Campaign for Children's Aid Launched Here
The annual campaign for the Children's Home Society of Virginia in Winchester and Frederick County began with a workers’ meeting at Mrs. Robert T. Barton’s home. C. P. McVicar serves as treasurer as the society tightens finances, reducing salaries and field staff to operate on a $105,000 budget, with volunteer drives to support care for an increasing number of children.
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Children’s Home Society of Virginia
Winchester
Frederick County
Robert T. Barton
South Washington Street
Children’s Home Society
Preston
Blue Ridge Mountains
Intel
Defective Wiring Triggers Small Fire at Highland Avenue
The fire department rushed to 426 Highland avenue at about 9 this morning for a small attic blaze in a bungalow. A short circuit in the electrical wiring started the fire. Crews cut power and used booster-tank water to extinguish the fire, preventing major damage. Lloyd Speigle, owner of a garage on East Piccadilly street, resided in the house.
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Highland Avenue
Lloyd Speigle
Oooner
East Piccadilly Street
Fair Grounds Sale Tomorrow at City Site
Sale opens on premises at 10 30 a m with 23 plus acres offered first as a whole then in eight parcels. Describes prime city heartland near rail sidings for home or factory use. Property open for inspection with details inside ad on page 7.
James W. Good property sale at 432 Highland Avenue
The James W. Good property at 432 Highland Avenue will be sold in front of the Court House at noon on Saturday June 18. The home is described as desirable and the sale is set for a public auction.
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James W. Good
Highland Avenue
Court House
Helen Sargent Wins Honor in County Contest
Helen Sargent of the Kernstown club won first honor in Frederick County Four-H Club dress revue and will represent the county at the state contest. Hilda Cather and Gladys Cooper of Round Hill won silver and bronze medals. The event was sponsored by Chicago Mail Order Company and judged by Belle Burke. The Home Demonstration Advisory Board voted to finance part of the winner and chaperone expenses and elected delegates to the State Homemakers Association meeting.
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Frederick County
Belle Burke
Kernstown
Helen Sargent
Kernstown Club
Hilda Cather
Round Hill Club
Gladys Cooper
Round Hill
Chicago
National Committee On Boys’ and Girls’ Club
State Homemakers’ Association
H. A. Funk
J. W Lodge
Friendship Fire Company to Attend Evening Service
Friendship Fire Company will attend services Sunday evening in Market Street Methodist Church. All members meet at the hall on East Cork Street at 5 30 o clock to attend together. Assistant Chaplain Wallace M Brashears will preach a special sermon to the company. Fred W Forney, Captain.
Busy Bee Restaurant Ad Promotes Meals and Service
An early 20th century breakfast and lunch advertisement for Busy Bee Restaurant highlights a 35 cent breakfast, 40 cent business man's lunch, and 50 cent minute steak supper, touting famous service.
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Busy Bee
Socialist rule to be set up in Chile at once
Carlos Davile heads a new Chilean government after overthrowing the Grove junta. He says Chile will become a socialist republic, rely on armed force if needed, and call a constitutional assembly to draft a socialist constitution. Troops patrol streets as Davile assumes power amid counterrevolution.
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Chile
Associated Press
Santiago
Carlos Davile
Col
Marmaduke Grove
Socialist Republic of Chile
Socialist Republic
Presidential Palace
Senor Davile
United States
Grove
Boy Victim of Dynamite Cap In Virginia Injury
A one year old child of Mr Wilson in CE Virginia suffered severe injuries to the left hand from a dynamite cap explosion. Two fingers were blown off and two others mangled. Dr Henry C Smith treated the boy and advised prevention against blood poisoning. The cause remains unknown but it is believed the child mistook a nitro glycerin cap for a pistol cap. The boy was reported to be improving.
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Star
Wilson
Yead
Mr Particle
Henry C. Smith
Boyce
City Manager Proposes Salary Cut for Officials
Portsmouth City Manager Hanrahan calls for a graduated salary reduction for city officials including himself. He proposes a 1 24 percent cut starting with his own, amounting to about $1 000 annually, while street department workers and others earning under $1 500 per year would be exempt.
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Portsmouth
Hanrahan
Rev Dudley to Teach Open Door Bible Class at Loudoun Street
The Rev W L Dudley pastor of the Church of Christ will teach the Open Door Bible Class at Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church at 9 45 Sunday morning. Special music by the Four H Quartette led by Floyd Haines Joe Haines Harry Haines and Joe Hodgson. All class members and visitors welcome.
