Harry K Thaw and Phone Poles Hauled by Versatile Old Ford
Grimes resident Hensell recalls his 1914 Model T roadster that hauled coal merchandise and poles, stretched wires, and carried celebrities like Harry K Thaw and H B McCormac. The car logged about 160000 miles before being shed in 1949 as a 37 year old antique still starting with a Hot Shot battery.
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Nelson Carter Hensell
Harry K. Thaw
Old Ford
Grimes
Ford
Ensell
Hensell
Virginia
Pittsburgh
Stanford K. White
Madison Square Garden
New York
Evelyn Nesbit
Thaw
Stephenson
Clearbrook
H. B. McCormac
Virginia Woolen Company
J. T. Knode
United Telephone Company
Harrisburg
Earl Goodwin
Ford Motor Company
Hensel
Rozzell Hensell
Leo Dick
Army Medical Corps
H. B. Taylor and Company
Winchester
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
Lizzie
Tibet Declared World’s Highest Territory
Tibet is identified as the world’s highest region, with terrain over 12,000 feet above sea level. The area around Lake Titicaca is nearly as high, but Tibet maintains the top elevation distinction.
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Bolivia
Tibet
Lake Titicaca
Farmer Is Found Guilty of Kidnapping
In Vicksburg Mississippi Lonnie Bevell, a 27 year old white farmer, convicted by a jury of kidnapping a 31 year old Negro woman. He faces up to 10 years in state prison. Bevell had earlier been acquitted of raping the unidentified woman. The jury brothers said the accused admitted to taking the woman from a gathering of Black celebrants New Year’s Eve and beating her.
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Vicksburg
R. B. Anderson
Lonnie Bevell
Cornelalius Slater
Bevell
Ellen Fay Hartley Dies at Her Home
Ellen Fay Hartley infant daughter of John E. and Alice L. Fuller Hartley of Ninevah Virginia died at her parents home. Survived by two siblings and four grandparents. Friends meet Sunday at Jones Funeral Home at 2 PM then proceed to Refuge Church for services at 2:30 PM conducted by Rev. Earl C. Day. Burial in Refuge Cemetery.
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Ellen Fay Hartley
John E. Hartley Jones
Refuge Church
John E
Alice L. Fuller Hartley
Ninevah
Ellen Fay
Winchester Memorial Hospital
John E. Hartley
Barbara Jean Hartley
John Hartley
Stephens City
Otto Fuller
Jones Funeral Home
Earl C. Day
Refuge Cemetery
Son of Garfield Son Irvin Garfield Dies at 80
Irvin M. Garfield, 80, son of the late President James A. Garfield, died yesterday in Peter Bent Brigham Hospital Boston. Funeral services will be held tomorrow. Garfield was a prominent Boston attorney and was 11 years old when his father was fatally shot in 1881.
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Boston
Irvin M. Garfield
James A. Garfield Garfield
Bsoton
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
Market Quotations for Produce and Livestock in Baltimore
Market notes show weaker produce demand with mixed up prices for apples and potatoes, US No. 1s and Katahdins quoted in 2.00 to 2.50 range, while sweet potatoes see few sales around 3.00. Poultry and eggs steady to slow, with wholesale butter and egg offerings modest. Cattle, calves, hogs, and sheep listings from Baltimore and Chicago USDA reports indicate steady to slightly firm trends, with varied weights and prime to utility ranges cited.
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Baltimore
Bubkts
Williams
West Shore
Eastern Shore
N. J
Jersey
USDA
Chicago
Live Poultry and Egg Market Prices in Winchester Area
Agricultural Bureau lists live poultry prices for No 1 fowl and broilers in Winchester. Rates include heavy breed hens 41-2 lb at 26¢, Leghorn hens at 26¢, Leghorn broilers 26¢, white broiler turkeys 37¢, white No 1 breeder hens 35¢, ducks per lb at a quoted level, and various egg grades from U S Grade A Extra Large 60¢ to Grade C 0.5¢. The note also features a brief historical query about the origin of wills, citing an ancient Egyptian papyrus record dated about 2550 B C.
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Winchester
Rock & Cross
Frederick County Farm Bureau
U. S
U.S
Stocks Rise Quietly Amid Light Trading in New York
The New York stock market posted modest gains with sentiment upward as few shares rose by up to a dollar. Minor losses dampened optimism. Goodyear, J. Case, Douglas Aircraft, United Gas, Kennicott Copper, Allied Chemical, Pfizer, Santa Fe, and others advanced. Twentieth Century-Fox opened rights to color TV process for large screen theater.
