Pollard outlines 1930 state policy program in Virginia
Governor elect John Garland Pollard spends Christmas week studying recommended measures for the 1930 General Assembly. Key farm, taxation, education, roads, health, and welfare proposals include tax relief, rural school aid, a women's liberal arts college, a new gasoline tax plan, stronger prohibitions enforcement, seafood policy to aid oyster industry, rural sanitation funding, public welfare boosts, labor safety, county government reform, park expansion, Jamestown Island development, and cautious fiscal planning amid 1929 stock declines.
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Assembly
Pollard
Liberal Arts College For
University of Virginia
Anti-Saloon League
Shenandoah Park
Jamestown Island
First State Park
Used Ford car models listed in local garage ad
GEO WASHINGTON 6 GARAGE advertises used Ford models including 29 Tudor 29 Standard Coupe 29 Roadster 28 Tudor 26 Coupe. The note appears as a brief listing with model names and year prefixes.
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GEO Washington
Kindness From Winchester Convict Camp During Christmas
An official letter from Sergeant W. S. Brent praises Miss Stowers of the Red Cross and Mrs. W. A. Baker along with the American Legion Auxiliary for Christmas gifts and services to World War veterans inmates. He notes continued efforts over four seasons, expressing that such kindness aids humane citizenship and goodwill within the camp.
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Miss Stowers
Red Cross
Winchester
W. A. Baker
American Legion Auxiliary
Fred, Robinson
P. A. DeHaven
Week of Prayer Services Initiated January 6 at Presbyterian Church
The Min isterial Union of the city announces the week of prayer beginning Monday night January 6 with daily services at 7 30 in the Presbyterian Church. No service on Saturday night January 11. Rev Dr George W Richards, a stylish and engaging speaker from the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church in the United States at Lancaster Pennsylvania, will deliver the sermons. All city churches unite for what organizers hope will be the best observance yet.
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Presbyterian Church
George W. Richards
Richards
Reformed Church
United States
Lancaster
Crabtree to be indicted in January in West Virginia murder case
The Hampshire County Circuit Court in Romney will open January 7 with Walter Crabtree to be indicted for the murders of H. Carter Inskeep B. E. Miller and Edward Wolford. Judge A J Valentine is expected to preside and jurors for the term have been announced. Crabtree is jailed in Keyser awaiting trial. A Model A Ford is for sale by private party with payments due and needs sale before December 29.
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Keyser
W. Va
Hampshire County
Romney
Walter Crabtree
H. Carter Inskeep
B. E. Miller
Edward Wolford
H. K. Kump
A. J. Valentine
Crabtree
Valentine
Hampshire County Circuit Court
E. H. Blue
Marvin Hook
Americorn and Badger Dairy Feed Ad Notes
Local advertisement for Americorn and Badger dairy feed from L. L. Hockman & Son at 450 North Market Street. Phone number 897. Runs Tuesdays and Fridays.
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Americorn
Badger
N. Market St
For Rent Modern Six Room House on Leicester Street
For rent a modern six room house at 423 W Leicester St with immediate possession. B M Sullivan signs the notice.
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Leicester St
B. M. Sullivan
Hanukkah Feast Observed Worldwide As Lights Over Darkness
The Tract Commission notes Hanukkah eight day festival begun last evening. It recalls the struggle of Mattathias and Judah Maccabee against Antiochus Epiphanes, the rededication of the temple, and the enduring values of courage endurance and resistance to tyranny celebrated by lighting candles in homes and synagogues.
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Palestine
Antiochus Epiphanes
Syria
Jerusalem
Judah
Antiochus Epipanus
Mattathias
Modin
Judah ‘de Maccabean
Rosen
B. C. BE
Judah the Maccabean
Temple
Israel
the Tract Commission
Coast Guard defend firing on rum runner on Lake Erie
Secretary Lowman defended the coast guard action in firing on a boat on Lake Erie after Eugene Downey Jr. was killed on Christmas Day. He said the vessel was a rum runner under tariff act authority, failed to stop, and was tied to a pier when a wounded man was found onboard.
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The
Associates Press
Washington
Coast Guard
Lake Erie
Eugene F. Downey, Jr
Buffalo
N. Y
Lowman
the Treasury
Downey
Coast
Virginia game officials urge feeding birds during deep snows
A. Willis Robertson, chairman of the state game and inland fisheries commission, warns Virginia faces economic losses in the millions if harsh winter conditions persist. He orders wardens to arrange feeding for birds and appeals to landowners to help, noting snow depths from eight to ten inches across most regions and deeper in the mountains.
