Epochal Grant Lee meeting at McLean House recalled
The article recalls the April 9 1865 surrender of Lee to Grant at Appomattox and the story of Lee waiting under the apple tree for word to meet Grant. It notes the tree's martyrdom and the plans to restore the surrender ground as a national park.
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Grant
Lee
McLean House
Robert E.lee
U. S. Grant
Appomattox
General Lee
Appomattox Oase
Yorktown
T. O. Bickers
Louisa
Washington
McLean
Surrender Grounds
Chicago
Wilmer McLean
Hix
N. H. Ragland
M. BE. Dunlap
Ida
New York Woman Missing May Be Amnesia Victim
Authorities seek Lillian Gordon a 25 year old from New York who disappeared February 12 and may be suffering amnesia. She weighs 165 pounds has black hair brown eyes olive complexion and a small scar on the right side of her neck. Call local officials or the police chief with any information.
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Lillian Gordon
New York
Miss Gordon
New York City
Police Department
New
Actress Enid Cooper seeks divorce from Frederick W. Ayer in New York
English actress Enid Cooper files for divorce from theatrical producer Frederick W. Ayer in New York. The couple, once regarded as very happily married, reportedly faced a surprise dissolution as Ayer resides in Alaska.
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Enid Cooper
New York
Frederick W. Ayer
Alaska
Mary Frances Ballard Named Virginia Tuberculosis Field Worker
Miss Ballard of Willis Wharf Northampton county will serve as staff field worker for the Virginia Tuberculosis Association May 1. She will cover Albemarle through Warren counties and Alexandria Fredericksburg and Winchester to organize volunteers and aid in educational programs and the Christmas Seal Sale. Ballard succeeds Miss Lula Freeman who moved to Fort Worth Texas. Ballard is a Mary Washington College graduate with social work training and Red Cross experience in Norfolk Louisville and Washington.
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Mary Frances Ballard
Willis Wharf
Northampton County
Virginia Tuber- Virginia
Leslie Combs Foster
Miss Ballard
Albemarle
Arlington
Augusta
Caroline
Clarke
Culpeper
Fairfax
Fauquier
Fluvanna
Frederick
Goochland
Greene
Hanover
King George
Loudoun
Louisa
Madison
Orange
Page
Prince William
Rappahannock
Rockingham
Shenandoah
Stafford
Spotsylvania
Warren
Alexandria
Fredericksburg
Winchester
Virginia Tuberculosis Association
Lula Freeman
Fort Worth
Daily Crossword Across Clues Puzzle Fragment
Crossword clues listed in a fragmented Daily puzzle with entries for splits skin pierces with tusks eagle nest swiftly title arid heat and spice wine a quantity get rid of below naut containing lime golf ball foul form a Ty ISIOP a footlike organ rodent self game at cards doctor abbr distributed by King Features Syndicate Inc Y -23
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Eagle's Nest
Self
Doctor
Any Time Is Called Good For Liming
Blacksburg Virginia April 22 In an agronomy update Dr T B Hutcheson says lime can be profitably used any time of the year not just in spring It conditions soil whether spread before plowing or worked in during cultivation and is suitable for corn hay legume sods and other crops AAA reports rising lime demand with 63000 tons in 1939 and 105000 tons by March 31 this year due to farmer gains from lime and increased publicity from Virginia newspapers and magazines
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Blacksburg
T. B. Hutcheson
V. P. I. Agronomy
Hutcheson
AAA
Virginia
Socialists Say They Are Gaining in Virginia
In Roanoke on April 22 the Virginia Socialist party reports rising activities membership and finances. Richmond secretary Hilliard Bernstein says the state executive committee met all day and drafted an agenda for the May 1819 Richmond state convention including electors nominees for the House in several districts district conferences to decide on candidacies and a Senate nominee to oppose Harry F Byrd.
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Roanoke
Socialist Party In
Virginia
Hilliard Bernstein
Richmond
State Party
Bernstein
House of Representatives
United States Senate
Harry F. Byrd
Insurance Aids Farmer
All risk wheat crop insurance, launched in 1939 by the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, allows growers to insure 50 or 75 percent of their long-term average yield. Farmers pay premiums in wheat units proportional to past losses, and indemnities typically offset the premiums, ensuring annual income at least for a portion of the crop.
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Federal Crop Insurance Corporation
United States Department of Agriculture
Corporation
Catholic Bishop Criticizes Birth Control Exhibit in Augusta
Bishop Gerald P. O Hara denounced a birth control display as brazen propaganda and a public disgrace after viewing 25 exhibits at the Georgia Conference on Social Work in Augusta. The protest was referred to the conference executive committee while organizers defended the Mothers Health Club as a recognized agency aiding mothers. The Savannah Atlanta diocese leader said he spoke for 23 000 Georgia Catholics and others who oppose birth control efforts.
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Augusta
Gerald P. O'Hara
Georgia Conference On Social Work
O'Hara
Birth Control Federation of America
W. K. Elliott
Georgia
Crop failure cost shifting burdens on farmer income
The farmer faces bearing all costs of poor yields or total crop failure in bad years, leaving him with little or no income during those periods.
The Beauty of Katharina Schratt
Katharina Schratt known as the Graefious Lady of Vienna dies at 85 in a villa near Schonbrunn built by Emperor Franz Josef for her. For forty years she was the emperor’s mistress and a prominent figure in old Vienna society.
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Katharina
Kathi” Schratt
Franz Josef of
Austria
Old Vienna
Royal Park
Schoenbrun
Nazi Transport Hit By Torpedoes
London reports German transports hit by torpedoes from British submarines in a convoy attack. Three German planes shot down and other aircraft damaged during two days of intensified air raids on British naval units. The enemy suffered no hits on ships.
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London
Admiralty
Funeral Services For Mrs Hillyard Held At Kurtz Parlor
Impressive rites conducted by Rev Van Der Linden for Mary A Hillyard 90 who died Thursday at her daughter Mamie Mertz home in Hagerstown. Burials took place at Mt Hebron Cemetery with pallbearers named Golightly Carr Carper Jolliffe Pifer. A Warren county native and longtime Boyce tollgate keeper she remembered the Civil War.
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van der Linden
Kurtz
Mary A. Hillyard
Mamie Mertz
Hagerstown
Mt. Hebron Cemetery
Robert Golighty
Richard Golightly
Clay Carr
Foley Carper
Alexander Jolliffe
Hall Pifer
Warren County
Boyce
Baptist Church
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John W. Daniel
the James
George W. Kurtz
All America
RED Seal Records
Bluebird Records
Toselli
Johnson Rag
Reeeee
BOS Victor Needle Baker ! & Anderson
N. Braddock St
Bae
Firestone Auto Supply & Service Stores
T-B Organization
Daily Crossword
ISIOP
King Features Syndicate, Inc
Ireland
Alt
Victor
Kathi
Katharina Schratt
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Amzsma
Ausmcny
New York Corporation
Pittsburgh Cast Iron & Steel
American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corporation
Sunbeam
Pittsburgh
Standard Sanitary Corp
Ee Burgh
Standard
Stanhope Group
Pembroke Bath
Comrade Lavatory
Clases
Aii
Ine
Pau Tee Cora
Tidtandard
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