Dolph-Macon Academy Edged by Randolph Valley Cadets in Key Baseball
Dolph Macon Academy of Front Royal lost to the Randolph Valley Academy cadet quint 25 to 16 on Monday. The home team started with its second unit and later brought in the first team. An Merson led the visitors with 10 points, while Anderson Pennington from RMA contributed 6 of their 16 points.
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dolph-Macon Academy
Front Ral
Randoah Valley Academy
Ito
An- Merson
Tanlac Restores Mrs McLaughlin to Health in Philadelphia Claim
Mrs. Mary McLaughlin of 2516 North Lee Street Philadelphia credits Tanlac with restoring her health after five years of weakness appetite loss and weight drop. She says Tanlac rebuilt her strength and she has felt well since and now weighs several pounds more. The Winchester Boyd Drug Co. sells Tanlac along with other leading druggists.
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Tanlac
Mary McLaughlin
North Lee St
Philadelphia
Taniac
Local Notes From Opequon January Social Snippets
Opequon Va January 25 notes show multiple visits and calls among residents. Katie Burkhart Mount Williams returns home after two weeks away. Family visits include J B Singhaes and daughter Jesse Carpenter, and Maynard Snapp with N H Burkhart. Others visit and host such as Clinton Landacre, Hilda Bayliss, Opal Kidwell, Bernie Miller, Viola Miller, Grace Miller, Georgie Wisecarver, and Rosa Garrett with various relatives including Mrs Henry Lamp of Winchester.
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Opequon
Katierkhart
Mount Williams
J. B. Singhaes
Jesse Carpenter
Maynard C. Snapp
N. H. Burkhart
Clinton Landacre
Grover Kidwell
Hilda Bayliss
Margaret. Bayliss
Opal Kidwell
Beulah Burkhart
Bernie Miller
J. H. Burkhart
Katie Burkhart
Robert Garrett
N.“H.burkhart
Henry Lamp
Winchester
Viola Miller
Grace Miller
William Landacre
Georgie Wisecarver
Opal’ Kidwell
Brucetown News Brevities Highlights Local Visits and School Social
Mrs H Fishel visits near Stephens City. Mr and Mrs Ben Russell host in Winchester. Box social and spelling match at town hall January 27 to aid school league. Grubb of Dayton Ohio visits niece Mrs Frank Swimley then heads to Clarke county. Mrs Joseph Snapp weekends with brother Dan Hyatt in Charles Town. Some villagers fill fee houses as ice stock up amid cold spell.
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Brucetown
H. Fishel
Stephens City
Ben Russell
Winchester
Russell
Town Hall
School League
Grubb
Dayton
Ohio
Frank Swimley
Jesse Russell
Pearl fishing in Scotland described in Edin Scotsman
The Edin Scotsman reports a successful Scottish freshwater pearl season. Fishermen wade river shoals wearing hip boots and use a corugated iron sighting device and tongs to retrieve shells harboring pearls. Best times are spring before weed growth and autumn as weed dies back.
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Violét Raeburh
Edin Scotsman
Reservoir Sites Along Ohio River Storage Potential
A comparison of Ohio river flow with the upper Mississippi and Missouri shows higher average, low and maximum flows despite a smaller drainage area. The Ohio basin offers many storage opportunities on southern tributaries, with maps revealing reservoir sites of large capacity as potential dams impounding vast water volumes. An 800 000 cubic feet per second discharge in a day would flood 595 000 acres to one foot.
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Ohio River
Mississippi
Missouri
Ohio Basin
Ohio
Geological Survey
Strasbourg to host interallied Pasteur centennial exposition
Strasbourg Alsace Lorraine prepares a grand interallied health exposition for Pasteur’s centennial birth anniversary. Following Chicago 1893 example, the 1923 event runs May to October with French citizens organizing the expo and international participation.