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Virginia
A. Willis Robertson
Estate Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries
Major Robertson
Commonwealth
Lynchburg
Maseanutten Range
Burleigh Grimes Seeks Divorce From Ruth Grimes
Canton Ohio December 27 Burleigh A Grimes pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates seeks divorce filed here today He says his wife Ruth Grimes married in 1913 interfered with his work and he withdrew from the Brooklyn club He claims she is unreasonable and extravagant buying jewelry worth between six thousand and ten thousand dollars in seven years.
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Canton
Ohio
Burleigh A. Grimes
Pittsburgh Pirates
Ruth Grimes
Brooklyn
Aged Couple Beaten at Village Store in Chestertown
In Elitora between Chestertown and Rock Hall an elderly couple Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Liverman were beaten by two men one black and one masked. Liverman 70 fought back and was struck with a pistol. Mrs. Liverman summoned help as neighbors called a physician. A gun lay on the floor. Sheriff Hadaway suspects robbery and ties it to recent violence including a separate attempted robbery of S. Dors store in Chestertown.
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Chestertown
Nathan Liverman
Elitora
Here
Rock Hall
Liverman
J. T. Hadaway
S. Dors
Sale Ad for Jas. Cather Farm Saturday January 11th
Classified notice advertises the sale of Jas. Cather farm with multiple dates and partial page reference, listing time blocks and parcel details. The item notes an advance notice on page four and references a series of sale days in January.
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Jas. Cather Farm
Leading Baltimore Banker Sewell S Watts Dies by Own Hand
Sewell S Watts, partner in Baker Watts and Company, shot himself in a private garage after a morning of clients and meetings. The coroner ruled death by own action. Watts had been unusually nervous, according to partner William G Baker Jr, with two engagements left on his schedule.
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Associated Press
Baltimore
Sewell
Watts
Baker, Watts and Company
Cime
William G. Baker, Jr
Mr. Baker
Mexican president-elect visits Mt Vernon and Arlington Unknown
Pascual Ortiz Rubio, president-elect of Mexico, visited Mount Vernon and Arlington Cemetery Washington on December 27. He inspected George Washington’s home and laid a wreath at the Unknown Soldier tomb with Ambassador Pellet and naval aides.
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Associated Press
Washington
George Washington
Pascual
Ortiz Rubio
Mexico
Arlington
Mount Vernon
Potomac
Senor Ortiz Rubio
Unknown
Pascual Ortiz Rubio
Pellet
Hoover
Arlington Cemetery
White House
State Department
High Officer Killed In Fight With Bandit Trio
In New Castle Pennsylvania a state highway patrolman was killed and another wounded during a gun battle with two men and a woman believed to have robbed a Butler store. The trio fled in an Ohio plated car, later stealing another vehicle before abandoning the Ohio machine near New Castle.
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New Castle
Butler
Ohio
Brady Pan
Ernest Moore
Rates: Special 1 Year By Carrier or Mail
Special rate in effect from this date through January 31 1930. After that date regular rates apply.
Seals Still Used to Fight Tuberculosis in Virginia
Dr. Dean B. Cole, president of the Virginia Tuberculosis Association, urges continued support for Christmas seals. Funds support sanatorium care, nurses salaries, clinics, milk for undernourished children, summer camps, and education to prevent tuberculosis, with impact through summer and winter.
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Dean B. Cole
Virginia Tuberculosia Association
Dr. Cole
Virginia Tuberculosis Association
Cole
Mother and Three Die in Suffocation Fire
In Farrell Pennsylvania a mother Rose Cackron, 22, and her children Marie 4 Paul 2 perished from smoke in a room they fled to as others escaped. The mother’s mother father brother and a lodger escaped by climbing to the porch roof and were helped to safety by firemen.
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Associated Press
Farrell
Mothe
Rae
Rose Cackron
Marie
Paul
Demonstration by Communists Is Broken Up
In New York on December 27 police arrested sixty people including 28 women as part of a 150 strong picket in front of a West Twenty sixth Street shoe company. Reserves dispersed the crowd after picketers blocked the street and sang communist songs. The group was charged with disorderly conduct.
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Associated Press
New York
West Twenty-Sixth Street
Judgment Given For Gene Tunney
In Bridgeport Connecticut on December 27 a Superior Court awarded James J. Tunney the defendant in a $500 000 breach of promise suit filed by Mrs Katherine King Fogarty The judgment followed a stipulation signed by both sides and included a pending injunction against Fort Worth Texas divorcee but action on that relief was not immediate.
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Associated Press
Bridgeport
Conn
James J
Gene
Tunney
Katherine King Fogarty
Fort Worth
Texas
Gains Cut Down By Profit Taking
New York stock exchange trading opened with limited gains as many issues rose 1 to 10 points before heavy profit taking around midday trimmed most advances. Call money in renewed at 6 percent.
Wood for Sale by Glaze and Brother Cart Load
Wood for sale at two fifty per cart load cash delivered by Glaze and Brother. Contact details not provided.
