Apple Growers Move to Keep Unclassified Grade Off Market
Virginia leaders urge no Unclassified packing as U.S. crop outlook grows. Messages from state, regional and national growers urge abstaining from Unclassified fruit to protect market prices and profits amid a large crop and weak global purchasing power.
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United States
Telegraph
Harry F. Byrd
Virginia State Horticultural Society
Byrd
The
Virginia Society
Mr. Byrd
America
East
Middle West
Virgina State Horticultural Society
Pennsylvanian Railroad Cuts Ties Stockpiled for Life
The Pennsylvania Railroad recently removed 60 000 to 70 000 cross ties from Winchester yards. Ties cost about a dollar each and creosote treatment extends life to 18 25 years. Rail officials will pause buying until current stock clears, as millions of ties support 28 000 miles of line with roughly 84 million ties nationwide.
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Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Winchester
H. H. Moore
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad
Faith healer bitten by rattlesnake in revival
Mrs Lois Guirt, a Middle Tennessee Gospel worker in Big Sandy, was bitten by a rattlesnake during revival services after she declared she would not be bitten. She refused medical help but was reported improving and expected to preach again in about a week.
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Associated Press
Big Sandy
Tenn
Lois Guirt
Middle Tennessee
Yard Party at Opequon Union Chapel
Community event at Opequon Union Chapel scheduled for Wednesday August 19 with a rain contingency for Thursday night. Public notice mentions hours and location for attendees in the local area.
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Union Chapel
County Church Day Observed At Opequon Memorial
The Opequon Group of Churches will hold County Church Day at Opequon Memorial Presbyterian Church Kernstown on August 23 with harmonies by J S Haldeman and choir, two addresses, and a noon dinner. The afternoon focuses on youth with a chorus, stories, junior exercises, and a second talk by Dr Henry W McLaughlin on religious training in the rural home.
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Opequon
Opequon Memorial Presbyterian
Kernstown
Opequon Memorial
Round Hill
Burnt Church
Opequon Chapel
Henry W. McLaughlin
McLaughlin
Ellsworth Orndorff
W. C. Miller
Maynard Bayliss
Rural Church
Police uncover unidentified man found in Brooklyn street
A Brooklyn patrolman discovered an unidentified man’s body on Sixth Street wrapped in newspapers and oilcloth. Detectives believe the victim was clubbed stabbed shot and dumped from a car after a prior club room killings near the scene.
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Associated Press
New York
Brooklyn
Sixth Street
Strength of Oil Shares Bright Spot In Day's Market
Persistent strength of oil shares was a bright spot in the stock market today. Oils picked up again in the last hour after motors and rails weakened the forenoon rally. overall the close was irregular with some losses. Turnover topped 1.5 million shares and Cal money ran steady at 14 percent.
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Associated Press
New York
Cal
Dempsey’s Wife Files Cruelty Divorce Suit
Estelle Taylor, wife of Jack Dempsey, files a divorce complaint in Los Angeles charging cruelty after the former heavyweight champion filed a parallel suit in Reno yesterday.
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Associated Press
Los Angeles
Calif
Estelle Taylor
Jack Dempsey
Reno
Invites Youth to School in Virginia Education Drive
The State Chamber of Commerce in Richmond distributed a booklet highlighting Virginia colleges and preparatory schools to encourage students to study in the state. Shenandoah Valley Academy is noted for its origins, location, ethics, cadet program, college prep, athletics, gymnasium facilities, cotillion club, and dances.
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State Chamber of Commerce
Richmond
Virginia
Old Dominion
R. F. Nelson
Shenandoah Valley Academy
Winchester Academy
Winchester
Spe
Woman Held Without Bail In Yates Case
Ruth Jaynes Canmer was held without bail in a magistrate's court on the charge connected to the Friday shooting of State Senator Roy T. Yates of New Jersey. Yates, in critical condition, was to be brought before the court again Thursday for further guidance. The shooting occurred at Canmer's Manhattan apartment following a drinking party. Physicians reported a possibility of recovery unless peritonitis develops.
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Associated Press
New York
Ruth Jaynes Canmer
Roy T. Yates
New Jersey
Yates
Miss Canmer
Manhattan
Kolb Believes He Was Victim Of A Maniac
R Wallace Kolb head of a Baltimore bakery named for him says a maniac shot him in a suburb while he was driving with Mrs Nellie Greene a member of a Georgia family. He thinks robbery may have been the motive and expects to recover in hospital from a thigh wound.
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Associated Press
Baltimore
R. Wallace Kolb
Kolb
Nellie Greene
Georgia
Patton Property Auction Near County Court House
A Saturday auction at noon offers several lots and a house on Patton property in front of the County Court House. The sale is listed in the August notices with parcel details and timing.
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Patton
County Court House
Sale of Stocks From Whitacre Estate at Court House
Twenty six shares of telephone and cemetery company stocks, owned by the estate of R. E. L. Whitacre, will be sold for cash in front of Court House at noon Saturday, August 22. See sale bills.
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Telephone and Cemetery Company
R. E. L. Whitacre
Court House
Firemen invited to Harrisonburg celebration for prize winnings
President Forney of the Virginia State Firemen's Association and Captain Holsinger of Harrrisonburg invite Winchester Fire Department to a Friday night parade and celebration in Harrisonburg to spend the prizes won by Hose Company No 4 in Winchester last week. Hose Co. No 4 earned 600 by taking top honors and shared prize money with Mechanicsburg for a large company without hand, plus a best appearing ladies auxiliary prize.
