Ohio Flood Toll Rises as Crest Moves Toward Ohio River
The Ohio flood toll climbs with two dead and one missing, more than 1,000 homeless, and damage estimates above 3 million dollars. National Guardsmen, Red Cross workers, and rescue crews operate as river crests threaten Zanesville and other towns while railroad service remains crippled.
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Zanesville
Ohio
Ohio River
Muskingum River
National Guardsmen
C¢Ccc
Muskingum
Licking River
Massillon
Marietta
Jean Harlow and Powell Seen Shopping Together
Hollywood report says Jean Harlow and William Powell, famed film pair, were spotted shopping in a Santa Barbara store in the pots and pans department fueling off screen romance rumors.
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Hollywood
Calif
Jean Harlow
William Powell
Santa Barbara
Victory Road Gap Receives State Funding Said To Benefit Virginia
Frederick county and Winchester citizens praise the State Highway Commission for funds to complete the gap from Winchester to the West Virginia line. The project will aid tourism entering Virginia via the Shenandoah Valley and serves as a crucial last leg for northward travel. It will create winter jobs and improve a major trunkline by filling an unimproved gap.
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Frederick County
Winchester
State Highway Commission
West Virginia Line
Virginia
Shenandoah Valley
Tucker McGuire Stars in Mary the Third at Winchester Little Theatre
Tucker McGuire will appear in the star role of Mary the Third by Mabel Crothers at the Winchester Little Theatre in Capitol Theatre Friday evening August 16. She has three years on the professional stage with varied experience and has appeared in The Second Man Ania Da Capo The Twelve Pound Look The Patsy and Contests Unknown.
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Tucker McGuire
Miss McGuire
The
Wine Little Theatre
Ania da Capo
Dramatic Arts
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Plans for Berryville Ave Work Sent to Richmond
Plans for improvements on Berryville Avenue from Elm Street to the east corporate limit have progressed to highway officials in Richmond. The project estimates $20,000 in expenditures and requests funding from federal and state sources since the route was designated Federal Route 340. Curb and gutter would span the full length with a 40 foot wide asphalt surface, extending work already completed on Berryville Avenue weeks prior.
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Berryville Avenue
Elm Street
Richmond
Church of Christ Hosts Two Guest Speakers
The Church of Christ will feature guest speakers on Sunday. At 10:00 Rev. E. B. McGukin of Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church will address the Bible School assembly. At 8:15 p.m. Rev. Ivan Smith of the Congregational Christian Church will preach during evening worship. All members urged to attend.
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Church of Christ
G. E. Owens
E. B. McGukin
Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church
Ivan Smith
Two Cars and Truck Crash Near York Springs
Harrisburg August 9 A collision three miles north of York Springs left Hartold Ware 43 of Washington severely injured with head injuries and lacerations after Mrs Alice Powell 31 also of Washington side swiped the coal truck driven by Walter Wilkinson 22 of Baltimore. Ware was taken to a Harrisburg hospital. Powell her husband Webster 27 and the truck driver were unhurt.
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Harrisburg
York Springs
Hart Old Rm Ware
Washington
Alice M. Powell
Ware
Connecticut Avenue
Walter Wilkinson
Baltimore
Powell
Webster
Hat Cleaning Ad Seeks Skilled NYC Experienced Vendor
An advertisement for a hat cleaning business seeks a worker with 25 years of New York City experience. The offer notes the Boston Hat Renovating Shop at 25 E. Piccadilly St and lists a contact or wage code ¢8-9-1p-21.
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New York City
Boston Hat
E. Piccadilly St
Caramel Cake Special at Home Demonstration Market
Saturday special offers caramel cake for 60 cents at the Home Demonstration Market on Market Street. Event runs 8 to 9 and 11 to 1.
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Market Street
Roosevelt cancels national Boy Scout Jamboree due to infantile paralysis
President Roosevelt cancelled the August national Boy Scout Jamboree after a White House conference with Surgeon General Cumming and health officials from Maryland Virginia and North Carolina. Nearly 35 000 scouts were headed to Washington for the event. The decision cited spreading disease and was described as a precautionary safeguarding move. The president plans a radio address to scouts on August 21.
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Washington
Roosevelt
National
White House
Hugh S. Cumming
District of Columbia
Maryland
Virginia
North Calina
Hoosevelt
Boy Scouts
Cumming
North Carolina
Grocers May Buy Surplus From City Farm Meeting
A meeting with grocers and city officials discussed selling city farm surplus produce. Grocers may source part of their vegetable supply externally to obtain fresher produce. Surplus products would be preserved for welfare cases this winter and revenue could fund grounds improvements.
