Thirteen Injured In Fast Passenger Train Wreck
A northbound passenger train No 2 near Boyce station Clarke County at 1 30 this morning left the track. Thirteen people were badly injured but none killed as most cars overturned and debris scattered. A relief train from Hagerstown ferried the worst injured to hospital. one woman was found severely cut.
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Hagerstown
Boyce Station
Clarke County
Winchester
Berryville
C. S. Estep
Boyce
Ethel Cooper
Wilcox
Harrisburg
Winchester Labor Day celebration to feature many bands
Victory celebration music committee chairman E P Spillman announces Labor Day parade will showcase the greatest number of bands yet in Winchester. Four top concert bands will join local groups including Comrey's Martinsburg band, Berkeley Springs, I O O F of Brunswick, and Smith Amusement Company concert band.
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E. P. Spillman
Labor Day
Winchester
Spillman
Citizens’ Band
Comrey
Martinsburg
W. Va
Berkeley Springs
Brunswick
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Smith Amusement Company
Capon Bridge
Green Spring
White Hall
Citizens
Friendship and
Charley Rouss
Shenandoah’ Colored Band
War Camp Dance At Rouss Hall
War Camp Community Service hosts a dance at Rouss Hall for returned service men and guests tonight from 9 to midnight. Music provided by the War Camp group. no charge to dance. All veterans and their relatives and friends are invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Camp Community Service
Rouss Hall
War Camp
Army Navy
Marine Corps
A Trescott Apple Grader Will Reduce Your Packing Costs
Washington August 21 House agricultural committee favorably reported amendments to the food control act. The measure proposed by Attorney General Palmer extends the act to cover wearing apparel containers of food seed fertilizer fuel oil and natural gas with penalties of a 5000 dollar fine and up to two years in prison for profiteering.
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Washington
House Agricultural Committee
Palmer
Community notices and rental listing from local paper
Winchester Seed Co announces a meeting in the Reformed Sunday school room Friday night August 22 at 8:39 with a silver offering. A separate notice lists an upstairs Main Street building for rent by W. L. Fultz on an annual lease.
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Main Street
Army surplus food sale extended at Winchester post office
Postmaster Sibert received orders to continue selling surplus army foodstuffs until the city quota is exhausted. Buyers have saved about fifty percent off local prices. About $1,530 in goods had already sold, with shipments expected in a few days as orders are numbered and filled by priority.
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Sibert
Winchester
Iene
Columbus food dealer found guilty under cold storage law
Theodore Leonard Jr. of Columbus was found guilty on one count in Municipal Court for holding meat in cold storage longer than allowed. He faced a maximum fine of 500 dollars plus costs after a wave of state arrests for violations of the cold storage statute.
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Associated Press
Columbus
Ohio
Theodore Leonard, Jr
State of
Threat of Strike Affects Market
In New York on August 21 the stock market opened with tension as steel leaders downplayed the strike vote. Equipment, motors, tobacco, leathers, food and chemical shares dropped two to seven points. United States Steel fell from a small gain, and Crucible Steel rose two points while shipping and rail issues also declined.
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New York
Shorts
United States Steel
Crucible Steel
Auto Service Company Car Hire Rates Listed
Good cars for hire at reasonable rates. Auto Service Company located at 107 E Piccadilly St with phone calls answered at Potts Grocery.
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Reasonaby
Auto Service Company
Offic
E. Piccadilly St
Potts’ Grocery
American Sailors Clash With HMS Copenhagen
American and British sailors clashed with German marines near a seaport north of Danzig on Tuesday. Civilians and German sailors were wounded as frontier guards dispersed the crowd and the ships withdrew.
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HMS
Associated Press
Copenhagen
Amries
Inzis
Danziz
Welcome Home Celebration decorating supplies for sale
Advertising notes offer decorating items for a Welcome Home Celebration with samples on display. The notice credits G A Butler electrical contractor and Valley Evaporator Co promoting paid calls and drops. Dr J Wilson Hope of Haupton Virginia visits town.
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G. A. Butler
J. Wilson Hope
Haupton, Va
Sheriff Panett Weds Early Today
Luther Pannett Frederick County sheriff and Mrs Minnie Flowers of this city quietly married at the bride’s home 306 North Belt Street at 6 30 this morning in a small ceremony conducted by Rev George W Stover of the United Brethren Church in the presence of close friends.
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Luther Pannett
Frederick County
Minnie Flowers
North Belt Street
George W. Stover
United Brethren Church
Winchester
Minnie DeHaven
B. F. DeHaven
Gainesboro
Pannett
Exemption Board
Sheriff Pannett
North Braddock Street
Crowds Flock to Buy Cheap Sugar Being Sold Today
The Winchester Chamber of Commerce distributed a carload of granulated sugar to residents at the courthouse area. Each family could buy 20 pounds at 9.5 cents per pound, with limits and penalties for hoarding. The sale drew crowds from Winchester and surrounding county, with about two thirds of the carload remaining after morning distribution.
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Winchester Chamber of Commerce
Winchester
Frederick County
Plaza
Court Square
Chamber of Commerce
Civic League
Putley
Fruit buyer seeks orchard fruit at Winchester depots
Apples Damsons Pears Peaches Plums are bought at top market cash prices. SAM HAINES of Winchester Virginia invites growers to sell and have fruit packed at his packing house Grain Elevator Cumberland Valley Depot and White Post Depot. Call after six pm phone 476 and 419 or see representative Mr David Reardon.
