Purcellville Garden Club Creates Prize Bowl Contest
Purcellville Garden Club president Mrs Hartman Kenworthy offers a silver bowl to the member with the most prize winning garden exhibits this year. Entries must be from the exhibitor’s own garden and are judged by club members at monthly meetings. The bowl remains with the winner until the next month’s contest.
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Kenworthy
Russell Gregg
Hamilton
Otis Williams
Round Hill
Dorothy Smith
Purcellville
Bentley Greer
Lincoln
Sunrise Members Sponsor Annual Yard Party
Social Calendar lists Sunrise Brookside members hosting a 1 yard party in the church yard. Other items include regular meetings of Music Lovers' Club at Mrs. Buckley's home 20 South Stewart Street and weekly luncheons of the Lions Club, Kiwanis meetings, Tom Thumb Wedding by Philathea Class, choir practices at United Brethren and Grace Lutheran, Elks meeting, Rotary and American Legion gatherings, and a children's storytelling hour at Handley Library.
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Sunrise Bt
Church Yard
Music Lovers’ Club
Frank L. Buckley
South Stewart Street
First Baptist Church
Tom Thumb
Schindel Reunion at Hagerstown July 20 Highlights
The Schindel descendants reunion will be held July 20 at City Park Hagerstown Maryland with a morning business meeting a children’s hour after lunch and a 2 pm program. Dr J J Schindel of Philadelphia will speak and Rev Ira Schindel of Mason Dixon will lead services. Officers include M W Dutton president and Howard Tabler first vice president. A Purcellville Garden Club branch of the Garden Club of Virginia has been organized for Winchester members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacob
Phillip
Samuel Schindel
Hagerstown
J. J. Schindel
Philadelphia
Schindel
Germany
America
J. B. Reed, Jr
Keedysville
Ira Schindel
Mason-Dixon
Reading
A. Roy Phillipps
Historical Society
Eugenis Harman
Lee Shindle
Mason-Dixon, A
Purcellville
Winchester Residents Attend Century of Progress Exposition
Mr and Mrs Smith of Winchester attend the Chicago Century of Progress fair. They report many exhibits surpass previous World's Fairs and plan to visit more displays this week. Also noted are local residents traveling to Washington and Richmond for visits, plus several illness updates and social engagements.
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Miss Byrd
Margaret Byrd
Charles Consolvo
Baltimore and
Clarke County
Chicago
Richard Evelyn Byrd
Amherst Street
Mrs. Smith
Clark M. Smith
Winchester
Mr. Smith
Corporation Court of
Park arbitration proposed for Shenandoah National Park dispute
The Shenandoah Park condemnation case moves toward arbitration under a plan by the State Commission on Conservation and Development and agent William E Carson. About 149000 acres are clear of litigation with 26000 still in court awaiting appraisal reports and exceptions.
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Shenandoah Park
State Commission On Conservation and Development
Willam E Carson
Shenandoah National Park
Boards of
Virginia seeks fast park land transfer and funds
The article reports a plan for arbitration over damages to park land across eight counties. Governor Pollard backs a simplified salve and letters were mailed to landowners. Federal funds totaling about 2 million dollars were proposed to Shenandoah National Park road projects and Skyline Drive extensions pending Virginia's land transfer assurances.
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California
Pollard
Commission
Roede Washington
Shenandoah National Park
A. E. Demaray
National Park
Panorama
Luray
Front Royal
Swift Run Gap
Jarman's Gap
Waynesboro
Byrd
National Recovery Act
Congress
National Park Service
National Forest Service
Demaray
Virginia
Colonial National Monument
Williamsburg
Byrd and Glass
H. G. Shirley
Federal Public Roads Bureau
Jarman’s Gap
Otter
Bedford County
Buchanan
America
Natural Bridge National Forest
Shirley
Accident Near City Claims One Life and Wounds
An accident near City left one person dead and another with probable internal injuries and a fractured leg. Bauserman remains hospitalized awaiting an X ray. Baker, treated by Dr. Stuart, is reported to be doing satisfactorily. Both men work on the Harry R. Kern farm in Clarke County under Sheriff J. W. Newcome's investigation.
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Bauserman
Baker
Stuart
Harry R. Kern
Winchester
Clarke County
Raymond. Bayliss
J. W. Newcome
Cat meets same fate as master in Winchester tragedy
The prized cat of the late Harry L. Robertson, son of Mr and Mrs S E Robertson Sr of Winchester, was struck and killed by a passing automobile near their home. The cat died instantly and the driver did not stop. The incident follows the earlier death of the Robertson boy who was fatally injured near the same residence.
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Harry L. Robertson
S. E. Robertson, Sr
Winchester
Clues to Epidemics in the Later Middle Ages
The text notes physicians in the later Middle Ages linked epidemics to infectious disease, using Leviticus as a prompt for understanding outbreaks as highly contagious. It highlights evolving medical thought that connected religious context with emerging epidemiological ideas during that period.
Jefferson Caffery Named Assistant Secretary of State
Promoter of Trade Jefferson Caffery, newly designated assistant secretary of state for Latin American affairs and former minister to Colombia, sits at his desk in Washington. As director of the special trade bureau created by President Roosevelt, he will help negotiate trade agreements with foreign nations, mainly in Latin America.