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W. L. Dudley
Church of Christ
Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church
Floyd Haines
Joe Haines
Harry Haines
Joe Hodgson
Curb Market At East Boscawen Street
Saturday stall at No 29 East Boscawen Street offers chickens fresh vegetables and baked foods from 9 to 2 30 with sellers promoting locally produced goods and daily offerings from area farms.
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East Boscawen St
Chemist Expands on Marvels of Modern Chemistry
Dr. Harrison E. Howe, editor of nd Enginee, spoke to Rotary Club about latex, cellulose, and synthetic rubber products. He demonstrated many items from a traveling bag and warned that rapid industrial chemistry creates volatile markets, urging business to leverage improvements while noting underuse of new science for wider leisure. Howe, a Washington Rotary member and leading chemical engineer, was introduced by McSherry Lupton.
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Harrison E. Howe
Nd Enginee
Dr. Howe
Howe
Rotary Club of
Washington
McSherry Lupton
Winchester
Charles F. Coffman
W. R. Legge
Recipe Contest Award Goes To Miss DeHaven
Miss Agnes DeHaven of Gainesboro wins a $1 prize from the Richmond News Leader recipe contest. Her lemon milk sherbet uses scalded milk, gelatin soaked in water, sugar, lemon juice, and a final sugar boost before freezing.
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DeHaven
Agnes DeHaven
Gainesboro
Richmond News-Leader
Miss DeHaven
Newberry's Special Saturday Features and Offers
Colonial water glass 2c baby rubber pants med large small fresh pink 5c 24x48 Turkish towels 10c cretonne pillows 25c men's wool lined ties pastel shades 20c topaz water set six glasses pitcher 55c panamas for ladies and children 59c 89c 1.00 ip-1t
Tanker Disaster in Montreal Kills Fire Chief and 4 Firemen
A massive explosion on the Cymbeline tanker in Bickers dry dock near Montreal kills Fire Chief Raoul Gauthier and four firefighters. Additional blasts fatally strike nine more workers, including Bickers employees James D. Wilson and John Riddell, as crews fight oil fires and search for victims.
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Associated Press
Montreal
Quebec
Atm
Great Bickers Dry Dock
England
Atlantic
Raoul Gauthier
Dominion Fire Association
Dominion
Gauthier
Paul Henrichon
J. DeBrienne
J. Hamelin
R. Noel
James D. Wilson
John Riddell
James Corbett
Donald Gunn
William Atherton
The
Bickers Company
Local Winchester Man Believed Victim In Harrisburg Freight Death
Harrisburg officials investigated after James McWilliams, a former Edinburg resident, was killed by a freight train in Harrisburg railroad yards. Arthur Hauck sought help to locate McWilliams's friends or relatives. Police planned to contact Sheriff Sheetz to search Edinburg for connections.
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Winchester
Arthur Hauck
Harrisburg
James McWilliams
McWilliams
C. W. Hollis
Edinburg
Shenandoah County
Hollis
Sheetz
Woodstock
Hauck
Yard Party at Bryarly School House
Community League hosts a yard party at Bryarly School House on Thursday June 23 public invited. Activities and refreshments planned for attendees with all neighborhoods welcome.
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Bryarly
Community League
Bonus Seekers Camp Kitchen On Capitol Steps
About 3000 bonus army marchers gathered around the Capitol in Washington to camp near the Senate while a bill for full soldiers’ pay was under discussion. Police reported no disorder as groups moved about the plaza and seats filled in the Senate gallery.
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Associated Press
Washington
Capitol Steps
Senate
District of Columbia and Capitol
Capitol
Starved Boy Case In Baltimore Involve Rubel Family
Police found a dead man on a couch at the Rubel home in Baltimore. Grant Rubel had died April 4 and was to “arise from the dead” June 24 according to a diary. The mother and her son say they starved him to drive out devils. Aubel faces a disorderly conduct charge. mental examination pending. Charles Grant seeks asylum commitment for the mother and son.
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Associated Press
Baltimore
Pee
Grant
Rubel
Paul
Paul Aubel
Charles Grant
1932 Rainfall Surpasses Average Across Community
Frequent showers have boosted 1932 rainfall to 19.47 inches, 3.71 inches above the 19 year average of 15.76 inches per Winchester Laboratory records. Farmers report benefits to crops and pastures, while city residents note no water shortage fears and less need for lawn watering this week.
