Essence of Democratic Platform Covers Agriculture
Philadelphia June 25 The essence of the Democratic platform rogram for Roosevelt’s re election covers protection of family and home agriculture labor business youth and civil rights with vows to curb kidnapers promote rural electrification aid drought and floods relief unemployment and civil service expansion including state and federal cooperation and a neutral foreign policy aiming for lower tariffs and equal economic opportunity for all people.
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Philadelphia
Roosevelt
Army of América
Civil Service
World Court
League of Nations
New Deal Founder Nominating Session Draws Governors and Labor Leaders
The convention opened with a pro New Deal fervor as Alabama yielded to New York and a large roll of state delegates prepared to nominate. Governors and senators led the field of seconding speakers while labor leaders Green and Lewis endorsed the platform amid talk of party splits and independent support.
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Ing
Albany
Roosevelt
North Carolina
Roosevelt Garner
Alabama
New York
Mack
Bibb Graves
Hattie W. Caraway
Arkansas
Alvan Adams
Colorado
A. B
Happy) Chandler
Kentucky
Sereee
Homer Cummngs
William Green
American Federation of Labor
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Alfred E. Smith
Ward
Landon
Knox
Herbert Lehman
Big liquor raid targets hill country near Philomont
State ABC officers and Loudoun County deputies raided the hill country around Philomont. They seized a 1,000 gallon still 8,000 gallons of mash and 250 gallons of liquor. A tall Negro suspect was captured and offered no resistance. The raid follows a large earlier haul near Hayfield on Dr. W. D. Myers land.
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ABC
Loudoun County
Philomont
W. D. Myers
Hayfield
Dr Olds Sues For 10000 Damages In Fatal Crash
Dr William J Olds formerly of this area now living in Strasburg Front Royal Woodstock and Alexandria files in Shenandoah county circuit court for 10000 damages against Dr N P Fitts of Strasburg over the death of Mrs Olds struck and killed by a car driven by Fitts last December near Hopps Hill Crystal Caverns entrance north of Strasburg. Fitts was exonerated at a hearing before Trial Justice M L Walton Jr.
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William J. Olds
Strasburg
Front Royal
Woodstock
Alexandria
Shenandoah County
N. P. Fitts
Olds
Dr. Fitts
Hopps Hill
Crystal Caverns Entrance
Court of Trial
M. L. Walton, Jr
Miss Bertha Boehm In Critical Condition At Memorial Hospital
Miss Bertha Boehm, long time clerk at Wonders Apparel Shop, has been critically ill at Memorial Hospital for nearly three weeks. After an operation for a tumorous condition she suffered an attack of pleurisy and her strength is rapidly ebbing away.
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Bertha Boehm
Memorial Hospital
Miss Boehm
Wonder’s Apparel Shop
Lebanon man injured in horse accident at Memorial Hospital
Clinton Miller of Lebanon Church was thrown from his horse yesterday and admitted to Memorial Hospital with a fractured collarbone and several broken ribs. He is reported resting as comfortably as can be expected.
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Clinton Miller
Lebanon Church
Memorial Hospital
Pool not to open at Legion pool this summer
Sargent announced the American Legion swimming pool will not be opened this summer because the boiler to heat the water is out of repair. Sargent has run the pool for several years.
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Sargent
American Legion Swimming
Front Royal Summer Social and Officials Updates
Front Royal notes a busy week with garden club activities and local improvements. Residents including Mrs J J Warren and Rev Emory Trainham visit RichmondWashington appearances and travel plans. City offices install seating and new steel filing cabinets while residents plan visits to New York and Ohio communities.
Miss Melba Grant Returns Home After Visit
Miss Melba Grant has returned to her Washington home after spending two weeks visiting friends and relatives here.
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Melba Grant
Washington
Roosevelt and the New Deal clash over power and privilege
A speech decries watered stock and inflated rates while arguing that wealth no longer controls government. The speaker claims the New Deal shifted legislative power to the people via social security and taxation, signaling a political turning point and a push to end previous elite influence.
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Mack
Local residents prepare for weekend travels and events
Miss Lucy Rust returns from a week in Washington. Rev and Mrs D N Calvert and children come back near Charlottesville. Miss Laura Boyd heads back to Washington after two weeks with her mother. Carl West returns to New York City after vacation in Front Royal. Captain G W Stewart of Annapolis visits home for the weekend. Dutrow family to return from Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Dutrow attended Rotary in Atlantic City. Mrs Bill Brower returns from a month in New York. Miss Jane Brower visits here. Mrs C A Duke and son back from Fairview Beach. Eastern Star meets tonight in Masonic Temple at 8. General and Mrs Beverley F Browne back from funeral in Washington. Mr D E Jackson of Philadelphia visits aunt in Chester street. Charles Paris and wife return Sunday from New York to Cloud Street apartment. Eva Irvin and Mrs ? to Washington for Mr Humphrey Harnsberger and Miss Louise Moore wedding tomorrow.
