Manassas Reenactment Flecked With National Guard Drills
Virginia National Guard units including Winchester companies prepare for August maneuvers near Manassas. More than 40 000 troops from the Twenty-ninth Division, joined by other divisions and anti aircraft regiments, will reenact Second Manassas as peacetime defense drills.
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Virginia National Guard
Winchester
Manassas
Old Dominion
Washington
Atlantic
Virginia
National Guard
Southern
Second Manassas
Stonewall Jackson
Groveton- Sudley Road
Virginia National Guardsmen
Lee
Longstreet
Jackson
Stuart
Pope
McClellan
Ashington
Gainesville
First Manassas
Weaver Not To Be Opposed For State Senate
Democratic chairmen of the 24th State Senatorial District call a Harrisonburg convention for July 15 to nominate a candidate. Aubrey G. Weaver is expected to be renominated unopposed. Delegates are chosen by a district vote basis tied to last election results with half votes allowed for alternates.
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State Senate
Harrisonburg
Aubrey G. Weaver
Ward Swank
Rockingham County
W. M. Long
Page County
James H. Fletcher
Rappahannock
John H. Downing
Warren County
K. C. Moore
Menjou Swears Off Fish After False Bone Alarm
Adolphe Menjou hurried to a hospital after claiming a bone lodged in his throat. Doctors found no bone or obstacle disturbing his throat and advised rest. Menjou swore off fish forever, boneless or not, as Verree Teasdale watched.
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Adolphe Menjou
Verree Teasdale
Menjou
Turkeys To Be Rainied At Festival
Turkeys will be dropped from airplanes at the Rockingham turkey festival Sept. 4-5 in Harrisonburg Virginia with a queen pageant street parade and a torchlight display. The event promotes Rockingham as a top eastern turkey producer with 500000 birds expected this year and a 1.5 million dollar gross.
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Harrisonburg
Rockingham
J. A. Garber
Rockingham County
Shenandoah Valley
Sky-High Ambition Baroness Plans Transatlantic Flight
Baroness Lisette von Kapri, the only licensed woman pilot in Switzerland, arrives in New York after a Mexico air tour. She aims to fly solo across the Atlantic and to set up an aerial ambulance corps in Switzerland.
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Lisette von Kapri
Switzerland
New York
Mexico
Atlantic
Fire stunt fails for Highland Park unit in Detroit
The Highland Park Fire Department tried a 85 foot ditch pour of oil and gasol line to light a controlled flame to demonstrate new equipment. After two hours the flames fizzled and Chief C F Baker said we are paid to put out fires not start them.
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Detroit
Highland Park Fire Department
C. F. Baker
Mid West War On Chinchbugs And Drought Impacts
Aboard The Gordon Green the journey through Ohio Indiana and Illinois reports variable crop conditions. Chinch bugs threaten Ohio while Nebraska battles grasshoppers. Corn leads in Illinois, hay and alfalfa yield expectations are high, and government farmers cooperate to control pests. The piece notes New Deal opposition and hopes to prevent acreage reductions.
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N. K. Larrick
Gordon Green
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Nebraska
Ohio Valley
Midwest
Virginia
Cincinnati Terminal Opens as Nation’s Finest 1935
The new Cincinnati terminal, completed in 1935 at a cost of $0,000,000, boasts the finest and most commodious facility in the United States. It can accommodate 50,000 people and operate street car service. Notably, the steamer headed south and passed through Louisville locks, where it was mechanically lifted 41 feet over the river falls.
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Cincinnati
United States
Louisville
Forty eight candidates initiated at Virginia Moose convention
Roanoke June 19 Forty eight candidates were initiated into the Loyal Order of Moose at its state convention at Hotel Roanoke. Nearly 300 delegates from 23 Virginia lodges attended as degree and drill teams competed for honors. George Eubank Mooseheart Indiana chief deputy supreme secretary spoke about lodge building and Mooseheart a children’s home run by the order.
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Roanoke
Loyal Order of Moose
Hotel Roanoke
Virginia
George Eubank
Mooseheart
Virginia convention allocates funds for building maintenance
The convention appropriated 300 dollars for the Virginia building maintenance. The Virginia building has operated for about 25 years. Galax Lodge's degree team won the competition against four other lodges with Portsmouth finishing second, Norfolk third, and Danville fourth. Portsmouth was awarded the 1930 convention.
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Virginia
Galax Lodge
Portsmouth
Norfolk
Charne
Danville
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