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Winchester Research Laboratory
Citywide Traffic and Lawn Ordinance Enforcement Notice
Police warn of violations as City Council orders strict enforcement of stopping at stop signs and city speed laws. Officers will target flagrant violators while residents are reminded that sprinkling lawns is banned after 8 p m and will be enforced.
Haddox Store Break-In Leaves Cash Register Empty
Thieves forced entry to J. P. Haddox on South Loudoun Street by breaking the rear door. They removed the cash register, opened it in the back yard, found it empty, and fled. Police report no clues. witnesses heard a possible 1 to 2 am disturbance but ignored it.
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J. P. Haddox
Loudoun Street
Mr. Haddox
C. W. Hollis
Baseball Games At Park Ground This Week End
The Winchester Park Association baseball team faces Hose Co No 5 of Martinsburg on Saturday at 3 PM. On Sunday they meet Hoffman Chevrolet of Hagerstown Maryland, a team that has not lost to any Western Maryland opponent this season.
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Winchester Park Association
Hose Co
No. 5
Martinsburg
Hoffman Chevrolet
Hagerstown
Maryland
Congress relies on Vermont pie recipe in funding math
The Boston Transcript quotes a Vermont woman’s rhubarb pie recipe stating to add all the sugar and then double it as a playful take on how congressional appropriations are calculated. The remark uses kitchen math as a metaphor for federal budgeting.
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Vermont
Boston Transcript
Five Thousand Watch As Negro Hangs in Kentucky
In Hardinsburg Kentucky Sam Jennings a 38 year old black man was hanged at dawn for a criminal attack on Miss Mabel Downs. About twenty feet away Miss Downs and her father E P Downs watched. Jennings proclaimed innocence but offered no defense as the trapdoor released. The crowd remained silent as the sentence was carried out.
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Associated Press
Hardinsburg
Sam Jennings
Miss Mabel Downs
Miss Downs
E. P. Downs
Jennings
Circular Meeting of the Society of Friends at Gainesboro
The annual circular meeting will be held at 3 PM Sunday June 19 in the Methodist Church at Gainesboro. Miss Mary Lizzie Hughes of Hamilton VA will be the principal speaker. The event is a long standing Gainesboro Friends gathering inviting broad attendance.
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Society of Friends
Gainesboro
Mary Lizzie Hughes
Hamilton
Friends
Puzzling Wet and Dry Situation Prompts Split Choices
A witty note compares public preference in a wet and dry scenario to choosing between a drink or an umbrella. The remark hints at mixed signals from two thirds of people, highlighting indecision and humorous ambiguity.
World News Snippets Across Cities And Seas
Trooper a colored hound dog with 12 years service as an army mascot was buried with military honors at the Statue of Liberty base. Nashville grocer hides over 5000 in bills. mice ruin the stash. Black leg outbreaks threaten cattle near Shepherdstown. Shank’s snubber delays streetcar work as Chile’s socialist government takes power. Miss Helen Keller awarded a doctorate at Glasgow University.
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New York
Spanking claim used to obtain divorce in Los Angeles
Mrs. Harry K. Bally told a judge she did not contract for a spanking as she and her husband played contract. She testified he turned her over his knee and spanked her, and she was granted a divorce. In Hartford Connecticut Malcolm Farmer will become Yale athletic director July 1 and his daughter Barbara is engaged to former Yale center Ben Ticknor.
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Los Angeles
Harry K. Bally
Hartford
Conn
Malcolm Farmer
Farmer
Yale
Barbara
Ben Ticknor
Mae
Harvard
Body value slides from war era to present prices hit 67 cents
In Hamilton Ontario a physician cites a drop in the cash value of the human body from 98 cents in wartime days to about 67 cents today. Dr. C H Mayo of Rochester Minnesota comments on valuation.
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R. T. Barton
Community
C. P. McVicar
Bone
Margaret L. Hodgson
Congress
Walter W. Waters
National Capital
Waters
Portland
Ore
Frederick Four-H
Daville
Mr. Dudley
France
Joseph I. France
Circle
Coolidge
Aeme
H. E. Howe
Newberry
BONUS
Belle Sherwin
Cleveland
National League of Women Voters
League
Haddox
Duce
Fort Brakeden
Rome
Mussolini
Domenico Bobone
Angelo Sbardellotto
Fort Braheden
Bobhone
Shardellotte
Bobone
Nashville
Tenn
W. Va
Shepherdstown
Shank
Glasgow
Scotland
Helen Keller
Glasgow University
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