Garden Club convention in Staunton May 25 27
Staunton hosts the Augusta Garden Club convention May 25 to 27 with flower show tours parades and forums at several homes and venues including Stonewall Jackson Hotel Waverley Benbreagh Folly Capote Jefferson Hall and Virginia Military Institute events feature cadet parades and a motor trip to local sites. Augusta Garden Club elects officers and expects attendees from Winchester Clarke County and surrounding areas. Denny announces engagement of Meg Denny Wright to Dr Preston William Slosson of Ann Arbor Michigan.
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Garden Club of
Virginia
Staunton
Virginia Wit
Staunn
Augusta Gar Club
Stonewall Jackson Hotel
Waverley
Herbert McKelden Smith
Benbreagh
Staunton Military Academy
Capote
A. Erskine Miller
Jefferson Hall
Alexandria F. Robertson
Virginia Military Institute
W. H Cocke
Lexington’ Garden Club
Elizabeth Wilinson
Richard P. Bell
Hugh B. Sproul
Joseph S. Cochrane
A. Exgkine Miller
Inchester
Clarke County Garden Club
Bishop
Collins
Denny
Meg Denny Wright
Preston Illiam Slosson
Ann Arbor
Mich
Bishop Denny
Richmond
Dr. Slosson
University of Michigan
E. Slosson
Washington, D. C
Winchester
William R.denny
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Virginia Travelers Stay at Shawnee Inn on Valley Pike
A group of out of state visitors registered at Shawnee Inn on the Valley pike last night. The party included Mr and Mrs B A Tuttle of Miami Dr and Mrs J R Stewart of Cleveland and others from Chicago Baltimore Atlantic City and Lorain. The inn could not accommodate all tourists over the weekend.
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Virginia
Shawnee Inn
Valley Pike
B. A. Tuttle
Miami
Fla
J. R. Stewart
Cleveland, O
Grover C. Prince
Jean Prince
Chicago
C. Bracy
Baltimore
E. L. Watson
Atlantic City
H. L. Shaw
Lorain
Virginia aristocrat wedding in Paris between Oxnard kin
A Virginia audience notes the Tuesday marriage of Miss Adeline Oxnard to Count Richard d Estrimesiil in Paris at the Madeleine. Adeline is the daughter of Mrs. Oxnard and the late Henry T. Oxnard of Washington and Upperville, a noted horse fancier era.
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Virginia
Upperville
Adeline Oxnard
Richard d’Estrimesiil
Madeleine
Paris
Apple Blossom Festival Guests and Local Moves
Mr and Mrs Thomas Walters of Bartonville hosted guests Mr and Mrs Samuel Fleck from Harrisburg Pa who attended the Apple Blossom Festival and left yesterday. Mr Walters plans to move to Pennsylvania soon. Burkle Voight, visiting his aunt Miss Hattie Burkle at Cedar Creek, returned by car to Pittsburgh. Mrs M C Feather of Thomas W Va spent last week in Winchester for the Apple Blossom Festival and business, returning home. Alson S Hott, manager of the Virginia Loan and Thrift Corp tied to pneumonia, shows improvement at 201 West Pall Mall Street after a 104 degree fever. Various others associated with the Apple Blossom Festival are noted including Mrs Virginia Carts Miss Alice Cufickle Mrs Neille Anderson Mrs Carroll R Jones Helen Jones and Miss Dorothy Trundle. Fred Ritzius of Ottawa Ill returned to his home after visiting Mrs J Mack Cain on South Braddock Street. Mrs Abe Novick visited her parents Mr and Mrs William Cohen in Easton Pa.
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Thomas Walters
Bartonville
Samuel Fleck
Harrisburg
Walters
Pennsylvania
Burkle Voight
Hattie Burkle
Cedar Creek
Pittsburgh
Alson
Hott
Virginia Loan and Thrift Corporation
West Pall Mall Street
Virginia Carts
Alice Cufickle
Baltimore
Neille Anderson
Charles Town
W. Va
Carroll R. Jones
Helen
Dorothy Trundle
Bakerton
S. R. Williams
Town
Fred. Ritzius
Ottawa, Ill
J. Mack Cain
South Braddock Street
Mr. Ritzius
Ottawa
Abe Novick
Mrs
William Cohen
Easton, Pa
Gray Recites as Court Delays Open Amid Unruly Crowd
Gray resumes testimony in the Ruth Snyder case as the glass domed room fills with argument. Court officers admit they cannot cope with the disruption. Opening is delayed ten minutes as spectators jostle for vantage points before Gray restates the killing of Mrs. Snyder's husband.
