Many New Cars Sold Says Bell Licenses Ahead
Andrew Bell in charge of the bureau reports a strong lead in automobile license sales for the period. As of last night 3 829 passenger cars had been licensed, 430 more than the same period in 1934, and 614 trucks, 103 more than last year. Since March 15 Winchester and Frederick county recorded 150 autos licensed, suggesting about $75 000 in value at an average of $500 per car.
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Andrew Bell
Winchester
Frederick County
Bell
Referendum On Wheat Control Set For May 25
County Agent D M Cloyd announced a nation wide referendum on May 25 for wheat growers to decide on continuing wheat production adjustment measures under the 1935 Agricultural Adjustment Act. The initial contracts with the Secretary of Agriculture expire with the 1935 crop year. Proposals include shifting land from wheat to grass in drought and dust storm areas, keeping production and acreage similar to the earlier program.
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Front Royal
D. M. Cloyd
United States
Secretary of Agriculture
Front Royal All-Stars Open Season With Majestic Radio Club
The Front Royal All-Stars board plans a Sunday season opener at 3 pm against the Majestic Radio Club of Washington D. C. A practice game may be held Saturday afternoon per manager Wallace Thomason.
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Frond Royal
Front Royal All-Stars
Majestic Radio Club
Washington, D. Co
Atanager
Wallace Thomason
Farm Sold in County near Antonville Luray Front Royal
John V. Sours and Nora E. Sours transfer 42 1 acres to Frank A. Mc Henry and Alice McHenry for 1500 dollars. Land lies one half mile south of Antonville in the South River District near Luray Road. Deed recorded April 15, 1935.
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Front Royal
John V. Sours
Nora E. Sours
Frank A. McHenry
Alice McHenry
Antonville
Luray’road
South River Magisterial
Putman Rites Tomorrow
Services for Mrs. Virginia Elizabeth Putman will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Front Royal Methodist church conducted by Rev. R. B. Clagett with interment in the Nineveh cemetery.
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Front Royal
Virginia Elizabeth Putman
Front Royal Methodist Church
R. B. Clagett
Nineveh
Warren County Junior Class Dance Planned At High School
Social page reports the Warren County High School Junior Class will hold a dance in the school auditorium on Thursday evening, April 18. Local visits include Mrs. C N Shephard Mrs R Lee Sowers and Mrs A J Bowen of Rockland. The Warren County band and various residents are noted with influenza measles outlines and community events.
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Front Royal
Warren County High School
C. N. Shephard
R. Lee Sowers
A. J. Bowen
Rockland
DeSoto Burruss Missionary Society of the Methodist Church
R. W. Weiser
Warren County
Parent-Teachers’ Association
Gladys McFall
Elaine Greenwalt
Margaretta Burke
Margaret Cassidy
Jean Williams
Selma Scheuer
Christine Curl
Mary R. Fritts
Bettie Bell
B. Ney Scheuer
George W. Duncan
Frederick Bell
Thomas Owens
Richard Ferrell
Raymond Maddox, Jr
Godfrey Boyd
Harold Smith, Jr
Durston Mcintosh
Charles Greenwalt
Robert McCarty
Eldon Brumback
Aubrey Jones
Otis Kibler
Plans for May toxin and preschool clinics
Front Royal health nurse Mrs. Raymond W. Weiser announced toxin clinics and clinics for pre school children to be held during May. Dates will be announced for rural communities through the schools. On May 9 the clinic for Front Royal and vicinity will be held.
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Front Royal
Raymond W. Weiser
Warren County
School Census To Be Taken In Warren County
A census of Warren County focusing on school age children will begin later this week. G. Tyler Miller, superintendent of Warren Rappahannock schools, supervises the project. Wallace Thomason leads the work, previously computing wheat acreage in Cedarville district, with Bernard Hendrick assisting.
