Handley Will Bequest Shapes Winchester Schools and Library
Judge Handley’s will dedicates funds to the city of Winchester to establish a major school system and library. Trustees report on investment history, governance, and the future administration of a potential one million dollar fund for education.
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Holmes Conrad
Handley Board of Trustees
Winchester
Virginia
Cinepepean
Handley
City Chester
Valley Turnpike
Common Council
Albert Baker
C. M Gibbons
George W. Kurtz
Thomas J. Cooper
John W. Rice
Willams, Love
Maurice M. Lynch
S. H. Hansbro
Board of Trustees
Court of Appeals of Virginia
Ee Ee
Three O Clock in the Morning release year
The song Three O Clock in the Morning appeared in 1921 under the Leo Feist, Inc. catalog. It was published in 1921, marking it as a year of release for the popular tune.
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W. T
Leo Feist, Inc
In Praise Of Potatoes A Dutch pancake suggestion
A humorous piece extols the potato as a staple, noting menus favor potatoes in various forms. It proposes a Pennsylvania Dutch potato mixture and Raw Potato Pancakes fried in hot fat, best served with apple sauce, pitched by a Home Service Representative for Northern Virginia Power Company.
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Home Service
Northern Virginia Power Company
Two Building Permits Issued in January
City records show only two building permits issued by City Manager S Lee Grant in January. Maynard H Rogers of 839 Berryville Avenue received a permit to construct a frame dwelling on the west side of Spruce Street for about 3000 dollars. Justa E Quick secured a permit to build a filling station on Berryville Avenue fronting the south side for about 4000 dollars with a 1000 gallon tank.
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S. Lee Grant
Maynard H. Rogers
Berryville Avenue
Spruce Street
Justa E. Quick
Lme
Gainesboro Gleanings From Virginia Farmlands
Gainesboro Virginia February 7 Mr Omar Day pe gy ae spen a few days with her father Janney Davis. Mr and Mrs P DeHaven are in Baltimore this week on business. Donoval family ill with flu slowly improves. Janney Davis ill. Mrs Peyton Darling ton and children visited C E Swisher in Bunker Hill West Virginia. Hilda Cooper employed in Winchester spent Sunday night with her mother Lou Cooper. Herbert Shultz Middletown spent weekend with his in laws Harry and Mrs Adams.
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Gainesboro
Om da
Opal Crowser
Hayfield
Janney Davis
P. DeHaven
Baltimore
Donoval
Peyton Darlington
Jean
C. E. Swisher
Bunker Hill
W. Va
Hilda Cooper
Winchester
Lou Cooper
Herbert Shultz
Middletown
Harry Adams
Race Meet Cancelled at Ascot Trophy Weekend
London authorities cancel the annual June Ascot race meeting known for classics like the Ascot Gold Cup Ascot Stakes and Royal Hunt Cup. The decision ends a tradition drawing top horses and crowds to the famed course.
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London
Ascot
Tain
French High Command Reports No Change in Paris Front
Paris February 7 the French high command says no new developments to report in its daily military communique the stance remains unchanged with no notable actions or advances reported on the front.
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Paris
High Command
Harvard Student Rescued After 28 Hours in Mount Washington
Webster N. Jones Jr., a 19 year old Harvard student, was found alive after 28 hours lost in a blizzard on Mount Washington. He was carried five miles to safety from Crawford Notch in New Hampshire and reported severely frost bitten and in shock.
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Webster N. Jones, Jr
Harvard
Mount Washington
Pittsburgh
Crawford Notch
N. H
Precautions Taken By Judge During War Induction Joke
District Judge W. A. Day and eight others were initiated into an organization and subjected to a bench wired for shocks. The mock vote on entering the war with Russia against Finland ended with the judge enduring the jolt, claiming a sewn inner tube in his pants protected him. Spectators cheered his endurance.
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Omaha
Neb
W. A. Day
United States
Russia
Finland
Floors Robber With One Word
Elizabeth Hubert a 19 year old clerk at a Chicago dry cleaners spoke one word to a masked robber who demanded cash and threatened to shoot. She replied Phooey and the robber fled, leaving the shop untouched.
