Mrs Holt Dies In Hospital Here
Mrs Charlotte Nelson Holt of Clarke county dies at Winchester Memorial Hospital at 73 after weeks as a patient. She lived with her sister at Long Branch near Millwood. She was born September 16 1672 in Middleway and was widow of Fred Holt. Survived by three sisters and funeral set at Christ Episcopal Church Millwood with pallbearers named. Interment in Old Chapel Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlotte Nelson Holt
Clarke County
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Clarke
Hugh M. Nelso
Long Branch
Millwood
George Washington Nelson
Hanover County
Mary Nelson Scollay
Middleway
W. Va
Fred Holt
Hugh M. Nelson
Carolyn Britton
Massachusetts
Mary Lowell Decker
Kaushaqua, N. Y
Christ Episcopal Church
Be Generous In Victory War Fund Drive Continues
The war fund drive urges continued support for the National War Fund Appeal with the theme Be Generous In Victory. Funds aid USO and relief agencies as postwar needs rise, detailing suffering in Europe and calls to send donations to Virginia War Fund Headquarters in Winchester.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ball
National War Fund
USO
NWF
United Nations
Italy
Czechoslovakia
Near East
North Africa
America
War Fund
Virginia War Fund
Farmers and Merchants National Bank Bldg
Winchester
Strike over steel and glass workers threaten labor peace
Strike totals rise as coal returns to furnaces but recall time extends a week. CIO Federation of Glass, Ceramic, and Silica Sand Workers warns unions will quit today citing contract breakdown as the cause. Federation official says the strike will affect several cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CIO Federation of Glass, Ceramic, and Silica Sand
Lewis McCracken
Ration Calendar Overview From OPA Bulletin
The Associated Press notes ration dates for meats fats and sugar stamps, listing stamp ranges A1 to E1, four stamp 38, and shoe stamps 1 to 4 with their validity through late 1931. OPA states no plans to can.
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Associated Press
OPA
Virginia District boundary nearer settled by House action
The House completed action on a bill defining the Virginia District of Columbia boundary. It fixes the high water mark on the Virginia side of the Potomac as the boundary and preserves federal jurisdiction over the Washington National Airport with Virginia rights to process service, alcohol regulation, and gasoline tax. The measure moves to the White House for approval after Senate amendments.
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Washington
House
Virginia
District of Columbia
White House
Senate
Potomiac
Washington National Airport
United States
Justice Department
More Television Stations In 46
FCC experts forecast a fairly good number of television stations will go on air in 1946. Within four weeks rules will be announced and 140 pending applications processed before construction. A proposal using directional antennas could yield 401 stations in 135 districts, adding two stations to New York Chicago Detroit Indianapolis and Columbus and at least one more in several other cities.
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Washington
Federal Communications Commission
FCC
Television Broadcasters Association, Inc
FFC
New York
Chicago
Detroit
Indianapolis
Columbus
Ohio
Los Angeles
Philadelphia
Boston
Pittsburgh
Cleveland
St. Louis
D. C
Milwaukee
Cincinnati
Portland
Ore
Baltimore
Louisville
Services Tuesday For Mrs. Spaid
Mrs Lydia C Spaid of Hampshire County West Virginia died at home near Lehen following a year of arthritis illness Born December 13 1870 she was the daughter of the late Amos W and Elizabeth La Follette Brill Surviving are her husband Jacob F Spaid two children Arthur W Spaid and Mrs Ethel Mason eight grandchildren four great grandchildren two brothers E A Brill Winchester and Aljourn Brill Lehen Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday at Shiloh Church after a brief service at the Carrier Funeral Home with interment in the Shiloh Church cemetery Pallbearers include Edgar Walton Leyburn Delbert Brill Ross LaFollette and Carson Davis
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia C. Spaid
Hampshire County
W. Va
Lehen
Amos W
Elizabeth la Follette Brill
Jacob F. Spaid
Arthur W. Spaid
Ethel Mason
Lehew
E. A. Brill
Winchester
Aljourn Brill
Shiloh Church
C. H. Anderson
Carrier Funeral Home
Edgar Walton
Leyburn
Delbert Brill
Ross LaFollette
Carson Davis
Origin of the Teddy bear name and its 1902 link
Margarete Steiff in Germany invented the first bear around 1888 for a neighbor’s child. Her brother Richard sold the bears commercially soon after. The bears were named Teddy after 1902 following a story of Theodore Roosevelt sparing a bear cub during a Mississippi hunting trip.
