City Welfare Plan Aims to Centralize Relief Efforts
City officials endorse centralizing welfare activities under one organization to coordinate district nurses Red Cross and other groups. A master client list would prevent duplication and a single annual drive could save about 10000 for Winchester residents. The plan requires careful phased implementation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nurses Association
District Nurses Association
Red Cross
Winchester
District Nurse Association
Welfare Advisory Board
State Welfare Board
Cuban regime declares state of war amid general strike
The government offices halted as many workers fled posts and dockmen began to strike. Only two newspapers published and commerce slowed. icemen, brewers, tobacco workers and others joined the action. Last night’s disturbances left a two year old wounded and the National Medical Federation headquarters wrecked.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Medical Federation
Dorothy Morris Leads Wit tenberg College Honors
Leading actress Dorothy Morris a junior earns campus top honors as best actress at Wit tenberg College Springfield. She shines in Ibsen plays and also does typing and secretarial work to fund her education.
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Dorothy Morris
Wittenberg College
Springfield
Ibsen
S S S tonic claim aids digestion and blood rebuilding
An advertorial touts S.S.S. as a tonic to stimulate gastric secretions and rebuild hemoglobin, promising improved digestion, appetite, sleep, nerves, and complexion. It urges medical consultation for organic trouble and notes availability in drug stores nationwide with a two week treatment, price 5.86.
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S.S
S.S.S
Freight Wreck Closes Three PRR Tracks in New Jersey
A freight wreck near Monmouth Junction New Jersey derailed 25 cars and damaged a 400 foot stretch of tracks. One eastbound track opened at 4 43 am. the other three remained blocked, delaying New York bound trains and diverting westbound traffic through Rahway and South Amboy. No injuries were reported. A broken arch in a car undercarriage caused the accident.
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Monmouth, Junction
N. J
New York
B O Makes Investigation of Freight Wreck
Hamilton Ohio March 11. Wreck crews investigated the derailment of 16 loaded cars of a 54 car freight train at Trenton. Cars toppled a grain elevator onto the Cincinnati and Lake Erie Electric tracks. No injuries reported. Traffic on the line was paralyzed.
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Hamilton
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Trenton
Here
Cincinnati and Lake Erie Electric Railroad
Local Minister's Brother Dies In Bluefield West Virginia
The Rev. W. L. Dudley headed to Bluefield to learn of his brother William Dudley's death Saturday at his home there. A Falls Mills Va native, he had run a Bluefield mercantile business for years and suffered a long heart ailment. Survived by a widow, a son, a daughter, and two brothers James Dudley of Falls Mill Va and the Rev. Hugh Dudley of Luray Va.
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W. L. Dudley
Church of Christ
Bluefield
W. Va
William Dudley
Dudley
Falls Mills
Tazewell County
Battle Creek
Mich
James Dudley
Falls Mill
Hugh Dudley
Luray
Foreign Wars Vets To Meet
The Winchester Post Veterans of Foreign Wars will hold its regular monthly meeting at 8 oclock tomorrow evening. The gathering will take place at the post headquarters on North Loudoun Street and members are urged to attend in full. Commander A. Lee Coble announced the event.
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Winchester Post
Veterans of Foreign Wars
North Loudoun Street
A. Lee Coble
Mrs Roosevelt’s Fortune Told At Washington Bazaar
Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt had her fortune told for 50 cents by Mrs J Hamilton Lewis wife of the Illinois senator at a Washington bazaar. The session lasted 25 minutes as part of a Florence Nightingale memorial benefit in London.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
J. Hamilton Lewis
Illinois
Washington
Florence Nightingale
London
Special Lecture In Christ Church Sermon by Rev Dr Brown
The Rev. Dr. Stanley Brown of Virginia Theological Seminary will deliver the first lecture in a series at 7 30 this evening in Christ Episcopal Church. He is staying at Mrs R T Barton’s home on South Washington street while in town.
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Stanley Brown
Virginia Theological Seminary
Alexandria
Christ Episcopal Church
Brown
R. T. Barton
South Washington Street
Delivers Checks To Men In Jail
The FERA rule requiring personal delivery of worker paychecks caused headaches as two men could not be found. After hours of searching the bursar learned both men were in jail and were handed their checks there. No details on charges or identities were given.
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FERA
Fractional currency issues from 1862 to 1868
Currency varied in value during 1861 to 1929. The first fractional currency in five ten twenty five and fifty cent denominations appeared August 1 1862. Fractional currency remained in use until May 27 1868.
Film Estimates From Selected Motion Pictures
A list of film titles including Best Man Wins Behind the Evidence Clive of India Father Brown Detective Lawless Frontier Little Men Winning Ticket Wings in the Dark and Wings in the Dark presented as family oriented selections. The document notes Better Film Committee of Winchester.
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Father Brown
Winning
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U. 8, Postal Savings Depository
State of
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Mrs. Lewis
M. B. Clowe
Loudoun St
John C. Hardesty
van UC
Maytag Company
Newton
Iowa
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Better Film Committee
E. Boscawen St
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Jones
Nes
P al J
Bela Lugosi
Florence Rice Ya Ee Tae
Erle Kenton
Columbia
Pat Is
Tae
Louisa M. Alcott
Aine
Rhodes Drug Company
Hansbrough & Carter
Shenandoah Electric Appliance Co
South Loudoun Street
J. W. Arthur
General Insurance
Rouss Ave
Parker’s Non-Profit
Winchester Furniture Co
Lupton Orchard
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