New Year Socials and Local Appointments in Front Royal
Miss Lillian McFall of Washington visits Front Royal with sister Gladys for New Year. Randolph Macon Academy cadets return to classes Friday. Several residents and visitors from Washington and nearby towns are noted, including staff changes at county and WPA offices and social gatherings at Applewood.
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Front Royal
Lillian McFall
Washington
Gladys McFall
Randolph-Macon Academy
Leo Strickler Buys Palias Restaurant in Front Royal
Leo Strickler of Luray has purchased the Palias restaurant from Mr and Mrs Floyd Manuel and taken charge of the business. He is understood to have substantial experience and recently sold his Luray restaurant.
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Front Royal
Leo Strickler
Luray
Palias
Floyd Manuel
Warren County Girls Basketball Team Plans Season Opener
Miss Laura Trout, coach of the Warren County high school girls basketball team, has called for practice this afternoon in Front Royal Virginia. It is understood the team will open the season Tuesday with most of last year's players returning.
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Front Royal
Laura Trout
Warren County
Riley Escapes From Jail In Rappahannock
FRONT ROYAL Va Jan 1 Sergeant E C Smith received word that Robert Riley and another prisoner escaped from Rappahannock county jail in Washington Va last night The pair had been jailed two months earlier on turkey theft charges from local farmers near Flint Hill They sold the birds to J P Everly at Middletown and pleaded guilty The escape leaves Smoots involvement unclear.
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Front Royal
E. C. Smith
Robert Riley
Rappahannock
Washington, Va
Riley
L .H. Smoot
Rappahhannock County
Flint Hill
J. P. Everly
Middletown
Everly
Smoot
R M A Student Victim Of Fall In Hospital
Ellsworth Bower a Randolph-Macon Academy student and son of Albert Bower is hospitalized at Memorial Hospital Winchester from a broken leg after a street fall in Front Royal. His condition is reported satisfactory with his father beside him.
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Front Royal
Ellsworth Bower
Randolph-Macon Academy
Albert Bower
Memorial Hospital
Winchester
Honolulu
Front Royal Reports Quiet New Year’s Eve
Front Royal officials say New Year’s Eve passed without incident with several parties before the dance at Updyke’s. An unusual number of out of town visitors attended but overall holidays in Front Royal were quiet and orderly. only two arrests were reported.
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Front Royal
Updyke’s
Flashes to Play Front Royal Friday Night
The Crimson White Flashes from Berryville will visit Front Royal for a Friday game at Randolph-Macon gym 8 o clock.
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Front Royal
Crimson White Flashes
Berryville
Randolph-Macon Gymnasium
Sheriff Marlow Begins Duties in Warren County
FRONT ROYAL January 1 Er nest Marlow assumed his duties as sheriff after winning the November election defeating Roy F. Collins who had served twenty years. Marlow appointed Ed Sealock as jailer and Sealock and family moved into the jailer's home yesterday.
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Front Royal
Ernest Marlow
Warren County
Roy F. Collins
Marlow
Ed. Sealock
Idaho apprentice Charlie Stevenson tops 1935 jockey list
Charlie Stevenson an Idaho apprentice jockey edged veteran Wayne Wright to win his 200th mount. He is pictured at the Fairy Grounds track riding the Old Year out as champion of 1935.
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Idaho
Charlie Stevenson
Charlie
Wayne Wright
Stevenson
Fairy Grounds
Simple Funeral Rites Held For Michael Collins
The funeral for Michael Collins, a Winchester drug clerk, was held at the Church of the Sacred Heart. Father Charles Comasky conducted a plain service with no music, followed by burial in the Catholic Cemetery. Pallbearers were O. L. Jamison, David Reardon, Bernard Sullivan, Charles G. Miller, Jack Widmyer, and Alfred S. Henkel. Collins, a lifelong Winchester resident and Miller's drug store employee for about 45 years, was the son of the late Dennis Collins.
