Today in History highlights varied milestones across years
July 31 marks events from 1917 World War I Battle of Flanders inspiring In Flanders Fields and red poppy sales, to 1777 Lafaayette offering services, 1790 Hopkins patent, 1877 Edison patent, 1914 Austrian mobilization, 1953 Taft death, 1954 Iran floods, Macmillan on EEC talks, 1966 British shipwreck, and 1970 Nixon cease fire assurances.
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Associated Press
Flanders
Flanders Fields
Marquis de Lafayette
Samuel Hopkins
Vermont
U.S
Thomas Edison
Austria
Sen
Robert Taft
Ohio
U.S. Senate
Tehran
Iran
Harold MacMillan
London
Falmouth
England
Nixon
Israel
Middle East
Charlottesville Daily Progress adopts cold type printing
The Daily Progress will convert to the Dyna-Flex process starting Monday and aims to finish by late August. Publisher Lindsay Mount says it will be the third U.S. paper to use Dyna-Flex, featuring a computer that can produce one full column of type per minute. The paper runs six afternoons and Sunday morning with a 24,000 circulation.
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Charlottesville
Daily Progress
Lindsay B. Mount
United States
Onassis Angrily Silent Over Christina's Las Vegas Marriage
Relatives say Aris Onassis is angry about his daughter Christina's marriage to Joseph Bolker a 47 year old Hollywood real estate man in Las Vegas. A Onassis spokesman refused to comment while Greek papers note the magnate was unaware of the union.
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Athens
Greece
Aristotle Onassis
Christina
Hollywood
Onassis
Las Vegas
Joseph Bolker
Dear Abby wedding guest lists spark family clash
Dear Abby offers workplace style guidance on trimming guest lists for a wedding. The mother of the bride asks how to handle a groom's parents who refuse to reduce their 226 guest list, suggesting options to trim her own 200 or let the bride confront the issue, while other readers seek advice on marital strain and teen engagement. The column includes letters from a mother, a wife, and a teen about relationship tensions and advice from Abby.
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Chicago Tribune-M. Y. News Synd., Inc
Abby
Open houses showcase 1850s style rooms in Shenandoah Valley
Two rooms of the house a bedroom and a parlor furnished in mid-1850s style will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 30 p.m. through Labor Day. The house served as the park visitor center for three years until the Hall of Valor opened last year.
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Shenandoah Valley
Hall of Valor
New Market
New Market Battlefield Park
James J. Geary
Geary
Bushong House
Tulsa Emerges as Nation's Inland Port on Arkansas Verdigris Waterway
Tulsa runs the 440 mile Arkansas Verdigris river stem linking the Midwest to the Mississippi and beyond making it the nation's inland port city. Barge traffic already moves oil grain fabrications and newsprint with more potential ahead. Willbros signs a 1.5 million deal for a bulk fertilizer warehouse and related facilities. North American Rockwell and McDonnell Douglas bid to help build the space shuttle program. Navigation opened progressively from Mississippi to Tulsa by early this year with projected cargo of 13.2 million tons annually and shipper savings of about 40.4 million dollars.
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Tulsa
Okla
John Steinbeck
Oklahoma
Midwest
Mississippi River
Arkansas
Verdigris
Willbros Terminal Co
Williams Bros
Kansas
North American Rockwell Corp
McDonnell Douglas Co
Space Shuttle
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Muskogee
Pine Bluff
Little Rock
Fort Smith
Mississippi
Army
Will Rogers
Fewer Icebergs Seen in North Atlantic Again
The U S Coast Guard Patrol reports 61 icebergs sighted in busy North Atlantic lanes this year. Unusually strong southern winds warmed surface waters, causing bergs to deteriorate as they drifted from Baffin Bay.
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Greenwich, Conn
North Atlantic
U.S. Coast Guard Patrol
Baffin Bay
Bushong House Reopens At New Market For Labor Day
The Bushong House, linked to the 1864 Battle of New Market, reopens to the public Sunday and stays open through Labor Day. The house, once the battlefield visitor center, showcases two furnished rooms and is free to enter from 10 a.m. to 4 30 p.m. The park and Hall of Valor run 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. with many furnishings loaned by local residents.
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Virginia Military Institute
New Market
New Market Battlefield Park
Bushong House
Joseph Ryman
Quicksburg
Fred Painter
Woodstock
Painter
Geary
Corps of Cadets of
VMI
George R. Collins
Origin of Oath Using Bible Traced to Justinian
The practice of using the Bible in swearing an oath began with Justinian the Great in 532 when he took the oath while holding a Gospel book.
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Justinian
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Dear Abby
Abigail van Buren
Joe
Los Angeles
Cal
Bexesser
New Nation
Sakrete Concrete
Miller’s Hardware
N. Loudoun St
Winchester
Old Dominion Savings & Loan
Ver Ulaa
State OF
Virginia
Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation
Old Bdominions Savings & Loan “Association
Boscawen
Washington Sts
Datsun
Loudoun St
Winchester, Va
Picense Noo St
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