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Jefferson Caffery
Colombia
Washington
Roosevelt
Demand Deposits At Winchester Bank Omitted In Ledger
The Star reports that the Farmers and Merchants National Bank and Trust Company of Winchester had its demand deposits omitted by error. The corrected figure shows demand deposits of $482 025.97.
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Star
An Merchants National Bank and Trust Company of
Winchester
Instituwt Cement
Scientific Dad Raphael Corcoran Photo Sparks Proxy Claims
Detroit man Raphael Corcoran is identified as the stated scientific father of Mrs Mate Hommel’s three children in Los Angeles court testimony. Mrs Hommel, formerly from Detroit, seeks a portion of her ex husband Dr Wesley Hommel’s estate while Corcoran denies the allegation.
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Raphael Corcoran
Detroit
Mate Hommel
Los Angeles
Wage Increase in Steel Mills Across Two Valleys
A general raise to a new minimum of 40 cents an hour will take effect tomorrow in the Koning and Shenango Valleys. The change increases the previous 33 cent minimum by over 20 percent and affects about 40,000 workers in the two valleys.
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Associated Press
Eee
Koning
Shenango
Weather outlook mostly fair for week ahead
Associated Press reports Washington forecast for Monday through next week calls for mostly fair conditions in the northern and Atlantic states with showers midweek and temperatures near normal.
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The
Associated Press
Washington
North
Atlantic
Fair Play Yes Four States Oppose Court Maintenance Awards
A Reuters style briefing notes that four states California Maine New Hampshire and Ohio oppose laws allowing courts to award maintenance to either divorced husband or wife. The stance reflects a broader debate over alimony and gender neutrality in alimony rulings.
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California
Maine
New Hampshire
Ohio
Brooks' Pharmacy Specials on Toiletries and Soaps
Specials list multiple items with prices including 3 cakes toilet soap at 5¢ 4 cakes hard water soap 19¢ 1 bottle almond lotion 10¢. The ad closes with Brooks' Pharmacy promise Service with Satisfaction.
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Elsie Gillian Carter
James C. Ambler
St. Thomas Episcopal Church
Richmond
James Craddock Ambler
Warrenton
Leigh Burwell
Ambler
Edward Ambler
Phillip Fowle
Susan Carson
Louisa Carson
Susan Marshall
Elliott Marshall
Rose McDonald
Berryville
Friendly Grove
Friendly Grove 4-H
Farrar
Pauline
Hester Glynn
A. B. Christian Endeavor
Christian Endeavor
Winchester United Brethren Church
Clevenger’s
Jordan Springs
Mt. Lake Park
Market Street Methodist Episcopal Church
Epworth League Institute
Mountain Lake Park
Elizabeth Huff
Sara Carper
Mabel Clark
Martha DeHaven
Mary Brashears
Ethel Randall
George Brashears
Harold Rowe
Keller
E. L. Keeler
Valley Avenue
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Winchester Steam Laundry
Flickinger
S. L. Flickinger
Centenary Reformed Church
Harrisonburg
Virginia Classis of the Reformed Church
Dr. Flickinger
Atlantic City
Frank A. Jacques
Brady W. Largent
Order of the Mystic Shrine
Ambassador Hotel
Lions’ Club
Kiwanis Club
United Brethren Church
Young People’s Choir
Meeting of
Winchester Lodge of Elks
Grace Lutheran Church
Rotary Club
American Legion
Braddock Street Methodist Church
Handley Library
Huntsberry
Francis Metro
Frank N. Hack
B. B. Dutton
Add Henry
North Kent Street
Fenton Nelson
Westwood Byrd
Anne Froehling
Harry R. Kern, Jr
Robert Nelson
Motor
Miss Froehling
Anne Froheling
Joseph Masie
H. D. Flood
Flood
Donald L. Weems
Courtfield Avenue
John Cather
Robert McNally
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
Baltimore
McNally
John Williams
A. Cummins
Elizabeth Barley Lichliter
Dudley Lichliter
Memorial Hospital
Tom Scully
Princeton University
Princeton
N. J
John S. Scully
William C. Stuart
Newport News
E. C Parker
New York City
Parker
Virginia Woolen Company
Georgia Conrad
Anne Brooke Kern
Charlottesville
Clarence LeFrois
Fairport, N. Y
Trescott Company
Warren
Rappahannock
Page
Madison
Rockingham
Albemarle
Greene
Augusta
T. W. Harrison
Herman J. Galloway
Duke and Duke
Charles A. Hammer
Conservation and Development Commission
A. C. Carson
W. C. Armstrong
Cat
the Commercial & Savings Bank
U.S. Postal Savings Depository
Old Newtown Giant Incubator Company
Newtown Giant Incubator Co
United Reproducers Corporation
Newtown Giant Incubator Company
Yates
Ward Swank
Charles H. Hilbert
L. J. Miller
R. G. A. Stores
Lovett Shoe
Loudoun St
R. M. Swimley
Geo. Washington Hotel
N. Loudoun St
Pomorang
Bisquick
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