Jefferson's Birthday Observed At Monticello Celebration
Monticello in Charlottesville will host the 190th birthday observance of Thomas Jefferson on Saturday April 13. The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation promotes the event with an Ulian Founders Day program at the University of Virginia featuring Dr Frank Aydelotte as speaker and a Monticello Guards march in colonial dress.
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Monticello
Charlottesville
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jeff Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation
University of Virginia
Frank Aydelotte
Swarthmore College
Stuart G. Gibboney
Foundation
Jefferson
Aydelotte
Lafayette
Madison
Monroe
Monticello Guards
R. Gray Williams
Winchester
Seventy-Fifth Congress
United States
Jeff Grave
Illinois Farmer Found Trapped in Silo
Morris Illinois April 8 Farmer Wallie Foster 65 warned his wife the silage might slide. She found him inside the silo trapped against the wall with only his head clear after being unable to move for six hours. Rescue took four hours.
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Morris
Wallie Foster
Notice to claimants and creditors of Louisa L estate
All persons holding claims against the estate of Louisa L. must present them to the undersigned before May 1. All persons owing the above estate should pay before May 1, 1940. Beatrice Kerns and W. A. Bailey, Bailey's Store, city.
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Louisa L
Beatrice Kerns
W. A. Bailey
Bailey
Bank Closing Notices Due to Holiday in 1940
Several banks announce closures for Saturday April 13 1940 due to a legal holiday and say all transactions dated that day will be payable on the following banking day April 15 1940. Signatories include Brown Seana Valley N at’l Bank Yost Farmers and Merchants National Bank Sloat Commercial and Savings Bank Usenell Union Bank of Winchester.
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Thomas Ae
Amdl
Salaes
Brown
Seana” Valley Nat'l Bank
Ganano
J. H. Yost
Farmers and Merchants National Bank and Trust Co
John I. Sloat
Commercial and Savings Bank
Monne TS Usenell
Cashi
BB. Er
Union Bank of Winchester
Virginia missionary in Shanghai protects 120 children
Grandma Maud Truxton-Henderson, 72, a Virginia-born missionary in Shanghai’s dangerous bad lands district, runs St. Faith’s settlement. She shelters and teaches 120 Chinese youths amid war fallout, crime, and shifting governance, funding her work mainly from Chinese patrons and a few American supporters.
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Maude Truxton Henderson
Virginia
Bad Lands
Shanghai
Associated Press
Maud Truxton-Henderson
China
Miss Henderson
St. Faith's Settlement
Henderson
International Settlement
St. Faith's
Alexander Henderson
San Francisco
Archibald Henderson
U. S. Marine Corps
Commodore Perry
Japan
Orient
Far East
Boston General Hospital
New York
U. S. Navy
Robert E. Lee
Lexington
Maud
West Point Military Academy
Captain Thomas
George W. Washington
Surplus Dog Fund Funded Quail Restocking Plan Adopted
Pulaski County officials consider using surplus dog license funds for game restoration with potential federal matching from Pittman Robertson funds. Handley urges other counties to follow, detailing how funds could restock quail, protect nests, and cover related farm costs with state and federal support.
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Blacksburg
Virginia
C. O Handley
Virginia Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit
Pulaski County
Handley
Game Commission
Pittman-Robertson
State Commission
Pulaski Fund
Aihomseste
Carl Nolting
Board of Supervisors
Funeral Rites Held For Waldo Hack Baltimorean
The funeral for Waldo Hack of Baltimore, who died suddenly last Friday at his Glyndon home, was held at 10 am at the Brooklandville home of his sister Mrs. Douglas G. Carroll with Rev. P J Jenson. Interment followed at Greenmont Cemetery Baltimore. Attendees included Mr and Mrs Frank N Hack Mrs Henry B Gilpin and others from the Hack family.
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Waldo Hack
Henry B. Gilpin
Roy Ryden
This City
Van
Meter Hack
Betty Hack
Home Hack
Spring Dale
Bartonville
Census Taker Makes A Call
In Olympic Washington on April 8 a census taker was denied entry as Patrolman James Heath hurried home for lunch. The jailer intervened after protests grew, discovering the census taker was making a business call and had not informed his successor.
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Olympic
Wash
James Heath
Mrs Nellie Boden Snapp Dies At 64 In Brucetown
Mrs Nellie Boden Snapp wife of J B Snapp died Sunday at Bruce town after an illness lasting over a year She was 64 and a daughter of Charles H Boden and Mary Baker Bo of Frederick county She lived in Brucetown all her life Survived by husband two children sister and four brothers Funeral Tuesday at 2 30 from Brucetown M E Church Interment in Mounebron Cemetery Pallbearers named
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Nellie Boden Snapp
J. B. Snapp
Brucetown
Charles H. Boden
Mary Baker Bo
Frederick County
H. H. Pisher
Julian Snapp
Robert Smith
Charles Cameron
Raymond Smith
Arnold Gordon
Purcell Stine
Jesse Snapp
Andrew Whitacre
Frank Swimley
Tom Price
Sam Swimley
Treasury Status Receipts and Outlays Reported
Treasury data for April 5 shows receipts 10.656 million dollars and expenditures 38.505 million. Gross debt stands at 91.247 million, increasing by 7.307 million from the prior day.
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Washington
The
Treasury
Park fires suspected as 300 acres burn in Woodstock area
Fire wardens suspect incendiary origin after several blazes in the Fort Valley area near the manganese mines. Foresters CCC boys and civilians battled the flames, destroying 300 acres of timber and several World War era buildings. J Carson Adderson led operations with ore shipped from Woodstock.
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Woodstock
Meena
Ee George Eres
Bearce
John Chrisman
Pein
CCC
Fort Valley
Russia
Brazil
J. Carson Adderson
Washington
American Manganese Producers Association
Massanutten Mountain
Butler 15-Year-Old Kills Woman After Rejection
Fort Worth Texas April 8 Ernest Joe Butler 15 confessed to shooting Mrs Clifton Beck 20 after she spurned him and warned her husband. He described making advances prompting the slaying and later led farmers in a hunt for a supposed black assailant. Police report notes he whistled while recounting the event. The case could send him to a state reformatory until age 21 with a possible six year term.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Ernest Joe Butler
Clifton Beck
Harry Ward
Butler
Beck
Butler in custody after pistol incident at field
In a tense scene a man named Butler was jailed after authorities recovered a pistol thrown by Herold at a field. Butler remained calm whistling as photographers arrived, signaling the end of the incident and the start of detention.
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Butler
Herold
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Chicago, Il
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Emmet, Marvin and Martin
Leroy A. Lincoln
Madison Avenue
New York, N. Y
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Harry W. Croft
Greenwich, Conn
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St. Louis
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Robert W. Fleming
Washi
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Frederic W. Ecker
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Saar Wieness Bent
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
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William W. Cal. Crocker
Crocker
First National Beak
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