Rockefeller Jr Calls for Repeal of Prohibition
Rockefeller Jr urges repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment as the anti saloon league funds and temperance work face rising crime and disobedience. He praises past anti liquor efforts while warning the speakeasy era betrays public rights and calls for Convention backed repeal and substitute measures. Bishop Cannon counters, defending the 18th Amendment and opposing wet platform planks without a clear better alternative.
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Fance
Prohibition
Rockefeller
Anti Saloon League
Anti- Saloon League
Butler
Columbia
Congress
Cannon
Estherville
Iowa
James Cannon, Jr
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Bishop Cannon
National ‘Party
Robot-Rusatian Play Sparks Debate On Labor
A fragment discusses Capek and his play R. U. R. where artificial automata rise as labor forces. The note hints at mass appeal and economic impact central to the drama's premise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Menenspi
Me Capek
Strawberries Hard Hit By Dry Weather
The strawberry season in this section will end soon unless rains come. Extreme heat and topsoil dryness are scorching plants and burning berries. An excellent set was on commercial patches with a good crop in prospect, but three weeks without rain changed the outlook. Without rain and continued heat the crop will be spare, with the peak harvest already passed. Small rains Sunday night were not enough to help. berries sold from 30 cents a gallon to 15 cents a quart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bard
Lions Clubs Set Convention in Los Angeles
The sixteenth annual International Association of Lions Clubs convention will be in Los Angeles California June 19. About 15000 delegates and guests are expected from 2600 clubs in the United States Canada Cuba China and Hawaii. Governor James Rolf Jr will give the welcome address and the Los Angeles mayor will present the keys to the city. Notables include aviator Bernt Balchen. The session lasts four days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julien C., Rr
Fort Worth
Texas
Ibe
International
Association of Lions Clubs
Los Angeles
Calif
United States
Canada
Cuba
China
Hawaii
James Rolf, Jr
California
States
Union
District of Columbia
Matet Ual
Lion Bernt Balchen
Hasbrouck Heights
Newa
Virginia Woman Lands Champion Silver Salmon
Miss Constance Regan of Middleburg Virginia set a fishing record on the Tobique river in New Brunswick by landing a 275 pound Atlantic silver salmon, the heaviest caught by a woman on that river, with guide Jock Ogilvy at the Gulquac pool mouth. She had also enjoyed several productive days there, surpassing previous Tobique records held by men.
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Fredericton
N. B
Constance Regan
Middleburg
Tobique River
New Brunswick
Régatfin
Miss Regan
Jock Ogilvy
Mir Regan
Gulquac Pool
Tobique
Suit Against Warner Brothers Is Thrown Out
Wilmington Delaware June 7 a suit for receivership filed against Warner Bros Pictures Inc by Marinus V Newcastle was dismissed in Chancery Court. It was the end of three receivership actions against the company in recent months. A separate receivership suit was filed in Federal Court last week by Harry Koplar of St Louis Missouri.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmington
Del
Fors
Seral
Warn Bros. Pictures, Inc
Marinus
Newcastle
Chancery Court
Actio
Compa
Harry Koplar
St. Louis
Alert teller uncovers bogus ten dollar note at local bank
Harold Rowe a young teller at Cocaicenes and Savings Bank spotted and verified a counterfeit ten dollar bill during a routine deposit. The fake note printed for the Apple Blossom Festival originated from the Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank. W H Bush Winchester Auto Trim Shop owner helped trace the bill and aid authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federal Reserve
Harold Rowe
Smi
Cocaicenes and Savings Bank
W. H. Bush
Winchester Auto Trim
Rowe
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Bush
Civic League reports school milk fund for two schools
The Civic League released figures for October 12 to May 27 showing 380 underweight children in September, 167 in May, 213 now normal, 142 on free milk per day, with total milk fund expenditure of 1078.99 dollars. Contributions came from the league and various donors. average milk takers were 260 daily, about half paid privately. thanks extend to organizers and local suppliers. Separately, women at a ball in Bickley England formed a bucket brigade to fight a fire, extinguishing it in about 30 minutes.