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Front Royal
Warren County
G. Tyler Miller
Warren-Rappahannock
Wallace Thomason
Cedarville
Bernard Hendrick
Randolph-Macon Academy Fourth in Track Meet at Woodberry Forest
In Front Royal on April 16 Randolph-Macon Academy finished fourth in a fourway track meet at Woodberry Forest. Woodberry Forest won with 66.5 points Fork Union 35.5 and A M A 28.13 Randolph-Macon Academy totaled 16 points. Scorers for A M A were Miller Stone Samworth Jones Hauser Brandt and Lewis with Coach Holladay.
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Front Royal
Randolph-Macon Academy
Woodberry Forest
Fork Union
Miller
Stone
Samworth
Jones
Hauser
Brandt
Lewis
Holladay
Academy
Marriage License Issued for Canoles and Smedley in Front Royal
A marriage license was issued in Warren county to Margaret Canoles daughter of the Rev and Mrs William Edward Canoles and Lynwood Smedley son of Mr Ernest Smedley both of Front Royal. The groom's occupation is painter and the ceremony was performed by Rev Moorman Parker in a Warren county office.
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Front Royal
Warren County
Margaret Canoles
William Edward Canoles
Lynwood Smedley
Ernest Smedley
Moorman Parker
Ickes threatens Louisiana PWA funding over Long dispute
Secretary Ickes denounces Senator Long and warns that federal public works funds for Louisiana could be cancelled if the state gains authority over local expenditures. He cites a $1.8 million PWA allotment to the New Orleans Sewer and Water Board and says contracts may be pulled if the Longsure effort proceeds. He mocks Long as emperor and emphasizes funding was directed to New Orleans.
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Washington
Senator Long
D.-La
Ickes
Louisiana
Long
PWA
New Orleans
Huey Long
State of Louisiana
Weather Holds Up Opening Of Ball Season
Oldman winter delayed the start of the 1935 major league season as two of eight games were postponed. Detroit could not play the Tigers against the White Sox, and Washington canceled the anticipated Presidents First Ball toss as the Athletics faced the Senators.
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New York
Oldman
Detroit
Tigers
Chicago White Sox
Washington
Roosevelt
Philadelphia Athletics
Senators
Jury Chosen Quickly in Bremer Kidnapping Case
In St. Paul on April 16 a jury was selected to try ten defendants charged with complicity in the $200,000 kidnapping of banker Edward G. Bremer. Both sides waived four remaining peremptory challenges and announced a jury including three women was acceptable.
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ST. Paul
Edward G. Bremer
Government advises against public gas masks in Denmark
In Copenhagen on April 16 a government commission urged against issuing gas masks to the public. The group advised people to seek safety on higher floors of buildings rather than rely on cellars for air raid protection.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Plane Falls but Occupants Escape at Detroit Airport
An American Airways transport plane bound from Chicago to New York ruptured during takeoff at Detroit city airport. The craft sank about 25 feet after both engines failed, crashing into a tree but leaving six passengers, two pilots, and a stewardess uninjured.
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Detroit
American Airways
Detroit City
Chicago
New York
Buffalo
Largest Whale On Record Captured In 1907 Exhibited
The largest whale on scientific record measured 54 feet and was captured and killed in 1907. It is on exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History.
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American Museum of Natural History
Socialite Missing In Forest Search Near Farmington
An army of police and civilian searchers comb the forest land near Farmington Connecticut for traces of Mrs Andrew Booth Gordon. The society matron and mother of a young infant was last seen leaving her home to go to a drug store.
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Farmington
Conn
Andrew Booth Gordon
Society
You Can Sew This Yourself Marian Martin Pattern
An ad for Marian Martin sewing patterns touts a dress aimed at creating a lean look with clever seams and a diagonal closing. It promotes sizes 36 through 50, a 3% fabric note for size 36, and ordering details with pricing for the pattern book and patterns sent to The Winchester Evening Star Pattern Department.
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Marian Martin
Winchester Evening Star Pattern Department
W. 18Th St
New York
N. Y
Laura Ingalls Seeks Transcontinental Speed Record Flight
Laura Ingalls launches from Los Angeles aiming to beat Amelia Earhart’s 1932 record by flying 2 447 miles to Floyd Bennett Field New York in about 15 hours aboard a low wing monoplane NR 14222. Weather along the route improves from Albuquerque to the Midwest with clear skies beyond, as officials report varying conditions east of the Mississippi.
