Flood rescue drives air and river lifts as death toll climbs
Memphis reports flood across Arkansas Mississippi region with 48 dead and warnings of more drownings. Refugees reach safety by plane steamer and river barges while railroads suffer and property damage remains unestablished. Additional relief includes 1500 refugees moved from Greenville to Vicksburg. Freight rules suspended amid transportation emergency.
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Associated Press
Memphis
Tenn
Scott
Miss
Yahoo
Arkansas
Mississippi
Mississippi River
Greenville
Tollenger
Vicksburg
Court House
Washington
Mississippi Valley
Interstate Commerce Commission
Miller Bros. Show To Remain Here All Next Week
After two days of talks with Martinsburg fire officials the Miller Brothers Exposition Shows will stay in Winchester for the coming week. The move avoids canceling in Martinsburg and keeps the big venue on the same grounds. Children will pay nominal admission on Tuesday and Friday afternoons as part of Children’s Days.
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Martinsburg
W. Va
Winchester
American Legion Post
Elton
Georgia Minstrels
Smithfield youth struck by car on Braddock Street
Lurain Bowley, son of Mr and Mrs Wallace Bowley of Smithfield Avenue, was hit by a car while riding a bicycle yesterday while entering Braddock Street from Amherst. He escaped with minor injuries and the driver was exonerated of blame.
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Lurain Bowley
Wallace Bowley
Smithfield Avenue
Braddock Street
Amherst
Cadets Aim to Ride to Winchester Parade by Car or Train
Staunton Military Academy cadets and band face travel challenges for the Apple Blossom Festival parade. Plans include a possible 125 car caravan to Winchester with return, or a special train at about $2,000, raised by subscription. Public-spirited leaders push rapid funding to ensure cadets participate.
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Staunton Military Academy
Staunton
Winchester
Rouss Spring Land
Ae Ae Nome
Rn Bee Autos
Russell
Staunton Academy
Cale Russell
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Baltimore
Funeral for W Randolph Jones at Christ Church Sunday
The late W Randolph Jones of Hotel Jack desk staff died from a cerebral hemorrhage in his Kernstown apartment. Funeral 4 PM Sunday at Christ Episcopal Church with Rev Robert B Nelson and Rev T H Daffin officiating. Interment Mount Hebron. pallbearers listed. Attending relatives include Rev and Mrs John L Jackson and Miss Eleanor P Jackson of Charlotte NC. Earlier note correcting funeral location to Christ Church.
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W. Randolph Jones
Hotel Jack
Christ Episcopal Church
Robert B. Nelson
T. H. Daffin
Opequont Memorial Presbyterian Church
Kernstown
Charlotte
Mr. Jones
Aged Citizen III Alfred Dodson Ill at Home
Winchester resident Alfred Dodson longtime community figure is gravely ill at his East Cork Street home.
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Alfred Dodson
Winchester
East Cork Street
Free Goitre Clinic to be Held in Harrisonburg
Dr. A W Graves goitre specialist will hold a free goitre clinic Friday April 29 1927 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in office rooms 315 316 National Bank Building Harrisonburg Virginia. He will treat all worthy poor cases unable to pay for treatment free, but patients must pay for drugs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. W. Graves
National Bank Bldg
Harrisonburg
Virginia
Fire company to issue uniforms Monday evening
Rouss Fire Co. will issue uniforms Monday evening at 7 o clock on April 25. Uniform committee members Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Marston and Mrs. EB. B. Gregg and her daughter of Baltimore will visit Mrs. A. L. Green at her home during the festival.
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Rouss Fire CO
C. T. Marston
EB. B. Gregg
Baltimore
A. L. Green
Route of parade for second day's fete announced
Lieut Nelson F Richards announces the parade route for the Apple Blossom Festival Thursday afternoon. The route runs from Piccadilly and Cameron west on Piccadilly to Loudoun then Cork Braddock Clifford Washington Weston town Picadilly to Fair Grove. Several floats join industrial and historical divisions including Babb Brothers Berryville High School Gore School and Fort Loudoun chapter DAR. Entries close Monday night with many groups already pledging large contingents.