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Fred W. Forney
Virginia State Firemen’s Association
Friendship Fire Company
William Holsinger
Hose Company, No 4
Harrisonburg
Winchester
Forney
Merchanicsburg (Pa
Hose Company No. 4
Winchester Fire Department
Kidnapping Mystery Grips Easton Area
An erratic kidnapper described as a negro forced 8 year old Edward Marvel and 13 year old Selma Marvel into a stolen truck near Trappe. The driver drove four miles without speaking, then threw them from the moving vehicle injuring the siblings. Sheriff search continues as truck and man remain at large.
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Associated Press
Easton
Talbot County
Edward Marvel
Selma
Trappe
Will Marvel
Marvel
Lindberghs To Fly Tomorrow
A radio from Petro pavlovsk Kamchatka reports the Lindberghs plan a Nemuro departure early tomorrow weather permitting. Also ads seek four men free to travel and a lost black oil skin coat with contact details.
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Associated Press
Nemuro
Japan
Flying Lindberghs
Petropavlovsk
Kamchatka Peninsula
Obiishi Wireless
Fairfax Hotel
Lee- Jackson Road
Washington
Winchester
Star
J. T. Duke
Clinton, Md
Endorsement Urges Voters to Stand by Pannett in Primary
George W. Branner urges Frederick County voters to back Sheriff Luther Pannett in the primary, arguing Pannett’s efficient, honest administration and lack of recent complaints outweigh any proposed improvements by Roy Duvall. He notes pledges binding and the long-time practice of cross-party participation in primaries.
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Evening Star
Luther Pannett
Frederick County
Roy Duvall
Mr. Pannett
Pannett
Duvall
George W. Branner
Prominent Valley Orchard Sells 25000 Barrels for Export
The Harrisonburg Daily News Record reports a leading Valley orchard has sold 25 000 barrels of Yorks for 3 25 a barrel for export. The sale implies higher prices ahead as growers thinned fruit for quality. The Valley plans to market one of the finest apple crops in years with better prices anticipated.
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Harrisonburg Daily News Record
Dunlop Factory Store Ad At Roy C Richard Mer
Local ad promotes trading in on Dunlops with finest tires and lowest prices at the Dunlop Factory Store run by Roy C Richard in the Mer area.
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Dunlop
Roy C. Richard
Mer
Store for Sale at 103 E Germain St
Due to ill health bids will be received for a grocery store at 103 East Germain Street until 12 M noon on August 22 1931. Rent cheap. J S Patterson.
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E. Germain St
J. S. Patterson
Good News Good News From Winchester and Shenandoah Valley
A column highlights optimistic activity in Winchester Frederick County and the Shenandoah Valley. It cites the value of intangible assets through advertising, notes wheat prices firmer with Russian supply influencing markets, and reports insurance firms in good condition despite lower share prices and rate pressures.
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Winchester
Frederick County
Shenandoah Valley
Associated Press
Minneapolis
Russia
U. S
Rotterdam
Standard Statistics Company of
New York
Public Works Contracts Rise to 34 Million in Awards
Public works contracts aggregating 34,753,379 were reported to the President's emergency committee for employment as awarded last week. Acting chairman Fred C. Croxton announced the total since December 1, 1930, reached 2,175,006,359.
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President's Emergency Committee
Fred C. Croxton
Knights of Columbus Open 49th Annual Convention
Knights of Columbus opened their forty ninth annual Supreme Council convention in French Lick Ind with a pontifical outdoor mass on a hillside altar. Delegates arrived from all states provinces and territories of the United States Canada and Mexico for the event described as the largest outdoor Catholic gathering since the Chicago Eucharistic Congress.
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Associated Press
French Lick
Ind
Knights of Columbus
United States
Canada
Mexico
Supreme Council
Soldiers’ Field
Chicago
Life of Little Girl Crushed by Farm Truck
Six year old Anna Lee Fries of Frederick County was killed when a farm truck ran over her as a youth cranked the engine. Her cousin Rebecca Lodge was slightly injured as the truck lurched forward. Ray Fries, uncle of the child, operated the truck. Funeral arrangements were not yet set.
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Anna Lee Fries
Herbert Fries
Green Spring
Frederick County
Winchester
Fries
Lee
Anna Lee
Mr. Fries
A. A. Fries
Mrs. Fries
Rebecca Lodge
Phyllia Fries
Famous War Reporter's Widow Dies In France
Paris reports Mrs Richard Harding Davis widow of the famed war correspondent died Sunday night in a Bayonne hospital. Known in her youth as the Yama Yama Girl, she had summers with daughter Hope at St Jean de Luz. A nurse and her daughter were with her at death after a recent illness.
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Associated Press
Paris
Richard Harding Davis
Bessie McCoy
Bayonne
Hope
Personal notes on Colleen Over illness and travelers
Miss Colleen Over remains quite ill at the home of her parents on South Loudon Street. Mr J Edward Heine and son Kenneth are motoring to Niagara Falls Canada and other northern cities. Mrs Sarah F Tappan of Berryville is staying at the Powhatan Hotel in Washington.
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Colleen Over
Charles K. Over
South Loudon Street
J. Edward Heine
Kenneth
Nia
Falls
Canada
Sarah F. Tappan
Berryville
Powhatan Hotel
Washington
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New York Society
Wired
LeRoy
Martinsburg
W. Va
Carroll R. Miller
West Virginia Society
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Apple
John Napier Dyer
Indiana Society
Vincennes
Penna. Railroad
Assisse
Chamber
Memorial Church
Dempsey
Lindberghs
G. W. Branner
Dunlops
Department of Commerce
K. of
France
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