Back Creek Locals Share Visits and Plans for August Picnic
Back Creek Va on July 11 reports F G DeHaven and granddaughter Arnolda visiting Rex Light family. Cel ebrations note visits by Creswell and Bageant families and Miss Mabel Snyder with Clay Rogers in town. A Gaines picnic is planned for August 10 with public invitation. Various local residents, including DeHaven, Baker, Ruble and Ritter families, are mentioned with summer visits and social gatherings.
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Back Creek
F. G. DeHaven
Arnolda DeHaven
Near Siler
Rex Light
C. A. Creswell
Winchester
W. N. Bageant
Mabel Snyder
Clay
Gaines
Alonza Baker
Charles Baker
Alexander DeHaven
L. H. Ruble
W. D. DeHaven
W .D. Ritter
Secret Police Force Newclaus Formed In N Y
Fifty young men chosen for youth intelligence and fearlessness become New Yorks secret police unit. They will operate unarmed without badges or ID, roaming alleys and dives in the underworld to spy on gangsters and rum runners, knowing the danger if their identities are revealed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
New York
Whalen
Secret Police
Scotland Yard
Secret Service
Metropolis
Good Progress Made In Aviation Promotion In Va
Captain Lyman Patterson of Curtiss Flying Service reports splendid progress in Virginia aviation after a 40 day goodwill tour of Virginia and West Virginia. He landed at more than 100 sites from plowed fields to airports and praised Byrd airport field, with Danville Roanoke and Lynchburg building compliant landing fields.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Lyman Patterson
Curtiss Flying Service
T .de
Virginia
West Virgina
Patterson
West Virginia
Byrd Airport
Danville
Roanoke
Lynchburg
Charlottesville
Waynesboro
Richmo
Dry Inspectors Report 245 June Prohibition Arrests
Richmond July 11 Two hundred forty five arrests on prohibition charges were made in this state during June. Fifty one deputy prohibition inspectors were employed in making the arrests. A total of 140 stills were taken 3852 gallons of alleged ardent spirits seized 125725 gallons of mash destroyed and 32 automobiles confiscated. Property seized valued at $72306.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Richmond
State Prohibition Department
Prohibition
Public auction of barber shop equipment in distress warrant
By virtue of a distress warrant for rent in the case L. W. Smith vs Edward Rogers I will sell at 10 o clock A M July 20 1929 at 413 N Kent street the barber shop assets including two barber chairs theatrola mirror and other items. Cash terms. C Lee Barr City Sergeant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. W. Smith
Edward Rogers
N. Kent Street
Purification Remedy Promises Health Renewal
Physicians endorse complete system purification as key to vitality and health. Take Calotabs weekly for several weeks to purify the body and feel renewed, with a family package including directions sold for 85 cents at drugstores.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nature
Love and Thieves Unite in Farnol's Adventure Synopsis
In a Farnol tale Richard trea D Arcy suspects his cousin Jim is murdered and fends off danger with Black Nick. They recall Captain Archer, famed for midnight, as Nick tends an arm wound and Nick’s past ties surface. The pair plot amid highwaymen while the wounded Jim weighs on their loyalties and fates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Treeves
D'Arcy
Jim
Truffent
Black Nick
Bir
Richard
Helen pleads to hide a ring in a tangled tale
Sir Richard learns the ring belongs to him after a murder in a wood. Helen pleaded to hide the ring as Captain Despard and a galloping parson appear. Nick nurses a wounded man while the Parson reads and the mystery deepens with a threatened revelation tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nick
Sir Richard
Jimmy
Richard
Rob
Despard
Helen
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R. Baker
L. ‘Ruble
Josiah Shade
Ladies’ Aid Society
Detroit
Cleveland
Prohibition Navy
Cincinnati Enquirer
Winchester's Best Drug Store
N. Main ST
Winchester, Va
King
Thermos
Forhan
Gloco Liquid
Glover’s Mange Remedy
Kolynos
Lifebuoy
Mennen
Les Druc
North Main Street
Sunkist Fruit
Mike Martin
Oiniment
Sloan’s
Bra EU
Waterbury
Wyeth’s
Newclaus
N. Y
The
C. Lee Barr
Ciyt
Idugan
Paes
Capitol
Jeffery Farnol
Archer
Midnight
James
Jeffery Farnel
Wonder’s
Loudoun Street
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