Constitutional government restored in Egypt after crisis
King Fung signed a royal decree returning Egypt to the suspended 1923 constitution. Britain withdrew objections, allowing a Senate and Chamber of Deputies while keeping control of foreign affairs. General elections will be set after Nessim’s cabinet resignation was canceled amid anti-British unrest.
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Gayle Talbot
Associated Press
Cairo
Fung
Egypt
Great Britain
Tewfik Nessim Pasha
Fpuag
Miles Lampson
Nessim
Britain
Senate
Chamber of Deputies
Mediterraean
Confederate flag staff found for museum in Rome report
From Rome Italy came a partial answer to the search for the staff of the old Confederate flag presented to the Confederate Museum by Misses Minnie and Sallie Pugh of Broadway Virginia. Dr John W Basore of Princeton New Jersey confirmed the staff was in his possession and will be presented on his return to America in February. The staff was saved from Federal capture at Rich Mountain West Virginia by Philip Williams Pugh and later borne from the field by John W Basore grandfather of Plecker's correspondent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Italy
W. A. Pieckler
Confederate Museum
Minnie
Sallie Pugh
Broadway
John W. Basore
Princeton
N. J
Piecker
America
Philip Williams Pugh
Rich Mountain
West Virginia
John Pegram
W. S. Rosecrans
John W.basore
Dr. Pleckler
Muse Estimator Says Pension Cost Too Low
State Senator Benjamin Muse asserts Virginia old age pensions could not cost less than the governor’s committee estimate, arguing the $756,000 figure is far too low. He recommends $378,000 for year one and $756,000 ongoing, with federal funds matching to cover about two thirds of total cost.
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Benjamin Muse
Petersburg
Virginia
Peery
Muse
Old-Age Pension Administration
Fire Department
Friendship Ambulance
Hopewell Meeting Anniversary Celebration Delayed
Plans to mark Hopewell Meeting’s 200 year founding have been postponed to next spring due to the time needed to publish a history volume. Dr. John W. Wayland is working on the index, noting the work will aid genealogical researchers with early rolls of Hopewell and related congregations.
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Hopewell
John W. Wayland
Winchester
Rolls of Hopewell
Hearing Set In Fatal Woodstock Auto Crash
A Woodstock hearing is scheduled Saturday morning on the death of Mrs. W. J. Olds of Strasburg who was killed when struck by Dr. N. P. Fitts's car. The driver faces Trial Justice M. L. Walton Jr. A bystander Gayle Wiley, 5, also injured and recovering at Memorial Hospital.
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Woodstock
W. J. Olds
Strasburg
N. P. Fitts
M. L. Walton, Jr
Olds
Memorial Hospital
Skyline Drive Attracts Visitors Despite Cold Weather
A report to the State Conservation and Development Commission notes 7,425 cars carried 23,470 passengers through Skyline Drive in November. The Sunday before Armistice Day saw 1,515 cars and 5,127 passengers, while a wet Saturday reduced traffic to a seasonal low due to difficult driving along the mountain road.
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Skyline Drive
State Conservation and Development Commission
Rabbit Fever Fatal To Woman In Page County
Page county reports its first tularemia fatality when Mrs. Jacob Alger of Rileyville died at her daughter’s home near Luray after nursing her daughter, Mrs. Glindon Fox, who has been ill for five weeks. One other tularemia case is known in the county. Mrs. Alger leaves a husband and ten children.
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Page County
Jacob Alger
Rileyville
Glindon Fox
Luray
George E Sipe obituary in Clarke County Virginia
George E Sipe 84 retired farmer formerly of Barbour county West Virginia died at his son’s home near Mount Carmel in Clarke county due to age. He survived by four sons and seven daughters. Funeral at Mount Carmel Church Friday at 2 pm with Rev Clarence Lloyd officiating and burial nearby.
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Berryville
George E. Sipe
Barbour County
W. Va
Mount Carmel
Blue Ridge Mountain
Clarke County
Mr. Sipe
Jacob Sipe
Rockingham County
Miss Zirkle
Sipe
Bernard J
W. L
James T
Joseph T- Sipe
Susan Kern
Maude Pine
Lizzie Royston
Deliah Clark
Julia Smallwood
Beulah Silman
North Carolina
Mary Batman
Ohio
Clarence Lloyd
Methodist Church
Floyd Driver
Clarence Kern
Prank Pine
Albert Royston
Holmes Sipe
Wilco Kern
Tigers Buy Al Simmons From White Sox For 35000
New Tiger Claw helps offset the power Red Sox gained by adding Jimmy Foxx and Roger Cramer from the Athletics. The Tigers purchase Al Simmons from the Chicago White Sox for 35000 to bolster their batting and strengthen the lineup of the defending champions.
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Red Sox
Jimmy Foxx
Roger Cramer
Athletics
Tigers
al Simmons
Chicago White Sox
Rural Chinese Women Free From Western Housewife Strain
Missionary doctors report rural Chinese women lack the nervous breakdowns common among Western housewives despite unfamiliar labor saving devices. The observation highlights differing domestic pressures and coping influences between cultures.
Proposed 1936 Budget Review With Alterations Noted
A tentative budget review outlines changes for 1936, detailing bond and bond interest at 46107.50, water, streets, sewer, and police increases, city hall repairs, and recreation funding. It notes reductions and items for discussion, including Red Cross welfare, miscellaneous cuts, and planned municipal projects.
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The
Red Cross
Walker Bond
E. T. Clark
Bertha Hicks
Washington
Chamber of On Specietellanl
Armory
Boscawen Street
League of Virginia
Bogus Money Appears Across Virginia in Local Warnings
Counterfeit notes circulate in Virginia towns prompting public alerts. A fake $5 red seal note marked K-43 features Lincoln and Mills and was part of a December 2 warning by John F. Gouldman Jr. of Farmers and Merchants State Bank Fredericksburg. Additional bills marked K-50 and K-53 from New York and Cleveland are described as highly deceptive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia
John F. Gouldman, Jr
Farmers and Merchants State Bank
Fredericksburg
Secret Service
Lincoln
Ogden BE. Mills
Secretary of the Treasury
Gouldman
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
On Reserve Bank of Cleveand
Notable Marital Age Gaps Across History and Saints
The article notes several historical and literary figures with wives older than husbands, including Empress Josephine and Napoleon, Catherine of Aragon and Henry III, Mary Stuart and Francis II, Jenny Lind and Otto Goldschmidt, and others. It also discusses the medieval belief in a sweet odor at death linked to sanctity, explaining the phrase died in the odor of sanctity.
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Josephine
Napoleon
Catherine Aragon
Henry
Mary Stuart
Francils II
France
Jenny Lind
Otto Goldschmidt
Disraeli
Ann Hathaway Shakespeare
Warren G. Harding
Rhodes To Attend Federal Safety Conference
John Q. Rhodes, named by Governor Peery to represent West Virginia at a federal highway safety meeting in Washington on December 18, plans to present a synthesis of(state and citizen) proposals. He is studying a plan to reduce night driving accidents and notes auto accident deaths may be undercounted.
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John Q. Rhodes
Peery
Washington
Roosevelt
Rhodes
Bound Water and Ice Like Latticed Water in Living Cells
An authority from the University of Minnesota explains bound water as the cellularly part of living flesh found in all plants animals and insects. It forms a molecular lattice unlike crystals though ice like in solidity and solidifies under high pressures from 45 to 184 degrees above zero. Olympia Washington is noted as the northernmost state capital. India renowned for steel in Alexander the Great’s era.
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University of Minnesota
Olympia
Wash
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