Relief Funds Estimated for Gallia 1933 Aid
A Gallia County report led by H K E Houck estimates relief needs for 1933 at 832 families and 8500 dollars in excess tax, with 1932 spending and Red Cross flour aid detailed by township. The document projects 1933 tax needs, county aid totals, and lists 1982 style figures for each township.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. KE. Houck
Gallia County
Red Cross
Addison
Clay
Cheshire
Gallipolis
Guyan
Green
Greenfield
Harrison
Olive Tablets Ad Claims Gentle Laxative Benefits
An old newspaper advertisement promotes Olive Tablets as a pure vegetarian laxative remedy. It touts clear pink skin and buoyant feel, claiming gentle bowel action like calomel without dangerous aftereffects. Prices listed are 15c, 30c, and 60c.
Buoys Placed to Mark Ohio River Channel at Gallipolis Island
The steamer James Ramsay, with Capt. John Douglas, placed steel buoys in the Ohio River channel at Gallipolis Island and near Dams 26 and 27 to guide pilots. Future marks will use smaller buoys, while bids open January 19 for 175 steel buoys and other river work in Chicago and other cities.
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Gallipolis
United States
James Ramsay
Ohio River
Gallipolis Island
Ramsay
John Douglas
Chicago
United States Engineers
Vicksburg
St. Paul
Mobile
Mississippi River
Alabama River
Accidental Shooting Involving Willie Carter At Home
Willie Carter, 60, of Clay Lick, is recovering from a minor knee wound after a .32 revolver discharged during a scuffle at his home Tuesday night. He was taken to Holzer Hospital. Carter was a former parcel post carrier and city mall carrier. Rankin Morris and William Chapman, Hartford High School students, were released from Holzer today after Christmas fractures from a car crash.
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Gallipolis
Willie Carter
Clay Lick
George Trout
Lawrence Meal
Holzer Hospital
Carter
Rankin Morris
William Chapman
Hartford
W. Va
Gallia County to hold county basketball tourney Feb 2
Gallia County principals set February 2 and 9 as dates for the annual county basketball tournament at Washington School Auditorium. Eight schools are expected to enter. Supt. Waynes Lutz, not a participant, named as manager. Cadmus and Vinton high schools bring strong teams. County debate coaches met but made no decision on parings. another meeting is expected before February 7 when debates begin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Gallia County
Washington
Waynes Lutz
Cadmus High School
Vinton High School
Dredge Work Expands for Gallipolis Road Project
Captain Moses Eppling moves a dredge from winter quarters to Gallipolis Island to dig gravel and sand for city road improvements. The Eppling firm supplied materials for the finished street project as Union and Wilson firms haul sand and gravel up the Kanawha River for a government dam and lock construction.
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Gallipolis
Moses Eppling
Gallipolis Island
Eppling
Union and
Wilson
Ohio River
Kanawha River
New Market
London
Low mood blamed for fewer marriages in Ohio counties
Gallia Probate Judge J B Clark cites public discussion of Ohio five day marriage law as a factor in declining licenses in lia County 200 in 1932 versus 1928 1929 about 40 percent drop. He notes Kentucky avenues and prior licensing rules limited state control and few refusals occur.
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Gallia
Gallipolis
Ohio
J. 8
Clark
Lia
Greenup
Gretna Green
Kentucky
Dig Up Old Cars One Machine Seventeen Years Old
In Gallia County Gallipolis deputy registrar Mrs. Irene Keeler reports 15 to 20 licenses granted to owners who swore their cars were inactive in 1932. Some vehicles haven’t run for two years, and pickups built from 1917 cars are among the oldest licensed. The oldest is a 1916 vintage car, with Bert Gillingham owning a 1917 pick-up made from an older model.
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Gallia
Gallipolis
Gallia County
Irene Keeler
Fair official attends Ohio meeting in Columbus
A. C. Safford, manager of the Gallia County Fair, spent today and yesterday in Columbus attending the Ohio Fair Managers Association meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
A. C. Safford
Gallia County
Columbus
Ohio Fair Managers’ Association
Pupil Attendance Totals by Grade at Columbia Grade Schools
The monthly attendance report lists all students who were neither absent nor tardy across grades. Teachers Ina Radekin Freda Turner Nellie Radekin W. H. Hampton supervise the records for first through eighth grades, naming numerous pupils by name and grade.
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Columbia
Thomas Bowls
Patty Lou Nichols
Martha Brooks
Carolyn Holcomb
Dorothy Weyand
Eileen Stansbury
Maxine Cline
Clay Jordan
Fern Nixon
Lester Swearingen
Granville Stout
Ina Radekin
Margaret Brooks
Don Jewell
Verna Jordan
Eileen Saulers
Lucy Dye
Doris Radekin
Freda Rawlings
Alvin Dye
Downie Nelson
Village Social Notes From Tuppers Plains and Nearby
Local residents report visits and greetings across towns including Alma Jones in Torch Elva Dean at Pomeroy Eldon Blake in Joppa and Kenneth Christy of Parkersburg. Health updates note several cases of flu chickenpox and a stroke while new baby Jane born to Mr and Mrs Golden Bahr and a robin sighting add small town color.
