Virginia Tourist Travel Grows In June Patronage Up
Virginia tourism shows gains with seventeen hotels and inns reporting higher patronage in June 1937. Historic shrines average a 30 percent rise, Shenandoah National Park up 37 percent to 98,402 visitors, and Jamestown up 17 percent. Caverns average a 20 percent gain while some military parks fall. Literature distribution and lodge reservations completed in June.
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Jone
Per
Moe
Las
Wilbur C. Hall
Jume
Shenandoah National Park
Skyline Drive
Fredericksburg
Spotsylvania National Military Park
Petersburg National Military Park
Colonial National Park
Jamestown
Caverns
Evelyn Mullen
Commission
Washington
Richmond
The
Short Motoring Trips Through Virginia Booklet Released
A new booklet titled Short Motoring Trips Through Virginia issued by the District of Columbia Motor Club and distributed by the Virginia Conservation Commission outlines tours from hours to weekends. It covers Blue Ridge peaks, Chesapeake Bay shores, mountain ranches, and saltwater beaches with historic Virginia and some North Carolina Maryland spots. Florence K Buschman edited with Robert Uhl providing routings and touring details.
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Virginia
District of Columbia Motor Club
American Automobile Association
Virginia Conservation Commission
Blue Ridge
Chesapeake Bay
North Carolina
Maryland
Florence K. Buschman
The
American Motorist
Robert Uhl
Man With Glass Cutting Hobby Sought in Columbia
Columbia police search for a man described as having a hobby of cutting squares from plate glass not paper. Ten squares were removed from store windows last night in the latest spree.
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Columbia
S. C
Handley Library News notes cultural prize winners and travels
The column lists the Harper Prize winner The Seven Who Filed by Frederick Prokosch and notes past prize recipients. It reports Royce Brier’s New York arrival after tours in the Holy Land and mentions the Prix Femina Americain selections and Hawthornden Prize winner Ruth Ritter. It highlights Sinclair Lewis donating a manuscript to Yale and Vera Brittain’s European lecture tour plans. Louis Bromfield returns to the U.S. with The Rains Came manuscript forthcoming.
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Frederick Prokosch
United States
Louis Bromfield
Sinclair Lewis
Thorton Wilder
Able McLaughlin
Yale University Library
Lewis
Yale
Stirling Memorial Library
Europe
India
Orient
London
Virginia Farm Receipts Listed
Virginia farm receipts for the first half of 1937 totaled 43 082 000 of the nation’s 3 833 000 000. June receipts in Virginia reached 9 241 000 including federal farm benefits and actual farm income. The South Atlantic region including Virginia saw first-half 1927 receipts 15 percent above 1936 levels. Livestock and livestock product sales for the period exceeded the prior six months by 2 203 000.
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Virginia
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Uni States Department of Agriculture
South Atlantic
Traps Set Five Weeks Catch Five Japanese Beetles
Five traps in Winchester over five weeks caught exactly five Japanese beetles. The modest catch contrasts with reports of large beetle numbers in neighboring states. Quarantine on shipments from infested areas is credited with limiting spread in Virginia’s orchard belt.
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Winchester
Orchard
Virginia
Car and Truck Collision Near Gore Reported
Edmund P. Goggen of Richmond an Alcohol Tax Unit employee drove a car that skidded into a truck owned by J. C. Weese and driven by J. H. Harrison of Keyser West Virginia at Gore on Tuesday.
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Edmund P. Goggen
Richmond
Alcohol Tax Unit
J. C. Weese
J. H. Harrison
Keyser
W.va
Gore Tues
Driver Accepts Responsibility After Wet Road Mishap
The two-vehicle accident left damage estimates of 300 dollars for the car and 100 to 150 dollars for the truck. The road was reported wet and Officer R E Bayliss noted Mr Goggen took responsibility for the mishap.
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R. E. Bayliss
Mr. Goggen
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Conservation Commission
Handley Library
France
George Apley
J. P. Marquand
Helen Hull
Thomas Bell
N. L. Babson
England
Ruth Ritter
Erich M. Remarque
Switzerland
Berlin
Germany
R. C. Sherriff
Marcia Davenport
Lena Geyer
Salzburg
Austria
Firestone
N.B.C
Firestone Auto Supply & Service
N. Main St
Geo. T
Dodge
Pine Motor CO
Cor
Cecil & Braddock
Sts
Chevrolet
Shenandoah Motor Co., Inc
Braddock Street
Place Bickers
N. Braddock TR
P. M Duvall
Bickers Motor CO
Buncutter Tire Co
Germain & 8
Braddock St
Chapman Motor CO
Loudoun &T
H. W. Ebert
BUICK
Pontiac
Goodrich
Cammer Tire CO. Inc
Braddock & Boscawen
Shenandoah Valley
Universal Credit CO
Hughes. Motor CO
Used Car Department
Loudoun
Cork Sts
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