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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1902
Page
3
Detailed timetable lists five trips and a window service plan for carriers. It notes reporting times for leave and return, end times, and carrier times ranging from 40 minutes up to 2 hours 35 minutes. The schedule includes a business collection from boxes and eight packages by two carriers and a window service with raises and closes.
A Paris theater episode recounts General Ladmirault receiving a Versailles dispatch about the play Rabagas. He sealed it unopened, the next morning a messenger said Thiers had interdicted the performance, but the stage action continued and Rabagas was withdrawn not by Thiers order.
A story of Professor Morse after the first transatlantic cable celebration. He sends a telegram from an Ohio town to New York, refuses to pay, claims he is the father of the telegraph, and the operator questions his signature Cyrus W Field. Also notes a clergyman misusing sea metaphor in a sailors’ address and a reflection on lightning's attraction to oak trees and metal structures.
Train schedule effective May 18 1902 shows connections from Winchester to Harrisonburg Staunton Lexington and Harper Ferry with a 1 PM departure to Washington and New York trains. Manager passenger traffic and agent at Winchester state the importance of using the Baltimore and Ohio lines for timely travel and connections.
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