Valley spotlight in new tourist booklet promotes Shenandoah region
A large Pleasant booklet titled Edited by Registered Service International features the Shenandoah Valley, Winchester and connections to Saint Louis. It includes 110 pages with photos maps and brief historic notes and outlines trails radiating from Winchester. Distribution reached about 100 000 people through hotels chambers of commerce garages and auto dealers between here and St Louis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
Malengland
Teaile Road
Deeoreee
Saga Seaboard
Louis
Wheeling
Elm Grove
W. Va
Zanesville
Columbus
Springfield
Ohio
Richmond
Chambers of Commerce
Here
St. Louis
Vernon Wrenn
Registered Service International
E. N. Jones
Paul L. Miller
Leslie N. Woods
Shenandoah Valley
Rhreé
Chicken Supper Fundraiser at Local Churches
A chicken supper fundraiser is set for March 6 from 5 to 10 PM in the Church of Christ dining room. Proceeds benefit the Ladies Aid of First Christian Church with tickets priced at five cents for four servings one plate two taste.
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Church of Christ
Ladies Aid of
First Christian Church
Real Estate Loan Offered by Herbert S. Larrick
Loan of 10000 dollars offered to approved real estate security. Herbert S. Larrick advertises the loan with terms and contact details.
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Herbert.s. Larrick
Tax rates fixed by Frederick supervisors with school levy rise
Frederick county supervisors kept existing tax rates with a change in the Opequon district school levy rising from 50 to 60 cents per $100. They also postponed road opening due to unsettled land titles, ordered six month stay on Dry Run stock restrictions, and declined to admit an indigent Stafford couple to the county almshouse.
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Board of Supervisors
Frederick County
Opequon
E. R. McDonald
Circuit Court
McDonald
Back Creek
Capongrade
F. D Maphis
Strasburg
James A
Hattie B. Staff
Shenandoah County
Staff
Mr. Staff
Illinois
Mr. Maphis
Winchester
Camden
Gainesboro
Head of Labor Department May Run For Senate
Secretary James J. Davis of the Labor Department is seen by allies as likely to announce a U S Senate bid in Pittsburgh this week. He commented that funding for public works should replace a proposed $50 million dole aimed at unemployment, arguing the plan would only provide small weekly aid rather than steady work.
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Associated Press
Washington
James J. Davis
Labor Department
Pittsburgh
United States
Davis
Brookhart
Trowa
The
Red Cross
For Sale Small block Potomac Edison 6% Preferred Stock
For sale a small block of Potomac Edison 6 percent preferred stock. Non taxable investment with no better option. Offered by A O ABBROUGH & CARTER.
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Potomac Edison
Abbrough & Carter
Neither Rich Nor Wary of Words in a Hick Town
A short satirical piece contrasts a small town’s values with wealth and education noting how a wife asks the banker’s wife about money and how children should learn a foreign language yet scarce effort is made to teach their own language.
Prohibition Debate Highlights Against Speakeasies Rise
Washington March 4 A House judiciary hearing featured Maryland Democrat Linthicum leading anti prohibitionists who argued repeal of the eighteenth amendment to curb speakeasies and corruption. The Supreme Court also acted on whether bootleg buyers can be prosecuted for conspiracy under the Volstead act in a case involving Alfred Norris a New York banker.
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Associated Oem
Washington
Congress
House Judiciary Committee
Linthicum
Maryland
Saloon League
Mar
Supreme Court
Wets
Fee
Committee On
Prohibition
Breckenridge Long
St. Louis
Noel B. Martin
Lewiston
Idaho
Representative Linthicum
Seller
New York
Judiciary Committee
Pennsylvania
Alfred E. Norris
Joel D. Kerper
Philadelphia
Norris
Life Sentence for Girls Attack in Waynesboro Area
Junius Tross, a Black man, pleaded guilty to attacking an 11 year old white girl near Moorefield West Virginia several months ago and was sentenced to life imprisonment in the state penitentiary. He was returned to Grant county jail pending prison guard arrival.
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Moorefield
W. Va
Peach crop damage reported across Georgia and Indiana
Reports from Macon Georgia note unusually warm weather spurring peach blooms along highways though risk of later cold damage remains. Indiana growers in Pike and surrounding counties report 40 to 50 percent tree losses with roots turning black and many bearing trees dead, threatening harvests this year.
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Macon
Georgia
Indiana
Indianapolis
Ind
Blake Lamb
Pike County
George T. Frank
Sandborn
Plans Received From Architect For New School House
Plans and specifications for the new elementary school building have been received from the state school architects in Richmond. The school building committee Stewart Bell Howard Shockey William Lupton and J. Fred Goss announced that contractors may inspect the plans and submit bids until March 14. The building will rise in the northeastern city section and is to be ready for the 1930 31 opening next fall funded by a recent bond issue.
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State School Architects
Richmond
Stewart Bell
Howard Shockey
William Lupton
J. Fred Goss
Mussolini’s blunt view on women's political role echoed
The excerpt notes Premier Benito Mussolini stating women are essential to life but irrelevant to politics, highlighting his gendered stance within Italian society and governance.