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Gray
Ruth Snyder
Snyder
Which Would You Choose Health Or Wealth
A reflective ad asks which we would choose and suggests health as the priceless gift. It proclaims health as the best gift and links it to happiness and well being, mentioning Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a possible aid from a fairy tale style offer.
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Lydia E. ‘Pinkham
Western farmers plight dark spot on business in West
Washington May 4. The fifteenth annual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States reports generally satisfactory national business conditions but notes a Midwest crisis. Farmers struggle with foreclosures as speakers urge remedies. the South and far West show progress, while New England faces industrial maturity and Pacific prospects rise with new trade highways to Mexico.
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Washington
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Midwest
New England
South
Far West
Silas H. Strawn
Montgomery Ward & Co
Chicago
Central
Congress
Obserter
Middle West
Strawn
George H. Baldwin
Commodores Point Terminal Co
Jacksonville
Fla
Baldwin
Wwe
John S. Lawrence
Boston
America
Pacific Coast
Harry Chandler
Los Angeles
Arthur Bent
Chandler
Mexico
Historic Pageant to Open Highway in Virginia
Fredericksburg Virginia May 4 a three century pageant will spotlight travel in the Old Dominion with Elizabeth and Raleigh leading a parade followed by Indians Captain John Smith and later figures including Washington Braddock and Lee. The event coincides with the opening of a Washington to Richmond hard surfaced highway on May 28.
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Fredericksburg
Old Dominion
Washington-to-Richmond
Elizabeth
Walter Raleigh
Walter
Virginia Company
John Smith
Nathaniel Bacon
Knights of the Golden Horse
Blackbeard
Lord Fairfax
Geo Washington
Washington
General Braddock
King Carter of Lancaster
George Mason
John Randolph
Harry
Richard Henry Lee
Patrick Henry
Roanoke Man Dies En Route To Festival After Crash
J C Staples of Roanoke died five minutes after arriving at Roanoke hospital following an April 26 car crash south of Woodstock. The machine shop foreman at Norfolk and Western shops Roanoke was traveling with three others toward the Apple Blossom Festival at Winchester when his sedan skidded into a telephone pole. He had survived several fractures and internal injuries since the wreck, and despite doctors urging rest, insisted on driving home with warning that death might follow before Roanoke.
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Woodstock
J. C. Staples
Roanoke
Roanoke Hospital
Staples
Hotel Woodstock
Norfolk and Western Shopa
Winchester
Heroic Steps Taken Amid Mississippi Floods and Levee Breaches
Floods widen crevasses on the Mississippi as backwaters flood main roads. Rescue fleets depart from Natchez and Vicksburg while thousands flee to levees as a vast inland lake forms, stretching across southeastern Arkansas, northeastern Louisiana, and western Mississippi.
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Mississippi
Arkansas
Ouehita
Atmiotale
Natchez
Vicksburg
Arkanas
Louisiana
Mississippi River
Mississippi Delta
Yazooiver
Glasgedck
Tens
Valles
Flood fears as Red River crest nears New Orleans levees
Report notes airplanes over the threatened area with levees holding below the Red River mouth while the crest nears, worrying residents as embankments to the south toward New Orleans face possible failure.
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Red
Atchafalaya
Louisiiana
Mississippi
Mais
Angola
New Orleans
Red River
Apprehension J
Court Case Refers Estate of Tillie S. Hyman to Master
In Winchester Virginia the May 23 1927 reference to the Tillie S. Hyman estate directs a Master Commissioner to account for personal estate debts and distributions. It notes administrator Robert T Barton and lists potential fees and beneficiary shares with a May 23 1927 deadline. An additional Frederick County circuit court notice from April 25 1927 begins a divorce suit for Emma L Hill against J M Lowry Hill on desertion grounds with publication orders.
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Sadie Hyman
Tillie
S. Hyman
Robert T. Barton
Hyman
Tillie S. Hyman
Rouss Avenue
Winchester
T. Russell Cather
Circuit Court
County OF Frederick
Emma L., Hill
J. M. Lowry Hill
M. Lewry
Vitenia
Stern
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Seldon
Lacie Virginia Brill
Hagerstown
William M. Norment
First Christian Church
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Howard Brill
Yellow Springs
Mr. Seldon
F. J. Seldon
High View
Women’s Civic League
Colonial
Colonial Hotel
Wellford
Beverley R. Wellford
William Beverley
Richmont
I. Miller
Huntsberry
Buisines
Anushek Meiry
With Renee Adobee
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Phil Rosen
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Warner Bros. Present
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Kentucky
Jason Robards
Dorothy Dwan
Tom Santschi
Dorothy Yost
By Howard Bretherton
Warner Bros. Production
Baton Rouge
John M. Parker
Conrad’s Point
West Bank
Weather Bureau
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Caernarvon Levee
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Tensar
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