Warrenton Horse Show Features Col George's Bob First
Special to The Washington Post from Warrenton Virginia August 20 under ideal conditions the twentieth annual Warrenton horse show opened. Col George's Bob won the military charger class while Alarm of Sidehill Stables and Foxcatcher Farm entries earned multiple ribbons in heavy weight hunters and other divisions.
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Jabs at Jutland And Corinthiana Winners Cited In Race Card
A garbled list of horse names and handlers appears to record results from a set of races. Names include Greenway, Goodstans Stables Corinthiana, Jesale Dear, Argershire Farm, Frederick McElhone, Rockeby, Sowers Green, Hexagon, Foxcetcher Farm, Cracker, Wiliam Kinker, Good Night, Goodstone Stables, Saddie horses, Firat, Crackette, Mrs. Allen Potts, Grayling, Mr. John Gaines, Debanter, Julian Keith, local jumping events, Fox craft, Mrs. M. Maddux.
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Enormous Taxes by Plumb Plan Hit Virginia
Richmond, Aug 26. Gov Davis received from the State corporation commission a study on the Plumb plan’s impact on Virginia. In ten years state taxes would total about 2,500,600 annually, about a quarter of treasury revenues. Richmond would bear most of 154,689.73 loss. Public ownership would force the legislature to seek new revenue for schools and debt, per the commission.
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Timberlake Weds Miss Boggs at Lewiston Church
J Edward Timberlake of Fredericksburg and Miss Nannie Wiley Boggs daughter of the late Lewis A. and Mrs F C Boggs of Lewiston Spotsylvania county were married at St John’s Church Lewiston today. The Rev R C Grimore and the Rev Mr Eagle officiated. After a Northern trip they will reside in Fredericksburg.
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Fredericksburg
J Edward Timberlake
Nannie Wiley Boggs
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Lewiston
Spotsylvania County
St. John’s Church
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Mr. Eagle
Harvard Man Named Head of Biology at William and Mary
President J A C Chandler announced the appointment of Donald Walton Davis, Harvard Ph D, to head the biology department at William and Mary College in Williamsburg. The biology organization had just been completed. In Fredericksburg, Mrs A J Martin, 70, died after a short illness in Spotsylvania County, leaving five children.
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Spotsylvania County
Alexandria War History Drive Seeks Local Records
Governor Westmoreland Davis urges the local American Woman's Legion to compile a complete history of Alexandria's wartime work. Miss Helen Norris Cummings coordinates submissions from churches and organizations to ensure accuracy.
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Helen Norris Cummings
Cameron Street
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First American in French Army Arrives in Asheville Today
Paul Ayres Rockwell, said to be the first American to join the French army after war began in August 1914, arrives in Asheville to visit his mother Dr. Laula Rockwell. He and his brother Kiffin Rockwell left Atlanta newspaper work and sailed from New York soon after the war started. Rockwell was wounded and discharged from the Foreign Legion after an assault with Jeanne Leguyes, daughter of the French navy secretary, reputedly one of France’s wealthiest women. Next, Kiffin Rockwell was killed in an air battle with the Germans.
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Daniels' Son Quits Navy to Join Family Newspaper
Capt Josephus Daniels Jr of the United States Marine Corps resigns after serving from 1917 as a private, advancing to captain by 1919. He will move to Raleigh, North Carolina, to oversee business management of his father's newspaper. He returned to the United States in August with brigade headquarters.
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Baltimore Oil Plant Fire Rages Amid Explosions
A blaze at Sherwood Bros oil plant in eastern Baltimore began with an afternoon explosion and spread to nearby Red C and National Oil facilities. The Sherwood warehouse stored kerosene and lubricants. twenty tanks were destroyed just as the fire was contained. In Richmond, Senator W B Addison urged Virginia lawmakers to create a tax equalization board, calling the current system fraudulent and dishonest.
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Elder Glasscock Dies From Injuries After Yearlong Fall
William S Glasscock aged 93 died in Baxter West Virginia from injuries suffered in a fall a year earlier. He resided with his daughter Mrs Elery Michaels and leaves a son Harry Glasscock.
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Mrs Grace Bell Dies After Breakfast Illness in Gaithersburg
Grace B Bell aged 38 wife of Arthur F Bell died Tuesday in Gaithersburg after being stricken at the breakfast table and passing within half an hour.
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Maryland and the Virginias News Clipping
Maryland and the Virginias reports multiple local notices from Rockville to Fredericksburg. Included are a perjury warrant in Washington regarding a marriage involving Mrs. Coleman and Bernard Carter Soo, a colored Gold Fello ws biennial session in Hagerstown, a Cambridge murder report by Yancy Nichols, divorce actions in Rockville, and obituaries from Lynchburg and Fredericksburg including Stanley Watkins Martin and William McMartin.
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Tragic drownings, deaths reported across states
Special to The Washington Post Morgantown reports Mina Roys 21 from Beaver Falls Pa drowned in Cheat River near Mount Chateau after cramps during a solo swim. Grafton records James Goodwin 77 found dead in a hay mow east of Flemington after six days missing. Nashville notes SM commission leaders sail Aug 29 for Europe to arrange Belgium aid. Winston-Salem reports George E Nissen Co buildings burned at Waughtown, loss about 500000. Hagerstown records Lewis Oyster 93, oldest Odd Fellow in county, dies.
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