Miss Barriscate in Honor's Altar Tonight
Star notes Bessie Barriscate stars with Bruce McRae in The Green Swamp and La Laura in Bird of Paradise. Tonight at the Empire, Along the Honor's Altar will be shown with a two reel Keystone comedy His Auto Ruination and a Dixie Kids vaudeville act. Admission 10c to 20c. picture viewers pay 10c.
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Bessie Barriscate
Bruce McRae
Green Swamp
Ane
Miss Barriscate
New York
Lovey
Mrs. Tested
Barfiscale
Avid Belasco
Laura
Thomas H Se Se
Empire
Miss Barale
Harrisonburg Prepares for Large State Firemen's Convention
Harrisonburg readies for August state firemen convention with expected mammoth turnout. Official decorators progress as Rockingham National Bank and Rockingham County Court House display holiday garb and Elks contribute bunting. Electric lights brighten streets as townsfolk join in decorating efforts ahead of the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rockingham National Bank
Lodge of Elks
Harrisonburg
Rockingham ‘County
Fist National Bank
Virginia Has Few Cases of Paralysis
Richmond reports eleven infantile paralysis cases across Virginia under close watch. Three quarantined in Richmond include a new case contracted at Peaks Hanover County. Health Commissioner Ennion G. Williams says the situation is not alarming and typhoid is satisfactory amid ongoing rains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Ennion G. Williams
Virginia
Hanover County
Williams
Town Gets Drank in Jamaica Ginger
An anonymous letter to a federal court from an Oklahoma town asks detectives to stop drug stores from selling Jamaica ginger as an intoxicant. The writer claims the drink causes widespread drunkenness and nuisance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jamaica
City Hall
Washington
Federal
Band Stand Erected on City Hall Plaza for Winchester Concerts
A band stand has been erected on City Hall Plaza for the Citizens' Cornet Band of Winchester. The stand sits about nine feet above the ground and is twenty four feet wide. The floor has been painted to weather proof it.
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City Hall Plaza
Citizens’ Cornet Band of
Winchester
Mrs Kline to Visit Baltimore and Norfolk
Mrs Claude Kline and sister in law Mrs Lee Pannett travel to Baltimore to visit friends. Pannett plans an eye doctor consultation during the trip. Before returning home Mrs Kline will visit Norfolk Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claude ‘Kline
Inlaw
Lee Pannett
Baltimore
Pannett
Mrs.Kline
Norfolk
Ruth Roland to Star in Natural Colored Pathe Drama
Miss Ruth Roland famed for Who Pays and Red Circle will headline a five part natural colored Pathe society drama this Saturday. The program includes The Secrets of the Submarine and a Dixie Kids vaudeville act with admission ten cents to fifteen cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth Roland
Red
Pathe
Red Circle” Fame
Dixie Kids
Speed At Which Zeppelins Travel
A British engineering expert argues the modern Zeppelin cannot reach 30 mph unseen by figures showing collapse under air pressure. In still air 65 mph may be possible, but average wartime speed is about 40 mph full load. Winds can push speeds over 60 mph, while climb rates are very brief and unsustainable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. P. Hearne
Hearne
Valley Turnpike to issue yearly toll for August travel
Shirley Carter as director of the Valley Turnpike Co announces a yearly toll will be issued for pleasure wagon travel during August covering the period from September 1, 1916 to September 1, 1917.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Valley Turnpike
Shirley Carter
Director Valley Turnpike Co
Fragmentary note records a church event in Rhode Island
Readable fragments suggest a church notice or meeting in Rhode Island. Specific names and details are unclear but indicate a local religious gathering and possible schedule or actions.
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Ss. H. Hable
Shenandoah Valley
Natl. Bank
Ene
John W. Rice
R. Gray Williams
William G. Hardy
J. Few Brown
R. Gray Williams Lewis F. Cooper
A. B. Richards
Wm. S. Hiett
Lohn Copper
Stewart Bell
E. V. Weems
W. A. Baker
Assarancamy Iene Te
ROUND
Glaize & Bro
Commercial and Savings Bank “Safety and Service
Main Street
Piccadilly
Boyd P. Newlin
Bell
W., Water Sr
T . Ae Creamery
M. Fletcher
Valley Pike
Pune
L & CO
Real Ree I Insurance
Macedonia
J. J. Miller, Jr
Washington, Va
T. A. Lamp
Winebeater Va
Millwood Pike
Revelle Royce
Vaudevill
Alwan
Bayard, Va
Dunlap Stand
Piccadilly Street
James Rewill
Ethel Hula
Fran Hulver
Mountain Falls
Triangle Society
Bessie Barriscale
Inin
Mack Swain
Ahd
PLAZA
Stephens City
M. E. Church
WM. L. Barr
Gaithersburg
H. B. Keckley
Empire Tomorrow
J. Luther Richard
J. W. Richard
Edgewood
Rutherford’s Grove
Winchester & Potomac R. R. Co
Winchester & Potomac Rai Ar Co
Win
Feat Va
Ook
Co. W. Woolford
Panama
S. H. Hable Corner
Main and Water Streets
Gray & Sheetz
Apple Mens
Produce Reporter
Farmers & Merchants Nat. Bank
R. T. Barton
H. D. Fuller
John Keating
H.M. Sartelle
H. R. Willis
Iver Johnson
Knee & Omps
Dorsey Brill
Marlboro
Fred. H. Winkfield
N. Market St
Winchester Glove Factory (Inc
Woopware
Buth
Winchester Inn
G. C. Shepard
Fort Loudoun Seminary
Washington, D.C
Handley
Katherine R. Glass
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