Revival Opens at Galilee Church in Grimes Virginia
A week long protracted meeting began at Galilee Church in Grimes with daily services at 7.46 pm and a 7.30 pm song service. Rev. Daniel E. Mottley of Washington DC leads preaching with Prof. Charles Edward McVay assisting in song. Local residents including John Light and Miss Vivian D. Heun appear in town events while others work on Apple Ridge Orchard Company buildings nearby. The piece notes the area’s woodland heritage and gray squirrel hunts linked to former Sheriff Peter Summel.
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Vivian D. Heun
Clarences. Shepard
James Carr
Winchester
Apple Ridge Orchard Company
Schlichting and Bride Arrive in Winchester from New York
Hans Schlichting longtime county fruit grower and farmer and his bride arrived in Winchester last evening from New York after a sailing from Europe. They spent a day at Hotel Jack and met many Winchester friends who gathered to welcome him back. Mrs Schlichting is described as a very attractive young woman and friends congratulate him on his charming bride.
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Hans Schlichting
Winchester
New York
Europe
Hotel Jack
Mr. Schlichting
Standard Barrel Law Details Barrel Measurements
The act defines standard barrel dimensions for general use and cranberry barrels. It restricts sale and shipment of nonstandard barrels for fruits and vegetables within the United States and imposes misdemeanor penalties up to $500 fine or six months’ imprisonment, with exceptions for foreign shipments. The standards specify stave length, head diameter, bulge circumference, outside measurements, and stave thickness.
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District of Columbia
United States
Sealed Measures Act Provisions Adopted in 1915
The act requires compliance with weight and measure standards and allows variations by rules set by the Director of the Bureau of Standards with approval by the Secretary of Commerce. Prosecutions may be brought by local seers of weights and measures or state officers, except barrels used in weight based sales are exempt. The law takes effect July 1, 1916, and was approved March 4, 1915.
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Bureau of Standards
Secretary of Commerce
Strickler and son die in lightning storm at lakes trip
Mr Strickler and his son were struck by lightning during a rest trip by the lake. The father died within minutes while the son recovered but was unconscious. The body was sent to Chicago for funeral services with plans noted for a return to Sterling, Illinois. Strickler was an attorney for Chicago railroads and a keen outdoorsman.
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Mr. Stricker
Mr. Strickler
John Strickler
Strickler
Chicago
Sterling
John 3. Strickler
Mary K. Strickler
Winchester
J. S. Strickler
Death of Dorothy Pugh at Winchester Memorial Hospital
Dorothy Pugh aged one year six months daughter of Mr and Mrs Jesse J Pugh Gore this county died at 6 oclock last evening after a illness of a complication of diseases brought to Winchester Memorial Hospital for treatment funeral services will be held Thursday morning with burial in Ebenezer graveyard.
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Dorothy Pugh
Jesse J. Pugh
Gore
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Mrs. Pugh
Ebenezer
Lansing Tells Berlin U S Not To Tie Policy To Other Nations
The United States asserts its policy is absolute and not dependent on diplomacy with any belligerent. It rejects any suggestion that German naval rights for U S citizens at sea be conditioned by other governments actions. Responsibility in such matters is sole and absolute.
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United States
High Seas
German gains at Hill 304 and trench losses near Termiten Hill
Berlin reports no additional German ground gain after Verdun but notes successful action south of Termiten Hill in the Harcourt region west of the Meuse. The White Star liner Cymric torpedoed off the Irish coast sank. about 100 aboard were saved with five killed in the engine room.
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Berlin
Verdun
Termiten Hill
Harcourt
Meuse
New York
Liverpool
Verdun artillery activity signals German push on French right
Heavy shelling east and southeast of Verdun raises expectations that Germany plans to strike to push back the French right flank. The same motive is suggested for efforts on the opposite flank, intensifying the war’s eastern Verdun theater.
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Verdun
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Hellers
Etta
Annie Grin
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
S. A. Jordan
Brunswick
Baltimore & Ohio Free Labor Bureau
W. Camber St
Baltimore
Capon
Lithia
Agennohla Vadasc
Fletcher
W. Va
Galilee Church
Lillian Haycock
Clearbrook
Daniel Light
Peter Summel
PAGEH
Washington Post
Geo. F. Miller
Vinci
Prince Albert
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
Winston-Salem, N. C
Lansing
Germany
Beatrice
a_ Beatrice
Canada
New Zealand
E. J. Snapp
North Market St
Romney
I. H. Giffin
Capon Bridge
Wihat
Prince
Samoa
Sumoa Company
Rochester
N.Y
I A. D. Henkel
Cal Sino
Brill & Bitter
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