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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1908
Page
4
In advance pricing shown as per year six months and three months options. The table lists amounts including 2.50 and 1.25 with the 60 qualifier indicating a period or fee. The fragment appears to summarize subscription or service charges in advance pricing terms.
A reader asked William Jennings Bryan if he believed in advertising. Bryan replied that those who seek business without advertising are like lovers sending a silent kiss in the dark. The remark impressed the Reading Pennsylvania audience last winter.
The Star accuses the Hagerstown Mail of reprinting editorials without credit. The piece defends original journalism and urges proper attribution, addressing contemporaries and urging fair practice from press peers.
The New York Sun is described as delightful in its inconsistencies. It argues Bryan should be defeated to avoid Roosevelt's succession in 1912 and Taft should be elected though pledged to Roosevelt's policies. The Sun is said to trumpet Taft, claiming he will not carry out promises if elected.
The Italian duke wishes to wed Miss Elkins, but his kingly brother blocks the match. The king miscalculates, as American blood could strengthen the royal line. Steve Hikins is depicted as a cheerful buccaneer and seen as fitting to found a royal line.
William Ranolph Hearst pursues a shining place in public life as a powerful media figure amid dramatic social and political attention. The piece surveys Hearst's ambitions and public perception during a contentious era.
The excerpt describes a deputy sheriff delivering libel papers to Hearst in a Governor Haskell libel suit on a speeding railroad train. It portrays Hearst as sensational and morally obtuse, using money and press to provoke notoriety and attack others.
The Shenandoah Valley Agricultural meeting at Winchester will hold its thirty ninth annual exhibition in October 2023. The fair, long touted as the best in the Virginia Valley, offers new attractions and attractively reduced railroad fares from Martinsburg at five nine cents for a round trip.
Passengers aboard the Cumberland Valley train No. 2 near New Kingston Pennsylvania reported shots fired from a nearby corn field as the smoking car window was struck. An officer investigated and ruled the act the work of careless hunters with no injuries.
The Potomac Conference of the Virginia Synod will meet in Forestville from November 10 to 12. Speakers include Rev. C. W. Cassel of Stephens City and Rev. W. J. Smith of Bloom in this county.
Mr John H Nulton of Philadelphia visits his mother Mrs Minerva Nulton on West Water street The Winchester Auto Service of Philadelphia was named for this city and is now connected to Mr Nulton.
Mrs Lucretia S Hardesty applies for a divorce from Walter B Hardesty of Martinsburg West Virginia charging adultery and desertion. She asks for custody of their child. They were married in January 1904.
Market report shows steady tones with prices listed for wheat eggs butter oats hay corn potatoes and per bushel or per ton quotes. Values include wheat around 97 cents, eggs higher, butter at 18 cents, oats and hay quoted, corn per barrel near 8 dollars, and potatoes per bushel about 70 cents.
A faint report notes a car incident near Siera and Granges in the Valais region. A woman, later discovering a well-dressed infant hidden in a basket with clothing and notes for £720, was asked to care for the child until a future retrieval, per a London Globe description.
The sultan of Morocco is portrayed as a capable tennis player and avid enthusiast of bicycles cars and speed. The article notes his sporting ability and broad interests despite road setbacks and suggests a potential for future pursuits.
In the Circuit Court of Frederick County on October 7 1908 Herbert S Larrick trustee sues J Wm Miller et al to reach creditors of J Wm Miller and determine debts and priorities and to administer property assigned to Larrick. Nonresidents ordered to appear within fifteen days and publication required in The Winchester Evening Star weekly for four weeks and posting at courthouse door.
Order in the Circuit Court of Frederick County directs nonresident defendants to appear within fifteen days to protect their interests in the Winchester Star publication. The file concerns assets and liabilities of the Winchester Tea Co and related appointed trustee Larrick, with further rulings and posting of notices at the court house.
A local reader shares five year past relief from chronic piles after using Doan's Ointment. The account praises the cure by Dean's Ointment obtained at Baker & Son drug store and notes continued absence of discomfort. Doan's is advertised as the sole U S agent product, priced at five cents.
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