Handley Class Day and Week of Commencement 1923
Handley School marks Class Day 1923 with History Medal won by Mary Jackson and themes on community knowledge. Alumni events include baseball, parades, corner stone laying, bonfire, banquet, and dance leading to Commencement and class day Bamuet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lilliah Hillyard
Paradise
Sir Thomas Moore
Handley High
Evy Shield
Virginia O'Connor
Evy Shields
Alvin Kremer
Elsie Rosenberger
Jackson
Clerk
Frederick County
Mary Jackson
Lewellyn Jackson
A. H. Jackson
Marshall Stryker
Miss Whitmore
Wilbur Riley
Clarence
Empire
Equity
Handley School
Winchester
Rotary Club
Rouss Hall
Hebron
Gertrude Ritter
Dramatic Club
Kiwanis Club
Susan Saulsbury
Lass
Glayds Whitmore
Walker
Alumni Day Plan Noted at Handley Faculty Event
Bond Mrs Virginia Silver and Miss Gertrude Ritter of the Handley Faculty oversee a Clarence presentation directed by Mr Duffey. Alumni Day curators include Mrs Joseph Rowe as Alumni President with active committees.
Golden Age of Medicine Sees Disease Decline and Longer Lives
Sir George Newman, British chief medical officer, calls this the golden age of medicine noting cholera plague typhus typhoid emailpox tuberculosis and malaria now controllable. Antitoxin diphtheria deaths drop from 29.8 percent in 1890 to 9.3 percent in 1922 saving about 200 lives per 1000 cases. Interic fever deaths fall from 374 per million to 12 per million by 1922. Life expectancy rises with cleaner air water and sanitation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
George Newman
Sir George
Hall Caine Got Only $250 For First Book
Hall Caine, turning seventy, recalls early literary life and says his first novel earned only 250 dollars. He notes writers once got help from peers like Wilkie Collins and Flaubert, while publishers then paid about 200 dollars upfront.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall Caine
Associated Press
London
Wilkie Collins
Flaubert
George Sand
Dumas
Caine
Tiie Collins
Charles Reade
Walter Besant
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S. H. Hable
Donald McFadden
Hilda Dean
Adele Metz
Sue Schlack
Frank Gearing
Richard Gray
Earl Crowser
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Shenandoah Valley
Nat's Bank
the Union Bank OF Winchester
Handley Graduate
John Handley
Commercial and Savings Bank
Paramount
Agnes Ayres
Cosmopolitan Corporation
T. Roy Barnes
Seena Owen
WM. Morris
Tom Lewis
Peter B. Kyne
Palm Beach
J. M. Orndoff
Nettleton Shoes
Spalding Supplies
Harrisonburg
Luray
New Market
Twin Towns
Strasburg
Front Royal
Woodstock Strasburg
Pet
Rh A
J Rey
Farmers and Merchants
Wiichester, Virginia
Gray & Sheetz
Jolliffe
Jones Creamery
Bell Phone
Rosenberger’s
Winchester Luther League
Fremont Lutheran Charch
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