Ford Dealers Preview 1936 Models in Washington
About 900 Ford dealers and salesmen from Maryland Virginia and West Virginia met at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington for a preview of the 1936 Ford cars and trucks. The gathering featured a luncheon and afternoon meeting followed by public displays starting October 19. The group reported a 72 percent sales gain for the Washington branch in the first eight months of 1935 versus 1934, with notes on styling refinements new steel wheels improved steering quieter gear sets and updated front end design including a long hood and new radiator.
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Virginia
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Mayflower Hotel
Mayflower
Bickers Motor Company
Ford Company
Stephens City League Meeting Sets Time and Elections
The Stephens City Community League invites patrons to the high school auditorium on Thursday evening October 17 at 8 oclock for the first meeting of the school year and the election of officers for the coming year. All interested are urged to attend.
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Stephens City Community League
Special Agent Brings Davis and Brent to Capitol
Warner Bros. presents Bette Davis and George Brent in Special Agent at Capitol Theatre. Secret service operatives chase killers while gathering evidence to convict criminals. Brent plays a New York reporter undercover with the government, aiding Davis while protecting her from a murderous gang head.
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George Brent
Cosmopolitan
Warner Bros
Capitol Theatre
Secret Service
Brent
New York Daily
Miss Davis
Ricardo Cortez
All-Star Cast Set For Winchester Little Theatre Play
Winchester Little Theatre will premiere Noel Coward’s Private Lives on Friday November 1 with an all-star five member cast: Richard Griffith Miss Mary Lyman Miss Georgia Conrad Mrs Helen Shelmire Ziegler and Robert McKelvey. The tryouts were described as the theatre’s most intensive.
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Winchester Little Theatre, Inc
Noel Coward
Winchester
Richard Griffith
Mary Lyman
Georgia Conrad
Helen Shelmire Ziegler
Robert McKelvey
Mediterranean
New York
Rogers Millions Headed For Court Battle Over Heir
In New York on October 15, Count Ludwig Salm filed to appoint a guardian for 11 year old Peter Alfred Constantine Maria Salm, son of Count and Mary Rogers, as probate delays loom. The estate from Henry Huddleston Rogers totals about 20 million dollars with equal shares to his third wife and daughter plus the grandson, while a contest from Rogers Jr. looms.
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Henry Huddleston Rogers
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Supreme Court
Peter Alfred Constantine Maria Salm
Mary Millicent Rogers
Arturo Peralta Ramos
Pauline van der Voort Dresser
Ramos
Peter
Henry H. Rogers, Jr
Count Salm
Ginger Withers at Hable's Palace in This Is The Life
Jane Ginger Withers stars in This Is The Life at Palace today and Thursday. She headlines a Fox feature with dancing and singing, supported by John McQuire Sally Blane Sidney Toler and Francis Ford. A Fox News reel and musical comedy accompany the picture.
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Ginger” Withers
Fox
the Palace
Ginger
John McQuire
Sally Blane
Sidney Toler
Francis Ford
Fox News
Jane Withers
John McGuire
Sally Blame
Homing Pigeon Stops In County Near Middletown
A blue and green neck homing pigeon halted at Carl O’Leary’s home near Middletown on Monday. The bird wears an aluminum band marked C P W J F 35 and a rubber band reading H113 on the outside and 815 inside. O’Leary is feeding the pigeon and asks anyone knowing its owner to contact him.
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Carl O’leary
Middletown
O’leary
Navy Seaplane Sets New Long Distance Mark
Alameda California October 15 a new XP3Y 1 seaplane flew from Panama to California 3387 miles nonstop setting a distance record. Lieutenant Commander Knefler McGinnis and a five man crew completed the journey in 34 hours 45 minutes and the aircraft may widen naval long distance operations.
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Navy
Knefler McGinnis
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Orient
McGinnis
San Francisco Bay
Hawaii
Aroused Public Needed To Halt Road Fatalities
Chicago report urges a relentless press campaign to cut the motor toll and save lives. It cites 1934 36 000 deaths and nearly a million injuries and argues for a media led safety drive than law alone.
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America
Lynwood I. Noyes
Inland Daily Press Association
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Ironwood
Mich
Globe
Indianapolis
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St. Paul
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