Post’s rapid propeller fix aids stretched world flight
Weather delays over Behring Sea frame Wiley Post as he nears the U S continent. He reports sighting mountains near Nome during first view of America after 129 hours 20 minutes from New York. Post aims to beat the Harold Gatty record with the Winnie Mae as refueling times trim the edge.
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Behring Sea
Post
Nome
Signal Corps
New York
Harold Gatty
Gatty
Fairbanks
Alaska
Moscow
Wiley Post
Trans- Pacific
Khabarovsk
Siberia
Rukhlovo
Novosibirsk
Irkutsk
Bukhlovo
Water sample to trace typhoid source near Winchester
Dr. C R Anderson has sent a sample of drinking water from the Palmer McDaniel residence on Apple Pie Ridge five miles northwest of Winchester to health laboratories for analysis after Mrs. McDaniel died of typhoid fever at Memorial Hospital. Typhoid cases have appeared in the section for years and the spring supply is described as slow flowing.
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C. R. Anderson
Frederick County
Palmer T. McDaniel
Apple Pie Ridge
Winchester
Democrats Plan Richmond Convention Of Virginia Youths
Virginia young Democrats convene in Richmond on August 16 to map party plans ahead of 1934 and 1936 elections. John Galleher says large delegations from all sections should attend and action includes legalization of 3.2 beer and repeal of the eighteenth amendment. James Farley endorses the youth movement.
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Associated Press
Richmond
Virginia
John Galleher
Leesburg
General Assembly
Galleher
Young Democrats
James J. Farley
National Democratic
Roosevelt
Farley
Delewent
Thanks for kindness during sister’s illness and passing
I express gratitude to friends and neighbors for sympathy during the illness and death of my sister Mrs L V Brown and for floral tributes and use of cars. From Mrs T A Russell 21 11
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L. V. Brown
T. A. Russell
Notice to creditors for the estate of Mrs Eliza Ella Neil
All persons indebted to or having claims against the estate of late Mrs Eliza Ella Neil are requested to call on the undersigned for settlement.
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Eliza Ella Neil
Peery Points to Ontario Textbooks Cheaper Due to Subsidy
Alexandria July 20 Stone C Peery Democratic gubernatorial hopeful argued that Ontario Canada sells school texts at lower prices than Virginia because subsidies cover the gap. He criticized W Worth Smith for alleging high Virginia prices and faulted Smith for past votes on license and motor tax rates. Smith challenged Peery to defend his Corporation Commission record and denounced power company practices as costly to consumers.
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Alexandria
Stone C. Peery
Ontario
Canada
Virginia
W. Worth Smith
Old Dominion
Smith
Canadian
Toronto
Peery
Charlottesville
W. Worth Smith, Jr
Power Trust
George Cc. Peery
State Corporation Commission
Louisa
Corporation Commission
Commission
Bunk” Peery
Recovery Administrator Sets Machinery In Motion to Swing Employers
Recovery Administrator Hugh S. Johnson launches a nationwide drive to secure voluntary wage increases and shorter hours by July 27. President Roosevelt endorses the plan, aims for Labor Day action, with 35 hour factory work weeks and 40 hour white collar weeks, plus wage minimums by city size.
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Red Press
Washin' IN
Hugh
Johnson
Chamber of Commerce
Roosevelt
Washington
Hughs. Johnson
Johnson Washington
Roosevel
Hugh S. Johnson
White House
Commerce Building
Industrial Administration
Post Office Department
Truce Sought In Economic Warfare
London July 21 American secretary of state Cordell Hull proposed a resolution at the world economic conference. It would let the United States act if wage rises and shorter hours of labor became necessary.
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Associated Press
London
Cordell Hull
United States
Lindberghs Start Greenland Flight From Labrador
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh and Mrs. Lindbergh began a Greenland expedition from Labrador on July 21 without aerial map making planning.
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Associated Press
Car’ Ght
Labrador
Charles A. Lindbergh
Negro Held at Berryville On Murder Charge
Horace Blunt 40 is held in Berryville Virginia on murder charges after authorities pursued him from Hagerstown Maryland. Police found home brew whiskey a shotgun and a knife at his home and a red stain on his trousers later claimed to be rust or clay. Blunt denied the murder but admitted the knife belonged to his house and a preliminary trial is set for later this week.
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The
Star
Berryville
Horace Blunt
Boyce
Hagerstown
Sherman Jackson
Norfolk and Western
Briggs
Jackson
Blunt
Charles M. Feltner
Commonwealth’s
Edward McC. Williams
Feltner
Williams
Smallwood
Winchester
Commonwealth
Rackley
Tragic Drowning Death At Schroon Lake
Word reached here of the death of Pauling F. Sellers Jr at Schroon Lake New York on Sunday evening July 16. He was swimming when cramps overtook him and he became unconscious. He is the son of Mr and Mrs P F Sellers Sr of Buffalo New York.
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Pauling F. Sellers, Jr
P. F. Sellers, Sr
Buffalo
N. Y
Schroon Lake
Nw Y
Sellers
Tragic Lake Rescue Ends in Death of Young Man
Family notified at their Buffalo home learned of the accident near Schroon Lake. Rescued and revived efforts failed. he died shortly after. He was twenty six, survived by his parents and sister Miss Virginia Sellers. Funeral services were held in Buffalo this week. He was a cousin by marriage of Mrs Louise Ryan of West Monmouth Street.
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Buffalo
Schroon Lake
Virginia Sellers
Louise Ryan
West Monmouth Street
Program Adopted To Stop Disorders At Hosiery Mills
Governor Pinchot and law enforcement authorities joined union officials to adopt a program aimed at averting further disorders in the Lansdale Hosiery workers strike. The effort, announced in Harrisburg, targets calm and compliance during Pennsylvania’s volatile labor unrest.
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Associated Press
Harrisburg
Pinchot
Lansdale Hosiery
Pennsylvania
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Gold Diggers
Capitol
Fox Picture
Zane Grey
George O'Brien
Whispering
Babe Ruth
Mararntee
Farmers & Merchants National Bank & Trust Company
U. S. Postal Savings Depository
Hansbrough & Carter - Insurance
Arthur
General Insurance
Rouss Ave
Griffon
America
Sheetz
M. M. Lynch
Lindbergh
Greenland
N. Y. Lake
Jack Sharkey
Primo Carnera
of the
Air
Mickey Mouse Cartoon
Jack Hoxie
Orange
Georgia
Hamman’s Dollar Store
E. Boscawen St
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