Coronation ceremony for Queen Shenandoah XIX Nancy Anderson
The Handley High School hosts the crowning of Nancy Anderson as Queen Shenandoah XIX at the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival in Winchester Virginia. The ceremony features Admiral Chester Nimitz, Rev. J B Roe, ministers, and massed bands with the royal robe, scepter, key to the city, and a golden apple.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Handley High School
Nancy Anderson
Shenandoah
the Herald Buglers
Massanutten Academy
Bocort
Massanutten Military Academy
Handley Ban Pattaenes
Ge Queers 'S Court
J. B. Roe
Chester Nimitz
Willis Robertson
DeGrange
Irene Johnson
Dorothy
Lynn
Roney
Nancy Qeceion Jahe Abe
New Mexico
Winchester
Virginia
Adm
Nimitz
W. F. Santelmann
United States Marine Band
Quantico
First Festival Continues at Winchester Fair Grounds
The report notes ongoing events from the First Festival at Winchester Fair Grounds with Elizabeth Hollis, Natalie McDonald, ae Bird, and Mary Belle Bear. Management remains under "Dad" Ryan after the earlier two festivals. The May 4 and 5 1926 event features Priscilla Bridges of Hancock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Page Stuart
Elizabeth Hollis
Natalie McDonald
Ae Bird
Mary Belle Bear
Winchester Fair Grounds
Dad” Ryan
Priscilla Bridges
Hancock
Festival Queens and Leaders Through the 1930s
A history of festival queens from 1926 to 1933, noting Miss Bridges and Miss Elizabeth Smith as princesses, Miss Mary Wise Boxley of Roanoke as queen in 1928, and Miss Patricia Morton of Winchester England as international queen in 1931. It records director generals, maid of honor lineups, train bearers, and coronation details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bridges
Imore
Eleanor Pittman
Charles Town
Anne Kern
Cornelia Gray
Winchester
Julia Reno
Mary Greenway Russell
Elizabeth Hollis
Susan Steck
Elizabeth Stuart
H. Clay DeGrange
W. A. Ryan
Kenneth Gilpin
Boyce
Hanford MacNider
Woodrow Wilson
J. M. Steck
Ray Robinson
Mary Marshall Hyde
Lewis Hyde
Evie Tucker Shields
Robert T. Shields
Medarick
Princess Frederick
Margaret Lynder
Princess Winchester
Princess Clarke
Hilda Levi
George Levi
Berryville
B. Cather
Robert Green
Richard E. Byrd
Patricia D. Morton
England
Miss Morton
Hunter H. McGuire
Ann Tucker McGuire
Margaret Frances Richards
Nelson F. Richards
Princess Whchester
Catherine Brown McVicar
Princess Froderick
Ruth McCann
Harry Fowle
William Gaylord
District of Columbia
Helen Ames Washington
Pennsylvania
Grace Elizabeth Bosserman
Anne Brooke Kern
Paul Claudel
Dorothy Cooper
Jane Myers
Anne Dudley Field
J. Pinckney Arthur
Francisco May
War Dern
Utah
Mary Warden Boyd
ERB HELP advertised for stomach gas relief in Winchester
An advertisement claims ERB HELP cures severe nighttime stomach gas lishing up the throat and choking sensation. It asserts the remedy clears gas, cleanses bowels, and improves sleep, urging readers to buy at local drug stores.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
Festival Queen Crowns and Pageant History Through 1941
This notice recounts yearly Festival queens from 1934 to 1941, naming reigning queens such as Miss Lucuer Lutin Sullivan Miss Jane Rhodes Miss De Saree and Miss Jean Marie Robinson. It details crown bearers maids of honor princesses and train bearers, plus presenters like Gov Kump and Senator Townsend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur
J. Pinckney Arthur
John Hay Whitney
Upperville
Lewis Douglas
Roosevelt
Douglas
Arizona
Whitney
Elizabeth Rice
Virginia Russell
Margaret Hansbrough
Winchester
Amercian Legion
Robert Y. Conrad Post
Pavey Lupton
Phyliss Fowle
Frances Bickers
Handley
Phillis Oakes
Fred A. Read, Jr
Garland R. Quarles
Gov. Kump
H. G. Kump
West Virginia
Mademoiselle
Nellie Veverka
Virginia Dare White
Charles W. White
Cedar Creek
Princess Frederick
Fenton Nelson
Nancy Bowly
Princess Handley
Mary Elizabeth Ebert
Elizabeth Steck Arthur
Jane Cather
Dorothy Hawthorne
Richmond
Cornelia Anne Laurus
United States
John G. Townsend
Delaware
Winifred Cartmell Browne
Beale Bentley Thomas
Mary Katherine Hunstberry
Frederick
Helen Cather
Gretchen Thomson
New Orleans
John R. Beardall
U.S. Navy
Secretary of the Navy
Middletown Fire Meeting Postponed to May 9
The Middletown Fire Company announces its monthly meeting, postponed from May 2 due to the Apple Blossom Festival. The meeting will now be held on Thursday, May 9.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middletown Fire Company
May Draws 10 Year Sentence For Espionage Act Violation
London May 1 Dr Alan May a British physicist who worked on wartime nuclear research was sentenced to ten years in prison for violating the Official Secrets Act by disclosing restricted information. He pleaded guilty saying the material related to atomic energy may have reached Soviet Russia. The 34 year old, arrested last March, faced a case alleging communication to an unknown person that could benefit an enemy. The theft case followed Canadian probes into Soviet espionage with several arrests in Canada. May looked pale in the dock at Old Bailey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Alan Nunn May
Soviet Russia
May
Canada
United States
Britain
Mackenzie King
Old Bailey
Also Mentioned on This Page
Handley Band
U. S. Marine Band
Byrd
J. W. Arthur
Mannington
Mary Jo Matthews
Emma Ginn Baker
W. A. Baker
Rosalie Nelson
Robert B. Nelson
Virginia Anne Huntsberry
W. E. Huntsberry
Hazel Lodge
John Xarachite Hall
Fox News
Pathe News
En Gra We
Georgia
Suzanne Pollard
John G. Pollard
L. G. Hardman
Louise Baker Glass
Virginia Steck
Westwood Byrd
Clarke County
Mary Helen Stine
H Delmar Robinson, Jr
Logan Massey
Army
Handley School
Carter Glass
James Roosevelt
Flizabeth Riley
Virginia Butsler
Dana Virginia Nelson
Frances Brown
Dorothy Minnegerode
Betsy Glaize
Susan Knight
Garner
Tom Baldridge
Genevieve Garner
Vnceident Garner
James H. Price
Shirley Carter Williams
Allison Douglas Cooper
Mary Lois Bean
Kitty Stephenson
Pegsy Merriner
Elizabeth Browning
Teddy Keller
Sammy McFadden
Central America
Senorita
Lillian Somoza
Henry F. Grady
Yea
Atlantic City
Louise Moore
Elizabeth Pierce
Mary
Marshall Steck
Mollie Lee
New York City
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
Lee
Richard Henry Lee
Reba Snarr
Jonedith Henry
Middletown
Claxa
Aberdeen
Angus
William Bell Watkins
Sale
Nreshe
Marvels
Handley High Playground
Herman Goering
U.S. Army
U.S
Camp Meade
U. S. Army
N. Loudoun St. Winchester
George E. Pully
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!