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Cumberland Valley Depot
Winchester
White Post Depot
David Reardon
Millinery Trade Update From Local Markets
Miss Margaret J Hodgson expands stock as Proges Cline Kneet ing travels to eastern markets to purchase three full lines of millinery. Damaged text limits precise details but confirms growth in local millinery trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret J. Hodgson
Miro
Progees Cline
Help Wanted Apple Pickers and Runners Notice
Apple pickers runners and headers men or women communicate with Box 249 Winchester giving reference and rates without board transportation to and from Winchester furnished.
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Winchester
Troops Guard Car Plant as Steel Workers Strike
Four state troop companies guard the Standard Steel Car Company plant at Thomas Indiana after weeks of worker strikes. Outsiders are allowed to work and officials anticipate full force if needed as martial law considerations surface. Indiana militiamen mobilize to maintain order at the plant amid ongoing labor actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianavolis
Ind
Indiana State
Malitia
Themas
Standad Steel Car Company
Neevacary
Smith
Butter and Ebb Board Indicted By Antitrust Probe
The Associated Press reports that the Butter and Ebb Board faced indictment on charges of violating antitrust law. Cleveland authorities named Carmel Saco and Travis, linked to the board, in a probe into food panditest practices.
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Presa
Cortins Si
Cleveland
Nestieskinnint
Carmel Saeco
Travis
Shryock Buys Large Apple Crops in Fredericktown Area
F. Athol Shryock, succeeding his father in the apple and truck garden business, reports major purchases from multiple growers in Fredericktown. Contracts assign picking and packing to Shryock while growers haul the fruit. Purchases include Hodgson 600 barrels for 2000 dollars, Pifer 600 for 2000, Miller 400 for 1000, Pine 600 for 1750, Snapp 400 for 1200, Lillis 400 for 800. Shryock also shipped about 600 barrels of early apples from his orchards, netting roughly five dollars per barrel.
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F. Athol Shryock
Fred. A. Shryock
Fredericktoun
Shryock
Charles R
Mr. Shryock
Young Women Sought at Lewis Jones Knitting Co
The Lewis Jones Knitting Company seeks young women to operate sewing machines. Workers are paid while training. The job is described as clean work with wages possible. Apply at Jones Knitting Company.
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Lewis Jones Knitting Co
Apply Jones Knitting Company
Masked Bandits Rob Mail On L and N Train
Masked bandits held up the Louisville and Nashville Railroad passenger train No. 7 from Cincinnati to Montgomery between Columbia and Pulaski early today and carried off the mail pouches.
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Nashville
Tenn
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Cincinnati
Montgomery
Ala
Columbia
Pulaski
Mob Lynches Alleged Attacker in North Carolina Farm Country
In Louisburg North Carolina a mob seized Walter Elliott from Sheriff Kerney as he escorted him to jail. Elliott, said to have assaulted a farmer’s wife, was shot dead and the body was strung to a tree in a country churchyard after the mob carried him to the crime scene.
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Louisburg
N. C
Walter Elliott
Kerney
Martial law proclaimed across Hungary Budapest dispatch says
A Budapest dispatch dated Wednesday reports martial law has been proclaimed throughout Hungary. The announcement was received in Copenhagen on August 21. Government authorities have ordered steps to maintain order as the situation develops.
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Copenhagen
Hungary
Budapest
Sun day School Meet Set for August at St Pauls Church
The annual Sun day School Association convention for Frederick county and Winchester churches will be held August 28 and 29 at St Pauls Lutheran Church near Fawcett Gap. Rev R H Cline pastors the church. A printed program with talks by Winchester and Frederick leaders and T C Digges of Richmond is being prepared. Delegates from city and county schools are urged to attend without delay.
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Sunday School Association of
Frederick County
Winchester
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Fawcett Gap
R. H. Cline
T. C. Digzes
Richmond
Mexican Press Urges Wake Up Call Amid Crisis
Mexico City reports show newspapers urging Mexicans to awaken amid looming danger to the nation. Telegrams from Sinaloa Nuevo Leon Queretaro Yucatan and Tabasco express unconditional adhesion to President Carranza.
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Sinaloa
Nuevo
Queretaro
Yucatan
Tabasco
Carranza
Senate
Matlack
Eighth Cavalry
Peterson
Davis
Renteria
Watermelons From Hastern Shore
Watermelons declared good keeping quality and suitable for transport. The notice mentions Phozo 467 and SAM HAINES of C. V. Depot Windsor, Washington, as origin or contact for the sale or shipping details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phozo
Sam Haines
C. V. Depot
Winchester
Seek Conference with Steel Trust
In Youngstown Ohio on August 21 union leaders from 24 steel affiliated organizations vow a strike if no conference with United States Steel Corporation is secured within ten days. A Labor Federation commission led by Samuel Gompers will seek talks to adjust demands. failure means a strike date. Also noted is Mrs Jack Smith and her son Edwin Warold visiting relatives before continuing to Baltimore and then Brooklyn.
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Youngstown
Ohio
United States ‘Steel Corporation
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Steel Corporation
Jack Smith
EdwinWarold
Edwin H. Diffenderfer
Baltimore
Brooklyn
N. Y
Play Grounds Open Friday Morning
Community Play Grounds will be open tomorrow from 9 30 to 11 30 for children under fourteen invited to attend.
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Massey Brothers
The
Winchester Seed Co., Inc
W. L. Fultz
North Frederick Grade
Scott Grant
Robt Smith
Cars For Hire
Apples
Drops Valley Evaporator CO
Winchester C. Y
Panett
Car Works
Butter and Ebb Board
Carolina
Ot County
Foreign Relations Committee
Mexico City
Steel Trust
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