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Artk
Capitol Hill Updates and Key 1935 Legislative Actions
The AP reports Senate debate on a little NRA bill and a finance committee review of a tax bill. The House considers private bills while yesterday's actions include a gold clause suits ban and conference on the social security measure. Also noted is a meeting of Young Democrats of Winchester and Frederick County urging attendance for upcoming state convention.
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Ee Walsh
Finance Committee
House
Ways and Means
Guffey
Winchester
Frederick County
Richmond
Two Wolfen Get 180 Years Each for Murder
Mrs Blanche Dunkel and Mrs Evelyn Smith each received 180 year prison terms after Judge Cornelius J Harrington found them guilty of stabbing Ervin J Lang a 28 year old grocery clerk and the partner of Dunkels mother in law. The state sought the electric chair for both.
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Blanche Dunkel
Evelyn Smith
Ervin J. Lang
Cornelius J. Harrington
Dunkel
City seeks status on $292000 water grant
City Manager Arthur M Field asks Washington PWA officials for the status and timeline of approval for the 292000 grant to fund a new water supply project. The total cost is about 532000 with 292000 coming from the government and a bond issue for 55 percent needed. Several municipal grants have already been approved elsewhere.
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Arthur M. Field
PWA
Washington ‘N
Roger
Maryland
Work May Start On Jefferson Street Sewer Main Soon
The Jefferson street sewer main project may begin late this week or early next. City crews now work on Millwood avenue and will move to Jefferson street after completion. Improvements at Handley high School include a new cafeteria setup and interior decorating ahead of the school opening.
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Jefferson Street
Millwood Avenue
Handley High School
Haniley
Death of Dr. W. D. Sydnor In Hamilton Virginia
Notice of the death of Dr. William D. Sydnor 61 formerly of Winchester found dead in bed at his Hamilton Loudoun County home. Cause given as hemorrhage. Survived by two wives Fairy Arneal and the late wife, four children from first marriage and one son from second. Funeral at Hamilton tomorrow at 2 PM with Masonic lodge burial rites.
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William D. Sydnor
Winchester
Hamilton
Loudoun County
Sydnor
Fachnure
Medical College of Virginia
Richmond
Har*tom
Socities
Loudoun County Medical Society
Order of United American Mechanics
Virginia
Fairy Arneal
Martinsburg
W. Va
Rudolph Body
Philadelphia
Fenton Nichols
Baltimore
Robert Browning
West Point
Charles Sydnor
Wahington
W. D. Sydnor
Masonic Lodge
Five Convicts Die From Heat At Louisiana Penitentiary
At the Anglo state penal farm in Baton Rouge Louisiana five convicts died and eight others were prostrated as a brutal heat wave struck. Manager R L Himes reported temperatures around 100 degrees and up to 105 during a mid day rest period while 12 of 13 workers continued hay gathering hoping for a longer rest period reward.
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Baton Rouge, la
R. L. Himes
Tears of St Lawrence Meteor Shower To Light Up Skies
An August meteor display called the Tears of St Lawrence will streak across the night sky for the next few evenings. The Perseid shower, visible between August 10 and 12, features billions of bright dust particles entering Earth's atmosphere at about 50 miles per second. Astronomers note the event can extend for weeks and requires staying up after moonset to observe.
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St. Lawrence
A. D
Valerian
Human Needs Over Budget Marks Virginia Bar Speech
White Sulphur Springs Virginia August 9 C O Conner Godrick Virginia Bar Association president urged that human needs are more vital than budgetary concerns in a speech opening the association's forty sixth annual meeting. He traced the judiciarys power from Marbury v Madison to modern debates noting the courts role in constitutional questions and defended government policy while criticizing some laws as misguided but praising Congress and the executive for courage during economic emergency.
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White Sulphur Springs
Washington
C. O
Godlrick
Virginia State Bar Association
Marshall
Merbury
Madison
Congress
Supreme Court
Mr. Godrick
NRA
Man Who Fled Prison In A Fog Is Recaptured
Lee Wetzel from Toms Brook Virginia escaped from the House of Correction early Wednesday and was recaptured in York Pennsylvania. He had been working in the kitchen as a semi trusty and slipped away when the milk was brought in amid fog and mist.
