Eastertide Observances Limited by Weather in West Frederick
In Hayfield Virginia on Easter Sunday wet weather and a late snowstorm reduced church services and public festivities. Notable visitors included Dr. Otho Beamer and Dr. Henry Hedrick from Missouri, and Mayme Wotring’s kinfolk. The death of Arthur Smith near Miller's filling station shocked locals. a separate crash damaged a Mississippi car near the village with no serious injuries reported.
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Hayfield
West Frederick
Otho Beamer
Missouri
Washington
Henry B. Hedrick
Justus Ross
Hetzel
W. Va
T. Russell Cather
D. W. Ritenour
William Good
Winchester
Winchester Mass Meeting Deliberates on Water Supply
Local citizens gathered at the George Washington Hotel for a Winchester water supply discussion. Speakers included William G. Hardy Major E B Whitman and G F Reynardt outlining costs sources of supply and health implications.
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Chamber of Commerce
Winchester
George Washington Hotel
William G. Hardy
E. B
Major Whitman
Whitman
Baltimore
Frederick
Williamsport
Lynchburg
Staunton
Harrisonburg
Hagerstown
Virginia
Charlottesville
Roanoke
Richmond
Crawford
Winchester Star
Cedar Creek
Shenandoah River
Reynardt
Major Messer
Rosenberger
P. P. Pilcher
Winchester Water Bond Referendum Ballots Mailed
The Winchester Chamber of Commerce will mail 2,463 ballots this afternoon to certified voters asking if they favor an adequate supply of pure water and the issuance of bonds. If a voter does not receive a ballot, notify Andrew Bell, commerce secretary, for mailing.
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Winchester Chamber of Commerce
Winchester
Andrew Bell
Commerce
Water meeting highlights voiced on Winchester water plan
Excerpts from last evenings mass meeting discuss an additional water supply for Winchester. Civic League presents remarks by Major Messer Captain Rosenberger and engineer Requardt noting health concerns, shortages, and potential cost savings tied to a straw vote.
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Winchester
Star
The
Civic League
Queson
Major Messer
State Board of Health
Virginia
Rosenberger
Requardt
Whitman and
Moody's Financial Ratings
Dr Rowland to Speak on Dry Problems in Winchester
Dr M Rowland, editor of the Richmond Christian Advocate, will speak at Market Street Methodist Church in Winchester on April 5 and 6. He will present lectures titled The Fix We Are In and The Way To Get Out. The Arkansas Gazette notes he is well informed and a forceful speaker after a recent Braddock Street Methodist Church meeting.
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M. Rowland
Winchester
Market Street Methodist Church
Rowland
Richmond
Winchester Steam Laundry Ad Promises Wrinkle Control
An old classified snippet advertises ironing services at Winchester Steam Laundry. It mentions options to remove clothes wrinkles and keep faces smooth, with a Monday through Wednesday schedule and a note about Saturdays. The short fragment suggests a laundry or dry cleaning service catering to garment care.
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Winchester Steam Laundry
Dancing Lessons at Washington Hotel Schedule
Weekly classes held at the Washington Hotel with a children’s class on Thursdays at 4 30 p m and an adult ballroom class at 7 30 p m The listing notes days Monday through Wednesday with two plus one per week.
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Washington Hotel
Funeral Rites In Washington For Miss Evelyn Allen
Funeral services were held in Washington D C for Little Miss Evelyn Allen daughter of Mr and Mrs William Allen. After the rites the body was taken to Manassas for burial. Friends from Winchester attended including Mr and Mrs Fred Thwaite Mrs Russell Patton and others.
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Evelyn Allen
William Allen
Washington, D. C
Manassas
Allen
Winchester
Fred Thwaite
Russell Patton
Sam Forney
Lucille
Elizabeth Forney
Fred W. Forney
Youth Probably Insane Wipes Out Whole Family
A 21 year old man killed his father mother and five siblings with an axe and then set fire to the home at Verd al near Trondheim Norway. A mysterious phone call to the sheriff brought responders and neighbors noted the youth had shown increasing nervousness in the days before the tragedy.
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Olso
Norway
Verdal
Trondheim
Four Die in Film Storage Explosion Fire
Four persons died and four were injured in a film storage fire in an apartment house in Zabreb Jugoslavia. The blaze began last night on the second floor and most tenants escaped by ladders and fire nets.
