Apple Blossom Festival Invites Shenandoah Queen and Prominent Guests
The Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival invites Queen Shenandoah VI Mrs Charles B Coleman Jr nee Mary Jo Mathews to reign at the mass meeting tomorrow at 8 p m in the George Washington Hotel dining room. Notables including R Gray Williams H F Byrd and Frank Sublett will speak as railroads and local firms pledge support for the event.
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Apple Blossom
Charles B. Coleman, Jr
Mary Jo Mathews
George Washington Hotel
Mathews
Coleman
R. Gray Williams
H. F. Byrd
Virginia
Frank Sublett
Shenandoah Valley, Inc
Nelson F. Richards
Pennsylvania, Norfolk and Western
Baltimore and Ohio, Southern, Fruit Growers’ Express Company
Seagate
South Boundway
Winchester and
Vicinity
Festival H. R. Bryarly and Brother
The
Home Life Insurance Company
District of Columbia
Maryland
West Virginia
Washington
Washington Herald
Winchester
North Main Street
DuPont Head Calls For Repeal Of Dry Amendment
DuPont Company leader urged repeal of the eighteenth amendment during a House judiciary committee session on dry laws. He argued government control of liquor would advance temperance while other witnesses including Raymond Pitcairn and Henry H. Kurn prepared to oppose.
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Associated Press
Ashington
DuPont
House Judiciary Committee
E. I. DuPont de Nemours Company
Raymond Pitcairn
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company
Henry H. Kurn
Association Against the
Doctors End Hope Of Saving Taft Life
Washington February 27 Physicians attending William Howard Taft disclosed there is no hope for his recovery. The former chief justice’s condition worsened with brief respites. he is 72 years old, watched by family and doctors at his bedside as his health rapidly declined.
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Associated Press
Washington
William Howard Taft
Helen Taft Manning
Dr. Hagner
Mas
Free samples at Sargent's Cash Grocery this week
Demonstrator will be in store all week offering free samples of L s Cakes and Crackers at SARGENT'S CASH GROCERY located at the Market and Piccadilly corner.
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L.sCakes & Crackers
Sargent’s Cash Grocery Cor
Market & Piccadilly
Rexall Birthday Sale Big Bargains Big Sayings
Wanted experienced and competent stenographer for permanent position in Winchester. Good salary. Address 750 c o Star.
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Rexall
Brooks” Pharmacy
Winchester
Arlington Shade dies after circular saw accident near Arden
Arlington Shade 15 son of Mr and Mrs Vernon Shade of Arden Berkeley county West Virginia died in Martinsburg after being fatally injured when he stumbled into a powered cordwood circular saw at the George Wisecarver home three miles south of Inwood. He lived a short time after an operation and died from shock. Surviving are his parents two brothers Charles and Johnny and sister Ruth. Funeral at Arden M E Church Saturday at 1 30 pm.
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Winchester
Frederick County
Arlington Shade
Vernon Shade
Arden
Berkeley County
W. Va
George Wisecarver
Inwood
Martinsburg
Hial
Arden ® Methodist Church
Wisecarver
Charles
Johnny
Ruth
Arden M. E
Church
D. D. Hartzer and Son
South
Maple Avenue
Trial over dogs killed during fox hunt in Frederick County
In Frederick Circuit Court, experts described pedigreed Walker strain foxhounds named Net and Scout killed after allegedly killing five chickens. Fines for animal cruelty were imposed in the magistrate’s court, and damages of 85 dollars were awarded to F. W. Pingley, with the case on appeal.
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Frederick County
F. W. Pingley
H. J. Dyke
Ke. Santa Seite Ee Cry
Ts P Williams
Massistrate
Pingley
Circuit Court
Walker
Net
Scout
Mr. Dyke
Mr. Pingley
C. L. Bong
C. W. Taylor
J. C. Nesselrodt
Douglas Rush
Julian Rosenberger
Guy Miller
C. T. Windell
R. W. Bayliss
Sheriff Pannett
Virginia House backs free textbooks appropriation proposal
The Virginia House approved a resolution urging Gov Pollard to include funding for free elementary textbooks in the 1932 biennial budget. A separate plan would greet Admiral Byrd on his return, with a governor and two assembly members on the commission. The Senate finance committee restored C H Morris salary to 12000 and raised state corporation judges to 7000.
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Associated Press
Richmond
House
Hall
Loudoun
Senate
House of Delegates
Byrd
Virginia
Richard E. Byrd
United States
John Garland Pollard
James H. Price
J. Sinclair Brown
Assembly
Senate Finance Committee
Garrett
Ridgeway
Finance Committee
Mack
Congress
Crandall Mackey
Washington
Arlington County
Nal Sess
R. Walton Moore
Virginia Senate
Gov. Pollard
Kaze Tiree
Nurse Reported Stricken With Parrot Fever In Baltimore
Virginia Ways, a nurse who cared for Dr. William Royal Stokes, is hospitalized with psittacosis amid concerns she may have contracted parrot fever. Stokes died two weeks earlier. Officials watch the case for person to person transmission, noting hand injury as a possible entry for the organism.
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Associated Press
Baltimore
Virginia Ways
William Royal Stokes
Bureau of Bacteriology
Health Department
Mercy Hospital
Stokes
Miss Ways
C. Hampson Jones
Income Tax Services Offered by J H Seal Jr
State and Federal income tax reports prepared with reasonable charges. J H Seal Jr advertises tax services. The rest of the fragment notes there are over 20,500 medical students in ACA accredited colleges.