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Germany
Margarete Steiff
Richard Steiff
Theodore
Teddy) Roosevelt
Mississippi
Mrs Martha Lemley Dies In Stephens City
Funeral services were held at the Methodist Church in Stephens City for Mrs. Martha Ellen Lemley 77 who died Saturday evening at her home. Born January 27 1868 she was a daughter of the Edmondsons. She married Gervis Frank Lemley who died in 1928 and is survived by four sons and one daughter. Interment was in Green Hill Cemetery with the rites by Reverends Walter Smith and R L Booze.
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Methodist Church
Stephens City
Martha Ellen Lemley
Lemley
Rodney
Jane Hensel] Edmondson
Six Hurt Return Home After Weekend Crash
Six occupants were injured when a Buick collided with a green stake body truck on a county road. Purtlebaugh, on weekend leave from New Jersey, drove the car as responders chased a fleeing truck. State police failed to identify the truck which fled the scene. Deputy DeHaven patrolled the Winchester route and could not locate the vehicle. Investigators pressed the probe with no further clues reported.
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Purtlebaugh
New Jersey
West Virginia
Robert DeHaven
Winchester
Navy rules on discharge for men with three children
The Navy Department announced on September 25, 1945 that, with exceptions for Fleet Reservists or retired personnel, any enlisted man with three or more children under 18 will be released at his own request.
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K.W. A
Navy Department
Mrs. Florence Cox Jones Dies in Clarke County
Mrs. Florence Cox Jones, 69, longtime Clarke county resident, died after illness at Loudoun nursing home. Born in Baltimore in June 1876, she is survived by five children and two sisters. Funeral Tuesday at 3:30 from Enders Funeral Home Berryville with burial at Green Hill Cemetery.
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Florence Cox Jones
Clarke County
Bane
Therings Nursing Home
Loudoun County
Stn
William Harrison Cox
Red Bank
N. J
Margaret Nagle
Baltimore
George L. Jones
Fredericksburg
Los Angeles
Calif
T. N. Jones
Williiam Jones
Millwood
Grace Cox
T. C. Cox
Hot Springs
John H. Enders
Berryville
G. Peyton Craighill
Christ Episcopal Church
James T. Lindsey
W. D. Burter
C. H. Iden
Roy E. Potts
B. O.F. Randolph
Nat Jones
W. B. Watkins, Sr
Jerome Garber
John Royston
Alfred Bradford
L. M. Allen
Green Hill Cemetery
Local People Continued from Page 1
An accident report details damage to multiple vehicles including the Newcome, Oliver, and Perry cars, with left front and left side damage totaling 200 and 350 dollars respectively. Trooper Starrett notes injuries and ambulance transport by Front Royal Fire Department personnel and motorists.
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Royal Fire Department
Starrett
Newcome
Oliver
Perry
Answers to the Daily Quiz
The page lists quiz answers: O. A. Knight. Maryland. Indo China. False. Four. Notre Dame. Iberian peninsula. True. stateless or nonrepatriable persons in liberated Western Europe. Vermont.
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O. A. Knight
Maryland
Indo-China
Four
Notre Dame
Iberian Peninsula
Western Europe
Vermont
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Truman
Harry S. Truman
American Farm Bureau Federation
Edward A. O'Neal
American Farm Bureau
Warren W. Hawley
New York State
James Stewart
Andrews Field
U. S. Army Air Forces
Jimmy
International Soundphoto
Mount Wood
Melrose
Mass
Manchester
N. H
D. A. West
du Pont
John W. Rosenberger & Co
S. Braddock St
Spaid
Bradley
St. John’s University
Brooklyn
N. Y
Thomas E. Molloy
Brooklyn and
University
Omar N. Bradley
Raymond A. Kearney
Lockhart Iron and Steel Company
Martin Bochefsky
Harry Hill
Bochefsky
International
David Hahn
Jonathan Wainwright
Bataan and
Corregidor
Skaneateles
Glaize & Brother
N. Cameron ST
London
James F. Byrnes
Council of Foreign Ministers
Mrs. Byrnes
Martha Lemley
Evening Star
Handley Board of Trustees
Clifford D. Grim
Charles F. Coffman
Wm. E. Cooper
Boyd H. Hamman
Charles H. Harper
J. Sloan Kuykendall
W. Nelson Page
John I. Sloat
George G. Snarr
Cmll Peeke
Rhodes Drug Company
Boscawen
Braddock
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