Crusade idea inspires medieval call to arms
The article traces Pope Urban II's call for the First Crusade at Clermont and the rise of Godfrey de Bouillon. It notes Peter the Hermit's eremitic zeal, the mob nature of the expedition, the march to Jerusalem, and the siege leading to the city’s capture. It also mentions Godfrey’s choice of king and a social event with Girl Scouts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. P. Massey
Ron Peter the Hermit
Ey de Bouillon
Clermont
Europe
Peter the Hermit
Paris
Rhineland
France
Constantinople
Peter
Jerusalem
Godfrey de Bouillon
Seige
Godfrey
Weekend Social Calendar Highlights Local Clubs and Choirs
Saturday afternoon last of group teas at Kenmore, home of Betty Washpen Lewis in Fredericksry. Monday evening New Year's dance at Rouss Hall under Mr. Charles Shewbridge. By 12 30 p m Lions Club weekly luncheon at George Washington Hotel. Evening basketball practice for Girls Athletic Association at Handley High. Wednesday Kiwanis at 12 45 p m George Washington Hotel. 8 30 p m Grace Lutheran adult choir practice. 6 45 p m United Brethren young people's choir. Thursday Rotary Club at 1 00 p m George Washington Hotel. Friday 12 30 p m American Legion Post at George Washington Hotel. 7 00 p m Braddock Street Methodist Episcopal young people's choir.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rouss Hall
Charles Shewbridge
Lions’ Club
George Washington Hotel
Girls’ Athletic Association
Handley High School
Kiwanis Club
Grace Lutheran Church
United Brethren Church
American Legion Post
Geo. Washington Hotel
Young People’s Choir
Braddock Street Methodist Episcopal Church
Mrs Green recounts Amiens history at Century Club
At the Century Club meeting on December 27 Mrs. Melvin Green described Amiens from Roman Ambiani to the Gothic cathedral. She highlighted St Firmin’s martyrdom, the rise of the middle class, and the cathedral’s unity under architect Robert de Luzarches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Green
Century Club
Amiens
Robert M. Glass
Melvin Green
Gaul
France
Notre Dame de Paris
Notre Dame de Chatres
Reims
Robert de Luzarches
Cumberland Valley Artists Plan First Annual Exhibition
Plans for the Cumberland Valley Artists exhibition at the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts run February 1 to 28. The no jury show allows two entries per artist from Hagerstown and nearby towns with prizes of a gold and bronze medal. entries due January 1 to 15. Exhibitors include Miss Virginia Tayloe Boyd and Miss Mary Hyde.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cumberland Valley
Washington County
Virginia Tayloe Boyd
P. W. Boyd
Fairmont Avenue
Music Lovers' Club to Resume Meetings at 7 30
The Music Lovers' Club will restart meetings Monday evening at Mrs. Frank L. Buckley’s on South Stewart Street at 7 30, a change from the former 8 o clock start. Miss Pence hosts a card party at Parkway avenue home. Mrs. Richard Evelyn Byrd hosts a supper party on Amherst Street honoring Dr. and Mrs. Hunter H. McGuire and guests from Fort Knox plus Anne Tucker McGuire of New York City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Girl Scouts Troop No. 4
S. Fred Stine
Millwood Avenue
Margaret Gibbens
Marjorie Atwell
Louise Cain
Eugene Cooper
Allen T. Hawthorne
J. C. Oakes
Aulick Gibbens
William van Meter
Mack Cain
D. W. Largent
W. T. Barr
Hunter M. Stine
Lucy Kurtz
George G. Snarr
S. Carroll Brooks
Bessie McCann
Dorothy Hawthorne
Music Lovers’ Club
Frank L. Buckley
South Stewart Street
Miss Pence
Frances Pence
L. H. Pence
Parkway Avenue
Richard Evelyn Byrd
Amherst Street
Hunter H. McGuire
Julian Lindsey
Julian B. Lindsey
Fort Knox, Ky
Anne Tucker McGuire
New York City
Harry K. Russell
McGuire
Mary Louise Steele
Winchester
Washington, D. C
Anne G. Smith
North Carolina Avenue
Winston Grim
Ashington
Floyd Grim
Berryville Pike
Brookneal
Grim
Jerry White
Thomas R. Moore
Charlottesville
Lillie M Hauptman
Boston, Mass
G. M Hauptman
South Braddock Street
James Kilpatrick
Martinsburg
Burr Fletcher
Washington
Guy Fletcher
Virginia Avenue
Anna Free
June
Homer Golloday
Edinbure
Parkway
Cumberland, Md
Miss Crawford Hosts Informal Evening Social
Miss Elizabeth Gold Crawford plans an informal gathering at her North Washington Street home tonight with a group of friends and several out-of-town guests including Miss Roberta Earle Miss Rebecca Earle Ellen Earle Jones Miss Elsie Gray Hume and Mr Gray Hume Jr of Leesburg plus attendees from Milldale Woodstock Penn State College and Clarke County. The event gathers notable locals and visitors for a casual social.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Crawford
Elizabeth Gold Crawford
North
Washington Street
Roberta Earle
Rebecca Earle
Ellen Earle Jones
Milldale
Elsie Gray Hume
Gray Hume, Jr
Leesburg
Marjorie Trotter
Penn State College
Woodstock
Clay B. Carr
Clarke County
Calvin W. Kuykendall
Charles Town
Davidson
N. C
William E. Dix
Rome
Richard Smith
Jacqueline Smith
Wycliffe
Prescott Blount
Stonehenge
Herbert and
Joseph Trotter
Alexander Earle
Christmas Visitors and Travelers From Local Homes
Local families share holiday travels with relatives from Brookneal Virginia to Charlottesville Maysville Ky and Martinsburg. Several residents plan return trips soon as guests depart from Washington and nearby towns after Christmas visits.
