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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1903
Page
2
City of Winchester adopts 1903 04 tax schedule covering stock brokers and bankers slot machines licensed scales social clubs stage lines street venders and tobacco dealers with specific rates. The document notes penalties for license violations and mentions continuation tomorrow. It ends with a misread ad copy and a fragment about croup.
A nurse of South Kent Street Mrs Martha Heary shares a home testimony praising Dean's Kidney Pills for kidney pain and backache. She says doctors misattributed symptoms to indigestion and credits the pills with significant relief after purchasing at Franck Baker & Son's drug store. Price fifty cents, Foster-Milburn Company sole US agents.
Railway schedules list convention travel from Atlantic City to Saratoga with B and C principal conventions and special rates. Dates vary by city and organization including Saengerfest in Baltimore June 15-20 and Elks in July, with ticket sales and return deadlines specified for each event.
A series of notices from Frederick County Virginias readers announce candidacies for local offices. Robert Worsley seeks the county treasurer post. A B Richards and J M Childs pledge for treasurer. K Bernard Kitchen and D D Braithwaite announce for commissioner of revenue Northern District. H P Kerns and Purcell McKee seek northern district revenue nomination. voters urged to consider these petitions and to support preferred candidates at the Democratic Convention if held.
The OCR fragment shows banking accounts and items such as loans and discounts, overdrafts, stocks and bonds, dues from national and state banks, banking house and furniture, other real estate, current expenses and taxes, premiums, checks and cash items, specie and currency, capital stock, undivided profits, dividends, and deposits. It lists individual deposits, certified checks, and due to banks, reflecting a partial balance sheet snapshot.
The excerpt details daily southbound and northbound rail services from Berryville. It lists No. 3 and No. 1 daily trains to Roanoke with connections to Knoxville Columbus and Cincinnati, plus No. 27 to Elkton. Northbound No. 28 to Hagerstown with B&O connections, No. 4 to Washington and New York, and No. 2 to Harrisburg and New York with Pullman sleepers.
Commonwealth's Attorney of Frederick county announces candidacy subject to Democratic primaries or convention. Signed by JOHN M. STECK and Hoereert 8. LARRICK. Also notes additional eastbound local trains daily except Sunday between Harrisburg and Hagerstown with varied departure times. J. F. Born, La Plata Agent Supervisor.
Ice prices for the season beginning May 1 define tiers: under 50 lbs at half a cent per lb, 50 to 75 lbs at 40 cents per hundred, 100 to 800 lbs at 85 cents per hundred, 300 to 1500 lbs at 80 cents per hundred, 1500 to 2000 lbs at 25 cents per hundred, with a minimum sale of 5 cents. W R Hillyard thanks patrons and solicits continued support.
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