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New York
Laura Ingalls
Floyd Bennett Field
Brooklyn
Albuquerque
N. M
Miss Ingall
Los Geles
Union Airport
Amelia Earhart
Kansas City
Cleveland
Middlewest
Miss Ingalls
Miss Earhart
Barbara Bell Fashion Pattern For Summer Housedress
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1483 B offers a smart summer housedress with short set in sleeves waisted darts and panelled skirt. Designed in sizes 36 through 48 this pattern suggests fabrics like percales seersucker gingham and calico with pre shrunk creaseless cottons and a white pique vestee for a light face. Monday two piece tuck with wrap around skirt is noted.
Market In Stocks Shows Little Lift Amid Cautious Trading
Traders booked some profits but overall activity stayed muted with no major shifts. Oils, chemicals and industrials recovered after early declines while grains, cotton, and commodities offered limited support. Selected 2 p.m. stock prices list listed Allied Chemical to Woolworth with modest moves.
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New York
Liverpool
U. S
Stock Exchange
Allied Chemical
American Can
American Smelters
American Tel & Tel
Atch
Topeka & S. Fe
Bethlehem Steel
Chrysler
Consol
Gas of N. Y
General Electric
General Motors
Goodyear
Int. Harvester
Funeral Services For Two Women
The funeral of Mrs. Mary Phillips, whose death occurred Sunday, will take place from Shiloh Baptist Church, North Kent Street, at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Interment will be in Orrick Cemetery. The funeral of Mrs. Virginia Wilkinson will take place at 1 30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon from her late home, No. 801 South Cameron Street, with interment in Orrick Cemetery.
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Mary Phillips
Shiloh Baptist Church
North Kent Street
Orrick Cemetery
Virginia Wilkinson
South Cameron Street
Lion-Fixing in South Africa Profit Motive Behind Poached Lions
The practice involved natives luring prey with poisoned meat to entice lions to feed and become groggy. White hunters paid to shoot the incapacitated lions openly, turning carnage into a lucrative sport in colonial South Africa.
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South Africa
Baltimore Livestock and Produce Markets Report
Baltimore markets show cattle calves hogs sheep and lambs with varied prices by weight and grade. Philadelphia live poultry and dressed poultry prices are listed with butter and eggs steady and eggs at 13 cents.
Local Market prices for grains and feeds listed
The Star lists daily local market prices for flour, corn, middlings, seed feeds, egg mash and dairy feed. Prices show bagged flour per barrel and per 98 and 48 pound lots, shelled and cracked corn, corn meal by weight, middlings, mixed feed, egg mash varieties, butter, and livestock figures with varied cents and dollar figures.
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Aare
Newent
Oda Alee Creamery
Aeveeages
Grain Quotations and Cash Prices Across Markets
Chicago April 16 closing grains Wheat May 1.02 1-2 to 5-8 July 1.01 7-8 to .02 Sept 1.02 3-8 to 1-2 Corn May 89 3-8 to 1-2 July 83 1-4 to 3-8 Sept 78 1-2 Oats May 50 to 50 1-8 July 44 Sept 41 3-8 Rye May 61 1-4 July 62 3-4 Sept 64 1-2 Barley May 72 3-4 July 67 Lard May 12.80 July 12.87 Sept 12.90 Bellies May 16.70 July 16.75 Chicago Cash Grain No. 2 mixed 1,023-4 corn No. 4 mixed 891-2 No. 4 yellow 891-2 Baltimore Wheat No. 2 red winter 1.00 1-2 April 1.00 1-2 Winchester Markets Wheat 1.00 bushel White corn 95 cents bushel Yellow corn 90 cents bushel Barrel prices 4.75 to 4.50 all on mill deliveries.
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Chicago
Baltimore
Winchester
He Weighed Half a Ton
The article profiles Mile Darden a very large man born in 1798 who lived until 1857. He stood 7 feet 6 inches tall and weighed about a half ton. Married with children, he worked all his life and is described as a normal person despite his extreme size.
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United States
Mile Darden
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