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Carl West
New York City
Front Royal
Mark Turner
L. B. Dutrow
Pennylvania
New Jersey
Dutrow
Rotary International
Atlantic City
Bill Brower
New York
Mr. Brower
Jane Brower
Washington
J. B. Harnsberger
Eva Irvin
Humphrey Harnsberger
Louise Moore
Strong cattle and hog prices at Front Royal livestock sale
A large crowd attended the Front Royal Livestock Market sale with spirited bidding. Hogs and lambs both brought $10.25 per 100 pounds, calves $9.50, butcher cows $6.30, pigs $8.45, shoats $12.00, and stock cattle $40.00 per hundred pounds. Buyers from across Virginia were present.
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Front Royal
Front Royal Livestock Market
Baltimore
Chicago
U. S
Nebraska
Fire Carnival at Front Royal Relief Fire Department
The annual ten day carnival runs July 23 to August 3 with cash prizes totaling 250 dollars. Prizes start at ten dollars the first night and rise to 100 dollars on the final night, with more cash awarded nightly. Music provided by the Front Royal Municipal Band directed by Jimmy Doman.
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Front Royal
Front Royal Municipal Band
Jimmy Doman
Roosevelt Praise Echoes From Nominating Speech
In a nomination speech Mack extolled Franklin D Roosevelt and his cabinet, praising Congress for backing him to the last ditch. He recalled Roosevelt's rise from the Hudson Valley to the nation and lauded his leadership and tolerance of criticism. The speaker highlighted Roosevelt's 1933 inauguration as a turning point in aiding ordinary people.
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Hudson Valley
Mack
New York Senate
Navy
Wilson
Roosevelt
New York
Washington
Roosevelt Leads Nation Toward Prosperity and Stability
The speaker lauded the chief executive of the United States as a man of strong training and relentless drive to rejuvenate the nation. He credited Roosevelt with placing the country on its feet and blazed a path to prosperity and security while urging forward progress and resisting greed.
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United States
Roosevelt
Mack
Young G O P Cherishes Hope in Virginia Campaign
Young Republicans of Virginia open their first annual meeting in Woodstock with plans for a statewide effort against the Democratic Philadelphia ticket. Mrs. William Logan cites expected full delegations from all nine districts and a repudiation of the New Deal, with hope of carrying Virginia for Alf Landon. Stephen Wallace Dempsey will speak in place of ill Royal C Johnson.
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Woodstock
Virginia
Philadelphia
William Logan
Logan
Alf Landon
Stephen Wallace Dempsey
New York
Dempsey
Royal C. Johnson
Bids Sought for Two Valley Bridge Projects
The Virginia State Highway Department issued calls for bids to build two bridges. A 300 foot bridge on route 55 over the north fork of the Shenandoah near Strasburg will connect Shenandoah and Warren counties, replacing flood damaged structure, with bids due July 9. A second 217 foot bridge on route 12 in Warren County near Front Royal will also replace a flood damaged structure, with bids opened the same day.
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Richmond
Shenandoah River
Strasburg
State Highway Department
Shenandoah
Warren Counties
Route 12
Warren County
Front Royal
Come By Plane On Visit Here
Harry M. Harkness former resident to Lakeland Fla and his son in law William H. DaBell and David arrived by air from Florida at 8 last evening as guests of Mrs. George Forney. DaBell will stay a few days then go to Cape Cod Mass for the summer. Harkness and the younger DaBell will spend time here.
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Harry M. Harkness
Lakeland
Fla
William H. DaBell
David
Florida
George Forney
East Clifford Street
Harkness
DaBoll
Cape Cod
Mass
Mr. Harkness
Mr. DaBoll
Executor's Sale of City Property in Winchester Virginia
The executor of the late Joseph M. Fawcett will sell July 11 1936 at noon in front of the County Court House Winchester Virginia lot No 423 Highland Avenue fronting 25 feet and 150 feet deep with a two story six room house. Terms: one third cash and balance in two equal installments with bonds and deed of trust and building insurance. E B Fawcett executor. Auctioneers Dunn and Duvall.