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Strasbourg
Alsace- Lorraine
Louis Pasteur
Chicago
America
Pasteur
France
Alsace-Lorraine
Cat Diamond the war mascot dies after French tribute
The French press honors Diamond a cat who attached to the French on the Amiens front daily threading through entanglements to the German trenches. To protect it soldiers tied cigars around its neck and it later lived in an animals home run by Countess Yurkevich at Neuily where it died after the armistice.
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Diamond
Amiens
Poilus
Yurkevich
Neuily
Mrs. Cornwell Visits Romney Kin in City
Mrs John J Cornwell wife of former West Virginia governor and Senate candidate is a guest at the home of her brother in law and sister in law Mr and Mrs William B Cornwell on South Washington Street in this city
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John J. Cornwell
Romney
W. Va
West Virginia
United States Senate
William B. Cornwell
Washlington Street
City
Motorcycles to Save Potato Crop From Bug Threat
A farmer used a motorcycle mounted sprayer to cover 200 acres daily, protecting 500 acres of potatoes from potato bug. Previously a horse-drawn unit could treat 85 acres a day, risking ruin in hot weather. The sidecar spray rig leveraged the bike for both traction and dispersal.
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Patis Green
Pepto Mang an Health Booster Ad
An old advertisement urges readers to take Gude's Pepto Mangan with meals for a few weeks to build up red blood, claiming it improves health and appearance. It notes the product is sold by druggists in liquid and tablet forms.
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Gude
Debaters Meet Friday Night in Chambersville
A Community League formed at Round Hill School with officers elected and plans for biweekly meetings. Debates on money versus love of woman and horse power versus gas power were held with negatives favored. Local updates include visits, hospital news, and weather as snow recedes.
Community League forms in Chambersville with debates and recitations
In Chambersville Virginia on Friday night a debate on whether horse power or gas power is more beneficial was decided for the negative. Officers elected for the Community League include President Raymond Bayliss Secretary Miss Lillian Cooper and Treasurer Miss Gladys Hawkins. The league will meet twice monthly on Fridays at 7 30 with future recitations and singing. The February 3 topic asks whether love from woman or money influences man more. The school reports 66 pupils with Miss Massey as teacher. Mr Holmes Carper of Winchester visited. Roads remain poor from recent snow drifts.
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Chambersville
Round Hill Graded School House
League
Roy Hawkins
Hawkins
Morgan Larrick
Charles Town
Woodward Farm
Beille
Harry Carper
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Fred. Yeakley
Warren Driver
George Larrick
John Larrick
Raymond Bayliss
Lillian Cooper
Gladys Hawkins
Massie
Holmes Carper
Winchester
Unclaimed Letters at Winchester Post Office January 21 1922
A weekly list shows unclaimed letters in Winchester Virginia including Miss Josephine Baker Mrs J W Boyd James Boyd Clayton Whitlock Miss Cerelaid Triplett W C Zearden. Postmaster Sibert notes one cent per letter due for collection. Foxhall McCormick of Kansas City visits sisters Elizabeth and Charlotte McCormick on North Washington street.
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Winchester
Baker
Josephine
Boyd
J. W. Boyd
James
Brill
Clayton
Whitlock
Grace
Triplett
Cerelaid
Zearden
W. C. J. W. Sibert
Foxhall McCormick
Kansas City
West
Elizabeth and
Charlotte McCormick
North
Washington Street
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Maxwell Chalmers
North Main Street
Lark Model
Ansted
Pt L Motor Co
Connersville
Indiana
United States Automobile Corp
F. M. Reynolds Co
Braddock Street
Fred. L. Glaize
SV. A
R. Mo A. Anderson
Pennington Sophis Horn Shinn
Major Pope
Timer
Lieut. Lewis
Exide
Ening
Payne & Sutton
E. Water St
Chapman Auto Supply Braddock
Scotland
Alsace
Mrs. Cornwell
Ford
Chapman’s Auto Sales
Braddock St
Postoffice
Funk & Son
South Main Street
the People’s Drug Co., Lic
the Progressive Drug Store
Mastin
Vitamon
Skillcraft Clothes Shop
Evans Hotel
N. Main Street
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