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Civic League Today
John Kerr
Virginia Avenue
Civic League
Allen Bond
Diddy Gaylord
Dorothy Ann Robinson
Bobby Woods
John Kerr School
J.S. Haldeman
Sanitary Dairy
Pure Food
T. J. Cooper
Bickley
England
Gainesboro Sunday Schools plan June 14 convention
The seventeenth annual Gainesboro district Sunday schools convention will convene at Old Bethel Southern Methodist Church on Tuesday June 14 with two sessions at 10 a.m. and 1 20 p.m. The program features worship, reports from divisions, a prohibition talk, musical selections, and committee appointments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sunday Schools
Gainesboro
Old Bethel Southern
Question box and church quartet meeting adjournment
A meeting notes listing a question box and Burnt Church Quartette with offering. It records roll call of the schools and mentions unfinished business and the place of the next convention before adjournment.
Recent Conveyances of County Realty
Frederick County Clerk records list multiple transfers including Wilber M Guard to Frank Taylor in Opequon district with nominal consideration, J H Newgome to Bertha M Newcome river rights in Stonewall district, and Sydneyan Copeland to Henry L Summers with land along Paddy's Run. Additional deeds include John H Helsley to Jacob L Crisman in Opequon district, Ida Golliday and Anna R Golliday to William Lewin west of Middletown, and Ruben Clark to Emma Beryl Walker along the White Post road with nominal consideration.
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Frederick County
Wilber M. Guard
Frank Taylor
Opequon
J. H. Newgome
Bertha May Newcome
Stonewall
Sydneyan Copeland
Henry L. Summers
John H. Helsley
Jacob L. Crisman
Ida Golliday
Anna R. Golliday
William Lewin
Middletown
Ruben Clark
Emma Beryl Walker
White Post Road
It Is Not Unlawful To Destroy United States Currency
The text asserts that destroying United States currency is not illegal while defacing or mutilating coins to restore them to circulation is unlawful.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Popular Youth Moore Jr. Dies En Route to Baltimore
Gerard Moore Jr. a respected local youth, formerly of Morgantown and a GMAC employee in Charleston, died after being struck by a passenger train near Hinton while en route to join his mother in Baltimore. He graduated from the local high school in 1923 and excelled at the state university.
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Charles Town
W. Va
Gerard Moore, Jr
Moore
Charleston
Baltimore
Hinton
Gerard Moore
Poole
State University
Morgantown
Robert Moore
Logan
General Motors Acceptance Corporation
Ger
Moore Family Survivors Listed in Obituary Fragment
Ard Moore of Ranson is survived by two sisters and two brothers read Mrs Martha Newton Appell of Mannings and Miss Eleanor Moore of New York, Robert Moore of Nevada and Jay Moore at home in Ranson.
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Ard Moore
Ranson
Martha Newton Appell
Mannings
Eleanor Moore
New York
Robert Moore
Nevada
Jay Moore
Stephens City Scouts Plan To Attend Camp
The Stephens City Scouts meet in the agricultural building and plan a yard party for June 11 at the High School to raise funds for a Scout camp July 1 to 15 with F F A. scouts urged to take typhoid vaccine at $1 for three doses at the next meeting.
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Stephens City
Wall
Williams
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Lions Clubs
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Southend
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Shis
Niagara Falls
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Winchester
Pennsylvania Railroad
Chasagner
M. C. E Young People’s
Miller
Nora Whitacre
Fred Whitacre
Solo
Roy Wingfield
F. T. McFaden
Gore
J. Goode
William Wolfe
C. H. Anderson
E. Mice
Edith Bohrer
Tressie Ten
Capitol
Joe E Brown
Tenderfoot
Joe
Ginger
Rogers
Germany
Queen Victoria
Asia
Eurus
Perepas
Goodyear Processes
Goodyear
Lifetime Gen Gamenteed
Sranveead Goomyear
Speedway
Sonam
Carlos Davila
Chile
Juan Esteban Montero
Santiago
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