Parker II wins medal for citizenship at Virginia meeting
Lloyd Parker II, son of Rev. Dr. and Mrs. L. A. Parker, received a pandacus silver medal from the Lloyd Williams Post, American Legion for best essay on Good Citizenship at a Berryville High School auditorium gathering in Yville. The event also featured a Christmas pageant by elementary pupils and a nine month school-term discussion by local leaders. In other items, two young men robbed a clerk at a local office, with one pistol threat. the incident spurred a police chase and pursuit by Claude W. Baker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yville
Berryville High School
Lloyd Parker
L. A. Parker
Lloyd Williams Post
American Legion
Harold Scheuer
Parker
Edith Russell
H. C. Barthel
Board of Supervisors
H. B. Whiting
J. W. Alexander
F. L. Ayler
E. M. Barnett
L. H. Bell
R. C. Carter, Jr
D. Childs
H. A. Clevenger
W. M. Gaunt
H. B. Harris
Linda Huyett
M. W Jones
Thomas Jones
C. H. Iden
Edgar Kackley
J. B. Neill
D. L Ramsburg
H. M. Ritter
C. M. Polhumous
Charles Wisecarver
Miss Burch
Louise Maxwell
Fine
Mrs. Marwell
Miss. Fine
Claude W. Baker
Baker
Miss Fine
Unsteady Bandits Stage A Holdup, Captured Later
In Norfolk two young bandits robbed the Industrial Small Loan Company treasurer Miss Selma F. Fine of Berkley of 16 dollars from the safe and a purse with 4 dollars, while 192 dollars lay exposed on a desk. Less than fifteen minutes later, authorities captured the suspects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk
Selma F. Fine
Berkley
Venezuelan dictator Gomez dies in Caracas at age 78
Gen. Juan Vicente Gomez, long time president and dictator of Venezuela born 1857, died late last night. The national cabinet named Gen. Eleazar Lopez Contreras provisional president as exiles consider repatriation moves. Gomez rose to power after overthrowing Cipriano Castro in 1908 and led the nation with a strong hand while expanding oil wealth.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Juan Vicente Gomez
Eleazar Lopez Contreras
Gomez
America
Europe
Cipriano Castro
Palacio
Shenandoah County Hotels Listed in 1893 94 Gazetteer
This sixth Shenandoah county entry lists hotels and boarding houses from the Virginia Gazetteer of 1893 94 with towns such as New Market Strasburg Woodstock Edinburg and Orkney Springs. It also notes county workers including five insurance agents nine iron founders and machinists and thirteen lumber and shingle dealers.
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Shenandoah County
Valley Pike
Virginia Gazetteer
Orkney Springs
A. Bowman
Toms Brook
Brock House
New Market
Carrollton
J. W. Holtzman
Central
A. J. Holtzman
Central House
H. Sonner
Strasburg
A. Peter McInturff
City House
Mary Good
Cabin Hill
Eureka
J. F. Holtzman
Edinburg
Geary‘s
Woodstock
E. V. Hammond
Binkerton
McInturff Anders
Murray House
W. C. Ne ‘Voms
Pleasant View
J. H. Fleming
W. L. Laughlin
J. B. Keller
van Buren
Virginia
C. I. Bowman
G. Walters
Carmel
Williard
Mt. Jackson
Wilson
Mt Jackson
J. N. Brenneman
J. H. Grabill
J. G. Neff
L. Tripplett, Jr
Wynkoop and
Bird
Tron
Nathaniel Armentrout
Belgrade
B. F. Boyer and Co
Seven Fountains
Columbian and Liberty Iron Co
Columbia Furnace
S. D. Fisher
Bro
Harrisville
J. W. Baker
St. Lukes
Zebadee Faddley
Lantz Saul
J. W. Burke
Furr and Bros
L. P. Henkel
Jones, Bauserman and Co
B. H. Myers
Lantz Mill
Osborne and Hammon
Mt. Clifton
Peter Bros
Snarr and Showalter
Wheatfield
Josiah Stickley
L. T. & R. Stoneburner
W. L. Wisman
Emmanuel Howard
Asbury Redfern
E. A. Snyder
J. W. Crim
M. Dinkle
Jackson
N. A. Feller
P. J. Fpravel & Son
A. Hilleary
Laura Hisey
India Jones
B. A. Neff
Kate. Rogers
M. Wilson
K & A. Zirkle
Executor's Sale of Personal Property
The undersigned will sell at auction at 11 o clock A M Thursday December 19 1935 at the residence of the late John H Cochran one mile west of Opeq uon in Frederick County a lot of household effects including chairs tables beds and bedding stoves clocks new rag carpet a large set of tools combination anvil and vise manure spreader wheat fan ladders hand cart horse cart an Essex automobile about 10 barrels of corn in corn house two fifths of corn and fodder on about ten acres will be sold by shock a lot of hay in barn Cash terms No property to be removed until paid for Maurice M Lynch Executor Duvall Dunn Auditors Harry L McCann Clerk
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John H. Cochran
Opequon
Frederick County
Essex
Maurice M. Lynch
Duvall & Dunn
Harry L. McCann
Railways Face Many Problems As Year Closes
A. C. Needles president of the Norfolk and Western Railway issues a Christmas message noting a modest nationwide economic improvement in 1935 but warning rail workers that railroads face serious problems next year from subsidized competition restrictive legislation and the threat of government ownership He urges turning the militant better service program into action for improved service civic engagement and voter education.
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A. C. Needles
Norfolk and Western Railway Company
Norfolk and Western
Needles
Trier Identified as Strategically Important Frontier Center
Trier cannot escape an impor ant role. Its very location deter mined that it should be respected. In ancient times it occupied a cen tal position behind the Roman routier on the Rhine and was a ocus of routes radiating from Gaul Mainz Coblenz Andernach and Cologne. It had unusual military importance. In later times It passed back and forth between nations like a pawn, now to France after the French revolution and then to Prussia In 1814. Its standing as the capital of a Prussian governmental district enhanced its repute.
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Trier
Rhine
Gaul
Mainz
Coblenz
Andernach
Cologne
France
Prussia
Roses Used In France To Make Perfume Essence
Five thousand pounds of tube roses are used in France to produce two and a half pounds of perfume essence. This illustrates the high cost and efficiency of scent production in early fragrance industries.
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France
Separation suit claims husband forced Virginia birth plan
Mrs Katherine Thraves Maxwell testifies in New York court that excessive drinking and interference by George L Maxwell, a New York broker and Stock Exchange member, thwarted her goal to have their first child born in Virginia. She seeks custody and faces a separate $250000 alienation suit against Marie Raymond Maxwell.
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New. York
Dee
Virginia
Katherine Thraves Maxwell
George L. Maxwell
New York Broker and Stock Exchange
Marie Raymond Maxwell
New York
Maxwell
Manhattan
Wedding Celebration Mentioned with Excessive Drinking
The article notes a wedding in Charlottesville Virginia in August 1982 and describes ongoing heavy drinking from a 160 gallon supply of corn liquor kept at a Greenwood Virginia home.
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Charlottesville, Va
Greenwood, Va
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Lloyd Parker II
Parent - Teachers’ Association
Clarke School
James Louis Edward Collins
Fort Mill
8. C
Collins
Wender
Wenders
Ford Symphony Orchestra
Lord VE
Universal Credit Co
Ford Finance Plan
Fred Waring
His
Columbia Network
Fellowship Club
de Luxe Model
Peoples Drug
N. Main St
Winchester
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