Boost for Olympic coverage prompts stadium expansion
A New York memo notes editors favor Olympic coverage over other events, with 56 percent backing Los Angeles 1932. Track and field lead, Dempsey Schmeling boxing a close second, baseball world series and Kentucky Derby also named, plus Notre Dame USC Army Navy football and a potential Bobby Jones run.
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Leo Diegel
Walter Hagen
Johnny Farrell
Tommy Armour
Diegel
Eareky Schmeling
No Fond Farewell Crowley Dies in Sing Sing Chair
Francis Two Gun Crowley died in the electric chair at Sing Sing Ossining New York. He did not see Helen Walsh the little girl who was with him when surrounded by 300 police in New York. Her testimony hurt his defense at the trial for the policeman’s murder.
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Crowley
Sing Sing
Ossining
N. Y
Helen Walsh
New York
Card of Thanks for Richard Allen Seabright
We thank friends and neighbors for kindness and sympathy during illness and death of our son and brother Richard Allen Seabright and for flowers and caring gestures from S. of cars family. Harry W. Seabright and children express gratitude.
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Harry W. Seabright
Dates Fixed For This Year's Virginia Horse Shows
The Virginia State Horse Show Association met at Warrenton confirming 25 member shows with dates set from May 6 at Remount Depot to November 19 at Richmond Howitzers. Officers reelected: M. W. Carter president H. C. Warden vice president and F. D. Gaskins secretary treasurer.
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Warrenton
Remount Depot
Front Royal
National Capital Horse Show
Gloucester
Deep Run
Keswick
Upperville
Culpeper
Leesburg items recall drought aid and local business
One year ago on January 22 1931 Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church oversubscribed its ministers annuity fund quota. Farms advertised for drought aid from the federal government. Virginia Glass Land Corporation planned plant work south of Gore. Company I returned from Danville strike duty. York Imperial apples sold at a Liverpool auction from 5.76 to 7.92. Five years ago January 22 1927 Evangelist Bridgers noted moral luxury of the world.
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Loudoun Street
Winchester Concert Band to Play Sacred Selections at Tabernacle
Final report shows the Itmas Seal Sale raising 1256.38 at the tabernacle for the crowd of 2 000. The Star columns discuss the red fox. A Harrisburg man pled guilty to forgery to spend winter in jail.
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Winchester
Red Fox
Harrisburg
Lure of Dance Lecture In Alexandria By Rev J Wey
President Wilson moves toward ending the war in Europe as reports surface. Confederate veteran Jonathan DeHaven dies within a month of his brother. Virginian women plan to march in Wilson’s inauguration parade. Local banks advertise 3 percent savings accounts.
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J. Wey
Wilson
Europe
Jonathan DeHaven
Virginia
Schmeling Plans Return Trip Tonight for Germany
Max Schmeling will sail tonight on the Europa bound for Germany. Manager Joe Jacobs says no extended U S tour will be allowed while awaiting the Jack Sharkey title bout in June. Schmeling plans to return to the United States in March and may do a short exhibition in April or May before training. The Madison Square Garden meeting with Sharkey's managers cleared no definite bout plan yet.
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Jacobs
Schmeling
United States
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Jack Conway
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Train service changes authorized by Virginia commission
The State Corporation Commission approved Southern Railway to discontinue mixed passenger and freight trains 45 and 46 between Washington and Harrisonburg and run freight service as needed between Potomac Yard. It also authorized Washington Luray Bus Line to suspend passenger service between Shenandoah and Elkton while route 818 is completed. A February 26 hearing date was set on workers' compensation insurance rate revisions.
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Baltimore Ward Appoints Mrs Ulrich Inheritance Case Ties
Mrs Louise Ulrich a former Philadelphia dress shop owner becomes a city ward in Baltimore Maryland. Her daughter Mrs Claire Ulrich Whitehurst received half of Charles E Whitehurst estate after a suit in New York theater matters where the daughter was awarded 150000 dollars.
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Philadelphia
Baltimore
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Charles E. Whitehurst
New York
Ulrich
Whitehurst
Warrenton Secures Near Term Natural Gas Supply
Officials of the Columbia Gas and Electric Company say Warrenton will have natural gas for domestic use within the next month or by March first. Excavations along two streets are under way and main-to-town pipes two miles from the town have already been laid, with rapid progress inside the town limits.
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Columbia Gas and Electric Company
Fortune molds clan affairs in placeholders of power
A fragment reflecting on control and influence by a figure named Fortune, noting the confined glory of Athens within the Fifth before Christ century and suggesting a short lived, singular peak of prestige.
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Plautina
Athens
Christ
Who s Who in Washington by Charles P Stewart
Senator Porter H Dale of Vermont joined the committee to probe excessive campaign spending in 1930. The piece notes Nye faced attacks from some colleagues but had loyal support from Dale, described as a rock ribbed New England conservative, and questions why their pairing remained strong.
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Senate
Dale
Gerald P. Ny
North Dakota
Nye
Clarence C. Dill
Washington
Dill
Robert F. Wagner
New York
Roscoe C. Patterson
Missouri
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Crossword Puzzle Across and Down Clues List
A dense list of crossword clues covering across and down entries with numbered positions, including definitions for persons, places, materials, and mythological terms, and ending with a note about the answer to the previous puzzle. The puzzle references various languages and terms such as Norse, Greek, and Roman names, as well as heraldic and architectural terms.
Five Years For Attempted Hold-up in Harrisonburg
Louis Pettie of Birmingham Alabama was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary for a December attempted holdup of a Valley Pike filling station near Harrisonburg Virginia. Pettie pleaded guilty and blamed Shelby Wilson, also from Birmingham, who was ill in jail and not tried.
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Here
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Pettie
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