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Joseph M. Fawcett
County Court House
Winchester
Virginia
Highland Avenue
E. BE. Fawcett
Dee'd Dunn & Duvall
Public Sale of County Home in Winchester Virginia
The owner will hold a public auction on Saturday July 11 1936 at 12 o'clock M in front of the County Court House Winchester Virginia. The property is one acre with a five room house and outbuildings at Fawcett Gap suitable as a home or poultry farm. Cash terms. E. E. Fawcett Auctioneers Dunn & Duvall.
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Winchester
Virginia
Fawcett Gap
E. E. Fawcett
Dunn & Duvall
Public Sale of City Lots in Carr's Addition and Harris East Orchard
City auction notices two building lots to be sold in Carr's Addition on Franklin Avenue once owned by Joseph M. Fawcett and Lot No 34 in Block 3 Harris East Orchard Sub-division. Auctioneers Dunn & Duvall. Bernice R. Fawcett.
Air markings freshly painted at Winchester airport
State Highway Department crew under Capt. Allan Perkinson repaints air markings at Winchester municipal airport and roof signs on Gorge Washington Hotel. Bright chrome yellow paint improves visibility and guides pilots. The team also marks Bluemont Middleburg Leesburg Front Royal Gore Woodstock Gaylord Millwood Markham and New Market.
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Winchester
State Highway Department
Allan €. Perkinson
William A. Smith
Virginia
A. H. Pettigrew
N. L. Sutton
Gorge Washington Hotel
Bureau of Air Commerce
Bluemont
Middleburg
Leesburg
Front Royal
Gore
Woodstock
Gaylord
Millwood Markham
New Market
Hindenburg Reaches Home Port After 61 Hour Crossing
New York reports the German airship Hindenburg arrived at Frankfort-on-the Main at 11:25 a.m. EST after a 61 hour crossing from Lakehurst. A radio transmitter failed near the end causing a wireless interruption.
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Hindenburg
New York
Frankfort-on-the- Main
Zeppelin Company
Lakehurst
Armored payroll truck theft in Pawtucket leaves driver missing
In Pawtucket Rhode Island on June 26 the driver of an armored payroll truck vanished after loading $16 000. The truck was found nearby about an hour later but the operator was missing and $2 284 of the money was also gone. Police fingerprinted the car before opening the locked time deposit machine from the Rhode Island Hospital Trust Company nearby.
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Pawtucket
R. I
Main Street
Rhode Island Hospital Trust Company
Mrs Kline Ill at Home Near Vaucluse in Frederick County
Mrs. Kline wife of Hugh B Kline once chairman of Frederick County Board of Supervisors is very ill at her home near Vaucluse. She has been ill for weeks and has gradually weakened.
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Hugh B. Kline
Board of Supervisors
Frederick County
Vaucluse
Virginia Rejects Two-Thirds Rule Compromise At Convention
Virginia lawmakers denounced the two-thirds rule compromise during the Philadelphia convention. Senator Harry Byrd warned the plan could create a minority rule, while rules committeeman Aubrey Weaver opposed ceding committee power and framing representation by recent Democratic vote totals.
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Philadelphia
Virginia
Harry F. Byrd
Aubrey Weaver
National Committee
New Head of Lions to be Voted At Providence Convention
The Lions Club convention in Providence R I discussed selecting a new head of Lions. $92.40 was allocated for juvenile Braille work in the state. About 220 Lions and guests registered, with 460 attending last night’s banquet. Edwin R. Kingsley of Parkersburg W V spoke on Lionism, noting 20 000 activities last year and that Lions had the largest international membership. The program opened by Dr E G Gill and featured the Keystone Quartet and Bob Riley's orchestra at the George Washington Hotel. Deceased members J Robert Cooks ey and H Lyle Herrell were memorialized.
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Providence
R. I
Edwin R. Kingsley
Lions International
Parkersburg
W. Va
George Washington Hotel
E. G. Gill
Keystone Quartet
Pennsylvania Railroad
Bob Riley
Lions Clubs
J. Robert Cooksey
H. Lyle Herrell
Markets Report: Chicago and Baltimore Livestock Prices
Baltimore and Chicago market notes show cattle calves hogs and sheep trading with mixed to higher prices. Beef and pork values rise while dairy and feed terms are listed along with regional poultry figures and grading notes.
Local Markets The Star Daily Markets Note
The Star reports daily market data with a disclaimer that typographical errors are possible and no responsibility is assumed for those mistakes.
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The
Star
Patent and feed prices for Crystal and Magnolia brands
Price list shows Crystal and Magnolia brand staples with bulk bag rates for 98, 48, 24, and 12 pound bags. Items include cracked corn, shelled corn, scratch feeds, corn meal, egg mashes, dairy feeds, mixed feeds, and butter fat, with per barrel and per hundred weight pricing where applicable.
