Mayor Speaks At New Year's Lion Meeting
The Lions Club heard Mayor R. Anderson discuss commemorating Roosevelt's birthday and funding local paralysis research. Past President Hoye Riley itemized dues, while Dr. Anderson announced a new split: 70 percent for Winchester local paralysis work and 30 percent for national research, with plans for a January 31 ball at the George Washington Hotel.
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Roosevelt
Lion
Hoye Riley
Mel Preston
Lions Club
George Washington Hotel
Winchester Club
Paralysis
Mayor Anderson
Warm Springs Foundation
Paraysis
Anderson
Henry L. Doherty
Vincent Astor
Charles G. Dawes
George Crile
Cleveland
Jim Shockey
Frank Forsythe
Front Royal Lions Club
William E. Carson
Virginia Conservation and Development Commission
Front Royal
Lion Joseph Newlin
Carson
Shenandoah National Park
Lion Newlin
Lions Club of
Winchester
United States
Census workers begin farming count for nation
About 25,000 federal census employees start enumerating six million farms and ranches in the 1934 agricultural census. Officials urge cooperation, noting results affect government programs and farm welfare. schedules distributed, with headquarters in Harrisonburg.
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United States
William L. Austin
Bureau of the Census
Department of Commerce
Austin
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Federal Emergency Relief and
Farm Credit Administrations
Harrisonburg
Census Bureau
Detonating Cap May Explain Death of Mrs Briscoe
Baltimore society woman Miss Katherine Briscoe died from a chest wound when a tiny metal fragment entered her lung while she stoked a furnace. Johns Hopkins expert Dr. Robert W. Wood and chemists studied a miner detonating cap fragment found in coal dust, proposing accidental ignition as the cause.
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Baltimore
Katherine
Briscoe
Baltimore Society
Robert W. Wood
Johns Hopkins University
Ballastics
Produce Truck Drivers Strike Shuts Cleveland Deliveries
About 400 truck drivers from the Commission House Drivers' Union walked out in Cleveland halting all produce deliveries except to chain groceries. The strike targets three commission houses at the Cleveland food terminal as part of ongoing closed shop negotiations.
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Cleveland
Commission House Drivers’ Union
Cleveland Food Terminal
Salvation Army Distributes Food and Garments on New Year
Major and Mrs James Mars of the Salvation Army provided food and warm garments to needy families on New Year’s Day. The unit began a “Try Religion Campaign” with Watch Night services on New Year’s Eve and three individuals professed salvation. Invitations extend to upcoming services on the County Court House second floor.
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James Mars
Salvation Army
County Court House
Benches Installed in City Hall Lobby by Relief Workers
Several benches have been installed in the lobby on the second floor of Rouss City Hall for the convenience of clients of relief agencies offices there. The benches, built by relief workers, will be stained to harmonize with the building. Large numbers must wait in the lobby on several days each week before completing their calls, and the benches were built to aid one person.
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Rouss City Hall
Threaten New Anthracite Strike
United Mine Workers of America charge that settlement of a rival union strike breaches contract and threaten a new walkout in the anthracite fields. The United Anthracite Miners strike at Glen Alden Coal Company collieries was compromised last night via Wilkes Barres Wyoming Chamber of Commerce intervention and the younger union ordered a return to work.
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Wilkes-Barre
United Mine Workers of America
United Anthracite Miners of Pennsylvania
United Anthracite Miners
Glen Alden Coal Company
Wilkes-Barre Wyoming Chamber of Commerce
Turn On U. S. Electric Power for Pulaski Friday
Pulaski Tennessee will receive Tennessee Valley Authority electric power with a Friday 4 p.m. sub station opening. Mayor W. R. Rockley announced the new transmission line from Wilson Dam via Athens Alabama to Pulaski marks completion of the state’s TVA distribution loop.
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Pulaski
Tennessee Valley Authority
W. R. Rockley
Wilson Dam
Athens
Ala
Undying Flame Flare in Rag Pile After Warehouse Fire
In Baltimore on January 2 the Atlantic Rag Company reports its undying flame flared again. This marks the sixth flare since the warehouse fire on December 10 that killed a fireman and wounded others. Fire engines fought smouldering bales, tossing them into the street and dousing them with water after breaking open the piles.
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Baltimore
Atlantic Rag Company
In Loving Memory of Eisie L McFarland
A memorial note by her father, sisters and aunt Bessie recalls Eisie L McFarland who died January 2 1932 at a young age. It speaks of memories, love enduring beyond the grave, flowers withering, and a hope of reunion in heaven with a prayer to comfort Jesus.
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Eisie L. McFarland
Jesus
Bessie
Hall's Expectorant Promises Quick Cough Relief
Coughs due to colds relieved quickly as Hall's Expectorant soothes irritated membranes. It warms the throat and chest and claims to make the user feel much better, with three bottle sizes available at Peoples Drug on Main Street.
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Peoples Drug Eoon de LA Y
Main Street
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