Community Leaders Mobilize for Shenandoah Apple Blossom
Director W A Ryan defends sending invitations to all local fraternal and civic groups urging support for the 1925 Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival. He emphasizes inclusivity and harmony, denies Ku Klux Klan links, and invites Catholic and other faiths to participate to boost the festival.
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the Star
George Washington Hotel
Winchester
Frederick County
Community League
W. W. Glass
Cooper
W. W Glass
Shenandoah Valley
W. E. Cooper
Knights of Columbus
Ku Klux Klan
Ku Klux
W. A. Ryan
Spectacular Fireworks Display Described in Vivid Detail
A long, vivid account recalls a fireworks show with three battery ascents, multi colored star bursts, and Pain's jeweled can nonades. It highlights nine inch dreadnaught shells, mag nese rockets, and twenty five inch star shells, ending with red and green flames lighting the grounds in a dazzling display.
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Pain
Niagar
Manhattan Beach
Jack
Hagerstown Softball? No, Basketball Victory for Home Team
The Hagerstown High School girls fell to the home team in a fiercely contested game by the Girls Athletic Association. Eddy and Hamptman started strong, with Wood and Eddy at center clashing against Kelchner and Milleson’s guards, while Hauptman anchored the offense with sharp shooting as the lead swung from 6-2 to 10-8 at halftime.
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Aula
Hawthorne
Hauptman
Wood
Eddy
Speilman
Miller
Tenney
Hagerstown
Hoffman Twins
Maryland
Girls’ Athletic Association
Hagerstown High School
Hamptman
Eer
Haupt- Man
Oe Hagerstown
Kelchner
Milleson
Dog Nero Dies After Long Vigil At Master's Grave
LANCASTER Ohio March 16 Death ends the vigil of Nero a dog who died on his masters grave in a lonely cemetery near here His owner Charles Farmer was shot to death last July in a gun fight with prohibition officers Nero followed the funeral procession to the cemetery where he kept watch daily leaving the grave at intervals to secure food All efforts to coax the dog away failed Today a boulder marks his grave Ministers sermons yesterday in their sermons referred to the love and devotion of Nero for his master
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Lancaster
Ohio
Nero
Charles Farmer
Prohibition
Congressmen disagree on government expenses discussed
Washington March 15 Chairman Madden of the House Appropriations Committee and Representative Byrnes of Tennessee presented opposing views on the financial achievements of the last Congress session. Madden cited government expenditures while Byrnes, ranking Democrat, challenged the summary of results.
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Washington
Madden
House Appropriations Committee
Representative Byrnes
Tennessee
Byrnes Sees 1924 Funds Cuts as War Agencies Fade
Projections note appropriations reduced to a postwar low-water mark with curtailed expenses. Byrnes says 1924 governmental appropriations fall due to shrinking war agencies, not economies, and predicts future changes may trend upward rather than downward.
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Byrnes
Ten escape from prison farm in Mississippi
Ten white prisoners escaped from the state farm at Parch Man near here. They were believed found tonight in woods near Drew after two autos carrying them stalled on muddy roads. A posse and guards pursue the fugitives who have eight revolvers. Among them is L. O. Nixon, life sentence for murder, others with 15 to 20 year highway robbery terms.
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Pd ’ Miss
Parch Man
Woody
Drew
L. O. Nixon
Vicksburg
Strong opposition to Chesapeake and Ohio lease sale
The stockholders protective committee of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway led by George Cole Scott of Richmond reports strong support against leasing the road to the Nickel Plate under merger plans by the Van Sweringen interests. The committee insists the lease would deprive holders of large property values and rights to future earnings through dividends.
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New York
Marehlia
Stockholders Protective Committee
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
George Cole Scott
Richmond
van Sweringen
Unclear flyer note teases a fly’s taste tests
A fragmentary line presents Uncle Pennywise wondering what a fly likes to eat and offering a side dish. It mentions “aix” and an attribution “Atiatta Consfini,” implying a misread or humorous authorial tag with no clear event or context.
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Aix
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CER & Sons
Kernstown
Bai
Pra
Pratts
Hea Sibel
Republic
Ford
Packard
Akland
Smallwood Motor CO
Stephens City
International Motor Trucks
Buick Used Car Dept
H. W. Ebert
Babby Brothers
Kent and
Water Streets
HY K Klux
My. Ryan
Mississippi
Pennywise
Rouss Garage
Braddock Street
Polarine
Standard Oil Company
New Jersey
H. R. Willis
East Piccadilly St
Rothger
J. W. Arthur
Hall Insurance Agency
South
Haddox
Good & Company
Rouss Avenue
Nership
J. W. Baker
W. F. Shryock
Braddock and
Water Street
Wilmer
F. Shryock
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