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Kasco
Caleeeh
Uae
FBI Gmen Highlight At Program With Clegg Address
Hugh H. Clegg assistant director of the FBI told of the agency where applicants must be law graduates with strong qualifications. He described a merit based selection process and seven weeks of intensive training covering all aspects of field work.
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Winchester
Walter B. Terry
Bristol
W. N. Perkinson
Danville
W. G. Jackson
Lawrenceville
T. O. Parker
Luray
J. O. Scott
W. A. Terrell
Richmond
Hugh H. Clegg
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Washington, D. C
Clegg
Stock Market Ends Rally Amid Doubt Over Retirement Act
New York June 26 A late rally briefly lifted rail shares and transportation stocks but bid waned as profit taking set in. Transfers ran about 900000 shares. District of Columbia Supreme Court ruling on the railway retirement act of 1935 sparked a flurry before the market settled back. Closing prices show modest gains for Chrysler and select issues alongside soft spots. Foreign exchange opened with the franc higher and sterling weaker. Major closers included Allied Chemical 201 1 8 Can 132 1 2 Am. Roll Mill 26 1 4 Am. Smelting 80 5 8 Am. Tel and Tel 165 1 2 Anaconda 34 1 4 Bethlehem Steel new 51 3 4 C&O 59 1 2 Chrysler 108 Commercial Credit 63 7 8 Owens-Illinois Glass B4 Penn R R 32 3 4 Sears Roebuck 74 1 4 DuPont 148 Gen Elec 38 3 8 Gen Mot 66 1 4 Int Harvester 88 5 8 Johns-Manville 102 3 4 Kennecott 39 Jersey City Ward 44 1 4 N Y Atl 1 2 United New Jersey Oil Py 1 U S Steel 60 7 8 Western Union 86 Westinghouse 117 1 4 Woolworth 53 1 2.
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New York
District of Columbia Supreme Court
United States Supreme Court
Chrysler
al. Chemical
Can
Am. Tel
Tel
Anaconda
A. T
Beth Steel (New
Coml
Credit
Owens Ill Glass
Penn. R. R
Sears Roebuck
Dupont de. N
Gen. Elec
Gen. Mot
Int. Harvester
Johns-Manville
Kennecott
Jer .Ward
N. Y
Ltd. Oil N. J Texas Corp. Py
UN. Pac
U. S&s. Steel
West
UN. Tel
West, el, and
Woolworth
Wheat and grain futures slip on drought relief doubts
Chicago grain prices fall with wheat down about two cents amid talk of possible drought relief in the northwest. July through December futures show declines across wheat corn and rye with cash grain values also easing in Chicago and Baltimore markets.
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Chicago
Dakotas
Minneapolis
Northwest
Chicago Cash Grain
Baltimore Wheat
Baltimore
Winchester
Clears And Convicts Mr. Clegg Addresses Public
Mr Clegg described how the department clears innocent suspects and convicts guilty ones claiming 94 of 100 trials end in conviction. He urged public help for law enforcement and announced a free fingerprint file for uncharged individuals building at about 750 records daily.
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Clegg
United States
States
Bureau of Investigation
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Telephone Front
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Warren County Garden Club
William E. Carson
Emory Trainham
Mr Lawrence Lieberman
Georgia
Mr. B. Ney Scheuer
Buckner Creel
New York State
E. W. Brubaker
Blue Ridge Avenue
Cloud Street
Carrie Rohr
Inlaw
Walter Boyd
Buffalo, N. Y
Bim Cook
Rev
Ernest Smith
Martha Brent Burruss
Strayers College
Mary Burruss
Charles Davidson
Jack Davidson
Ohio
A. J. Davison
New City Hall
New Court House
Q. D. Gasque
Aye View
John Fowler
R. L. Blackwell
Randolph-Macon College
Ashland
Charles L. Melton
Mosby
Phil Turner, Jr
Sparta
N. C
Turner
U. S. Federal Roads Bureau
Lucy Rust
D. N. Calvert
Laura Boyd
James Boyd
G. W. Stewart
Annapolis
Order of the Eastern Star
Masonic Temple
General
Beverley F. Browne
General Toffey
Arlington Cemetery
D. E. Jackson
Charles Paris
Young G. O. P
Franklin Avenue
Carr
Harris East Orchard
Bernice R. Fawcett
Mrs. Kline iII
Lions
U. S. Is
Norfolk and Hamton
West Virginia
Chicago Livestock
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