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MAUGHMER-HODGE: David and Winter, boy, Da-Von Andrew, 7:29 p.m. Jan. 11 at Adena Regional Medical Center, 7 pounds, 10 ounces, 21 inches long. CHILLICOTHE POLICE Theft - A purse was reported stolen from a vehicle parked in a parking lot in the 1000 block of East Main Street. A passenger side window was reported broken in the robbery; 9:02 p.m. Wednesday. .
Business notebook: St. Valentine’s Day wake-up call
Valentine's Day is the second largest card-sending holiday, right after Christmas. So your first stop might be to select a Hallmark or other fine card from the large selection at the Card Spot, 51 Main St. If it's not too busy, you might enjoy chatting about the history of the downtown business district with owners Edward and Charlotte Cummiskey. They have owned the shop, one of the oldest businesses in Warwick, first established in 1926, for 41 years.In another shop, over 50 percent of its inventory is devoted to Valentine's Day. And procrastinators should visit early."Woman are more organized than men who usually wait until the last minute," smiled Stephanie Faerman, owner of Sweetbriar's Confections at 26 Railroad Avenue. .
Pilgrimage is Scoutings' longstanding tribute to Lincoln
REDLANDS -- The Boy Scout Pilgrimage to the Lincoln Memorial Shrine in Redlands is an annual event steeped in a long tradition of community celebration and pride. The pilgrimage was begun in 1940 by Scouts in the neighboring community of Riverside, leaders seizing upon an idea started in 1934 by Boy Scouts in Fort Wayne, Ind., of making a symbolic pilgrimage to a statue of Abraham Lincoln to pay homage to the martyred 16th president. This was also coordinated with the celebration of Boy Scout week, the anniversary of the founding of the Scouting movement in the United States. Robert Watchorn was born in Alfreton, Derbyshire, England, in 1858, and at age 21 came to the United States in search of a new and better life. After working in coal mines in Pennsylvania, becoming involved in union activities and rising to the post of secretary of the United Mine Workers Union, he entered the civil service and eventually became a commissioner of immigration at Ellis Island.
A tribute to America’s ‘March King’
Sousa earned a reputation as the "March King" by penning 136 marches, including the much-loved "The Stars and Stripes Forever." He also wrote 15 popular operettas, 11 suites, 70 songs and numerous other works.
Sousa helped develop the Sousaphone, a tuba-like bass brass instrument that wraps around the player's body, with a forward-facing bell for better portability while marching.
Concert bands in Sousa's time had used the similarly portable helicon, a brass bass instrument that Sousa disliked because of its harsh tone. Sousa asked Jimmy Pepper, of J.W. Pepper Co., to design a new, more rich-sounding instrument for his band. Pepper was up to the challenge, and the Sousaphone, a staple of the modern American concert band, was born.
Brown, a doctoral candidate in tuba performance who has taught at the Academy of Music since 2005, will perform one of Sousa's violin solos on an original 1893 Sousaphone, which he acquired on loan from the J.W.
Auctions provide a chance to strike it rich
It contained a series of photographs of San Francisco city views taken in 1856. They were the first, or among the first, such photos ever taken. Seven years ago, a family in San Mateo County wanted to sell the album to help pay for property improvements. Johns, manager of Johns' Western Gallery in San Francisco, thought the album would fetch $15,000 to $25,000 at auction. He hadn't realized that the photographs, by George Robinson Fardon, were quite so rare and sought after. He put the album up for auction and after the dust cleared, the sale price had reached $180,000. "That's the kind of sale everyone dreams about," he said. "That's what they like about the 'Antiques Roadshow.' They're hoping their ship will come in with the sale of one item." The auction world was abuzz this week with the news of an auction on Super Bowl Sunday at Clars Auction Gallery in Oakland, Calif., where a painting owned by a Southern California woman was sold for $560,000, even though it was expected to go for a couple thousand dollars.
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