Winchester Post Office Upgraded to First Class Status
The Winchester post office was announced this morning to have become a first class office by the Postoffice Department, effective with rising postal receipts surpassing $40 000 annually. Last calendar year receipts neared $42 000, reflecting local growth and parcel post business as shippers seek lower mail rates than express carriers.
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Winchester Postoffice
Postoffice Department
Lass
Winchester
Xpress
Poppies From Flanders Ready For Memorial Day Distribution
Twenty thousand blood red poppies from Flanders have been received in Richmond and will be distributed by the women’s auxiliary of the Richmond Post American Legion on Memorial Day May 30. Every man woman and child in the city may wear a poppy to honor the men who sleep in Flanders fields.
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Richmond
Flanders’ Field
Women’s
American Legion
D A R Pledges Sane Spending at Washington Session
Daughters of the American Revolution pledge sane spending at their annual Washington session. The resolution urges thrift through government savings securities, thrift banks, and thrift instruction in schools as a national priority.
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Daughters of the American Revolution
Washington
Iss
Plans for air landing place near Front Royal
Captain Ocker of the United States air service has been at Front Royal arranging for a photographer to take views of fields and the general topography. He intends to establish a landing station on or near the government remount station near Front Royal. Much land is said to be available with only a few trees needing removal.
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Ocker
United States Air Service
Front Royal
Governor Westmoreland Davis to Speak at State Normal School
Harrisonburg Va May 4 Gy Westmoreland Davis has accepted an invitation to deliver the commencement address at the twelfth annual commencement of the State Normal School. Dr John F Vines pastor of the First Baptist Church Roanoke Va will preach the baccalaureate sermon. The ceremony will include laying the cornerstone of the new alumnae students building.
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Harrisonburg
Westmoreland Davis
State Normal School
S. P. Duke
John F. Vines
First Baptist Church
Roanoke
Unsubstantiated remedy touted for kidney relief
A promotional blurb promotes Jad Salts as a cure all for kidney and bladder issues caused by meat consumption. It claims uric acid from meat clogs kidneys and lists symptoms like back pain and cloudy urine. The text advises daily doses of Jad Salts to flush kidneys and prevent ailments.
Arma Case Will Sing in Valley
Announcement from Harrisonburg Virginia states that Miss Anna Case soprano will give a song recital at the New Virginia Theater next Tuesday evening May 10. Reports from Staunton and other Valley towns indicate many out of town visitors will attend. The New York Herald praised her as a rarely beautiful woman with a beautiful voice. Winchester residents recall her concert at a cavalry encampment near town about nine years ago introduced by Captain Oden U S Army. pianist Howard Thatcher will accompany on a soap box.
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Harrisonburg
Anna Case
New Virginia
Staunton
Valley
Virginia
New York Herald
Winchester
Ble Cavalry
Town
Captain Oden
United States Army
Howard Thatcher
Remarkable Singing Draws Sunday Evening Crowd
An audience in a rural setting heard Miss Case perform with a piano accompaniment by Miss Case. A bystander learned she sang in a country church choir near Philadelphia when a passing manager heard her and offered an engagement. She has since risen to prominence on the American operatic stage.
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Miss Case
Philadelphia
Poles Occupy Large Territory in Upper Silesia
From OPPOLN Upper Silesia May 4 organized Polish forces about 20 000 have occupied all of upper Silesia south of a line from Kosel to Tarnowitz except for several large towns and are moving northward. Also disturbances at the waterfront were reported. Seagoing workers to be called out over wage cuts.
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Oppoln
Upper Silesia
Kosel
Tarnowitz
New York
Shipping Board
Benson
Pot of gold tale shadows Bergdoll case in Congress
Washington May 4 The Bergdoll draft dodger case resurfaces as Samuel T Ansell former acting judge advocate general testifies before a House committee. The cross examination probes the rumored gold stash with hints that West Virginia mountaineers should abandon the search and Bergdoll himself hints the hoard lies outside Maryland mountains and only near Hagerstown.
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Washington
Samuel T. Ansell
The
Army
G. C. Bergdoll
Philadelphia
Bergdoll
Fort Jay
N. Y
House
West Virginia
Maryland
Hagerstown
John H. Sherburne
Boston
Market Features Run Up As Steel Shares Rally
Market opened with profit taking and pressure on food shares but recovered in later trading on a broad buy wave. Liquor issues rose 1 to 2 points while rails gained up to 1% with Baldwin locomotive and American Car leaders in equipment. Rubber sector motor specialties posted further gains as call money opened at 6 percent. United States Steel and subsidiaries touched higher prices in late dealings despite firmer money signals.
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Associated Press
New York
Baldwin Locomotive
American Car
United States Steel and Affiliated
Theo
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