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Jessups
Lee Wetzel
Toms Brook
House of Correction
Leroy Wright
Wright
Wetzel
York
Thomas Rudkin
Pennsylvania
D. J. Howard Named Interim Virginia Vocational Supervisor
D J Howard to succeed Dr Walter S Newman as state supervisor of vocational agricultural education in Virginia. He has led northern Virginia since 1925 and will take charge by August 15 with Dr Sidney B Hall announcing the appointment. Howard holds BA and MA from Maryland.
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Dowell J. Howard
Virginia
Sidney B. Hall
Richmond
Associated Press
Howard
Walter S. Newman
Woodstock
Shenandoah County
Rational Youth Administration
Newman
University of Maryland
Hallsin
Wesley
Northern Virginia
Bovee Agricultural High School
Durin
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Jacksburg
Man Who Fell Off Rocky Ledge Reported Better
Robert Tate a 35 year old Inglewood California resident injured after a fall from a steep ledge on Half Dome Yosemite Valley is reported improving by physicians. He suffered a broken shoulder and a skull fracture while marooned overnight with Elizabeth Lorimer 23 of Chicopee Massachusetts. Rangers rescued them Wednesday, but details of the fall remain unclear.
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Yosemite
Calif
Robert Tate
Inglewood
Yosemite Valley
Elizabeth Lorimer
Chicopee
Mass
Tate
Rangers
Prediction of Failure for Maryland Public Works Plan
Baltimore August 9 John N Mackall former works progress administrator for Maryland predicted failure for much of the 63 million dollar public works program in the state in reply to Interior Secretary Ickes charge that Mackall sought to run the program. Joseph P McCurdy president of the Maryland District of Columbia Federation of Labor warned of wage scale difficulties saying there may be trouble over wages.
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Baltimore
John N. Mackall
Maryland
Mackall
Harold L. Ickes
Joseph P. McCurdy
Maryland District of Columbia Federation of Labor
Power Boats Break In Miles River Yacht Club Regatta
In St. Michaels Maryland the fourteenth annual Miles River Yacht Club regatta opened with power boats winning the first event a special match race for inboards. Howard Haffner of Severna Park took the opening trophy from Johns Hopkins University class of 1933.
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ST. Michaels
Miles River
Green Gables Opens on Martinsburg Pike
Green Gables on Martinsburg Pike is now open. A square dance is scheduled for Saturday night at the venue, inviting local residents to join.
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Martinsburg Pike
Hats On Sale At 39c 50c and 1.00
Mary S. Yeakley lists hat prices for Friday and Saturday with items priced at 39 cents 50 cents and one dollar in a short classified notice.
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Mary S. Yeakley
Death of Mrs Ida Shryock at age 79 in Winchester
Mrs Ida Finkbine Shryock, widow of Frederick R. Shryock, died after prolonged illness while visiting Pittsburgh. Born July 21, 1857 in Sewickley, Pa., she leaves three daughters and three sons, and dies in Winchester. Funeral services are Sunday at Kernstown Methodist Church with interment Mount Hebron Cemetery.
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Ida Finkbine Shryock
Frederick R Ees
Winchester
Shryock
Ciel
Pennsylvania
Peenk W. Bailey
W. Lodge Bowles
Boyce
Clarke County
Wilmer F. Shryock
F. Amos Shryock
Paul F Shryock
Baltimore
Baltimore Mail Line
City Harve
Wilmer - Finkbine
Eastport
Belle Quantz
South Loudoun Street
Floyd M. Lucas
Kernstown Methodist Church
E. B. McGain
Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church
Mount Hebron
H. Delmar Robinson
J. Hannon Morris
Fisherville
Frank Weere
Eugene Campbell
Kernstown
J. Walter Bailey
Woodstock, Va
Howard M. Solenberger
Grand jury returns true bill in Chicago murder case
A Chicago grand jury reported a true bill against Mandeville W. Zenge for murdering his love rival Dr. Walter J. Bauer. Across the world officials debate unemployment burden in cities. Perseid meteor showers expected August 10 to 12 in Los Angeles region. Robert Tate, 35, injured on Half Dome, listed as improving in Yosemite. Paris bankers Neidecker bankrupt and auctioned off. Germany faces food and fruit shortages. Laval presses economy decrees amid riots and strikes.
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Chicago
Bill Mandeville W. Zenge
Walter J. Bauer
Washington
Los Angeles
Yosemite
Calif
Robert Tate
Half Dome Mountain
Paris
B. Coles Neidecker
New York
Berlin
Pierre Laval
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Virginia Bar Association
Marbury
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Front Royal
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Green Gables
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