Britain plans vast overalls army for war work
Britain announced a selective reserve of more than 66 million men aged 18 to 64 for weapons, agriculture, textiles, and essential public services, with about half the male workforce affected and most 18 to 25 year olds in the pool.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Witt Hancock Condon
Itain
Spain
Ministry of Labor
Labor Office Pamplet
Chamberlain
Byama
Europe
Rome
Berlin
Barcelona
Germany
Stock Exchange
Great Britain
Prince
Minorca
Mediterranean
Italy
Mussolini
Anthony Eden
Coventry
Straight Shooters Fall Twice to Bell Clothiers in Winchester
The Winchester Straight Shooters lost a double bill to the Bell Clothier basketball teams from Front Royal at Handley gym. Boys fell 46 to 33 and the girls 24 to 23. They prepare for a return game with Boyce Thursday after beating Clarke Countians 51 to 33 last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
Bell Clothier
Front Royal
Handley Gym
Boyce
Clarke Countians
Front Royal F. F.G. T. Brown
Luke Statton
SUN
OH McFall
Cameron
MOG .Oiercessedess
Farm Emergency Crop and Feed Loans Open for 1939
Applications for emergency crop and feed loans for 1939 are now accepted at the post office building. Eligibility targets farmers with small cash needs who cannot obtain credit elsewhere, with loans secured by first liens on crops or livestock. Loans go to those with immediate needs, not to those with other financing options.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pereect
Gray Beverley
Sancpaiond
Farm Security Administration
Baltimore
J. G. Beverley
Winchester
Open Session of Dale Carnegie Course Tonight
The Dale Carnegie Institute hosts an open meeting at Hotel Washington tonight at 7 30 sponsored by the Junior Board of Trade. Dr Clinton Wunder of the New York Carnegie faculty leads the demonstration on How To Overcome Fear with Roy Ryden and C Ridgely White directing the committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dale Carnegie Institute
Junior Board of Trade
George Washington
Clinton Wunder
New York Carnegie
Roy Ryden
C. Ridgely White
Dale Carnegie
Evening Star
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company 1938 annual report
The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Virginia reports 1938 totals show over 5 million spent on construction in the state, bringing two year spending to more than 9 million. End year plant cost is 39,219,000 with 195,952 telephones in service and a net earnings of 2,269,216 on 9,958,733 operating revenues.
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Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
Virginia
Lloyd B. Wilson
Arlington County
Wilson
League C Opens Second Half of Season Monday
League C resumes after a break with standings showing Railway Express Sunshine Cleaners and Republic Oil in matches. Results last night include Railway Express 3 Dr Pepper 0, Sunshine Cleaners 3 Republic Oil 0, and Health Club 3 Standard Oil 0. High individual game White 154 Triplett 144 Sirbaugh 132 Lingo 131. High team pinfall Health Club 1618. Also notes James Roosevelt Education path including Potomac School and Groton School.
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Railway Express
Cammers
Rouss Fire
A. James Roosevelt
Potomac School
National Cathedral School For Boys
Washington, D. C
Groton School
Harvard
Boston University Law School
Hockman Hearing Delayed Over Tevault Injury
The hearing of E E Hockman was postponed until Miss Margaret Tevault can appear. Tevault and her sister were struck by an automobile after a Christmas service at Grace M E Church South Middletown Virginia last month. Tevault has been treated at Memorial Hospital and discharged.
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E. E. Hockman
Court of Trial
A. J. Tavenner
Margaret Tevault
Miss Tevault
Grace M. E. Church
South
Middletown
Hockman
Miss Terault
Memorial Hospital
Williams grants Edith Cain absolute divorce in Shenandoah County
A divorce decree entered today in Shenandoah County Circuit Court at Woodstock grants Edith Ashby Cain an absolute divorce from Francis A. Cain of Strasburg. Desertion is cited as the grounds and the case names Edith Ashby Cain and Francis A. Cain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
An Sea Williams
Nature Also Forgets Kidneys
Nature Also Forgets Kidneys up nights, frequent or scanty flow, smarting or backache. Of ten the kidneys need flushing as well as the bowels. Prompt remov al of waste or excess acids may prevent serious trouble. For many years thousands have used Bu kets to increase healthful kidney activity. Your 25¢ back in 4 days if not pleased. At all druggists. Locally at Bakers Drug cnn! : v.
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Bakers Drug
Cnn
Middletown Grange Meets Friday
The Middletown Grange holds its first 1939 business meeting Friday at 7 30 after which a program titled Looking Ahead is planned. Byron Brumback the Master will speak Miss Gladys Hammond reads an essay a mixed quartet sings and officers will respond to a roll call with remarks on how to improve the work this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middletown Grange
Byron Brumback
Gladys Hammond
Truck Sets Off Fire Alarm Box
Eleven pieces of fire apparatus answered an early alarm in Baltimore today after a truck knocked down a fire alarm box. Patrolman George Parke issued a ticket to Carl M. Shumate of North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, who denied causing the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
George Parke
Carl M. Shumate
North Wilkesboro
N. C
Treasury status January 21 receipts and debt figures
The Treasury reports on January 21 receipts of 7,827,011.25 and expenditures of 24,736,742.79. Gross debt stands at 39,568,487,667.17, up 3,618,529.07 from the previous day.
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Washington
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Colt Cammer Tire CO
Handley School
Bickers Motor CO
North Braddock St
Bell Clothiers
B. Baker
M. Clowe
H. Baker
Sulton
Esce
Clevenger
Seeeserre
Front Royal F
F.G
Beverley
Prederic March
Center Theatre
New Yok City
Griffiths Powell and
Edward Steadman
Griffiths Powell
Imperial Airways
New York-Bermuda
Port Washington
L. I
Imperial
Atlantic
California
Das al
Fairmont
S. Loudoun
Busines
Leicester St
Edward Owens
Berryville
Amherst
Ceaeon
P. O
Ruth Bush
C. F. Swartz
N. Braddock
S. Cameron
Nettie Luttrell
Senseney Road
City
S. Main
F. M. Strother
Back Creek
J. M. Strother
Toms Brook
Otis J. Borden
Hubbell Avenue
Detroit
Mich
Greene
C F. Phillips Co
Broadway
Harrisonburg
M. B. Swimley
Swimley
Clearbrook
Summit Point
Dunn & Durvall
Priday
Berkshire
Duroc- Jersey
Hampshire
Virginia Purebred Breeders Association
George C. Herring
Blacksburg
Harry Cooper
Apply F. L. Place
South Cameron
George Washington Hotel Corporation
Good & Co
Rouss Ave
N. Ney
Virginia Co
Pesione Ghisae Muses
Sunshine Cleaners
Wed Steam Laundry
Friendship Fire
Cammersiat
Ease Rouss Fire Co
Eee
Virginia Woolen
Standard
Republic Oil
Dr. Pepper
Health Club
Standard Oil
Knitting Mill
Steam Laundry
James Roosevelt
Sinclair
Sinclair Oil
John C. Woolfolk
Sinclair Agent
Frederick Cochran
B. Snapp, Jr
Nova
Virginia Motor CO
N. Braddock St
Dodge
Shenandoah Motor Co., Inc
Walter C. Henneberry and
J. Arthur Johnson
Tulsa
Okla
Walter C. Henneberry
Johnson
A. G. Wainright
Chapman Motor
S. Loudoun St
Ford
Pine Motor CO
Cor
Braddock & Cecil
Sts
Plymouth
Treasury
Feviiere
N. Loudoun St
the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company of
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