Boys Scout delegation sails for Europe for world contests
Three hundred Boy Scouts of the United States sail on the army transport Pocahontas to England and France to compete in the world meet. Col L R Gignilliat leads the group representing the Boy Scouts of America and they will tour Belgium and France before returning by September 21. Winchester troop members also sail aboard the Wodhene ras and plan to visit Winchester, Indiana to tell locals about Virginia ceremony ties.
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Associated Press
New York
Boy Scouts
United States
Europe
Pocahontas
Boy Scouts of the World
Boy Scouts of America
Col. L. R. Gignilliat
American Expeditionary Force
England
London
France
Winches
Winchester
Pifer
Harold C. Sheetz, Jr
B. M. Roszel
Shenandoah Valley Academy
Enz
Virginia
Fourth quiet in this place
Winchester did not celebrate the Fourth of July officially yet many residents spent the holiday elsewhere. The two days saw hundreds travel, crowd local hotels and boarding houses, and many had to seek lodgings in other towns tonight.
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Winchester
Ity
E C Cooper Weds Miss Alison Douglas in New York
Wedding announced for Miss Alison Douglas of a prominent New York family to Eugene B Cooper of Winchester. The couple wed in late June in New York and plan to live in the Cooper apartments on East Piccadilly. The bride taught at Fort Loudoun Seminary and the groom, son of Captain and Mrs Lewis F Cooper, served in WWI and supports the Boy Scout movement in Winchester.
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Winchester
Alison Douglas
New York
Eugene B. Cooper
Cooper
East Piccadilly Street
Fort Loudown Seminary
Lewis F. Cooper
Cooper, Merchandise and Oil Company
Boy Scout Movement
Diamond Dyes Advertisement Promotes Easy Dye Kits
Say Diamond Dyes avoid streaks or ruined fabric with Diamond Dyes. The ad promises easy directions in every package and urges insistence on the brand.
Lemon Bleach Beauty Elixir Advert Incomplete Text
An advertisement promotes lemon juice mixed with bleach as a facial bleach for a light complexion. It notes using two lemons with three ounces of Orchard White to yield a quarter pint solution sold cheaply. It references stage beauties and claims lemon juice can remove freckles sunburn and tan. The passage also hints at markets in China with scattered text about local trading practices.
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Eahett Shainian
Markets Reported Daily Wholesale Prices
Local wholesale prices quoted today include wheat a bushel No 1 timothy hay mixed hay and oats with barley and creamery butter fat at 62 percent. Prices for spring chickens roosters and hams are listed with ranges and fractions.
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Star
Baltimore
Bers
Virginia
Charley Rouss Fire Company to Decorate for Cumberland Valley Firemen’s Meet
The Charley Rouss Fire Company will take a prominent role at the Cumberland Valley Firemen’s Association convention in the city August 9 to 11. Walter Huntsberry was elected decorating committee chair and will oversee a waterproof, standout display illuminated by hundreds of electric lights. Delegates to the convention include C Douglas Brown M T Reed Boyd Newlin with alternates March Lemuel J Anderson and J B Affleck. President Seal urges local citizens to support and make the event the largest and most successful since the association’s 20 years of existence.
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Charley -Rouss Fire Company
Cumberland Valley Firemens Association
Walter E. Huntsberry
Huntsberry
C. Douglas Brown
M. T. Reed
Boyd Newlin
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TS Sail ON
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Fifth Ave
N.Y
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Iivesteing
Blue Sky
Santee Federal
Hambleton & Company
America
South Calvert Street
Philadelphia
Washington
Straits Settlements
Federated Malay States
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Gehuille
Jacob Hh, Rosenberger and Children
Hayfield
L. B. Windle
EY Rainboro
Miss Vivian Rosenberger
Lebanon Church
Commercial and Savings Bank
Frederick
St. of Virginia
State Corporation Commission
Samme
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John I
Commercial Kings Bank
State of
County of
John I. Sloat
Alice Osburn
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