Social and Personal News from Winchester Garden Parties
Senator and Mrs. William M. Calder hosted about thirty five relatives at a dinner dance in the George Washington Hotel gold room with Shenandoah Valley Serenaders. Calder planned a June Europe tour after a Washington visit with President Coolidge. Miss Lena Harlee accompanied them. Various local residents and visitors are noted at the hotel and around town, with social events and arrivals including club teas and hospital visits.
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William M. Calder
Brooklyn
N. Y
George Washington Hotel
Shenandoah Valley
Calder
Catherine Harloe
J. C. Davis
A. ©. Slonaker
W. EB
Washington
President Coolidge
Winchester
Lena Harlee
Europe
Hammerfast
Midnight Sun
Democratic Women Demand Dry Men Platform Adopted
In Washington on May 7 the National Woman's Democratic Law Enforcement League backed a platform backing candidates who will advance prohibition law enforcement. The article also notes unrelated remarks about Governor Smith of New York and Ritchie of Maryland and includes a stray commentary about salmon migration in Idaho.
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Washington
Smith
New York
Ritchie
Maryland
National Woman's Democratic Law Enforcement League
Apples Stored In Barrels At Winchester Plant
Winchester Cold Storage reports 340000 barrels of apples handled in the season. Manager William Beverley says most fruit from Virginia orchards will be cleared by May 15 while ice manufacture continues. The facility rejected 100 carloads of western boxed apples due to full capacity. Remaining stock includes Pippins and Ben Davis. About 40000 barrels were packed in shredded oiled tissue paper with less decay. Beverley notes the method is established and half of Frederick county crop will likely be packed this way next season.
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Winchester Cold Storage Company
William Beverley
Beverley
Virginia
Frederick County
Los Angeles Dirigible Returns After Baltimore Stopover
The navy airship Los Angeles departed Lakehurst for Washington and arrived over the capital at 8 AM. It then appeared over Baltimore at 10 AM before turning northeast and returning to Lakehurst. After two hours nearby it headed south and was later spotted over Annapolis at 1 PM en route home.
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Baltimore
Los Angeles
Lakehinet
Eary
Washington
Lakehurst
Annapolis
Death of Eleven Month Old Funk Girl Pneumonia
Eleanor Louise Funk eleven month old daughter of Hugh Jackson Funk and Beulah died at the home No 364 National avenue from a sudden pneumonia attack. The funeral is set for Monday at 3 PM at the home with Rev C A Freed of Grace Lutheran assisted by Rev J Luther Neff of Market Street Methodist. Pallbearers named Jack Riley Dan Perry Arthur Thompson Harry Cain.
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Eleanor Louise Funk
Hugh Jackson Funk
Beulah
C. A. Freed
Grace Lutheran Church
Funk
J. Luther Neff
Market Street
Methodist Episcopal Church
Jack Riley
Dan Perry
Arthur Thompson
Harry Cain
Butter Surplus Apparent As Week Draws To Close
Butter supplies show a surplus of medium and lower grades as the week ends. While shipments include more high grade butter, the rise is mostly in the lower scores. Top quality butter is largely sold out, and prices rose on most markets with a sharp one cent gain on top grades in Chicago. Demand lagged, failing to clear daily arrivals, and centralized car prices declined as the week moved on.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Earl Carroll Unable To Walk Without Help
Earl Carroll, the New York theatrical producer, ill since April 13 in Greenville South Carolina, remained weak and unable to walk without assistance today. He had served a year and a day in the Atlanta penitentiary for perjury.
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Associated Press
Greenville
8.C
Earl Carroll
New York
Atlanta
Rains So Hard That Instruments Can't Record It
A terriffic rainstorm swept Kansas City on May 7 stranding thousands heading to work. One death was reported as streets filled three feet high with rushing water, preventing weather instruments from recording the event.
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Kansas. City
Kansas City
Weather — Bureau
Richards Announces Candidacy for House of Delegates
Boyd R Richards declares his bid for the House of Delegates subject to Democratic primary action on August 2 1927.
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House of Delegates
Boyd R. Richards
Coolidge Eyes Diaz for Nicaragua Presidency
President Coolidge weighs keeping Adolfo Diaz as Nicaragua’s constitutional president as a matter of honor and prestige. American marines may be authorized to disarm stubborn warring factions, Lib eral peace delegates reported via Henry Stimson.
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Managua
Nicaragua
Coolidge
Adolfo Diaz
Henry Stimson
Showery Weather Expected Early In Week
The Weather Bureau outlook for the week beginning Monday calls for showers in the North and Middle Atlantic States starting Monday or Tuesday and again at the end. Interior temperatures should rise slowly at the start and near or slightly above normal in the middle and latter parts.
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The
Associated Press
Washington
Weather Bureau
North
Middle Atlantic
Local Handley Students Win In Debating Contest
Handley Schools duo Miss Josephine Knox and Miss Margaret Smithey won Class B debating championship at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville under the Virginia Literary and Athletic League. Other Handley participants Miss Elizabeth Krause Harman Ritenour Garnet Hamrick and Stewart Balabh were eliminated in preliminaries among more than a hundred Virginia high schools competing for state honors.
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Handley
Charlottesville
University of Virginia
Virginia Literary and Athletic League
Josephine Knox
Margaret Smithey
Elizabeth Krause
Fharman “Ritenour
Garnet Hamrick
Stewart Bal
Cuba's Machado visits Jacksonville outlines flood help and policy
President Machado spoke in Jacksonville on flood relief plans and mutual Cuba United States friendship while Senator Ferrarra translated his Spanish remarks. He said the trip was not propaganda and urged amicable solutions. Separately Arkansas bankers pressed for an agricultural credit corporation with up to 1 million capitalization to rehab flood districts, backed by the Intermediate Credit Banks.
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Cubana A4
Mississi
Ite
Machado
Jacksonville
Clvic
Ferrrara
Washington
United States
Machedo
Duncan Fletcher
Cuba
Arkansas
Agricultural Credit Corporation
Melton
Treasury
Robinson
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Clarke County
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Chesacake and Potomac Telephone Company
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Raymond L. Mattison
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Dallas Morgan, Sr
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Montclair, N. J
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Scabby
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