Webster's Oil Portrait Returns to Virginia Heritage Scene
The Daniel Webster portrait, seized as Confederate spoils and later gifted to the University of Virginia, will grace the new Thomas Bayly Memorial Art Museum. The gift from George Hammond Sullivan honors his father and mother, linking Civil War memory with a 19th century American portrait.
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Thomas Bayly
Universit
Virginia
Daniel Webster
Potomac River
Provost Marshall
Washington
Algernon Sydney Sullivan
New York
Sullivan
Old Dominion
University of Virginia
George Hammond Sullivan
Mary Mildred Sullivan
Winchester
New Art Center
Webster
Thomas Jefferson
Sully
George Washington
Peale
Edmund 8. Campbell
University
School of Architecture
Evelyn Bayly Tiffany
Baltimore
Campbell
Charlottesville
Wii Woodson Norvell
Battle of Seven Pines
Leroy Wesley Cox
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Stuart Hanckel
E. H. McPherson
Albemarle
R. Willis Thompson
A. P. Dennis
Richmond
James F. Powell
Roanoke
New England
Jefferson
Ringing Grapes and Forcing Bloom Through Wires in Orchards
An expert describes a historic method of producing oversized grapes by ringed pruning, noting a rare practice used for exhibition purposes. The article cites a later experiment with twisted wires to force blossom and fruit production on apple trees, detailing how sap movement can convert leaf buds into fruit buds and how timing affects outcomes.
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Anada
Ckshinny
Understanding Sap Flow In Trees And Bud Formation
The author explains how sap moves from a tree’s leaves to its trunk and roots to be stored for next year. When sap channels are inhibited by ringing grapes or wiring branches, sap stays in leaf buds and converts them into fruit buds.
Food Prices and AAA Problems in Consumer Study
A study from the Agricultural Adjustment Administration shows food costs 14 percent below overall living costs, with food remaining the best value aside from rent. By May 1935 food prices rose 25 percent since 1914, while other family budgets rose 40 percent. The AAA notes shifts in farmer shares, recovery effects, and drought impacts, plus programs to conserve meat and feed and proposals for an ever normal granary to stabilize supply and prices for consumers and farmers.
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Agricultural Adjustment Administration
AAA
Plac
Wallace
Congress
Dionne Sisters Bring Boom To North Ontario
North Bay Ontario August reports a surge of visitors to the Dafoe hospital 12 miles from town as the Dionne quintuplets draw tourists from across Canada and the United States. Police tally about 5 000 visitors on busy Sundays and similar numbers the day after. weekday totals exceed 3 000. Dr. A R Dafoe notes no lodging available between Huntsville and North Bay.
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North Bay
Ont
Ontario
Canada
United States
Dafoe
A. R. Dafoe
Huntsville
Callander
McDonald
North Bay Board of Trade
Tourist Information Bureau
Executor seeks court direction in Moore Davis estate case
In the Clerk's Office of the Corporation Court of Winchester on July 16 1935 T Russell Cather as Executor of Lou Ellen Moore Davis filed a suit against C H Moore Jennie Moore Mrs A D Cockey Mary Moore and C William Moore to direct administration of the estate. The court orders non residents to appear within fifteen days and notice to be published weekly for four weeks in The Evening Star and posted at the courthouse door by August 19 1935. Corinne Barnett Deputy Clerk.
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Corporation
City of
Winchester
T. Russell Cather
Lou Ellen Moore Davis
C. H. Moore
Jennie Moore
A. D. Cockey
Mary Moore
C. William Moore
Virginia
Evening Star
Corinne Barnett
Ontario Gas Tax Revenue From Quintuplet Visitors
Reports claim Ontario earns at least 300 to 400 dollars daily from gasoline taxes paid by visitors to the quintuplets home. Private estimates place traffic at 30,000 cars since June 1, about 500 daily, between Callander and the hospital, after visitor admissions began.
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Ontario
Callander
Silver Center of Persia Ispahan Described as Most Interesting
The article extols Ispahan as the silver center of Persia, noting its status as the old capital with palaces mosques and gardens still standing despite population decline from about 00,000 in the seventeenth century to a third of that.
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Persia
Ispahan
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Goodyear
Faurot
Allweather
Buncutter Tire Co
Dionne Sisters
North
Conoco
Timken
Ep Conoss
Continental Oil Company
Storage, Inc
Winchester Cold Storage Corp
C. L. Robinson Ice
Cold Storage Corp
Wender
Bermuda
Wenderj
Winchester Furniture Co
Philco
Philcos
E. Boscawen St
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