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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1902
Page
2
Hon Thomas 8 Martin U S Senator and Mr George L Browning will address the voters at Court House hall in Winchester on Thursday evening October 30 at 8 oclock.
The Southern Railway will start its winter schedules Sunday November 2 1902 with several local train changes. Details to follow as practicable. Reduced fares offered via Southern Railway for Virginia to Richmond Virginia Christian Missionary Association meeting November 11 14 1902 with tickets on sale November 9 13 and final return November 16 1902. Also special fare to New Orleans Louisiana for American Federation of Labor meeting November 13 22 1902 with tickets on sale November 11 12 and final return November 24 1902. Continuous passage in each direction.
The document lists schedule times for five delivery and collection trips with carrier times and windows, ending with a window service detail. It also includes a warning about peach stones burning and gas-like fumes in damp cellars with an anecdote about keeping fire safe. The text closes with a brief exchange about an ancient spoon and a reference to Egyptian specimens.
The fragment indicates a continued piece titled The Small Fry from the same page, likely a column or comic feature, but noFurther readable details or context are present to determine an event or outcome.
A short discussion on drowning mechanics explains that a person may drown after one or three surface rises depending on water intake and lung air. The following vignette centers on a bride and wedding reportage where the editor quizzes a society editress about the groom, highlighting inconsistent naming in announcements.
Our daily arrival of the latest furniture designs includes parlor, dining and bedroom suites plus pictures and easels. The new line emphasizes fresh styles attractive to eye and purse, inviting inspection of the showroom offerings.
Ostriches live about sixty years. The mandarin duck is a beautiful aquatic bird. The codl is voracious and swallows moving objects. An eel has two hearts beating at 60 and 160 times a minute. A ladybird travels 20,000,000,000 times its length in an hour while a sloth moves fifty times its length in that same period. The raven is cosmopolitan and found everywhere. Only the flying dragon can glide and sustain itself in air. The common house fly notes by vibrating at 335 times a second. The honey bee sings A with wing vibrations at 440 per second.
In 1796 a 56 pound stone exhibited in London was claimed to have fallen in Yorkshire. Sir Joseph Banks noted a likeness to a Siena stone said to fall from the sky. A later report of stones near Benares Hindustan led to chemical analyses showing identical composition, shifting doubt about meteoric origin.
A Detroit Free Press item relays a humorous incident about a Swedish maid learning English from a young mistress. The mistress teaches bread terminology, insisting stale means not fresh, prompting the maid to remark confidentially that her husband is “more stale” than she is.
A collage of brief sentences from Chicago and Philadelphia papers features a policeman breaking up a budding Irish quarrel, a dramatic line about refusing a demand and blood upon a head, and a farmer’s wry joke about floating debt as his house sinks.
Mr Franck Baker and Son, a leading drug firm, arranged with a large Boston house to distribute a new cod liver oil extract named Vinci Wine of Cod Liver Oil. The article praises Baker’s enterprise, explains past tasting troubles with cod liver oil, and invites readers to learn more about the palatable, non patent medicine preparation.
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