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New York
Twentieth Century-Fox
Columbia Broadcasting System
Susge Screen
Goodyear
J. Case
Douglas Aircraft
United Gas Corp
Kennecott Copper
American Cyanamid
Allied Chemical
American Woolen
Chas. Pfizer
Santa Fe
New York Centra
Northern Pacific
Standard Oil (Nj
Texas Co
Johns Manville
Small price shifts push grains at Chicago opening
Chicago grains open with minor changes across wheat corn oats soybeans and rye. Traders note slight advances and declines in July September and later contract months reflecting cautious early trading on the Board of Trade.
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Chicago
Board of Trade
Jly
Sep
Dec
May
Local Market Prices From The Star
Prices for flour corn meal and barley at retail and wholesale. Wheat and yellow corn futures listed. Egg mash and feeds including broiler mash cracked corn and mixed feed priced per 100 or 50 pounds. Butter wholesale and butterfat figures shown.
Mother Fears She Has Wrong Baby in Hospital Mix Up
Elaine Walton of Danville asks police to determine if the seven year old girl she raised is really her child. She suspects a hospital mix up when she and Mary Jane Hughes gave birth on the same day. Detective W C Talley will conduct a inquiry.
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Danville
Elaine Walton
Mary Jane Hughes
W. C. Talley
How's your I Q quiz answers printed on page four
Below are the answers to the quiz questions printed on page 4. Andrew Jackson. John Bull. Soldier. Font. Her daughter Juliana. Rubber. Hastings. The Maginot Line. Novelist. They persuaded me to go home with them.
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Andrew Jackson
John Bull
Soldier
Juliana
Hastings
Maginot
Novelist
Massey named administratrix in Kennerly estate
Miss Eva D. Massey of White Post qualified as administratrix of the personal estate of Miss Nelly C. Kennerly of Greenway Court who died January 25. Massey posted an $8,000 bond with Martha M. Kennerly as security. Appraisers named were Harold Sowers Edward B. Lee W. R. Thompson Monroe Buckley and J. L. Carper. Heirs listed include Martha M. Kennerly, sister, of White Post.
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Berryville
Eva D. Massey
White Post
Loring C. Kackley
Nelly C. Kennerly
Greenway Court
Massey
Martha M. Kennerly
Harold Sowers
Edward B. Lee
W. R. Thompson
Monroe Buckley
J. L. Carper
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Bill Garrard
BY Bill Garrard
Brooklyn
William Scharff
America
Sears-Roebuck
Ola V. Stafford
Cpl
Edward L. Collier
Carl Funeral Home
Comfort
Ing
WN W. Rosenberger & CO
Braddock
Cameron St
Paris
Myrna Loy
Howland H. Sargeant
Sargeant
Unesco
Farmer
Garfield
Rob J. M. Stephenson
Opequon
Cedar Creek
Agricultural Dept
Mea
Egypt
Lord
The
Star
Ford Tractors
Old & Reliable Dealer
Bickers
Corporation Court
Louise O. Zirkler
Nannie M. Patterson
County Court House
Loudoun Street
Cork
Boscawen Streets
Harper
Lutheran Old Ladies Home
Abram M. Zirkle
South Washington Street
Mary A. Zirkle
James P. Reardon
Coleman Dunn
P.J. Mars
City of
Johns-Manville
P. W. Plumly Lumber Corp
Kent St
I. Q
Eva Massey
SWIFT
C. LL Brumback & Sons
N. Cameron St
Desoto
Heatwole Motor CO
Thomas N. Kennerly
Bon Air
Chlotilde S. Digges
Dorothy 8. Hooker
Tuscon, Arizona
Cierra Et Wart
Glaize & Bro
Chapman Motor CO
Farmers’ Livestock Exchange, Inc
Northern Virginia Livestock Producers, Ass’n., Inc
Valley Lumber & Builders Corp
Martinsburg Pike
W. F
Bill) Bonnett, Jr
Mer
Frederick County
John Sisk
Jesse Sisk
Circuit Court
C.S. Mason
Mason
Water
Carpenter
Harmon
1. S. Mason
Turner A. Mason
Audrey M. Guthridge
Hilda
Sarah Forney
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