Crop conditions improve with better weather report
Richmond and Winchester dispatches note crops recovering after floods and winds. In Augusta county about 80 percent of corn planted, apple yield likely under last year though disease risk looms. Wheat fair with some beat down by storms. new instrument shows crop frontage along Staunton to Winchester with 32 percent towns and 18 percent hay. Farmers hope favorable weather sustains a normal year.
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Richmond
Maury
Staunton
Winchester
Pais
Augusta County
C.W. Wampler
Rockingham
Henry M. Taylor
Satistician
Department of Agriculture
Women Seek Two Major Posts In New York Convention
New York June 2. Hacked by 416 women delegates and alternates. Democratic women aim for credentials and permanent organization chairmanships. Mrs Leroy Spring and Mrs Daniel O Day are suggested for credentials chairmanship. A Western woman to be named for permanent organization. They plan a disciplined campaign and seek a women majority on each committee.
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New York
Leroy Spring
Lancaster
S. C
Daniel O'Day
Emily Newell Blair
Joplin
National Committee
Women’s Convention Speeches and Chair Fight Forecast
The record notes 298 women at the convention with 16 speaking in 1920 and two from Washington, team of speakers to grow this year. Leaders say women act as a unit and will avoid plank fights, especially on prohibition, while the chair contest remains the main dispute.
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Washington
Dha Colo
Two Wonderful Things In America Referenced
Spanish author Vicente Biasco Thanet praises New York and the Grand Canyon as the two most wonderful things in America. He describes awe at Lower Manhattan towers and the sight of the city skyline at dusk.
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America
New York
Grand Canyon
Vicente Biasco Thanet
Lower Manhattan
Coin Settles Dispute in English Separation Case
A separation case over weekly payments of 35 or 40 shillings was settled in court after the lawyers tossed a coin. The woman’s lawyer called heads and won, deciding the amount.
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Colin
First Banana Imports to the United States
The first known banana import reached the United States in the late sixties with shipments to New Orleans from the Bay Island off Spanish Honduras. In 1870 New York received a few bunches from Colon and in 1878 bananas were first imported commercially to England from Madeira.
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United States
New Orleans
Bay Island
Spanish Honduras
New York
Colon
England
Madeira
March Hare Mythology In Marshland Described As Wild
An old note explains the March hare as a wild and ungovernable creature of marshes, its temperament framed as excessively excitable and untamable, pointing out absence of a fixed figure or behavior.
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al Maytng
Rereen Vaesioh
Elmer Harvist
Arthur Rorfon
Harold Ronron Ee
Pathe Review
Felix
Géaring
Frank
Gearing
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Glaize & Bro
H. J. Mowrey
Oppé, Hotel Jack
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Betty Shoppe
Pian
Winchester Garage
Jno. Harmer
Fair Grounds
Cork St
Braddock Street
Lima
Ohio
G. M
Care Star
A. Jaily
Nathanson & Co
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Washington St
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Ft. Loudoun Seminary
W. L. Kuhn
Main St
Star Office
Monmouth Street
Herbert S&s. Larrick
Ward & Larrick
Attys-at-Law
EB. Balto
St., Balto
Ridgeway
Middletown
Beag
T. Ritter
Valley Pike
Babb Brothers
Jim DuShane
Walter Anderson
Perry Funkhouser
Ike Moore
Wm. Lupton
Strother Sherman
Dick Jolliffe
John Legg
John Golightly
Harry Light
Albert Carver
Jonah Good
Paul Haldeman
Babe Brothers
Corner Water
Kent Streets
Palm Beach
Little Joe’s
March Hare
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Jessie Hillyard Trenary
East Water
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