The Question of U. S. Loans To Finland
The nation debates lending to wartorn Finland as public sympathy clashes with neutrality. Roosevelt and Hoover favor loans to buy crops and manufactured goods, but sending funds for weapons risks entangling the U S. The piece weighs neutrality versus aiding Finland’s fight against Soviet aggression.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Finland
Congress
Russia
Balkans
Marshall Mannerheim
Paris-Soir
United States
Roosevelt
Hoover
Rms
Commodore Maury Honored For Oceanography And Apple Ridge Link
The General Assembly asks Postmaster General Farley to issue a commemorative stamp for Commodore Matthew Fontaine Maury known as Pathfinder Of The Seas. The piece credits Maury with advancing oceanography and enabling early trans oceanic communication, and notes Virginians should take pride especially apple growers who benefit from his studies on Virginia apples.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Assembly
James A. Farley
Matthew Fontaine Maury
Virginia
Jim” Farley
Commodore Maury
Maury
Apple Pie Ridge named from frost experiments
In the Amherst Frederick and Albemarle counties 1840 frost tests by F Maury of the U S N revealed best peach and fruit tree locations to escape frost damage. In Frederick County an elevated ridge called Apple Pie Ridge proved unusually frost resistant, a name still used a century later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. Maury
Amherst
Frederick
Albemarle
Frederick County
Commodore
Editorial calls for transfer of school superintendent selection to state board
Norfolk Ledger Dispatch reprints a legislative commission proposal to shift appointment of division superintendents from local boards to the State Board of Education. The piece weighs local self government against political influence and notes prior constitutional changes from 1902 to 1928, concluding the proposed change may not improve the system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk Ledger
Lloyd M. Robinette
Lee County
State Board of Education
Virginia
U S plans to boost aircraft output to 12000 yearly in three years
A House committee hears on a proposal to increase U S aircraft production to 12 000 planes annually within three years. At Berryville a Clarke county Junior Board of Trade banquet presents a charter with Henry P. Mitchell presiding. W P Harris of Opequon announces plans to run for the Board of Supervisors subject to a Democratic primary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
House Committee
Clarke County
Junior Board of Trade
Berryville
Henry P. Mitchell
W. P. Harris
Opequon
Board of Supervisors
Birthday party for Hugh Kline near Vaucluse celebrates five years
Five years ago Mr. Hugh Kline was treated to a birthday party at his home near Vaucluse by his children. Officials in New York capture Robert Mais and Walter 7¢ who escaped Richmond Penitentiary weeks earlier. Miss Mary Sullivan and Miss Mary Kathryn Stryker are praised for their solo performances in the Lions Club revue.
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Hugh Kline
Vaucluse
Department of Justice
New York
Robert Mais
Walter
Richmond Penitentiary
Mary Sullivan
Mary Kathryn Stryker
Lions, Club
Winchester Duckpin League Organized Ten Years Ago
Ten years ago a bowling league to be known as the Winchester Duckpin League is organized. Fred L. Glaize and Miss Elizabeth Monroe Patterson are married in a pretty ceremony in Charlotte, North Carolina. Sub zero weather settles over this section as snow and icing keep folks huddling around radiators.
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Winchester
Fred L. Glaize
Elizabeth Monroe Patterson
Charlotte
N.C
Twenty five years ago aids arrive as enemy push paused
French report German advance on the Western Front halted at the Aisne while Japanese troops join Allied forces. In Winchester a grand jury tests residents over illegal liquor deals. Mrs. Francis B Sayre, daughter of President Wilson, has a son in the White House. Daniel Tucker, 11, earns 260 daily from Oklahoma oil wells and lives in a three room prairie home.
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Aisne
Winchester
City
Francis B. Sayre
Woodrow Wilson
White House
Daniel Tucker
Oklahoma
Prairie
Round Hill Society meeting and community events
Forty years ago the Round Hill Literary Society meets at Mrs. E. M. Steck with most members present. Misses Elsie and Bessie Love attend a Clarke county card party at Dr. R. P. Page's home. The Market Street church auditorium fills for the final week of prayer sermon by Rev. S. D. Skelton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Round Hill
The Daily Quiz Answers From Rage 2
Quiz questions cover early inhabitants gravity vacuum kingship of Victor Emmanuel river mouth Ganges big trees California birthright citizenship demonstrative pronunciation Lincoln address South Dakota nickname and acre measurement in square rods.
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Victor Emmanuel
Ganges River
California
U.S
South Dakota
Be careful how you describe a steady companion
A note on wording urges using terms like beau friend companion or escort instead of the phrase steady company to avoid awkward or old fashioned wording. It stresses precise language for social descriptions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack
Bedbugs Remain A Winter Menace In Homes Hospitals
Dr. Logan Clendening explains bedbugs persist through winter and in many places. They hide in crevices under wallpaper joints and bedding and lay up to 500 eggs. Nymphs mature in about 30 days, bite with a specialized jaw, inject an anticoagulant, and vary in reaction from irritation to no reaction.
Bedbug and Insect Control pamphlets offer home guidance
Practical advice on fumigation with sulphur to kill bedbugs and treat eggs, plus cleaning with gasoline or kerosene. It notes cockroaches as health risks and uses sodium fluoride powder. Fleas and lice are discussed with home remedies and hygiene tips. Dr Clendening offers seven pamphlets, each 10 cents, with a mail request.
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Ditor's
Clendening
Logan Clendening
Romany Helps Cholly Face a Troubled Romance
Romany counsels her friend Cholly as she endures troubles with Terry O Rourke who borrows money, drinks away wages, and angers Cholly with broken promises. Romany also weighs Brent Nelson's offer and plans a possible yachting outing for Cholly. The scene ends with a promise to continue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bax
Terry
Cholly
Romany
Pop
Brent Nelson
Terry O'Rourke
Interstate
Chelly
Myra Noyes
Leo Dane
Brent
Towels Restored to ISU From Three Years Ago
Iowa State College athletic department received 17 towels that were laundered and in good shape from three years ago. The package had been posted from Chicago and contained a $1 bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ames
Iowa State College Athletic Department
Posta
Chicago
Answers to Questions Fun Fact Quiz Digest
A reader quiz compiles Q A pairs on profits from loan sharks, senate dimensions, Queen Elizabeth broadcast source, first tabloid publishing, Hetch Hetchy engineer O Shaughnessy, booby bird name origin, earliest dated event Breasted calendar, origin of cartoons, elastic clause in Constitution, seven hills of Rome, Erutan flag, egg yolk color, tactile sense, Paul Robeson Broadway role, Lafcadio Hearn blindness, U S car production.
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H. F. Byrd, JR
Dr. Clendening
Scott's
BY R.j.scoti
King Features
Syndicate
the World and
Great Wall
China
Ntral Press Ass
Chapter
Baxter
Landau’s
Honey
Romey
Terry O’rourke
Middle West
Public Affairs Committee
William T. Foster
Senate
U. S. Capitol
George VI
H. R.P
Minnie Haskins
Illustrated Daily News
New York City
Chicago Tribune
Hetch Hetchy Dam
F. H. T. A. M. M. O'Shaughnessy
Hawaii
Morena
San Diego
Hetch Hetchy
James Henry Breasted
Cartone
Rome
Capitoline
Palatine
Aventine
Esquiline
Caelian
William A. Washington
Jane Elliott
South Carolina
Cowpens
Eutaw Springs
Paul Robeson
Broadway
Roark Bradford
John Henry
Bean
Lafcadio Hearn
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