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Benito Mussolini
Italy
Massie Wins Frederick County Poor Farm Lease
John M. Massie secured a one year lease of the Frederick county poor farm with option to renew, becoming superintendent and taking over duties for inmates from Frederick county and Winchester. He agrees to maintain cleanliness, feed and clothe inmates, provide milk, wash clothing, keep a 375 acre farm in good condition, and bury deceased inmates. Compensation is the use of the farm crops and livestock, with seed and equipment supplied by Massie.
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Board of Supervisors
Frederick County
John M. Massie
Massie
A. W. Foreman
City of
Winchester
New Star Mail Route Expands Overnight Deliveries
The Winchester office launched a new star mail route to Berryville Virginia. First class letters only move by 8.45 pm daily except weekends, with same night dispatch to eastern and midwestern cities via Norfolk and Western Railway trains.
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New Star
George B. Hayton
Berryville
Ween and
Postoffice
New York
Women Prepare for Observance of World Day of Prayer
Arrangements by the Federated Council of Church Women for World Day of Prayer on March 7. The union service will be at Church of Christ on West Cork Street at 3 p.m. led by Mrs Norris A Lineweaver. Mrs W L Dudley will speak on Missionary Work in the Eastern lands. Special music and an offering for the Children's Home Society of Virginia.
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Federated Council of Church Women
Church of Christ
West Cork Street
Norris A. Lineweaver
W. L. Dudley
Hiands
Jesus
Council of Women For Home Missions
Federation of Woman's Boards of Foreign Missions of North America
Seely
Virginia
Boy Shot by Police Near Buffalo
A seventeen year old youth, Derwood Nunemaker, died in hospital after being shot by a policeman when he fled a halt command near Buffalo New York. Relatives say he had stolen bread to feed starving family.
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Associated Press
Buffalo
N. Y
Derwood
Nunemaker
Masons from all over Virginia attend McChesney funeral
Masons from across Virginia gather in Staunton for the funeral of William Baylor McChesney 80 a prominent Mason who served in all main Masonic offices in Virginia He died yesterday after eleven years of declining health and was buried with full rites in Thornrose Cemetery.
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Staunton
Masonic Fraternity
Virginia
William Baylor McChesney
McChesney
Masonry
Blue Lodge
Frank T. McFaden
Winchester
Masons
Grand Lodge of
Masonic Temple
Thornrose Cemetery
Alexandria
George Washington
Mr. McChesney
Augusta County
William
Mary
Catherine Baylor McChesney
Washington and Lee University
Harrisonburg
South
Sienna
Mary W. Yarborough
Margaret McChesney
Isaac van Meter
Lexington
F. W. Cone
Richmond
J. Walker McChesney
oChesney
Grand Royal Arch
Knights Templar
Masons of
Valley Royal Arch School of Instruction
Royal Arch
Cedar Cutting In County Continues In West Virginia
Cedars near commercial apple orchards are being felled to stop cedar rust spread. Groups led by J B Singhass and George Bywaters work across strips from Chapel Lane to Larrick line fence and between Wisecarver Gap and Chapel Lane with over 1000 trees cut. Larrick and Judge Philip Williams plan next week cedar removal near the Northwestern grade.
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J. B. Singhass
Opequon
Chapel Lane
J. W. Larrick, Jr
George Bywaters
Wisecarver Gap
John W. Larrick, Jr
Philip Williams
Prince of Wales advances in convalescence plan
Nairobi dispatch reports the Prince of Wales, ill with malaria, is convalescing and expects to leave for Uganda on March 9 as originally planned.
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Associated Press
Nairobi
Kenya
British East Africa
Prince of Wales
Uganda
Teachers Fund Bill Put Off By Committee In Virginia
Richmond March 4 the Senate finance committee indefinitely postponed the teachers retirement fund bill passed by the House earlier. The measure would require teachers to contribute five percent of salaries matched by the state. The House also cleared its calendar of measures causing passage of a county road inclusion in the highway system for Buchanan county and a joint resolution to study teacher retirement pending report in 1932.
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Associated Press
Richmond
Senate
House
Gihia Education Association
Hall
Loudoun
Dovell
Itme
State Corporation Commission
Virginia
Armakte
Ndae Ae
House of Delegates
Benta Crowder
Crowder
General Assembly
Virginia Education Association
Delegate Hall
Norfolk
Portsmouth
Noell Senate
Buil- Ue Saat
Special 1929 Pontiac Sedan and 1928 Chevrolet Coupe Deal
Local listing advertises a 1929 Pontiac Sedan a 1928 Chevrolet Coupe and an Oakland sedan at a special low price. L. J. Hook, Oakland & Pontiac pane 130 Main St, phone 3-3-Lp-2t.
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L. J. Hook
Oakland & Pontiac Pane
Main St
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U.S. Highway No. 40
Mary B. Broughton
Atlanta
Randolph-Macon Women’s College
Lynchburg
Anti-Saloon League
Speakeasies
Tardieu
Kentucky
Arkansas
Jefferson A. Carnley
Enterprise
Ala
Coffee County
M’chesney
McFaden
Wales
Mabel Strother Bagby
Wilson, N. C
Meredith Colege
Raleigh, N.C
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