Social Roundup From Millwood for Christmas Holidays
Millwood Virginia reports a wave of holiday arrivals and visits as students and relatives return home. Agnes Page Mitchell Mary Carter Randolph Luke Watkins and others come from Washington Stoney Brook Boston Tech Episcopal High near Alexandria and UVA to celebrate. Local families host gatherings and a hunt breakfast features moving pictures of past meets.
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Millwood
Agnes Page Mitchell
Mary Carter Randolph
Holton Arms
Washington
Fairfax Randolph
Stoney Brook School
L. I
William B. Watkins, Jr
St. Paul's
Charles Lee Burwell
Episcopal High School
Alexandria
John Townsend Burwell
Boston Tech
Robert Carter Randolph
Henry Post Mitchell
University of Virginia
Mary Burchard
Hannah Moore Academy
Thomas Burchard
Virginia Episcopal
Lynchburg
D. W. Burchard
Baltimore
Charles Consolvo
Nat. B. Page
Christ Church School
N. B. Page
Chevy Chase
Roland G. Mitchell
the Glen
Margaret Della Meade
Chatham School
Blue Ridge Country School
Nmeden
Adis Meade
Dan Manville Hartley
Barnwell
S. C
Thomas Nelson Carter
Christmas Socials Tied to Warrenton Guests and Richmond Plans
Miss Nancy Nelson Huidekoper and Miss Mary New York join a Warrenton dinner honoring Miss Thompson hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Edward Jenkins. Huidekoper returns to Ruxton Md until after Christmas then to Long Branch. Henry Post Mitchell visits Richmond for a debutante dance. Mrs. Robert Harrison in Richmond receives support for the Leper Society. Miss Lucy Carter Lee of Colpestown N J plans Christmas with the Misses Page of Saratoga.
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Nancy Nelson Huidekoper
Kenneth Trcegest
Mary New York
Edward Jenkins
Warrenton
Miss Thompson
Miss Huidekoper
Ruxton
Prescott Huidekoper
Long Branch
Hugh M. Nelson
Henry Post Mitchell
Linwood Antrim
Richmond
Robert Harrison
George H. Burwell
Millwood
Lucy Carter Lee
Colperstown
N. J
Misses Page
Saratoga
Notary Commission Revoked Over Neglect in Accomac
Richmond Dec 20 Gover Pollard announced the revocation of Field A Turlington's notary commission for neglect of duty. He said four notaries were removed recently for certifying documents without the makers appearing in person and that he will remove all notaries with similar proven complaints across the state.
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Richmond
Speed Demon races into Palace lineup with thrills
Columbia Pictures presents Speed Demon at the Palace Tonight and Thursday starring William Collier Jr Joan Marsh Wheeler Oakman and Robert Ellis. The tale follows a suspended speedboat racer seeking redemption amid high speed boat crashes and rum runner pursuit. An Al Christy comedy and Screen Snapshots All Star Revue accompany the feature.
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William Collier, Jr
Joan Marsh
Wheeler Qakman
Robert Ellis
the Palace
Charles Condon
D. Ross Lederman
Warner Bros Capitol opens with capers and romance
Warner Bros presents Evenings For Sale at the Capitol in Vienna a postwar romantic comedy starring Herbert Marshall. A Masquers release The Bride's Bereavement features Aileen Pringle and Charles Ray. Richard Dix appears Friday in Hell's Highway.
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Capitol
Vienna
Herbert ~ Marshall
Aileen Pringle
Charles Ray
Richard Dix
Hell’s Highway
Wild Horse Mesa at Colonial Tomorrow and Friday
Warner Bros colonial presentation of Wild Horse Mesa headlines a Colonial bill tomorrow and Friday. Paramount’s Zane Grey production is praised for quality and a comedy feature accompanies the western choice. Fox Movietone News offers news reels as part of the program. The piece notes a standards bureau finding on fired clay ware needing lower firing temperatures.
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Paramount
Fox Movietone News
Bureau of Standards
Mary Baker Eddy Named Among Ablest Women of 100 Years
At a National Council of Women dinner in New York the 12 top women leaders of the last century were announced from a poll of 128 882 participants. Eddy led with 102 762 votes followed by Adams Barton Willard Anthony Keller Stowe Howe Catt Earhart Putnam Lyon Woolley, with likenesses to be displayed at Chicago World’s Fair.
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New York
National ‘Council of Women
Mary Baker Eddy
The
Christian Science Church
Jane Adams
Hull ‘House
Chicago
Clara Barton
Red Cross
Frances E. ‘Willard
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Susan B. Anthony
Helen Keller
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Julia Ward Howe
Carrie Chapman Catt
Amelia Earhart Putnam
Mary Lyon
Mt. Holyoke College
Mary E. Woolley
Council
Christmas Seals as Tools in War on Tuberculosis
A historical piece argues that TB is tied to living standards and malnutrition, urging continued support for Christmas seals as a key weapon. It recalls 1908 health reforms, notes shifting views on disease, and warns against reducing seal purchases amid rising exposure and poverty.
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State Health Department
Tungsten Carbide Alloy For Saws Cuts Treated Wood
An alloy of tungsten carbon and cobalt strong enough to scratch sapphire now grinds saw teeth used on wood treated with fire resistant or preservative chemicals.
Executives Leave Parley as Railways Propose Six Month Extension
Chicago Dec 20. Railroads propose six month extension of the wage agreement with a 10 percent cut from the basic wage. After six months deductions to continue pending Railway Labor Act adjustments. Labor opposes indefinite termination and offers a one year extension with restoration of basic wages.
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Chicago
English Public Libraries and the mistletoe note
The first act authorizing public libraries in England was obtained by William Ewart in 1850. Mistletoe is a parasite that grows on certain trees and its name derives from the Saxon words for glue and twig.
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England
William Ewart
Claims Israel Didn’t Go Through The Red Sea
Halle Germany Dr Otto Eissfeldt argues the Israelites did not pass the Red Sea and locates the salvation near Sebhat Bardifil on the Serbonian lagoon. He has written a book on the subject.
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Halle
Germany
Israel
Red Sea
Pharoah
Otto Eissfeldt
Halle University
Sebhat Bardifil
Serbonian Lagoon
Mediterranean
Sinai Peninsula
Quiet Reigns After Fatal Class Disturbance
In Dadeville Alabama on December 20 quiet returned after 24 hours of dances that led to a fatality among a Black man, wounding of four sheriffs, and six arrests connected to the Share Croppers group. Sheriff J Kyle Young called in a posse of about 100 officers surrounding a 5W near Reeltown three miles away. three leaders were believed to seek sanctuary.
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Dadeville
Alm
Tallapoosa
J. Kyle Young
Reeltown
Fish Pullmans Aid Government Transport of Live Fish
The article describes oxygen tanks used in trucks nicknamed Pullmans to move live fish long distances without harming them. The tanks provide a continuous air supply as the fish are transported by government vehicles.
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Wor
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