Virginia General Assembly to Consider Tax Cuts and Road Spending
Richmond dispatch reports the legislature to debate a tax-reduction bill aimed at industrial growth, an appropriation exceeding 70 million dollars for two years, a 1 million dollar Shenandoah National Park funding, road mileage allocations among counties, and a state licensing plan for motor vehicle operators, with Byrd and officials weighing plans.
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Lower Branch
Shenandoah National Park
Richmond
Virginia
General Assembly
Byrd
Senate
House
Public Treasury
Shenandoah
National Park
George A. Bowles
Goochland County
State Highway Commission
Vaughan-Lesner
James M. Hayes
Division of Motor Vehicles
Motor Vehicle Commissioner’s Office
Miss Janet Richards Lectures On Current Events At George Washington Hotel
Miss Janet Richards will deliver a lecture on Current Events February 28 at 8:30 PM under the Century Club. Assisted by Winchester and Clarke County Garden Club Civic League United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Daughters of the American Revolution. Public invited tickets $1 at Baker's drug store.
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Janet Richards
George Washington Hotel
Miss Richards
Century Club
Winchester and
Clarke County Garden Club
The
Civic League
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Daughters ‘of the American Revolution
Baker's Drug Store
Chicken Supper at Cen tenary Reformed Church
Cen tenary Reformed Church hosts a chicken supper for Progressive Men’s Bible Class from 5 to 9 p.m. Tickets are 75 cents. Proceeds go to church activities.
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Centenary Reformed Church School
Progressive
Oyster Supper for Fire Equipment at Middle Town VA
Valentine Oyster Supper hosted by the Community League of Middle Town at town hall on Tuesday February 14 to raise funds for fire fighting apparatus. Attend and enjoy the band noted as the best in the area.
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Community League of
Middletown
Town Hall
Tues
Romney Lawyer J Sloan Kuykendall Dies After Paralysis
J Sloan Kuykendall a prominent Romney West Virginia attorney died after a paralysis attack in the Hampshire county courthouse Winchester and after a brief stay in Memorial Hospital He was a former West Virginia House of Delegates member and a leading Democrat in the Romney area His funeral will be held in Romney with burial to follow Surviving are his widow son and two daughters.
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J. Sloan Kuykendall
Romney
W. Va
Winchester
Memorial Hospital
B. B. Dutton
Kuykendall
Mr. Kuykendall
Charles Town
Harry V. Wheeler
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Hampshire County
Peter Kuykendall
Frederick County
Petersburg
Washington and Lee University
West Virginia House of Delegates
Border
West Virginia
Indian Trail
William Kuykendall
J. Sloan Kuykendall, Jr
Alma Kuykendall
Mary Kuykendall
First National Bank
Hope fades for sailors who fled wrecked Mohave tug
The Mohave crew members who escaped in a punt after the tug piled up on Harding ledge were located as hope diminished. The punt washed ashore off Black Rock Cohasset about three miles from the wreck site. The boat was upright and filled with water while the rest of the crew was rescued.
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Boston
Mass
Harding Ledge
Black Rock
Cohasset
Evelyn W Shavouck Beauty Shoppe Opens in Town
Evelyn W. Shavouck announces the opening of her Beauty Shoppe at 14 West Boscawen Street with evening hours by appointment. Call 29-1. The notice also mentions a leather price text book lost with reward and a wagon sale by W W McDonald on February 22.
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Evelyn W. Shavouck
W. Boscawen St
Founding Week Observed by Boy Scout Troop No. 1
Troop No. 1 marked the founding week with a Kiwanis luncheon program featuring Kern Sirbaugh Scully Simpson Henkel and J Flickinger. About 50 visitors attended as the group reaffirmed the scout oath and celebrated six years of the troop with merit badges promotions and service awards.
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Kiwanis Club
Kern
Sirbaugh
Scully
Simpson
Henkel
J. Flickinger
R. Hurst
Braddock Street
Methodist Church
South
Cooper
James Yates
Handley High School
America
Sirbanugh
Douglas Cather
William Grove
J. Taylor
Fuller
John Taylor
George di. Heist
Cometyer
Mazlor
Sipnacn
Seceived
William Kern
Ryan
Walter Ickinger
Anderson
Lucas
Star Fort
Winchester
Starfort
Grace Lutheran Church
C. A. Freed
Daniel
Emerson Slenkel
Kenneth Cather
Moke Ailstock, Noted Local Character, Dies at 60
Moke Ailstock of Winchester died Saturday evening at Memorial Hospital from complications of diseases aged about 60. Funeral services were held this afternoon at Free Will Baptist Church with burial in Orrick Cemetery. He was the son of Charles Ailstock and Charlotte Washington Ailstock and survived by a sister Cora Ailstock. once famed for his wit and style, he inspired a vaudeville sketch called The Virginia Judge.
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Moke Ailstock
Winchester
Memorial Hospital
Free Will Baptist Church
Orrick
Moke
Charles Ailstock
Charlotte Washington Ailstock
Virginia
Cora Ailstock
Largest Shenandoah timber sale announced by forest supervisor
The Maryland West Virginia Lumber Company won the largest timber sale on Shenandoah National Forest in 1927 with an estimated 20,000,000 feet of saw timber and 13,000 tons of chestnut oak and hemlock bark. Operations begin in Hardy County West Virginia with a narrow gauge railway linking Wardensville to the Winchester and Western line for dispatch to mills.
