Moling to Head Book Club Meeting at 3:30 PM
The regular monthly Book Club gathers this afternoon at 3 30 with J Henry Moling Jr as the host. Members will discuss current reads and plan upcoming events.
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1931
Page
3
The regular monthly Book Club gathers this afternoon at 3 30 with J Henry Moling Jr as the host. Members will discuss current reads and plan upcoming events.
Mrs. Barton's home welcomed 125 guests including Mrs. R. T. Marton Sr and Col. and Mrs. B. M. Roszel. Attendees hailed from Clarke, Leesburg, Shepherdstown, Charles Town, and Norfolk with dignitaries and local figures. Festival events featured Queen Shenandoah VIII and a Warner Brothers theater excursion to see The Millionaire, praised by attendees. Charleston and Winchester residents prepared for the eighth Apple Blossom Festival with travel plans and local marriages noted.
Washington people flocked for the festival parade with Mrs. Greene and other hosts. Notables visited Winchester Memorial Hospital to greet recovering nurses and Miss Morton paid cordial calls. Community groups announced meetings and local residents returned, with several families planning travel to Europe on De Grasse.
Miss Patricia Dacre Morton of Winchester England was presented as Queen Shenandoah VIII with escort Cadet Richard Arias at Courtfield. The Stouffer home hosted 400 guests for the festival reception with Staunton Military Academy Orchestra providing music.
The queen and her mother will tour city gardens Sunday evening hosted by Mr. and Mrs Roland S. Morris. Morris leads the English-Speaking Union and was ambassador to Japan. They will be entertained at Greenhill Farms by Union members. A Monday trip follows to New York aboard the Capitol Limited with a stay at the Lexington Hotel before sailing May 15 on the Olympic to Southampton.
In a discussion by Dr. Logan Clendening the article describes an eleven person sponge cake poisoning case. Lab tests with animals failed to show harm from the cake until human volunteers reproduced the illness. Three germs were found in the cake with only broth No. 8, tied to yellow hemolytic streptococcus, causing nausea diarrhea and prostration. The piece notes any food can harbor toxins and debunks ptomaine theory.
Washington dispatch notes a brewing contest between Col. John Q. Tilson and Bertrand H. Snell for speaker of the House after Speaker Longworth’s death. Snell wins New England support and backs Bacharach, while Tilson relies on New England and seniority. Tilson denounces the challenge as a powerful contest develops among Republican leaders.
Cleveland hospital officials seek to verify the identity of Ralph H. Thurber a shell shocked World War II veteran claiming to be Reverend Thurber a Korean missionary and expressing readiness to be taken to God. Police suspect he is the same man who confessed to the Wall Street bombing in 1920 but was then found to be imprisoned in San Quentin California.
A Bristol Herald Courier note laments alimony costs fueling divorce fears for Americans. The piece contrasts current financial strain with Jesse James era heists, suggesting modern methods are harsher.
Rain benched spring wheat in the Chicago Board of Trade trading session as dull activity and price declines followed. Closing figures show Wheat May 84 July 62 September 617% Corn May 577% July 59% September 58% Oats May none July 28 September 28% Rye May 3544 July 37 September 37%
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