Large Incomes In Virginia Are On Decrease
Virginia shows a drop in high earners in 1930 per Internal Revenue figures. Two taxpayers reported over 250 090, compared with 12 in 1928, while 1929 had eight above that threshold. Total net income for the top group fell from 7 510 061 in 1928 to 1 047 803 in 1930.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Virginia
United States Bureau of Internal Revenue
Printing Trades Employes Decrease
The census bureau announced that wage earners in manufacturing printing and publishing in the United States fell from 8 838 743 in 1931 and the gross value of products dropped from 70 435 000 000 to 41 333 900 000. Establishments also declined 17.5 percent from 1929 to 1931.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Census Bureau
Makes Third Escape From State Hospital
Henry Rollins alias Henry Cross, a life prisoner for murder, escaped from Spring Grove State Hospital near Catonsville for the third time. Aged 26, Rollins was convicted at 18 for the murder of James E Miles, a Charles County farmer. Saw blades smuggled to him by friends outside the hospital aided the break, hidden in a pillow case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Henry Rollins
Henry Cross
Spring Grove State Hospital
Catonsville
Rollins
James E. Miles
Charles County
New Temperature Record For Dec 31
The weather bureau thermometer reached 61 degrees above zero at 9 am setting a new December 31 high. The prior record of 60 degrees, set in 1884, stood before today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
New York
Weather Bureau
U S Marines Withdraw From Nicaragua Marking Policy Shift
The first of the New Year sees United States marines leaving Nicaragua as a new Latin America policy unfolds. Juan Bautista Sacasa takes office amid lingering opposition from General Augustino Sandino, recalling the 1926 intervention that toppled Diaz and backed Sacasa. About 133 Marines and roughly 4,000 Nicaraguans died in the episode.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Nicaragua
Latin America
Juan Bautista Sucusa
Augustino Sandine
State Department
Mexico
Russia
Panama Canal
Dr. Sacasa
Diaz
America
Lifer Offers To Die In Chair For Woman
A Georgia lifer offered to die in the electric chair for Beatrice Perguson Snipes, a 29 year old textile mill worker sentenced to death for killing a rural policeman. Snipes was too unwell to discuss the proposal, and prison officials could not arrange an interview. Governor Blackwood said such an exchange was impossible, though he commented Curtis might be allowed if he were truly desperate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
8. C
Georgia
Beatrice Perguson
Curtis
Tariff on Foreign Coal to Be Resumed
Washington reports the $2 a ton coal import tax against Germany and Great Britain will be collected again immediately. Attorney General Mitchell ruled that any legal challenge should go to court after advice from Secretaries Mills and Stimson. The tax was halted when the State Department cited most favored nation treaties, with Canada unaffected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Germany
Great Britain
F. X. A. Eble
Customs
Treasury Department
Mitchell
Mills
The
Treasury
Stimson
State Department
Last Revenue Act
United States
Canada
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Fla
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Garland Canter
Miss Bright Grove
Valley Avenue
James K. Cox
Ashland
Charles J. Blair, Jr
North Cameron, Street
Cox
Shenandoah Valley Academy
Kenmore
Betty Washpen Lewis
Fredericksry
Rotary Club
Gaytes
Huntscerry
Hagerstown
Mrs. Chiles
Maine
Samuel M. Chiles
George William Small
Bangor
Plainfield
Kernstown
Chiles
New Haven
Conn
Small
Yale University
Mrs. Small
Palisades
Hudson
Adirondacks
Lake George
Lake Champlain
Burlington
Green Mountains
New Hampshire
Mrs. Byrd
Eppa Booker
Thomas J. Hicks
Pine Street
Mary Frances
Harry F. Byrd, Jr
Mrs
H. F. Byrd
Rosemont
Berryville
Lexington
Kenneth Cornwell
Oscar H. Cornwell
Peyton Street
Norristown
George Turnipseed
Maysville
Fhlaw
Charles J Blair, Jr
Cameron Street
Chloe Mudd
Mount Washington
St. Agnes School For Girls
Richard E. Mudd
H. B. McCormac, Jr
Philadelphia
George Lafayette Washington
That City
State Hospital
U. S
Augustino Sandino
Lifer
Memphis
Tenn
Carolina
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
the Commercial & Savings Bank
R. M. Swimley
Hamman’s Dollar Store
Yee
Ocelot
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Patagonia
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Margaret. L
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