Local Aero Club Buys New Plane for the Airport
The Admiral Byrd Airport operated Aero Club purchased a three place Model F Waco open biplane with 110 hp Warner Scarab engine and modern features. The club offers training on open and closed planes with both water cooled and air cooled motors at low rates. Skyway Flying Service at the airport plans to participate in an Apple Blossom Festival air show.
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Aero Club
Admiral Byrd Airport, Inc
Omlie
Warner Motor
Earl Rowland
Waco
United States
The
Aeronautics
Ent of Commerce
Skyway Flying Service
Shich
Admiral Byrd
Travelair
Ay Flying Service
Duke Douglass
Curtiss-Wricht
Red Wing
G. M
Red” Smith
George Schecter
Dick, Richards
Herbert Schutte
Richmond Bank Ad Promotes Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival
The First and Merchants National Bank of Richmond runs a festival promotion in the Richmond Times-Dispatch and Richmond News Leader. President John M. Miller Jr. fronts ads praising Winchester and the valley with festival dates and venture quotes from the Shenandoah Apple Blossom celebration.
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Shenandoah
America
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Richmond News Leader
First and Merchants National Bank of Richmond
John M. Miller, Jr
Winchester
Virginia
Paxton Chapel Ladies Host Chicken and Cake Sale
The ladies of Paxton Chapel M. E. Church will hold a chicken and cake sale at Keller's Hardware Store on Tuesday May 3 from 9 a m to 12 noon. Proceeds support church activities and community programs.
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Ladies of Paxton Chapel
M. E
Keller's Hardware Store
In Memoriam and Court Notices Inked in 1932
In memory of Elsie L. McFarland who died January 2 1932 and of Ella McKee, died 1931, with verses by sisters and husband and children. Also notices from Winchester Virginia Corporation Court appointing a commissioner in the Sallie Fries Boxwell estate case and a Harrisonburg Motor Express certificate of authority inquiry scheduled May 13 1932.
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Elsie L. McFarland
Elsie Dear
Ella McKee
Corporation Court
City OF
Winchester
Virginia
Emma V. Lupton
F&xecutrix
Sallie Fries Boxwell
C. H. Boxwell
J. Sloan Kuykendall
J. Sloan
Harry R. Kern
P. G
Dan Hartman
Harrisonburg Motor Express
State Corporation Commission
Harrisonburg
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Thomas O. Moss
Chinese Japanese official dies after Hongkew Park bombing
Shanghai April 30 One of five high Japanese officials injured in a Hongkew Park bombing, Y Kawabata president of the Shanghai Japanese Residents Association, died today. Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu remained in serious danger as thirty two fragments from a grenade wounded him and other victims recover.
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Associated Press
Shanghai
Hongkew Park
Y. Kawabata
A Statement To The Star On Scott Grant Death
A reader recounts details of Scott Grant's death. He was struck with a blunt instrument and robbed of cash, house keys, a bank book, and lock box keys. The event occurred March 12 32 at his Stewart street home. Grant was found March 15 at 10 am nearly frozen on the office floor. Burns' detectives failed to gain city officials' support and await further developments as Chief Hollis acknowledged the case.
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the Star
Scott Grant
Stewart Street
Burns
Hollis
Incomplete report cites limited inquiry in Grant case
A fragment from a police notice notes that little if any investigation had been conducted by the officer in charge J. 5 Grant. The text provides sparse details and reflects an early stage in the inquiry.
Fires West Of Gore Quenched By Rain And Firemen
A weekend rain aided Winchester firefighters who, with help from Gore residents, fought a field fire about one mile west of Gore threatening J. J. Pugh farm and nearby property. The Friendship Fire Company responded after an afternoon appeal and water was pumped from Back Creek to control the blaze.
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Winchester
Gore
J. J. Pugh
Friendship Fire Company
Back Creek
Fires Endanger Forests and Homes Near Timber Ridge
Rain aided firefighters as two wildfires burned several hundred acres near Timber Ridge. Local volunteers and citizens worked through Friday and Saturday, keeping flames from nearby structures. Firefighting crews halted operations by noon as rain dampened the blazes and limited further spread.
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Timber Ridge
Government Cuts Hit Interior Dept Funding
The Thomas Times reports and echoes concerns as the government reduces appropriations to the Interior Department, signaling tighter budgets for federal land management and related programs.
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Interior Department
Thomas Times
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Percy Glascoe
Hanover van Huesen
LOU Bernstein CO
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N. Loudoun St
Fairmont Ave
S. Stewart Street
James Wien
South
Cameron
O. Faukner
Martinsburg
W. Va
Robinson’s
Bath
Mr. Shade
Hotel Fairfax
Orchara
E.L. Alger
Cameron Street
Steif
A. Crisman
S. Main St
C. B. Smalts
National Ave
H. W. Butler
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Care Star
Eugene H. Campbell
Kernstown
Virginia Mattress Renovating Shop
S. Cameron St
W. I. Harbaugh
Kernstown, Va
Grant
Chamber of Commerce
Averes
TRE
Rome Town
Noam
Nero
Ausik-Rex
Noak
American Oil CO
Baltimore, Maryland
Shenandoah Valley
East
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Cumberland
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VMI
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Lee
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Harlinsburg
Medar Creek
John Brown
Boyce
University OF Virginia
Monticello
Thomas Jefferson
Baltiswore
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Richmon
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