Roanoke Island Play Rehearsals For Lost Colony Revival
The Roanoke Island Historical Association readies the 229th performance of The Lost Colony at a 3100 seat open air theatre near Kitty Hawk. A two week dress and technical rehearsal underway with native cast, main actors and crew from North Carolina. Governor Cherry to address crowd before curtain.
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Fort Bal
Paul
Walter
America
London
Banks Country
Kitty Hawk
Unday
Thomas C. Durst
Wilmington
University of North Carolina
Hollywood
Katharine Calee
New York
Eleanor Dare
Virginia Dare
New World
Martin Kellogg
Dare
Eleanor
Ananias Dare
Lubin Leggette
Tabor City
Carolina
Wilbur Dorsett
Greensboro
John Walker
Chapel Hill
Adoption petitions rise in Virginia during wartime
Virginia adoptions more than tripled in five years per a state survey cited by the American Public Welfare Association. Wartime conditions helped. Foster fathers in the armed services filed papers to grant government allotments for their foster children and many proceedings aimed to let children share their foster parents’ surname.
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Chicago
INS
Virginia
American Public Welfare Association
Armed Services
Old Timers Club Aims to Preserve Historic Automobiles
Preserve Old Timers Portland Oregon reports the Historical Automobile club of Oregon plans a museum collection to safeguard aging vehicles. Members own cars including a 1910 Franklin a 1915 Reo a 1910 Chalmers a 1905 Black a 1910 White and a 1915 Detroit Electric.
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Portland
Ore
INS
Historical Automobile Club of Oregon
Franklin
Reo
Chalmers
Detroit Electric
Silk rival flax plant to open in Camas this month
In Camas Washington a new flax plant designed to yield a fibre competing with silk will begin operation this month. David W. is reported as leading the project and overseeing the setup and expected production milestones.
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Camas, Wash
INS
Camas
David W
Housewives Rescued by Navy Patrols During Susquehanna Flood
Harrisburg report says floodwaters from the Susquehanna stranded housewives who were saved by navy patrols. rescuers ferried the women in water craft named weasels to nearby grocery stores amid rapid currents.
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Harrisburg
INS
Susquehanna River
Navy
Flax Processing Under Water Promises Silklike Fibre
Bowes, president of the Columbia Flax association, said the flax would be processed under water to reduce fire hazards and yield a fibre that is new and comparable to silk with a sheen like silk but stronger.
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Bowes
Columbia Flax Association
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Hamilton Lumber CO
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