Earhart Sets Course for First Female Transcontinental Flight
Amelia Earhart Putnam takes off from Los Angeles aiming for a nonstop record to Newark New Jersey. The flight follows a route through Albuquerque St Louis and Columbus with Newark as the target. The mission parallels other flyers traveling Europe and around the world as weather and risks loom.
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Amelia Earhart
Putnam
Los Angeles
Clyde Lee
John Bochkon
Vermont
Harbor Grace
N. F
J. A. Mollison
New York
England
Amy Johnson
Mollison
William Uldrich
Leon M. Pisculli
Edna Newcomer
Rome
Wolfgang von Gronau
Germany
Cordova
Alaska
World
Amelia Earhart-Pitnam
New Jersey
P. ST
Atlantic
Albuquerque
N. M
St. Louis
Columbus
Ohio
Newark
N. J
Church Board Denounces Hoover Dry Laws Shift
The Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals called President Hoover's dry law proposal bitterly disappointing. It praised Vice President Curtis as the only candidate to commend, urging dry supporters to back candidates who defend the Eighteenth Amendment and to oppose any congressman who would repeal it through beer legislation.
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Washington
Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals Today
Hoover
Curtis
Chicago
Methodist Board
Charles Curtis
Prohibition
House
Senate
Help Wanted Agents For Class Rings In Winchester Area
Recruiters sought among students and teachers in Winchester and vicinity to sell class rings and pins for next school year. Contact James M. Conner at 202 Fifth Street S. E. Washington DC. All replies confidential. 25-31.
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Winchester
James M. Conner
Fifth Street
S. E
Washington, D. C
Menefee declares candidacy for Seventh District Congress
Lieut. M. J. Menefee of Shenandoah Valley WWI hero status in France announces his bid for the Democratic nomination for Congress from Virginia's Seventh District. As Page County revenue commissioner, he cites district support and calls for tariff reform, reduced government expenses, and prosperity restoration.
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Page County
Congress
Menefee
Chicago
Harrisonburg
No More Piles Ends Painful Piles With One Bottle
An advertised internal remedy HEM-ROID by Dr. J. S. Leonhardt claims to stop itching bleeding and protruding piles. It markets as faster working than salves or suppositories and promises healing by cleansing impure blood in the lower bowel with a guarantee from Baker's Drug Store and retailers.
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Dr. J. S. Leonhardt
Baker’s
Funeral Rites Held for Dr Hugh Pirkey
Funeral services were conducted for Dr Hugh Pirkey 73 a prominent dental surgeon who died in a local hospital. He practiced over fifty years in the Troy area with services at the Baptist Church in Weston. Burial followed in Odd Fellows Cemetery. He was a Virginia native and survived by his widow and son J A Pirkey a Troy schools teacher.
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Weston
W. Va
Hugh Pirkey
Troy
Baptist Church
J. C. Musser
Odd Fellows
J. A. Pirkey
Native of Strasburg Doctor Pirkey Passes Away
Native of Strasburg Shenandoah county and son of the late Rev Dr Pirkey a well known Christian Church clergyman. He is survived by his widow a son one brother Dr Frank Pirkey a dental surgeon of Colusa California.
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Pirkey
Strasburg
Shenandoah County
Dr. Pirkey
Christian Church
Thomas J. Cooper
Winchester
Frank Pirkey
Colusa
Calif
Boy of Six Leads In Search For Woman
A six year old boy led a search party to the area where Miss Marjorie Fletcher 37 of Forestville New York was believed to have fallen from a plane Tuesday Thick brush and swamp hindered progress. Sheriff Trout announced a $25 reward for the recovery of Miss Fletcher.s body offered by Mr and Mrs H C Mc Connaughy with whom she lived in Washington.
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Associated Press
Annapolis
Marjorie Fletcher
Forestville
N. Y
Baltimore
R. Glenn Trout
Miss Fletcher
H. C. McConnaughy
Misses On
Washington
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