State Fair of Virginia Opens in Richmond September 23
The State Fair of Virginia prepares for its tenth annual exposition in Richmond from September 23 to October 1. The event showcases agricultural and industrial exhibits, new farm machinery, soil conservation, roadbuilding equipment, livestock and crops, plus a grand midway, grandstand acts, and museum displays. It marks the region’s progress in agriculture, industry, and education with facilities including a new 20,800 square foot Commonwealth building.
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New South
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Commonwealth
Sewing pattern ad for Misses' waist sizes 24 25 26 28 30
Complete stocks offer a single yard 54 inch fabric for a fall skirt in any size. Pattern 4890 by Anne Adams features corduroy style with scallop detail and easy, thrifty sewing. Send thirty five cents plus five cents per extra pattern to Pattern Dept Winchester Evening Star New York.
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Anne Adams
Winchester Evening Star
Pattern Dept
West 17Th St
New York
N. Y
Eleven Women Volunteer as Community Chest Block Captains
Mrs Robert Wheeler announces eleven block captains who recruited volunteers for campaign mailings at Chest headquarters. Names include Gladys Braithwaite Lois Lane Emma Line Salome Crisman Annie Sue H St Clair Phyllis Pine Lee Brown Rosa lind M Kater Helen Edmonds Virginia Hughes. Angels Corps volunteers will serve four hour shifts to cut administration costs for the 1955 October drive aiding Day Nurseries Scouts Children Home Society Salvation Army and USC with a $42315 goal.
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Robert Wheeler
Community Chest Angels
Chest
Gladys Braithwaite
Lois Lane
David Grant
Emma Line
Salome Crisman
Annie Sue H. St. Clair
Phyllis Pine
Lee Brown
Rosalind M. Kater
Helen Edmonds
Virginia Hughes
Angels Corps
Wheeler
Scouts
Children's Home Society
Salvation Army
USC
Dems Attack Ike At $106-a-Plate Dinner
Democratic leaders at a San Francisco fundraising dinner assailed President Eisenhower and the administration. Governor George M. Leader of Pennsylvania denounced Eisenhower as not indispensable or the best leader and mocked the campaign by saying defeating Nixon would be a trivial task.
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