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Michael Collins
Winchester
David Reardon
Bernard Sullivan
Charles G. Miller
Jack Widmyer
Alfred S. Henkel
Collins
Dennis Collins
Miller’s
Funeral Services For Mrs Worsley
The funeral for Mrs Isabelle Glynn Worsley wife of Robert Worsley formerly of this city will be at the Brethren Church Maurertown at 2 o clock tomorrow afternoon. Services will be conducted locally by church officials.
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Isabelle Glynn Worsley
Robert Worsley
Maurertown
Brethren Church
Maurer Town Clergy Leader and Interment Details
The Rev Ed Miller of Maurer town will conduct services and interment will follow in the local cemetery. Mrs Worsley attended Christ Episcopal while living in the city.
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Ed. Miller
Maurertown
Denomination mix chosen for county preaching week
The Stephens City United Brethren Church is selected for county wide preaching services starting January 6, replacing Stephens City Methodist Church. The committee aims for broad denominational representation, noting that in many communities the Methodist Church is the only available choice.
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Stephens City
Markets Report from Chicago Livestock Market
Chicago stockyards opened on a semi holiday with hogs steady to 15 cents higher and cattle steady to 25 cents up. Hogs topped at 9.65 while light hogs lagged. heavier 210 to 300 pound hogs sold 8.75 to 9.55 and lights 9.40 to 9.60. Fat lambs steady to 15 cents lower. sheep up 25 cents or more, slaughter lamb tops at 11.25. Receipts 9,000, below normal. mixed prices for steers, yearlings, and prime cattle with market slow due to high asking prices.
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Chicago
Local Flour Prices at 98 and 24 Pound Bags Listed
Local retail market prices show patent brand flour at 98 lb bags for 7.15 per barrel and 24 lb bags for 7.25 with other sizes. Mixed scratch feed at 1.65 and Kasco mash at 1.70 appear among feed items. Creamery butter and country butter prices noted near the end without full context.
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Asiare
Fasueae, AO
Ceseeee
Kasco
Local Markets Pricing Note Highlights Bag Weights
The Star lists daily market prices for bagged goods with stated weights and per barrel costs. 98 lb bags priced at 6.65, 24 lb bags at 6.95, and 12 lb bags at 6.95 per barrel with no responsibility for typographical errors.
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The
Star
Mrs Argenbright Dies After Double Pneumonia
Eliza Jane Argenbright aged eighty seven died at home in Stephens City at 8 50 this morning after an illness of several days from double pneumonia She is survived by six daughters two sons two brothers and a sister plus eight grandchildren and two great grandchildren Funeral services will be held Friday at 2 30 pm from the Stephens City home with ministers F M Lucas and Snyder Alleman officiating Interment in Green Hill Cemetery
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Eliza Jane Argenbright
Stephens City
Boyd Major Steele
Java
Straits Settlement
High Seas
New York
F. M. Lucas
Methodist Church
Snyder Alleman
Trinity Lutheran Church
Green Hill Cemetery
Rochester youth faces federal charge in extortion plot
Roland E. Markell, 21, of Rochester, arraigned in Buffalo federal court on a charge of sending threatening letters by mail to extort $250,000 from Frank E. Gannett publisher and Louis A. Wehle Rochester brewer under threat of kidnapping their children.
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Frank E. Gannett
Louis A. Wehle
Rochester
N. Y
Roland E. Markell
Buffalo
Three Killed When Auto Is Hit By Train
A Pennsylvania Flyer train struck a car at a railroad crossing seven miles east of East St. Louis Illinois killing two women and a man and badly injuring another woman. The deceased were William Johannissohn 26 of National City, Mrs Jeannette Walker 23 of Lincoln Illinois and Miss Ethel Wood a friend. Mrs Ethel Johannissohn about 45 mother of William was dying. The party had just left a New Year’s celebration and the car was demolished.