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Shenandoah National Forest
Nomber
Maryland-West Virginia Lumber Company
R. W. Shields
Shields
Maryland-West Virginia Company
J. Natwick
Baltimore
Hardy County
W. Va
Trout Run
Wardensville
Winchester and Western
Acorn Manufacturing Company
Winchester
Shenandoah
Devils Hole
Heirs File Claim to Bloyer Estate Share
The nearest of kin to Mrs. Mary J. Bloyer, deceased, gathered to prove kinship for a share of about 8300 dollars in cash and Liberty bonds. Seven second cousins are named as expected heirs, with the estate to be divided after costs, likely more than 1000 dollars each, as a chancery suit seeks court directions.
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Mary J. Bloyer
C. Lea Barr
H. H. Woodward
Winchester
John Hammersla
Hagerstown
Annie Supinger
Braddock
Dora Simpson
C. Collins Taylor
North Carolina
Pulliam
Washington, D. C
Dr Kepner to Speak on Life's Place in the Universe
Dr W A Kepner professor of biology at the University of Virginia will present the fifth lecture in a Handley Schools series next Friday night at Mandley School Auditorium. The free talk titled Life's Place in the Universe will explore how living beings resist the deterministic drift of the inanimate universe.
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Mandley School
W. A. Kepner
Kepner
University of Virginia
Dr. Kepner
Handley* Schools
Firemen’s Frolic at Empire Theatre February 16 17
Friendship and Sarah Zane fire companies back a three hour family show titled Fire men’s Frolic at Empire Theatre. Mary Louise Sartelle violinist, Frank Reynolds and F L Buckley vocalists, James R DuShane Tom Warren comicists lead a fifty player troupe with twenty five women. Tickets on sale at Empire Theatre Box Office.
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Sarah Zane
Frank Reynolds
F. L. Buckley
Mary Louise Sartelle
James R. DuShane
Tom Warren
Mr. Mullane
Phil Hayden
Sarah Zane Hall
Friendship Hall
Empire Theatre
Earl of Oxford and Asquith gravely ill in London
The Earl of Oxford and Asquith, former Liberal leader and British prime minister at the war's start, is gravely ill in London. A medical bulletin says he developed acute pharyngitis with signs of bronchitis, age 74, husband of Margot Asquith.
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Associated Preas
London
Earl of
Oxford
Asquith
Margot Asquith
Burr P Harrison Toastmaster At Rouss Banquet
The Star omitted Burr Powell Harrison’s name in Saturday’s Rouss banquet report. Harrison served as toastmaster before about 300 guests and introduced speakers with graceful witty remarks that drew applause.
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Burr P. Harrison
Star
Burr Powell Harrison
Harrison
Prison Farm Guards Slain as Inmates Revolt
In Bridgewater a breakout by liberated inmates left two guards dead Eugene Amlaw night supervisor and Wil fred Gérrotr guard. Overpowered by more than 60 officers the fled inmates were subdued after a fierce standoff with state police and Brockton city police.
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Associa
Gerroir
Amlaw
Twison
Fourteen Bodies Brought From the Wreck of a Mine
At Hollinger mine in Timmins Ontario the surface recovery rose to 25 bodies with 14 more found earlier. A fire on the 550 foot level since Friday was under control and 25 of 51 missing men had been located, with U.S. rescue crews from Pittsburgh receiving major credit for the operations.
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Timmins
Ont
Hollinger
United States Bureau of Mines
Pittsburgh
United States
Empire Policy and Program Endorsed By Manager Baker
The Empire Theatre under Manager Baker announces an excellent weekly program in Winchester with top tier screen attractions at affordable prices. The policy aims to provide premier releases while keeping prices fair, with occasional increases only for major titles like Ben Hur and Kings of Kings. Continues to feature new and previous releases from familiar and new distributors.
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Empire Theatre
Winchester
Baker
Lindbergh Begins Final Good Will Flight From Havana
Lindbergh departed Havana at 2 26 am toward St Louis on a 1200 mile leg. The Spirit of St Louis lifted in darkness amid fog and crowd cheers with the Cuban band playing and officials aboard. The flight path headed toward Key West then open sea as onlookers heard the motor beyond the clouds.
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Associated Press
Charles A. Lindbergh
Havana
Jackson
Miss
Florida Coast Line
Little Rock
Ark
Gulf
Key West
New Orleans
Lindabergh
Th Gulf
Fila
Orlando
Fla
Justin Lee
Communication Department
United States Naval Reserve Force
Sarasota
Colonel Lindbergh
St. Louis
Lone Eagle
Columbia Flying Field
Spirit of
Judah An
Judah
Lindbergh
Judge Soper Called Before Senate Panel on Ward Food Decree
Federal District Judge Morris A. Soper of Baltimore, who approved the Ward Food Product Corporation consent decree dissolving the firm on April 3, 1926, is invited to appear before the Senate judiciary committee. The panel weighs majority and minority views on the decree and the related Clayton act suit by the Department of Justice against Continental Baking Company. The minority asserts the record shows possible undue haste in issuing the decree before full consideration.
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Associated Press
Washington
Morris A. Soper
Baltimore
Ward Food Product’ Corporation
Senate Judiciary Committee
Montana
Borah
Idaho
So- der
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Jindbergh
Paris
Council Bluffs
Star Office
W.W. McDonald’s
W.va
W. and
Massachusetts Institution
Associated’ Press
Empire
Trail
U.S
Col. Lindbergh
Mr. Sams
Reed
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