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Alma Jones
Torch
Elva Dean
Pomeroy
Eldon Blake
Joppa
Golden Bahr Jane
Robert Stewart
John Torrence
Belpre
Parkersburg
Mable Krim
Kenneth Christy
East Shade
Amsbery
Eber
Fred
Rosa Cole
Robin
Hardway
Alvin Stiles
Emory Keller
Toledo Art Museum Opens Two New Wings
In Toledo the two new wings of the Toledo Museum of Art, costing $2,000,000, were formally opened Tuesday night. Stokowski conducted the Philadelphia Orchestra in the peristyle as limousines and taxis brought guests to the east wing entrance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo
Toledo Museum of Art
Stokowski
Philadephia Orchestra
The Square Face and Feminine Style Reflections
A discussion on facial shape and style compares square and rounded looks, urging softer coiffeurs, curved eyebrows, and flattering necklines. It contrasts two illustrations of the same woman, highlighting how hairstyle and accessories alter perceived femininity.
Japan Prepares For War After Stalin Pact Hint
TOKYO January 12. A government spokesman said Stalin's warning that the Soviet Union will prepare for war ends any chance of a non aggression pact with Russia. The spokesman noted the Soviet shift of its five year plan to war and linked Japan's big military budget to the Bouvet program change.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Torio
U.P
Josef Stalin
Japan
Russia
Tokio
Scolded girl dies after eating poison in Marietta
Miss Leah Virginia Wallace, 16, despondent after being scolded by her parents for returning home late, ate poison and died before doctors arrived. The incident occurred in Marietta on January 12, with Clar ence E. Wallace and his wife as her parents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marietta
Leah Virginia Wallace
Clarence E. Wallace
Albenia advertised as cure for rheumatism and uric acid pains
An advertisement touts a 5 cent bottle of Albenia from Quick's Cut Rate Store or any drugstore claiming to relieve rheumatic pains in 4 hours and toxins in 24 hours. It promises relief from sciatica neuritis and lumbago with a nerve free formula, asserting swift cures without opiates.
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Quick
Expectant Mother Not To Die for Crime
Mrs Beatrice Ferguson Snipes winner of a death delay for childbirth had her sentence commuted by Governor Ibra C Blackwood to life imprisonment after pleas from around the world. She was convicted of killing a rural policeman who stopped her husband’s car during a liquor search. The child is due within a week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
8. C
U.R
Beatrice Ferguson Snipes
Ibra C. Blackwood
Daughter of Red Leader’s Daughter Dies in Berlin
Berlin police bulletin reports Sanaide Volkoff thirty two, daughter of Leon Trotsky, left a rented room with gas. She had tuberculosis and threat of expulsion from Germany after losing Soviet citizenship. Police note she was despondent and took her life.
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Berlin
U.2
Sanaide Volkoff
Leon Trotsky
Trotsky
Germany
Doctor Sends Thistle Roots to Governor for Heart Cure
A yellow box with dry brown thistle roots arrived for Governor Charles W. Bryan in Lincoln Nebraska. James G. Moore 81 of Paden City West Virginia described himself as a yarb doctor and claimed the yarbs would cure the governor’s heart ailment.
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Lincoln, Neb
Charles W. Bryan
James G. Moore
Padden City
W. Va
Moore
Beware the Cough or Cold That Hangs On
An ad promotes Creomulsion as a new medical discovery to soothe and heal inflamed membranes and stop ongoing coughs and colds. It claims creosote fights germs, supports recovery, and offers a money refund if relief is not seen after following directions.
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Milies
Clayton Mefarmer
Huntington
Morgan
Perry
Raccoon
Springfield
Walnut
Guvan
Solor
Haney
Ernest Gross
Pio
Fe Haney-Gross Co
Holzer
L. D. Lawson
Second Avenue
Miss Belle Mills
Lawson
Sylvia Preston
Claude Preston
Tuppers Plains
Toledo Art Museum
Dah-ray
Madame Square
The
Athens Messenger
John
Paramount Memorials
Cross Bros
W. Union
Athens
COR, Court & State Sts
E.F
Pepsodent
Quick’s
W. Union ST
Luxor
Vicks Salve
Jergens
Pinkham
Castile
Gillette
Mennen’s
Goal Housekeeping Bureau of Deeds, Sanitation and Health
Hinds
Odea
Woodbury
Lucky Viger
Soc Probak Blades Soc de Witts Hair Dressing
Mary T. Goldman
Je de Witts
Noral
Syllium
Miller Bros
No. Court St
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