr Lee Eibey Mr W F Box Miss Dora Grigg Mrs Emma McQuay Charles B Smith Mr J C Walters and Mr W A Whiteley Post office charges one cent per letter for retrieval H Harpy P M
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Winchester
Bottom
Lee Eibey
W. F. Box
Dora Grigg
Emma McQuay
Charles B. Smith
J. C. Walters
W. A. Whiteley
H. Harpy
P.M
Will Meet Tonight by Sarah Zane Fire Company
The Sarah Zane Fire Company will meet at 8 oclock this evening to instruct their Morgan Memorial Committee and hear the Uniform Committee report. Miss Eia Moorehead is improving after her recent illness.
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Charley Rouss Fire Company
Fike
Daniel Morgan
Sarah Zane Fire Company
Morgan Memorial
Uniform
Eia Moorehead
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THE
Evening Star
Evening Star Publishing Co
H. Hansbrough
East Water Street
SA_TELEPHONE
Daily Star
Times and Star
Mar
Toe
Evenine Star
Baltimore & Ohio
R. R
Washington, D. C
Bunday—Jones’ Creamery
Mattings
the Common Council
Court House
Clana
Piqueu— . Fuller
BE. i Boyd
P. Kremer
A. Heller
Finance Committee
Henry Baetjer and
Business
Department OF the
Ador Val Haden
Nchester
Eugene Aulick
South Braddock St
North Kent St
Kremer’s
GEO. W. Kremer
Piccadilly St
South
Washington
M. M. Lynox
Atty
Tinchlaeber, Va
Santos Coffee
Strasburg
W. E Barr, Main St
Thoroughbred Poultry
Plymouth Rocks
Robert
Moore
Peyton St
H. Douglas Fuller
City of Winchester
GEO. H. Heist
N. Main St
Miller’s Drugstore
South Braddock Street
West Monmouth Street
Braddock
Richard EK. Byrd
Commonwealth
Warren Rice
Warren Rice & Co. Commercial Collection
Hansen & Carter Building
Winder
Virgin
Frederick, Clarke, Warren
Virginia
Berkeley and
Jefferson
Martinsburg
West Virginia
Cooper's
Columbia
N. A. Cooper
East Water
North Market
Heller’s
White Underwear Bargains
Old Price
Cts
Worth
Heller's
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