Labor Urges Broadening of Virginia Special Session
Virginia labor leaders press Gov. Peery to expand the upcoming special session to include old age assistance and unemployment compensation. The plan aims to act now to avoid a 1937 special session, with a draft old age pension bill and adjusted unemployment measures moving toward submission next week.
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Act
Richmond
Virginia
Gov. Peery
E. Harold Thompson
Joint Labor Legislative Committee of
Virginia Military Institute football coaches resign posts
Lexington December 8 Virginia Military Institute announces head football coach William G. Fattery and assistant Ed A. Hess resign their athletic staff posts. Athletic council accepts resignations and forms a committee to select successors. Raftery previously led backfield units from 1922 to 1927 and Hess had been his assistant since 1927.
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Lexington
William G. Fattery
Ed A. Hess
Virginia Military Institute
V. M. I. Athletic Council
Raftery
B. B. Clarkson
Hess
Clarkson
MentoS Recipe Note Mentions Onion Addition
A fragment notes adding a teaspoon of something and a small onion to a mix before adding chopped ingredients. The casual culinary tip hints at flavoring a preparation in progress.
Auto Toll For Nine Months In Virginia
Virginia reports 561 highway deaths in the first nine months, up 48 from last year, a rate of about 28 per 10000. Only 13 states had higher death rates. The state plans an educational campaign and patrols to curb reckless driving and dangerous headlights.
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Richmond
National Safety Council
Virginia
State Bureau of Vital Statistics
State Motor Vehicle Division
Rhodes
Councilman Browns dog killed by circling buzzards
Laurens Twister recounts how Councilman R M Brown’s setter died while trailing quail. The dog chased a covey then was startled by circling buzzards, whirled, and collapsed, breaking its neck.
Marian Martin Pattern 9108 Frock Ad Chronicle
A Marian Martin pattern 9108 offers a wash frock with puff yoke sleeves a turnback collar and V neck. The ad promotes easy cutting fitting and sewing with patch pockets and multiple color versions and lists sizes 12 to 42 with fabric needs and a 15 cent price per pattern plus 25 cents for combined orders.
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Marian Martin Lew
Marian Martin
Going Home Joy for Tuberculosis Clinic Child
A sickly eight month patient at a tuberculosis sanatorium has improved after rest and nourishment. A tuberculin test and X ray confirmed early tuberculosis but Christmas Seals supported his care and his chance to go home for Christmas.
Akron coal strike ends as drivers get wage hikes
Truck drivers resume coal deliveries in Akron after a settlement of Ohio's only major strike. Phil Conners, union business agent, says wage increases from 62 1 2 to 65 cents per hour for drivers and 52 1 2 to 60 cents for helpers on all coal lumber and building supply trucks are in place.
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Akron
Ohio
Phil Conners
New Trial of Brothers Begins
Salem Virginia December 9 A Roanoke County jury began hearing evidence in the second trial of the Daling brothers Hubbard and Paul charged with the ambush murder of Deputy Sheriff Clarence E Simmons. The brothers pleaded not guilty and defense attorney T Warren Messick said reputable witnesses would testify the Dalings were at home when Simmons was shot on the Rocky Mount road July 17.
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Salem
Roanoke
Daling Brothers
Hubbard and
Paul
T. Warren Messick
Dalings
Clarence E. Simmons
Rocky Mount Road
Venire In Maxwell Trial Moves Forward In Wise County
The Maxwell murder trial jury pool grows as 65 Cumberland Mountain residents are summoned. Commonwealth's Attorney Fred B Greear expects no trouble in venire selection amid new witnesses for both sides. Edith Maxwell's defense contends her father died of a heart attack, not homicide, aiming for acquittal tomorrow.
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Commonwealth
Fred B Greear
Cumberland Mountain
Miss Maxwell
Wise County
Anne Maxwell
Earl
Charles Henry Smith
Alexandria
Mr. Fulton
Richmond
Greear
Pound
Ezra T. Carter
H. A W. Skeen
Peery
Carter
Skeen
Maxwells
Edith Maxwell
Smith
Trigg Maxwell
Pound Miner
Johnston Family Thanks For Aid And Tributes
The Johnston family expresses gratitude to friends and neighbors for aid and sympathy during the illness and death of husband and father C. Edward Johnston. They thank for the quartet, cars, flowers and other tributes. Mrs. C. E. Johnston and children.
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C. Edward Johnston
C. E. Johnston
Barbara Bell Patterns Offer Wardrobe Essentials for 1936
In 1930s fashion, a blouse and skirt outfit remains a staple for office and college women. Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1214 B covers sizes 14 to 42 with a shirtwaist blouse and a trim two-pleated skirt in wool and batiste, featuring a fitted collar and button row.
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Barbara Bell
Edward VIII Abdicates and Rise of Duke of York as King
If Edward VIII abdicates over marriage to Wallis Simpson, the Duke of York would ascend the throne and his family become the royal family. Princess Elizabeth would be heir presumptive to the crown.
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Edward
Edward VIII
Wallis Warfield Simpson
Duke of York
Elizabeth
Central Press
Duke and Duchess of York
Margaret Rose
Motor Vehicle Registration At New High Mark
Hartford Conn December 9 Registrations of motor vehicles in the United States will reach an all time high of about 28 277 000 this year the Travelers Insurance Company announced. The estimate is based on reports from 43 states gasoline consumption will exceed the prior year’s record by a wide margin. The 1936 car registration exceeds last year by nearly eight percent and is six and one half percent above the previous high of 40 45 000 in 1930. New Hampshire was the only reporting state to show a decrease.
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Hartford
Conn
United States
Travelers Insurance
New Hampshire
Appreciation note for Lula Rebecca Langley death
Adgar A. Langley expresses heartfelt thanks for kindness and sympathy shown during the illness and funeral of his wife Lula Rebecca Langley. Grateful memories will endure. December 9, 1911.
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Lula Rebecca Langley
N W Awards Insignia For Long Service
Five Norfolk and Western veterans receive the railroad company’s Veterans Association diamond insignia for 50 years of active service. Recipients include C. E. Hall in Cincinnati, J. Punk retired in Roanoke, J. Rooker Roanoke shops, H. S. Garman Roanoke terminal, and M. Baker Shenandoah division. W. J. Jenks congratulates them.
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Roanoke
Norfolk and Western
W. J. Jenks
Norfolk and Western Veterans Association
Charles BE. Hall
Cincinnati
Ohio
Clare Shop
Joseph J. Punk
James B. Rooker
Harry 8. Garman
Roanoke Terminal
Martin \. Baker
Shenandoah Division
Wet and dry option votes split in Middlesex and West Point
Middlesex county approved hard liquor 72 percent and wine beer 418 to 459 after a heated campaign led by clergy and a tax payers league. In West Point 170 voters backed sale of beer above 3.2 percent while 141 opposed in a local option election.
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Saluda
Middlesex County
W. 8. Deverle
Methodist Church
Taxpayers’ League
West Point
Equor State
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William Shands
Legislative Seem
William 4
H. Wandel
Social Security Board
Washington
Weaver
Shands
Aubrey Weaver
Front Royal
Capitol
VM. I
Twister
Winchester Evening Star
18Th St
New York
Call Venire
the Evening Star
Patte .S
Times Square Station
N. Y
Py the Bell Syndicate, Inc
N.W
Mother
Snapp’s Foundry
Winchester Cold Storage Corp
L. Robinson Ice & Cold Storage Corp
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