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J. H. Seal, JR
United States
Hare
The
American Medical Association
Eastern adds a new palace car to Valley Line
The Eastern Public Service Corporation introduced a super deluxe motor coach between Winchester and Washington with 30 seats, four settees, eight double Morris chairs, eight singles, radio, writing desk, lamps, fans, and electric heating. It runs on an express schedule via Winchester Roanoke and Knoxville with daily departures and drivers Kenneth Wilson and Jack Eurick.
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Winchester
Eastern Public Service Corporation
Knoxville
Tenn
Washington, D. C
Eastern Corporation
New Palace
Morris
Virginia
W: N
Wash
Red Cedar Removal Underway to Protect Apple Crops
Frederick County fruit growers coord inated a county wide cedar cleanup to curb cedar rust harming apples. About 3000 cedars felled between Fawcett Gap and Wisecarver Gap under Julius W. Richard guidance. Tree cutting squads to start March 3 at George Bywaters home, with additional crews planned in Woodchuck Lane to Little North Mountain area. Numerous crews organized across the county.
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Frederick County
George Bywaters
Opequon
Wisecarver Gap
Chapel Lane
J. W. Larrick, Jr
Philip Williams
Woodchuck Lane
Little North Mountain
Five Die and Many Hurt in Lancashire Pit Blast
Five miners were killed and twenty others injured when a pit near Haydock Lancashire exploded last night. Rescue teams worked through the night to reach survivors as officials investigated the cause of the blast.
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Associated Press
Haydock
Lancashire
Eng
Death Notices for Mrs Martha Rhodes of Lexington Va
Announcement from Lexington Va confirms the death of Mrs Martha Ellen Rhodes aged nearly 90 after a weeklong pneumonia illness. She was widow of Frank P Rhodes and daughter of John G Senshey, with descendants including Ernest L Rhodes of Atlanta Charles F Rhodes of Pla Mrs Margaret Kernoke and Mrs Virginia Mitchell of Lynchburg.
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Martha Ellen Rhodes
Lexington
Rhodes
Mr. Rhodes
Middletown
Odisley
Ernest L. Rhodes
Atlanta, Ga
Charles F. Rhodes
Pla
Margaret Kernoke
Virginia Mitchell
Lynchburg
Premier answers in Commons on naval talk with Japan
The article reports on U S and Japan holding talks in London with British officials as observers noting friction over naval ratios. Senator Reed and U S advisors confer with Prime Minister MacDonald on Japanese details. Analysts warn talks may stall over a 70 percent versus 60 percent ratio for Japan. The piece also covers Paris political turbulence as Andre Tardieu seeks to form a government, with Doumergue guiding the process and timetable unclear.
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Associated Press
London
David A. Reed
MacDonald
Agai
Sistence
Japan
Paris
Andre Tardieu
Doumergue
Camille Chautemps
Tardieu
Andre ‘Tardieu
Presi
Gaston Doumergue
Raymond, Poincare
Grace Lutheran banquet draws Lutheran men from Shenandoah Valley
Grace Lutheran Church Men’s Bible Class hosts annual banquet at 7 30 p m in the social rooms of the Sunday school building on West Boscawen Street with guests from Lutheran Bible classes across the valley. Rev A A Kelly former local pastor to speak and Rev Lt A Thomas will be presented. Market Street Methodist Orchestra provides music. Women’s Auxiliary handles the menu.
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Lutheran Church
Shenandoah Valley
Grace Lutheran Church
West Boscawen Street
Dr. Kelly
A. A. Kelly
A. Thomas
D. D
Grace Church
C. A. Freed
Market Street Methodist Episcopal Church Orchestra
J. Madison Spurr
H. K. Grove
Frank Brown
J. A. Richard
J. A. Stultz
W. H. Bosserman, Sr
L. F. Cooper
Oscar S. Brown
J. H. Bott
Joseph Miller
E. J. Snapp
P. A. Beck
H.S. Miller
Coal Pocahontas Price Drop Shocks Buyers
Pocahontas coal washed out to seven dollars per ton stirring activity at W. B. Snider and Sons. Local buyers and traders watch for supply shifts as the market reacts to the lower price point and potential availability changes in the region.
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Pocahontas
W. B. Snider & Sons
Wife of Hoover Secretary Is Ill With Meningitis
Mrs. Lawrence Richey, wife of one of President Hoover's secretaries, is seriously ill with meningitis after returning from Long Keys Florida where she joined the President's fishing party. She was moved to a hospital last night as doctors confirmed the diagnosis.
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Washington
Lawrence Richey
Long Keys
Fla
Hoover
Richey
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Queen of Hearts
Grace Gardner
Greensboro, Fla
Florida State College For Women
Dupont CO
MR. Taft
MBS Roan
Boy Fatal Sre
Commission
Dick Byrd
Morrissett
Tammany
Associatedress
Veronica Curry
John F. Curry
Tammany Hall
Edmund M. McCarthy
Springfield
Mass
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
New York
Eastern
Valley Line
Mdonald
OLD County
Frank P. Rhodes
House of Commons
U.S
Andrew Tardieu
France
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