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Chicago
Elizabeth Hubert
Phooey
Elizabeth
Examinations for U S Civil Service Open
The U S Civil Service Commission announces open competitive exams for radio inspector 2600 dollars a year in the Federal Communications Commission and assistant radio inspector 2000 dollars in various departments. Applications due in Washington D C by March. Requires a 4 year college course in electrical or communications engineering with relevant experience for inspector grade. Full info from Herman Lee at the post office in this city.
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United States Civil Service Commission
Federal Communications Commission
Commission
Washinga D. C
Herman Lee
City Attorney’s dog case ends with odd fee
Kenosha Wisconsin February 7 Police picked up a stray dog under a proclamation drafted by City Attorney R V Baker Jr The dog was later found to belong to Baker who paid 1 50 to retrieve it from the pound The incident highlights a peculiar self serving clause in the proclamation and the owner’s repayment.
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Kenosha, Wis
R. V. Baker, Jr
Baker
Double Trouble For A Defendant
Richard Hughes a 22 year old carpenter waited for his traffic trial by carving his initials in a police court bench. He was fined ten dollars for the traffic charge and five dollars for the wood carving after a friend brought the money.
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Seattle
Richard Hughes
Hughes
Thaw Begins on Western Front Signals Spring Prep
Paris reports a front thaw as French troops discard weapons to dig drainage canals for spring floods. Fog grounded aircraft and rains worsened the mud while heavy seas hindered Allied naval operations.
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Paris
Cabbie Delivers For Wife After 12 Years Of Rushing Others
Pittsburgh February report says cab driver Herb Flanigan spent 12 years racing to hospitals for others and missing the stork but finally his own wife delivered a baby girl in the driveway.
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Pittsburgh
Herb Flanigan
Has Many Harts In A Fatal Fall
Mrs. Mary Pavlovic a 29 year old mother broke her back right leg and right arm in an eighty foot fall from a bridge and froze to death on the ice of the Youghiogheny river in McKeesport Pa detectives said she apparently jumped from the bridge seven hours before her body was found.
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M’keesport
Mary Pavlovic
Youghiogheny River
Soviet Red Army Honors 248 for Frontline Valor
MOSCOW Feb 7 Tass reported 248 officers and men of the Red Army were decorated by the presidium of the Supreme Soviet for carrying out battle tasks on the front against Finnish white guards and for valor and heroism displayed.
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Moscow
Tass
Red Army
Presidium
The
Supreme Soviet
Massachusetts Leading Fisheries State of New England
Massachusetts is the leading fisheries state in New England and Boston stands as the greatest fishing port in the United States.
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New England
Massachusetts
Boston
United States
Greece and France agree on trade pact
Greece announces a new trade agreement with France to export about 7 million dollars of Greek goods and import large quantities of commodities from France and its colonies. The pact follows a prior agreement between Greece and Great Britain.
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Athens
Greece
France
Great Britain
Orthopedic Clinic at Memorial Hospital for Children
Dr. Robert V. Funston of University Hospital Charlottes ville will conduct a pediatric orthopedic clinic at Memorial Hospital on Saturday February 10 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Patients must use the Cork street entrance. no adults will be examined.
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Robert V. Funston
University Hospital
Charlottesville
Memorial Hospital
Cork Street
Address for Mary Christmas at Racine Wisconsin
The Shut-In Society states that Mrs. Mary Christmas may be addressed at Racine Wisconsin for correspondence with shut-ins.
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Mary Christmas
Racine
Wisconsin
Beef Soup Baked for Hearty Cold Evening Supper
A housewife can serve a heavy soup with crackers for dinner. Beef Soup Baked uses lean beef carrots turnips onions peppercorns cloves celery tops bay leaf thyme potato sugar and salt cooked with a cheesecloth bag, then toast added before serving.
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John Handley
Gotham
Ieee
PLAZA
Out Front Royal Road
Deal’s Island
Maryland
C. B. Smalts & Son
National Ave
U. S. Civil Service
General Electric
VIN T
Miles Music CO
S. Loudoun St
Joseph Havel
Eastern State Penitentiary
Philadelphia
William Meehan
Havel
George Kopp
Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola CO
Coca-Cola Botelia Works
E. Gerrard ST. E. Harbaugh
Mar
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