Death summons county woman's parents in week
Robert Ross and Mary Steffy Rose are identified as the deceased couple. The Indiana Pennsylvania clipping notes Mary Jane Steffy Rose died at 7 45 PM on a Wednesday after pneumonia. It lists her birthplace and long residence in several towns, plus church membership and surviving children, with funeral plans set for Saturday at 2 PM conducted by Rev. John A Mes Camey. Cemetery interment at Oakland.
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Stephens City
Thomas McCreight Ross
Luther Williame
Indiana
Frederick County
Indiana, Pa
Mary Jane
Steffy) Rose
Thome McCre
Methodist Episcopal Church of
McLain Staffy
Bradford
Cyrus Steffy
Isaiah Steffy
Marion Center
Frank Steffy
Youngstown O
C. V. Barber
Dixonyville
John A. Mes Camey
Oakland Cemetery
Baltimore sees rising divorce and license totals in 1928
Baltimore courts have granted 1,531 divorces since January and the marriage license bureau issued 6,644 licenses. The marriage to divorce ratio stays about the same as licenses rise. Clerk predicts the 1928 license total will exceed last year’s by year end with 41 licenses to go.
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Associated Press
Baltimore
Marriage License Bureau
Lindbergh Takes One-Hop Flight Toward Pacific Coast
VALLEY STREAM New York December 27 Colonel and Mrs Charles A Lindbergh launched from Curtiss Wright field at 11 11 a m for Columbus Ohio for a weekend visit. They plan a single hop to the Pacific coast for inspection of the trans continental air transport group with a new airplane to be delivered in San Francisco.
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Associated Press
Valley Stream
N. Y
Charles A. Lindbergh
Curtiss-Wright Field
Columbus
Ohio
Lindberghe
Pacific Coast
Trans-Continental Air Transport Group
San Francisco
Lindbregh
Charles Jones Dies. Noted Railroad Official and Investor
Charles Jones, 68, a prominent figure in railroad and investment circles, died at his South Orange home. He once led the York Southern Railroad, and held roles with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the Southern Baltimore Car Works, the Suffolk and Carolina Railway, Baltimore Automatic Fire Alarm, and the Baltimore division of Standard Oil. He is survived by his widow, son, and three daughters.
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Associated Press
South Orange
N. Y
Charles Jones
Charles H. Jones Company
New York City
York Southern Railroad
Jones
Gea
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Southern Baltimore Car Works
Suffolk and Carolina Railway
Baltimore Automatic Fire Alarm Company
Baltimore
Standard Oil Company
Eon
Youth Killed in Crash Brought Back to Virginia
The body of Mason Timberlake a 21 year old from New York killed early yesterday morning in a car crash near Castle Pa while returning from a Christmas trip to Fishersville Augusta County and Winchester has been taken to Fishersville for interment. His brother Deid Timberlake 19 and companion Lawrence Sollinger of New York were injured but improving at Waynesboro hospital. The accident witnessed by Mark Beck of Hagerstown who aided the injured and saw the car overturn trapping two occupants before three were rushed to hospital.
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Mason Timberlake
New York
Castle
Fishersville
Augusta County
Winchester
Winesboro
Nathan Timber
New Jersey
Fishereville
M. Timberlake
Son
Lawrence Sollinger
David Timberlake
Sollinger
Tie
Flora Bartlett
Timberlake
David M. Timber
Waynesboro
Hagerstown
Mark Beck
Hapese
Harrisburg
Beck
Agrasantares
Eck
Teencastle
Timberlake Brothers
Waynesboro Hospital
Jimmy Collins Eyes Boxing Bout With Art Shores
Rochester star Jimmy Collins announces plans to enter boxing after a baseball season. He hopes to arrange a match with Art Shores of the White Sox for the first big boxing championship of baseball stars.
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Jimmy Collins
Art Shores
Associated Press
Rochester
N. Y
Rochester Club
International League
Johree
Ted
Collins
White Sox
Filing of Virginia Tax Refunds Highlights Large Payouts
Mrs Hattie N Gilpin of Winchester was among Virginians receiving a 1929 federal income tax refund. A Washington dispatch lists individuals and corporations whose refunds were deemed excessive by the Internal Revenue Bureau. The Clinchfield Coal Corporation led Virginian refunds at 175181 dollars with additional smaller refunds noted.
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Hattie N. Gilpin
Winchester
Virginia
Washington
Intternal Revenue Bureau
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General Assembly
Convict Camp
Brent
Editor
Star
W. S. Brent
Camp No. 29
Ford
Tudor
W. B
c/o
Earl Shade
Robertson
Burleigh Grimes
Pirates
Pascual Rubio
Mt. Vernon
Evening Star
Gene Tunney
Thomas McC. Ross
Lindbergh of
Chicago Daily News
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