Bloom-Home Demonstration Club Picnic At Friendly Grove
About 40 members and families attended the annual Home Demonstration Club picnic Tuesday evening at Friendly Grove. Various local residents were noted visiting relatives and friends around town with several upcoming social events planned by church groups.
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Thomas S. Cooper
A S. Cover
Hazel Lowery
Mollie Richard
Bonnie
Becky Phillips
Bedington
W. Va
Janet. Halver
Albright
John R. Cooper
Mason
Thomas
Robert
Thomas Cooper
Charles Wallace
Norfolk
U. S. Navy
C. E. Crowser
Cooper
Russell Lineweaver
Zepp
Claude Wallace
Williams
C. E. Clowser
Friendly Grove
Mt. View Methodist Church
Four Page Star Local News From 1898 and 1900
Two historic copies of The Winchester Evening Star show local life in 1898 and 1900. Front pages cover the Charles Broadway Rouss birthday observance and a banquet at Reuss Engine House, with notes on gravel, a church social, and local ads. The 1900 edition includes a Frances Gray wedding, a bogus-check case, and weather and transit items with ads for winter goods.
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Winchester Evening Star
the Star
Evening Star
The
Star
Charles Broadway Rouss
Union Steam Fire Company No. 2
M. T. Reed
C. E. Hoover
Nelson P. Dame
H. L. Wood
Joseph Kiger
E. E. Stone
G. Frank Baker
George E. Thatcher
George H. Kinzel
Reuss
Water and
Braddock Streets
Frances Gray
Joseph Wright, Jr
Christ Episcopal Church
Orange Court House
Fred S. Boyd
T. J Orndorff
W. D. Cameron
First lighthouse in America lit at Boston Harbor
The Boston Lighthouse on Little Brewster Island began operation on September 14, 1716. A tonnage tax of 1 penny per ton funded maintenance for vessels entering or leaving Boston Harbor, excluding coasters.
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America
Boston
Little Brewster Island
Boston Harbor
Bob Hope to Play Late Mayor Walker in Beau James
Bob Hope is set to portray James Walker, New York City mayor during Prohibition, in Beau James. The film details Walker’s witty persona and political scandal, with a triangle involving his first wife Alexis Smith and later wife Betty Compton, as director Mel Shavelson and producer Jack Rose aim for a factual treatment.
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Bob Hope
Mayor Walker
Hollywood
James Walker
New York
Walker
Beau James
Bob
Hope
Devore
New York City
Mel Shavelson
Jack Rose
Liles
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Alexis Smith
Betty Compton
Vera Miles
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Sailor
Bernabe Polanco Garcia
Linda Morgan
Stockholm
Linda
St. Vincent's Hospital
Marita Rose
Andrea Doria
Garcia
Camille M. Cianfarra
Joan
For All
Fiorist
Mrs. T. S. Cooper
Winchester
Horsey and Atwell
Huntsberry’s
Henry Baetjer and Company
Hrysler
Chrysler
New Yorker
Chapman Motor Co
W. Boscawen St
By Bob Thomas
Sy Devore
U.S. Rt. l
Goodyear
Buncutter Tire CO
Shell Safe Driving Quiz
M le
Shell Oil CO
Automotive Safety
Founda
Buncutter Oil Corp
Winchester, VA
Herbert J. Stack
Leon Brody
Center For Safety Education
New York University
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