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Associated Press
Zabreb
Jugoslavia
Lawrence Fleet Taken to Virginia Prison by Special Officers
Lawrence Fleet an 18 year old Baltimore native and convicted murderer of William F Keller was moved from the jail in Winchester to the Virginia State Penitentiary. He traveled in a state pen steel truck under Officer Miller, accompanied by his parents his fiancee and his grandparents. Relatives faced the farewell with courage as Fleet looked toward them amid hopes Governor Pollard might grant clemency and avoid the death penalty.
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Lawrence Fleet
William F. Keller
Virginia
Baltimore
Winchester
Fleet
State Pen
Miller
Joseph Fleet
Beatrice Stewart
B. F. McFarland
Miss Stewart
John Garland Pollard
Virginia Telephone Board approves nearly two million for growth
The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Virginia reports nearly two million dollars authorized for new plant and equipment to expand telephone service across Virginia. An additional 509000 is approved for extraordinary repairs from the March blizzard, funded from depreciation reserves.
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Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Virginia
Richmond
Charles H. Weber
Virginia
Daugherty Granted Absolute Divorce in City Court
Judge Philip Williams of the Corporation Court granted Henry F. Daugherty an absolute divorce from his wife Clara Clevenger Daugherty. The decree continues a six month restraint on remarriage and notes the prior bed and board decree issued March 8, 1930. Deserts allegation states Mrs. Daugherty left February 28, 1929.
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Philip Williams
Corporation Court
Henry F. Daugherty
Clara Clevenger Daugherty
Princesses named to Shenandoah court for Apple Blossom Festival
The Shenandoah IX court gains three more princesses as four states appoint reps for the Apple Blossom Festival. New Mexico selects Jane F Joyce. Maryland picks Alice R Cahill. New Hampshire designates Bettina Rollins. South Carolina names Mabel Mercer.
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Court OF
Shenandoah
Shenandoah IX
Helen Ames Washington
Overbrook
Nelson F. Richards
New, Mexico
Arthur Seligman
Santa Fe
Jane F. Joyce
Carlsbad
Soviet chemists filter soap water to save soap
A brief note in the Christian Science Monitor highlights Soviet chemists filtering soapy water to recover soap, while suggesting that boys could teach a simpler method.
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Christian Science Monitor
Richards Held for Grand Jury of City Court
Boyd R Richards a Frederick county fruit grower and politician was held for the grand jury in Corporation Court by Judge Donald L Weems on a warrant alleging a statutory offense against a 10 year old girl The hearing began Monday but extended into yesterday The warrant issued last Tuesday and served by Winchester police Richards surrendered Wednesday morning and posted 5000 bond He pleaded not guilty and was represented by Herbert S Larrick and Frank S Tavenner The case will not be heard until the next term unless a special grand jury is convened
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Boyd R. Richards
Frederick County
Corporation Court
Donald L. Weems
Weems
Richards
Winchester Police
Herbert S. Larrick
Frank S Tavenner
Woodstock
Walker McC
Seeds and onion sets from Winchester Seed Co
Fresh garden seeds in bulk including Bell onion sets and Maine grown potatoes. Winchester Seed Co advertises wholesale quantities and local agricultural supplies with a dated line 3 25 1p 5t.
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Maine
Winchester Seed CO
Used Car Show At Ebert's Garage This Weekend
Eberts Garage advertises a two day used car sale today and tomorrow from 12 to 1 PM with a selection of pre owned vehicles available for viewing and purchase.
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Ebert
Oil Emulsion Demonstration at Winchester Lab
How to make oil emulsion will be demonstrated at the Winchester Research Laboratory Friday April 1 at 10 p m sharp. The demonstration will interest all fruit growers using home bond oil emulsion for the first time.
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Winchester Research Laboratory
Sharp
Growers urged to spray for scale in orchards
Entomologist W. B. Hough from the Winchester Research Laboratory urges fruit growers to spray for scale now while buds are dormant or as soon as they show green. His guidance notes mild winter survival of scale and recommends two applications using oil emulsion or lime sulfur, delaying nicotine sulfate only when targeting both scale and aphids. Failure to act could worsen export market difficulties and end the practice of “setting by.”
