Millwood Social Notes Record Local Weddings and Visits
Invitations announce the marriage of Louise Plater to Robert Walter Halet Jr at Greenwich Connecticut on September 29 with a November first home in Nashville Tennessee. The piece lists guests and social events at Christ Church Millwood and surrounding households including the Burwells Watkins and Rowlands, plus golf matches and dances at Blue Ridge Country Club with generation tours and teas at Scaleby.
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Millwood
Louise Plater
Richard Cheatham Plater
New York
Robert Walter Halet, Jr
Ville
Tenn
Plater
Edward Gay Butler
Clark Wills
Field
Clark
Greenwich
Conn
Belle Meade Park
Nashville
E. G. Butter
Old Chapel
George H. Burwell
Armstead Welbourne
Leesburg
John Welbourne
Episcopal High School
Alexandria
Ronald Rowland
White Post
Rowland
Meade Memorial Church
William Bell Watkins
Virginia Watkins
William B. Watkins
J. Townsend Burwell
John T. Burwell
B. O'F. Randolph
Ewart Johnston
Percy C. Randolph
Can
William H. Wilmer
Holand Wilmer
John Britton
Hugh M. Nelson
Long Branch
Edward G. Butler
Mary Burchard
Archibald Bevan
Baltimore
D. C. Burchard
Belvedere
Mary's College
White * T
Christ
Emmanuel Chapel
Cunningham Chapel
Henry Post Mitchell
Christ Church School
Zombro
Elting
Rutledge
Virginia Boyd
Miller
Phillip Williams
Frances Page
Blue Ridge Country Club
Henry Positchell
Board of Governors
Blue Ridge
Chard E. Dole
Mont York
N. Gilpin
Ring
Washington
French People Support Paying War Debt to America
Ralph H. Garner Jr states eighty percent of French people favor settling the war debt with the United States, despite government resistance. He notes widespread American trade loss, closures of major French houses, and hopes for a compromise to restore tourism and imports while Garner plans to return to France in the fall.
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United States
Ralph H. Garner, Jr
France
Grr 4
Garner
Paris
Chamber of Deputies
Regardeless
Beieves
American Legion
United States Navy
Virginia Youth Is Called Hero Of Morro Fire
Arthur Ike Stamper a Virginia youth and third engineer of the Morro Castle emerged as a hero after helping shut down fuel and rigging pumps to keep pressure in the boilers. He led about forty passengers to safety on D deck before being rescued by the Monarch of Bermuda.
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Arthur
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Virginia
Morro Castle
New York Tiems
John F. Stamper
Brooke
Stafford County
Theeagh
Times
Mr. Hoover
Dickerson
Hoover United States
Stamper
Bermuda
Mother
Man Confesses to Matricide in Lakehurst Case
Arthur Gant 27 of Lakehurst New Jersey is charged with matricide after admitting he killed his 66 year old mother Mrs Sarah Gant following a quarrel about his estranged wife May Triplett Gant. Police report the killing occurred after a dispute over family matters.
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Arthur Gant
Lakehurst
N. J
Sarah Gant
Gant
May Triplett Gant
Move To Change Realty Taxation Being Studied
Virginia real estate taxation may switch from current valuation to tax on income it yields as the Virginia Estate Association taxation committee proposes. The measure, to be discussed at the October 19-20 meeting in Richmond, aims to spur legislation if approved by the association.
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Associated Press
Richmond
Virnia
Virginia Estate Association
Association
C. V. W. Trice
Virginia
J. W. Talley
Richmond Real Estate Organization
Bus Car Crash Sends Four to Local Hospital
A bus and car collision near a curve left a wrecked mobile and sent four people to a local hospital. Roy Pope of Clarksburg WV drove the bus. witnesses said the car allegedly rounded the curve at about 60 mph. Police from Warrenton and Middleburg investigated. the bus driver was not held. An additional bus completed the run.
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Pope
Roy Pope
Clarksburg
W. Va
Washington
Warrenton
Middleburg
Jews Charged Nazis Defaced Yorkville Store Windows
Jewish shopkeepers in Manhattan's Yorkville report vandalism during the Jewish holidays. A Nazi sympathizer scratched the word Jew using a diamond or glass cutter on shop windows, seen as part of a broader boycott against Jewish stores in the German Yorkville area in retaliation for Jewish boycotts of German products.
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Associated Press
New York
Yorkville
Manhattan
East Sixty-seventh Street
Cattle Killings Under Federal Action Across Oklahoma
Federal agents destroy thousands of distress cattle on Oklahoma farms with crowds watching. Owners receive four to twenty dollars per animal while only hides may be sold. Families endure losses as scenes of slaughter recur during winter preparation.
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Oklahoma
Folding fan origins traced from Japan to Europe
The folding fan is said to have been invented in Japan around A D 670. It spread to China in the tenth century and reached Europe in the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century.
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Japan
China
Europe
Cacao Used as Money by Aztecs and Mayans
The text notes cacao beans served as money and tribute in Aztec and Maya societies. Wealth measured by beans. a good slave reportedly cost around 100 beans. Factors boosting cacao cultivation include high food value, low production cost, and multiple uses.
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Mexico
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Richard E. Dole, Jr
St. Paul’s
St. Paul's
William B. Watkins, Jr
Margaret Della Meade
Chatham Hall
Everard Kidder Meade
E. K. Meade, Jr
Culpeper
America
Valley
Hero
Arthur Stamper
Stafford
LaGara
Parlett
Winchester
Upperville
GMC
Hoover Motor CO
Broadway
U.S. Army
New England
Burlington
Ethan Allen
Portland
Manchester
Dioois
BAYER
Boston
NEW London
Kan Michie Terry
Maine
Preble *M*kinley “Williams
Portsmouth
T Rodman
Fiadams ‘Getty Gregle
Philip Kearney
Central Press
Hunt’s
Fas
del Monte
van Camp
Libby
Hellman
Brookfield Butter
Bartlett Pears
Atte
Tbs
California
Hamburger
Chuck Roast
Sam
Evening Star
U.S
Patent Office
Imr Crabtree
W. Stam EY
Cena
Bacik
Elsie
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