Big Jubilee May Be Held at Appomattox
A movement for a joint Blue and Gray jubilee at Appomattox on April 9 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Civil War end. Organizers from Manassas and surrounding groups urge inviting the town and honoring past reunions at Gettysburg and Manassas.
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Appomattox
Washington
George C. Round
Manassas
Men Veterans
Westwood Hutchins
Ewell
May Dogemun
Bull Run
Daughters of the Confederacy
G. Raymond Ratcliffe
Manassas Business League
Bir
Surf
Usgir
Court House Lawn
Grant and
Leeaven
Seminary Ridge
Grant
Lee
American Union
Henry Hill
Fanassas
Moses
God
Passion Play Star Anton Lang Joins War Front
Oberammergau reports Anton Lang once famed for portraying Christ has left his Bavarian village to enlist with ski infantry to fight the French chasseurs Alpines in Vosges. He leaves behind wife and three children as locals wrestle with pride and shock at his decision.
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Oberammergau
Bavaria
Anton Lang
Christ
Vilage
Chasseurs Alpines
Vosges
Christus
Lang
Herod
Caristus
Son
Anton
Campaign Against Rats Launched by Chester Civic Club
Chester West Virginia April 3 the Chester civic club has launched a campaign against rats led by school children to keep a tally of each catch as part of a local public health effort.
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Chester
W. Va
Chester Civic Club
Groundhog proves winter end near as pets burrow
Bellefonte Pa April 3 Charles Grubb reports a groundhog he kept all winter failed to appear on Groundhog Day. After cheesecloth tests the animal emerged and began digging, suggesting summer is near despite deep freezes. John Newton in Cambs county traps sweet potatoes with groundhogs digging 198 holes in six days.
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Bellefonte
Charles Grubb
Grubb
John Newton
Cambs County
Newton
Haiés
Jitney Service Expands Prompting Trolley Fears in Providence
In Providence Rhode Island on April 3 a remarkable jitney rise has occurred. Service started with one automobile in February and now covers most trolley routes with over cars. Street car patrons dwindle as jitneys surge, prompting federal court trustees to protest to the city council about unfair competition and potential shutdown of trolley lines. The note closes with a stray neighbor inquiry about a cat.
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Providence
R. LI
New Electric Light System For Grafton
Grafton develops a new lighting plan with cluster electric lights on ornamental poles and all wires placed underground in the business district. Latrobe street will be repaved with asphalt and widened by removing a sidewalk on one side. The new post office area at Latrobe St Mary and Main streets will see further improvements.
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Grafton
Latrobe Street
Latrobe
St. Mary
Main Streets
Convict Draws Plans For the State Building
Eight years after a murder conviction left Leslie E. Francisco illiterate he becomes an able draftsman and supervisor for a Colorado penitentiary project. Warden Tom Tynan touts Francisco's design of the administration building, stone built by convicts, costing about $12,509, with future plans to fit it with steel cabinets. Francisco, 23, from Colorado Springs, learned via correspondence school while serving his sentence.
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Denver
Apr
Leslie E. Francisco Coud
Tom Tynan
Colorado State Prison
Francisco
Carlson
Penitentiary
Tynan
Colorado Springs
Suffragets Corner The Seed Market
Pennsylvania suffragists report the seed shortage for yellow flowers due to European war disruption. Mrs. Frank M. Roessing states 10 000 suffrage gardens can be supplied if orders stay within limit. seeds on hand include yellow poppies calliopsis calendula and yellow snapdragons and chrysanthemums.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Frank M. Roessing
Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Asociation
Europe
New York
Old Fashioned Homes and Babies Debate In Fort Worth
Fort Worth reports a lecture by Miss Lutie Stearns of the American Federation of Women's Clubs urging traditional homes and babies. She criticizes so called family hotels as incubators and says modern conveniences shift moral duty to women. The piece also notes deaths, funeral services, and local club activities amid Lent and Holy Week observances.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Lutie Stearns
American Federation of Women's Clubs
Miss Stearns
Growing Peaches in the South Atlantic States
The U S Department of Agriculture released Farmers Bulletin 633 detailing peach varieties that succeed in various regions and their approximate ripening periods. The bulletin urges careful variety selection by locality and notes that ripening dates and suitability vary by district, advising growers to align plant choices with market timing and seasonal crop levels.
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Washington
United States Department of Agriculture
Department
Farmers’ Bulletin
New Jersey
Greensboro
Georgia
California
Alberta
Colorado
Germans urge Brussels lace trade during war
A German civil government bureau in Brussels aims to boost lace exports to Germany to aid Belgian lace makers. The group, under government auspices, seeks fairer pay for lace workers by cutting out middlemen and selling cheaper laces in Germany while covering its expenses.
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Associated Press
Brussels
Bureau
Germany
Belgium
Brakeman Proclaims It Pays to Advertise in Cumberland
S B Lancaster a Cannnells Ville division brakeman on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad says it pays to advertise after finding a candy wrapper with Miss Elizabeth McDowell of Baltimore on it. He contacted her and she became Mrs S B Lancaster. They live in Connellsville and he works between that city and Cumberland.
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Cumberland
S. B. Lancaster
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Lancaster
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Young Men’s Chrstian Association
Elizabeth McDowell
Baltimore
Miss McDowell
S.B. Lancaster
Connellsville
Baltimore & Ohio
That City
Largest game preserve formed in United States deal sealed
J A Viquesa state game and fish warden and Hynd Lockridge Allegheny Sportsmen's Association leaders take over lease for over fifty thousand acres in Randolph and Pocahontas counties. Land owned by West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company and bought in 1899 for 585000. Preserve lies along Richmond and Parkersburg turnpike and Cheat river with two hundred miles of trout streams and abundant wildlife. The new group aims to fulfill the founders plan of the Cheat Mountain Club and its successors.
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Charleston
J.A. Viquesa
Hynd
Lockridge
Allegheny, Sportsmen's Association
United States
Fine
Col
William Seymour I
Randolph
Pocahontas
West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company
Dewings
Kalamazoo
Mich
Richmond and
Parkersburg
Cheat River
Allegheny Sportsmen's Association
Cheat Mountain Club
William
Seymour Edwards
W. G. Brown
Kingwood
R. C. Dalzell
J.*j. Holloway
Wheeling
Henry G. Davis
Stephen B. Elkins
Elkins
Time locks replace keys as wives guard doors in Cleveland
Cleveland readers report wives purchasing time locks to track when husbands return home. The notice notes a household warning about late hours and a shift from traditional keys to recorded entry times controlled by wives, reflecting domestic vigilance in city life.
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Cleveland
Apr
Train Stopped For Passenger Safety In Wheeling
Conductor of a C L and W train halted after warning the head of a party to clear the ladies coach. A lone Syrian woman and peddler remained in the car as Dr Stork delivered a baby boy to the mother. Mother and infant were later taken to a physician's home in an Ohio town.
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Wheeling
Ohio
Woman champion argues for beauty of the figure
Chicago on April 3 reports Susanna Crocroft, a Chicago health advocate, defending the display and public appreciation of the female form. She argues beauty and health are expressed in art and living flesh, praising graceful movement and warmth over prudish restraint.
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Chicago
Ill
Susanna Cocrofa
Miss Co| Croft
Pic
Ture
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