Virginia Farmers Led Progress Across Century
The essay argues Virginia farmers drove early social and industrial progress, building a prosperous plantation economy until the cotton gin disrupted balance. It details wartime booms and postwar busts, cites shifts in land value and farm income, and warns that agricultural health underpins broader national prosperity and stable business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia
New England
South
Byrd
Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Cyrus H McCormick
United States
Middle West
Pacific Coast
Piles All Gone Without Salves or Cutting
Dr J S Leonhardt offers an internal pile remedy HEMROID Tablets claiming cure for piles by correcting internal causes. Baker's Drug Store advertises a money back guarantee after testing 1,000 patients with 960 successes, urging sufferers to try the product.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. S. Leonhardt
Baker’s Drug Store
Trustee Sale of Desirable City Home Winchester Virginia
Public auction to sell the Mabel Belle Woodward home at 109 South Kent Street Winchester Virginia on June 13 1931. Terms require one third cash with balance in two annual installments secured by deed of trust and insurance. Commissioner's report to address estate of Richard R Brown deceased with May 25 1931 claim deadline.
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Corporation Court
City of
Winchester
Virginia
Court House
Mabel Belle Woodward
South Kent Street
Said Street
M M. Lynch
A. G. Swanson
M. M. Lynch
Richard R Aa
Richard B. Brown
Richard R Brown
Richard R. Brown
M. M
Lynch
Rouss Avenue
A. J. Tavenner
T. Russell Cather
H. S. Larrick
M M Lynch
Durann & Dunn
M. M Lynch
C. Brannon
Public Sale of White Sulphur Inn in Winchester Virginia
Special Commissioners offer the White Sulphur Inn tract of 39 acres in Frederick County at public auction in Winchester on June 13, 1931. Terms: one third cash. balance in one and two years with two purchaser bonds, 6 percent interest, deed of trust and insurance. parcels or whole, in Shenandoah Valley.
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Circuit Court
Frederick County
Virginia
Ma&y
Betsy Shenk
Frank W Shenk
Farmers & Merchants National Bank & Trust Company
Winchester
County Court House
Bartonsville
Jas. P
Shenandoah Valley
Famed Valley Turnpike
John M Steck
M. M. Lynch
John Paul
Jas P. Reardon
I. c. C. Brannon
Jac. P. Reardon
Public Sale of R E L Whitacre Farm in Virginia
Public sale in Frederick County Virginia on June 27 1931 at 12 o'clock offers two parcels and whole of the late R F Whitacre farm totaling 245 acres with 126 and 118 acres, homes and outbuildings. One third of crops passes to the buyer, two thirds reserved for tenant. Court confirms bonds and deed requirements. Also relates to attachment suit against Cora D Brown in Winchester and notice for four weekly publications.
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Corporation Court OF the City OF
Winchester
Virginia Stewart
Lee Barr
Lucy Thornberry
Cora D. Brown
Rhoda Butts
George E. Thornberry
Virginia
Evening Star
Clark M Smith
Circuit Court
Frederick County
Florente B. Whitacre
Elmer H. Whitacre
Court House
R. F E. L. Whitacre
Whitacre
Red Stone Road
Allabaugh Road
Trade Better in April With Some Declines in Metals
The Commerce Department reported April business conditions showed further expansion from January lows. Food, autos, leather and shoe, cement and tobacco industries led gains while iron and steel and non-ferrous metals fell versus March. Industrial output rose 9 percent from December, and textiles held March levels though cotton was especially active. Building contracts dropped 9 percent from March, with residential construction holding up better than commercial and industrial projects.
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Washington
Commerce Department
United States
Federal Reserve Board
Cannon Defends Anti-Smith Fund Charges Before Senate Panel
Bishop James Cannon Jr objects to a Senate investigation of his 1928 Anti-Smith fund activities. He argues the inquiry lacks authority to probe crime, claims the corrupt practices act is unconstitutional, and says the Asheville conference aimed to defeat Alfred E. Smith but denies headquarters efforts were for electing dry Democrats to Senate and Congress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
James Cannon, Jr
Senate Campaign Funds Committee
Nye
Bishop Cannon
Creaton
Alfréd E. Smith
Asheville
Big Bond Issue To Be Floated
Secretary Mellon announced an 18 year 3 18 percent bond issue totaling $800,900,000 to be sold to the public on June 15. Proceeds will retire $589,000,000 of indebtedness, reduce receipts, and fund increased expenditures creating a deficit over a billion dollars.
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Mellon
Roosevelt Family Traced in Amerted Lineage
The Roosevelt family in Amerted traces its descent from Claes Martenozen Van Rosenvelt who came from Holland to New Netherland in 1649.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Amerted
Claes Martenozen van Rosenvelt
Holland
New
Change Is Natural Quotation Fragments
A compact clippings bundle presents brief quotations from Cowley Kipling and an LA Times line. It notes change in nature, aging under pressure, and the idea that some grievances resist nursing cures.
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Cowley
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Agricultural Colleges
C. S Burton
The
Magazine of Wall Street
Congress
Nurehasine Nower
Bypen
R. J. Scott
Zachary Taylor
Ane Red Jacket
Central Press Association, Inc
U. S
Patent Office
Stanley
Porson
Tobias Bdongler
Cc. C. Brannon
Clerk
Herbert S. Larrick
R. E. L. Whitacre Farm
J. P. Ramsburg
Cora DD. Brown
Piccadilly Street
Lucy L. Thornberry
M. C. Copenhaver
Corporation Clerk’s
Clark M. Smith
Cannon
Rudyard Kipling
Los Angeles Times
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