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W. 8. Hough
Winchester Research Laboratory
British liquor supply boat seized near New London
Coast guard patrol boats seized the Gamecock described as a British liquor supply boat and the Boston yacht 247 last night near New London. Authorities valued the seized liquor at $150,000. A brief note also mentions a Toledo Blade quip about alimony and national wealth.
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Associated Press
New London
Norfolk men plan renewed bid to return Lindbergh baby
Three Norfolk figures led by boat builder John Hughes Curtis and the Very Rev Dean H Dobson-Peacock held a conference with Rear Admiral Guy Burrage and said no new developments emerged. Burrage emphasized that if the effort fails the kidnappers will know why. The dean, after visiting Colonel Lindbergh, expressed optimism while New Jersey officers said Colonel Lindbergh attached no special significance to Norfolk hints.
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Associated Press
Norfolk
John Hughes Curtis
Dean H. Dobson-Peacock
Guy H. Burrage
Burrage
Admiral Burrage
Dean Dobson-Peacock
Lindbergh
Lin
Aso Abeantee
Levy Dobson
C .Lindbergh
Sourland Mountain
Clue
New Jersey
Ian Dobson-Peacock
Four Mamas and Many Newborns At Fred Straub Farm
In Greenville Pennsylvania Fred Straub reports a barnyard boom starting Wednesday with a cow delivering triplets followed by a twin, then two days later a pig rearings fifteen piglets and a cat producing six kittens. The farm near Kitches Corner tallies twenty six newborns across the animals.
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Greenville
Fred Straub
Fred
Kitches Corner
Hen killed by turtle head strangling in yard
Mrs H B Fray of Madison Virginia reported her pet hen died in an odd accident. The head of a turtle appeared in the chicken yard and a curious hen pecked at it. The turtle head then seized the hen and strangled her in a deathlike grip.
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Charlottesville
H. B. Fray
Madison
Woman Finds Brothers After Forty Years Apart
Mrs. E Hamilton of Sacramento has located three brothers missing for 40 years. John Luke Erne of Lynchburg and Matthew Erne of Appomattox doubt a reunion date due to difficulties. Richard Erne, who learned of the story in Indianapolis, also contacted the siblings, and all hope for a future gathering.
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Lynchburg
E. Hamilton
Sacramento
Calif
John Luke Erne
Gov. Ralph
California
Gov Pollard
Virginia
Hamilton
Matthew Erne
Appomattox
Richard Erne
Indianapolis
Wreck of Merida Found Off Virginia Coast
The Ward liner Merida, sunk May 12 1911, was located 65 miles northeast of Cape Charles by Capt Carl H Wiley of Romano Marine Salvage. Salvage work will begin at Norfolk around May 1 to raise the sunken vessel and recover treasure estimated between 4 and 5 million dollars.
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Norfolk
Merida
Virginia Coast
Cape Charles
Carl H. Wiley
Romano Marine Salvage Co
Seattle
Moorefield man dies on highway likely from exhaust gas
A coroner jury in Paw Paw West Virginia ruled Minor W. Davis aged 50 of Moorefield died of natural causes. His body was found near the Davis automobile on state highway by a roadworker with a tire chain nearby. Physicians said he was probably stricken while trying to fit the chain and fell into the exhaust.
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Paw Paw
W. Va
W. Davis
Moorefield
Sargent
Davis
Roads Reopened After Ster Storm Snowblock Frostburg
Cumberland Maryland reports the National Highway finally opened to traffic from Frostburg west after state snow plow crews worked through the night. Hundreds of snowbound tourists found shelter at Frostburg hotels and homes as flood gates opened on the Potomac river dam and rising waters from the river and Wills Creek topped levels.
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Cumberland
Frostburg
State Roads Commission
Potomac River
Wills Creek
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Arthur Smith
Gap Run
Miller's
Smith
Dr. Rowland
Arkansas Gazette
Miss Allen
H. F. Daugherty
Princess
Maryland
Old Dominion
Albert C. Ritchie
Annapolis
Alice Rinehart Cahill
Len A. Cahill
Stafford Hall
Clearspring
Cahill
Saint Mary's College
Mmitsburg
Southwestern University
Memphis
New Mexico
New Hampshire
Bettina Rollins
Newport
John G. Winant
Concord
Mabel Mercer
Rock Hill
S. C
South Carolina
I. C. Blackwood
Columbia
Toledo Blade
Col. Lindbergh
Iclaim
Col Schwerzhof
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