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Nelson F. Richards
Piccadilly
Cameron Streets
Loudoun
Cork
Braddock
Cnieoun
Clifford
Clifford Washington
Weston Town Picadilly
Fairmont Avenue
Airacont Avenue
Fair Grove
Oerade
Groun
Gaie Neeks
Fort Loudoun
Daughters of the American Revolution
Frigidair Company
Piedmont Company
Knights of Pythias
Youth Suffers Acute Appendicitis
Lester Forney son of City Council man Fred W. Forney was suddenly ill at home last night and diagnosed with acute appendicitis. He was taken to Memorial Hospital where an operation was performed immediately. Contact J F Baylis at 309 Amhert St for details.
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Lester Forney
Fred W. Forney
Memorial Hospital
Weather Outlook for Apple Blossom Festival Weeks
The Weather Bureau reports a fair start for the North and Middle Atlantic states with showers midweek and again at the end. Cool early, then warmer with a notably warm second half in the middle Atlantic states.
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The
Associated Press
Washington
Weather Bureau
North
Middle Atlantic States
Middle Atlantic
No Damage From Frost Seen In Frederick County Orchards
Boyd R. Richards and growers surveyed over a dozen orchards across southern western and northern sections of Frederick County and reported no frost damage despite forecasts. Temperatures ranged 28 to 38 degrees at daylight, with frost noted in Clarke County and ice forming in Frederick County.
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Boyd R. Richards
Clarke County
Frederick County
Mother Kills Daughters to Send Them to Heaven
FLANDREAU April 23. Mrs. Lloyd Overdahl killed her three young daughters at the family farm 18 miles southeast of here. While the three slept last night she slashed their throats with a butcher knife, according to the version she and her husband gave the sheriff after she was jailed.
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Associated Press
Flandreau
Heaven
Lloyd Overdahl
Here
Rails Spring Into Activity In Day's Trading
NEW YORK April 23 Strength and activity of rails particularly coal ers featured today's irregular session of the stock market. Delaware and Hudson scored nearly seven points to 207% the highest since 1907 and was followed into higher ground by Reading Baltimore and Ohio and Lehigh Valley. The closing was irregular. Total sales approximated 1 250 000 shares.
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Associated Press
New York
Delaware and Hudson
Reading
Baltimore
Ohio
Lehigh Valley
American warships fired upon in Chinese waters grows
Shanghai April 23. American warships in Chinese waters have been fired on 45 times and six men injured. Since August 26 they were fired on 11 times near Nanking and often replied.
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Associated Press
Shanghai
Nanking
Pageant of Progress of the Shenandoah Valley at Apple Blossom
Tickets are on sale for the Pageant of Progress of the Shenandoah Valley to be staged at the Winchester Fair Grounds on April 27 and 28 during the Apple Blossom Festival. The show features over 600 cast members with music by the U S Navy Band. General admission costs 1 dollar, with tickets at local shops. reserved seats 75 cents and six-person boxes for 6 dollars available at Apple Blossom Festival headquarters George Washington Hotel.
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Shenandoah Valley
Winchester Fair Grounds
United States Navy
People’s Drug Store
Sample Shoe Store
Baker's Drug Stor
George Washington Hotel
First Evidence in Snyder Trial Opens Monday
Opening statements in the Ruth Snyder case begin Monday before a jury to decide guilt in the murder of her husband. Henry Judd Gray and Mrs Snyder face possible death by electric chair if convicted. The jury was chosen after five days of questioning 390 talesmen, all married, ten fathers.
