Social calendar busy with teas, dances, and weddings
A lengthy social notice outlines a cabin party for 25 Girls Athletic Association members at Mrs. Ida Lycett’s Ridgeway cabin with treasure hunt and bridge, several local teas in Fredericksburg and Kenmore, a birthday for Mrs. Percy Sheets, and various announcements including engagements, Girl Scout plans, and community league talks.
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Girls Athletic Association
Ida Lycett
Ridgeway
Virginia Harrell
Elizabeth Hollis
Irene Headley
Thelma Hauptman
Elsie Mathews
Our Nation 1841 1842 Presidents Tyler Whigs and Trade
A historical summary notes President Harrison death on April 4 1841 John Tyler becoming president friction with Whigs over policy including the McLeod affair and the old fugitive slave law. It also mentions the Sub Treasury Act repeal boundary treaties with Webster Ashburton and broader 1842 explorations and events.
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Harrison
John Tyler
Tyler
England
McLeod
Prigg
Pennsylvania
Webster Ashburton Boundary
Britain
Central Press Association, Inc
Local girls return from Washington and Roanoke visits
Miss Lee Howell returns from Arlington Hall School for Girls in Washington DC and will summer with her father C K Howell of North Braddock street. Mrs E K Hetzer and Mrs Ross Downs and daughter Glendora Downs of Hagerstown MD visit Mrs J W Affleck on South Cameron street. Miss Ortha Wright returns from Roanoke after attending the Brethren Church annual conference.
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Elizabeth Alexander
W. D. Alexander, Jr
Charlotte
N. C
Charles Phillips Pollard
Washington
Virginia
Cleremont Manor
Miss Alexander
William H.cocke
Mrs. Cocke
Claremont Manor
White
North Carolina
John Jennings White
Henderson
Winchester
Hugh Clark
North Braddock Street
Dorothy Harrington
Miss Lee Howell
Arlington Hall School For Girls
Washington, D. C
C. K. Howell
E. K. Hetzer
Ross Downs
Glendora Downs
Hagerstown
J. W. Affleck
Cameron Street
Ortha Wright
Roanoke
Conference of the Brethren Church
New Developments Reported Lacking In Orndorff Case
The search for Frances Nicholson Orndorff who vanished December 29 from Star Tannery remains at a standstill. Officials say there is no new evidence to substantiate charges against Kermit Orndorff or Wayne McIlwee, and no results from investigations.
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Frances Nicholson Orndorff
Star Tannery
Kermit Orndorff
Wayne
Pete”) McIlwee
Burr P. Harrison
Pannett
Two Men Held for Habeas Corpus Hearing June 20
Orndorff and McKlwee remain jailed in Berryville awaiting a habeas corpus hearing next Monday morning at 10 o'clock. The action aims to secure their release on grounds they are illegally imprisoned.
Buying Power Appears At Low Ebbon Market
New York June 17 A slow downward drift developed in the stock market as buying power appeared exhausted. German bonds rose in London and New York on open Lausanne conference prospects while sugar stayed firm. traders grew discouraged at resistance from the fortnight ago rally as leading shares slid and then recovered briefly.
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New York
London
Call money renewed at 2 4 per cent
Sterling cables dropper 1 2c to 3 6 3 4 4. Market notes show call money renewal at two and four tenths percent with slight shifts in currency exchange figures.
President Hoover and Curtis Pose for Cameras at White House
President Hoover and running mate Vice-President Curtis posed for photographers on the White House south lawn after a cabinet meeting and congratulatory exchanges. Secretaries Mills and others joined in the moment as newsreel cameras captured the scene outside Hoover’s private office.
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Washington
Hoover
Curtis
White House
Chicago Battle Ground
Mills
Charlie
Death of Socrates by Jacques Louis David Highlighted Masterpiece
The Death of Socrates, painted in 1785 and shown at the Paris salon in 1787, is attributed to Jacques Louis David. The scene depicts the philosopher about to drink poison, surrounded by disciples. Sir Joshua Reynolds praised it as a peerless work, with Napoleon attempting to buy it in 1812 but failing.
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Socrates
Paris
Jacques Louis David
Joshua Reynolds
Wales
Sistine Chapel
Raphael
Napoleon
Commencement speeches fade leaving world in fix
The Oklahoma City Oklahoman laments the lack of graduation speakers and humorously notes that beer tax proposals would need to win feminine support by a tight margin, suggesting adjustments to 3 percent then 2.89.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City Oklahoman
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Kenmore
Fredericksburg
Charles M. Chapin
Col. Fielding Lewis
Mrs. Sheets
Percy Sheets
Shawnee Avenue
Fred Alexander
Fred M. Alexander
Newport News
Nashville
George Peabody College
Alexander
Caswell
Columbia University
Shirley Oakes
Hellyn Keeler
Genevieve Clevenger
Shirley Claiborne Oakes
Frederick Stine
Miss Oakes
Friends of Girl Scouts
Girl Scouts
William P. Massey
Amherst Street
Eugene B. Cooper
Edi Cornwell
Daniel Lupton
Walter Bosserman
Donald McFadden
Caroline Hunter
Henrietta Cornwell
Ivan Vanney
Robert T. Barton
Elizabeth Kern
Helen Massey
Simmons College
Boston
Mass
Barton
Cooper
Massey
Dorothy Lupton
Scout Council
James March
Bryarly League
Bryarly Community League
Bryarly
W. A. March
Dickinson College
Carlisle
March
Handley High School
Dickinson
Avalon Orndorff
League
Kline Hammack
Jean Hammack
Charles Hammack
Middletown
Evans Kline
Claude Kline
Star
Wayside Inn
Russell Horne
Homestead
Fla
Maggie Rhodes
H. V. McNeer
Dorothy Rhodes
Maggie Moore Murray
Horne
Dan Kline
Frederick
James Donald
Kernstown
Helen Virginia
Donald
Sarah Dick
Zelma Carper
Western Union Telegraph Company
Rome
Miss Carper
Harold M. Darlington
Mr. Cather
Douglas Cather
E. W. Cather
West Boscawen Street
Katherine Ritenour
Strasburg
Hilda Hottel
East Law
Girls’ Athletic Association
Lycett
Wilbur Coon
R. J. Scott
Henry H.harrison
Rhode Island
Bunker Hill
China
U.S
Texas
Senate
Michigan
Baltimore
Florida
Orndorff
The
Associated Press
Lovett’s
Lovett Shoe
N. Main St
Picture Boys
Charlies
Jack
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
R. M. Swimley
East
George Washington
Chicago
Republi
Can Party
Ferror
the Commercial & Savings Bank
Lebanon
Swift
Braddock and
Boscawen Streets
Cyr
Enna Jettick
Lovett Brothers
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