Alexandria Opens Chautauqua Today Despite Low Seat Sales
The Alexandria Chautauqua opens today with the afternoon program at the tent north of Bantst Temple. Prices have been reduced and a Pan American Band performance is planned along with lectures and entertainments for the opening day. Police report two men sought for other incidents. Fort Humphreys post exchange was robbed of 500 to 600 dollars. several locals face fines for bird treaty violations. community sing and lodge installations are noted.
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Fort Humphreys Exchange
St Alexandra
Swarthmore Ro
Public Safety
Morton
Fort Humphreysa
Navy to Patrol Route for Airmen Homeward Flight
Navy vessels will patrol the Atlantic and maintain radio communications to aid the homeward voyage of armoured flyers. Secretary Wilbur announced orders directing cooperation with the air service and Admiral Magruder to oversee operations from Atlantic waters. The flotilla aims to begin August 1 and ensure a safe crossing.
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Atlantic
America
Secretary of the Navy
Wilbur
Hull Fogland
Air Servie
Navy
Seretary
Admial Thomas Po Magruder
Alant
Waters
Social events in Prince Georges and Anacostia areas
Several Thursday social events in southern Prince Georges county and nearby areas. St Thomas parish hall Croome hosts a parish dance with proceeds for the rectory, St Parnabas hall Oxon Hill hosts a separate dance, and a home event to benefit the Home for Children at Anacostia. An August Croome outing for St Thomas parish includes baseball games a supper in the grove and dancing.
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Prince Georges County
St Thomas Parsh Hall
Croome
St Parnabas Hall
Oxon Hui
Hearst Morris
Anacostia
Er On
St .Thomas Parish
Miss Mish Mishbridges to Lucius Cook in July
Announcement today reports the marriage of Eleanor Mish, leading woman in the Give and Take theatrical company, to Lucius Cook, production manager of the Theater Guild in New York. The couple met while Wiss Mish was a student at a New York dramatic school.
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Washington Peat
Arlington County Aids In Drive For Aged Masons Home
Arlington County leads a drive for an $800000 George Wright memorial to build a home for aged Masons and their families in Virginia. District No 54 chair Harry Green aims to raise $1200 with Columbia lodge involvement. George Wright is noted as a former grand master. New officers were installed at Ballston Arc House.
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Arlington County
Clarendon
George WW Wright
Virginia
Harry K Green
Distr
Ariington
Fairfax
Loudoun
Trreen
Columbia Lodge
Cosdon
Masons Temple
George Wright
Masons of
Richmond
Ballston Archouse
Woman survives two 500 foot crashes in one flight
Special to The Washington Post describes Miss Ting, 24, paying $20 for a ride with Walter Mathews over Marietta Ohio. After the plane’s wing is ripped off by wind, it crashes 400 feet, then is blown upward and wrecked in a tree. Mathews suffers a head gash and skull fracture while Miss Ting is unhurt.
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Washington Post
New Wartingville
WooVa
Mary Tang
Miss Ting
Walter Mathews
Scott Line
Marietta
Ohio
Odsonwird
Janied
Miss Lang
Mathews
Faces Third Sentence Of Death for Slaying
Special to The Washington Poet Petersburg reports James Patterson alias Bossy Patterson was sentenced by Judge Mullten of Petersburg hustings court to be electrocuted for the January 20, 1922 murder of Irving Seid, a city merchant. The case, tried first in 1922, led to a 1923 conviction, later retried, with a stay and appeals to the Virginia Supreme Court.
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Petersburg
James Patterson
Bossy Patterson
Joh W Mullten
Hustings Court of
Irving Seid
Patterson
Ariesed Shardy
Supreme Court of Appeals of
Virgina
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Supreme Court of Appeals
Fleet Corporation Sells Lake Klambeau Ship to Sea Board
The Fleet Corporation yesterday sold the Lake Klambeau ship of 14 ton capacity to the Sea Board and Gulf Steamship Company in New York for 7758 dollars. Repairs estimated at 70 dollars were to be made by the new owners, who were said to be considering fixing the price.
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Fleet Corporation
Lake Klambeauargo
Seaboard and Gulf Steamship Company
New York
Linen
Owner-Farmers Net $1,020 As Average
The 1923 survey of 16 183 farms shows owner-operators averaged cash balance 890 dollars. Inventory of crops livestock machinery and supplies added 130 dollars, totaling 1020 dollars return on 17490 dollars capital and farmer labor. They also produced food and fuel worth 250 dollars on average.
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Department of Agriculture
Crans
Financial Summary of Owner’s Living Expenses and Debts 1923
The owner was provided funds to cover living costs debt service and property improvements. In 1923 interest payments on debts averaged 239 dollars per year while expenditures on improvements averaged 140 dollars.
Birth of Soviet Constitution Celebrated in Moscow
Moscow marked the first anniversary of the Soviet federal constitution with parades speeches and exercises. The event also honored International Cooperation Day and featured the presentation by French communists of a historic banner from the Commune of 1871. About fifty thousand workers and the entire Communist International gathered at Khodinskoe Polye where a tragic stampede at Nicholas II coronation site in 1917 claimed many lives.
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Moscow
Russia
Communist International
Khodinskoe Polye
Nicholas II
Burlington's Westward Vacation Tour to Rocky Mountains
The Burlington invites travelers to a Grand Circle Tour from Denver covering 236 miles of mountain scenery. Highlights include Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park, plus Yellowstone via Cody Road, Glacier National Park, and a Pacific Northwest extension with Rainier, Crater Lake, and Columbia River Highway.
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America
Rockies
Colorado
Grand Circle
Denver
Rocky Mountain
Estes Park
Continental Divide
Yellowstone National Park
Cody Road
Glacier National Park
Pacific Northwest
Seattle
Portland
Spokane
Tacoma
Rainier National Park
Crater Lake National Park
Columbia River Highway
Spokane Lake
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Arlington County Volunters Firemens Association
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Carlisle Pa
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