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East ST. Louis
Here
William Johannissohn
National City
Jeannette Walker
Lincoln
Ethel Wood
Walker
Ethel Johannissohn
Johannissohn
Hauptmann Plea Comes Next Week
Trent on January 1 reports Bruno Hauptmann, the Lindbergh baby slayer, will seek clemency from the New Jersey Court of Pardons. He is scheduled for execution the week of January 13, with his appeal for mercy to be considered next week.
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Trenton
Bruno
Richard Ha
Court of Pardons
France completes 40 billion franc balanced budget of 1936
Paris January 1 France's 40,000,000,000 franc balanced budget for 1936 completed its passage through Parliament after an all night shuffling between the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies.
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Paris
France
Senate
Chamber of Deputies
Mauna Loa eruption eases with predicted end near January 10
The Mauna Loa volcano in Hilo Hawaii showed waning activity with government volcanologist Dr. Thomas A Jaggar predicting the current eruption would end around January 10 after several weeks of action.
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Hilo
Hawaii
Mauna Loa
Thomas A. Jaggar
Democrats Attend Jackson Day Banquet
Amid pageantry at Lake Placid New York winter sportsmen chose Lanny Ross and Carol Deis as king and queen of the season. Their royal robes highlighted a celebration of winter sports and entertainment figures at the event.
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Lake Placid
N. Y
Lanny Ross
Carol Deis
Three Die In Tin Shack Fire At Wilmington Marsh Dump
Three men burned to death when a tin shack collapsed after a fire started by a warming can at a marsh dump in south Wilmington. Constantine Sobosinski survived with burns while the other two victims perished. Sobosinski said a can tipped over as they warmed themselves, igniting straw on the floor.
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Wilmington
Del
South
Wilming
Eteve
Constantine Sobosinski
Sobosinski
Rites Held For Victims Of Fire In Covington
In Covington Virginia funeral services were held for William Sacks, Lawrence Sacks, and their two day old sister who died in a fire that gutted their tin covered apartment. Relatives of the family received relief aid as efforts to assist Clarence Lacks and his wife continued.
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Covington
Allegheny County
William
Lawrence Sacks
Clarence Lacks
Cash Bonus Champion Talks With President
President Roosevelt and Representative Patman of Texas spoke at length in Washington about the Cash Payment Bonus bill vetoed last session. The meeting prompted speculation of a compromise bonus measure during this Congress.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Rep
Patman
D-Tex
Congress
J F Brumback Dies at 73 prominent Frederick farmer
Joseph F Brumback aged 73 died at his home north of Stephens City after a long illness. He leaves a widow Elizabeth Hershberger and two children Raymond and Wilbur, plus six brothers in Missouri Virginia and Maryland. Funeral arrangements were announced this afternoon.
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Joseph F. Brumback
Prederick
Mr. Brumback
W. Brumback
Mary Susan Brumback
Page County
Brumback
Elizabeth Hershberger
Raymond Brumback
Wilbur Guard
Stephens City
C. Brumback
Frederick County Board of Supervisors
F. Hy. Brumback
Bunzeton
H. W. Brumback
Jefferson City
McLean, Va
R. E. and
J. W. Brumback
Middletown
Perfect Model Standard Shown by City Contest
In New York, 32 000 beauty experts favor a perfection profile. Brooklyn offers Miss Perfection with model Alice Shaughnessy as the winning example. Shaughnessy stands five feet seven inches, weighs 120 pounds and closely matches the proposed measurements.
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New York
Brooklyn
N. Y
Alice Shaughnessy
Miss Shaughnessy
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Roy Brown
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Virginia Marlow
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D. M. Cloyd
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WPA
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FERA
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Mamie Putnam
Ashby Rust
Applewood
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Lala Coma Orchestra
7Th St. and
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Front Royal, Va
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R.M. A
Sheriff Marlow
Champ
Kaufmann-Fabry
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Wee Ae
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Hauptmann
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C. B. Smalts & Son
National Avenue
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Goodyear Tires
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