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New York
Ruth Snyder
Henry Judd Gray
Estatesmen
Lincoln Cars For Use Of Queen And Mrs Wilson At Festival
Ford Motor Company offers six Lincoln automobiles for the Apple Blossom Festival next week. Chauffeurs and mechanics will accompany the cars. One car reserved for the Queen of the Festival Mrs Kenneth N Gilpin and another for Mrs Woodrow Wilson. Four cars to be used by the festival committee. Cars of the same type were offered for Queen Marie of Romania during a previous Winchester visit.
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Ford Motor Company
Washington
Lincoln
Kenneth N. Gilpin
Woodrow Wilson
Queen Marie
Romania
Winchester
Henry Ford
Nurse Wanted for Children in Summer Country Setting
Help wanted notice seeking a refined white nurse for children. Part time in country during summer. Send references age and experience to Mrs H F Byrd care Star Office.
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H. F. Byrd
Care Star Office
LACE CURTAINS AND RUGS LAUNDERED AT SEAM LAUNDRY
Winchester Seam Laundry offers laundering services for lace curtains and rugs with phone contact 28 for inquiries and drop off or pickup details.
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Winchester
New Meat Market Opens At Market And Piccadilly
New meat market opens in the grocery store at corner Market and Piccadilly streets on Tuesday April 26 offering government inspected beef pork veal and smoked meats at affordable prices. Free city wide delivery starts today and the first 106 customers spending five dollars or more receive a free full size broom.
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Piccadilly Streets
Sargent Brothers
Sanitary
Red Cross Appeals for Mississippi Flood Relief Aid
A national Red Cross drive calls Winchester and Frederick County to donate generously to Mississippi flood relief. Clergy receive envelopes and a telegram urging congregations to participate fully, reflecting urgent, large scale needs as flood refugees rise.
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Robt. B. Nelson
Winchester
Coolidge
Red Cross
Mississippi
J. Arthur
Jeffers
Dr. McFaden
Frank T. M’faden
Robert B. Nelson
Cable danger on Cecil street near Cameron
Complaint states a half inch cable used by Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone workers as they erect a pole on Cecil street near Cameron. No protective cover or pipe around the line and at night it poses a risk of serious injury to passersby.
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Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
Cecil Street
Cameron
Fire Kills Twenty at Briggs Plant in Detroit Blast
A Detroit Briggs Manufacturing plant exploded and burned killing about 20 workers and injuring over 100. Firemen estimated many debris still on ruins as 2 rescue crews fought the flames in a four story brick building with paints and varnishes. Ambulatory responses and ongoing search continued as officials probed cause.
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Associated Press
Detroit
Mich
Briggs Manufacturing Company
Charles L. Earle
Storm cripples telephone network with many lines out
A February storm damaged the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company system. A table on a street intersection burned out, cutting 16 lines and 100 stations, while another fire disrupted 16 lines and 26 stations. Local repair crews from Washington worked through the day and by afternoon most services were restored.
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Chesapeake
Areston
Bossa
Sion
Cork Street
Washington
Movement to urge Smith and McAdoo to quit
The New York Times reports a party movement urging William G. McAdoo and Smith to withdraw to avoid fracturing the party. Virginia's Carter Glass and Chattanooga editor George F. Milton are cited as backers, arguing a split could disrupt the South if both stay in the race.
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Associated
New York
York
Times
Wo Rnter
William. G. McAdoo
the Times
Tims
Cater Glass
Virginia
George F. Milton
Chattanooga News
McAdoo
Smith
South
Milton
Pola Negri to Return to Screen After Marriage
Pola Negri and Prince Avani of Georgia plan to wed in Paris on May 6 and return to the United States at month’s end to resume her motion picture career aboard the steamer Aquitania, according to a report cited by the New York American.
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Associated Press
New York
Prince Avani
Georgia
Paris
Bridge K collapses but workers escape in river span incident
A span of the new Big Sandy river bridge between Kenova and Catlettsburg collapsed today. Men at work warned of danger as one could be hurt but all escaped with minor injuries.
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The
Associated Press
Huntington
W. Va
Kenova
Catlettsburg
Colla
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