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Ohio
Katerea
Athens
EG Natos
John W. Cullen Company
Chicago
New York
Columbus
G. Cleveland
Daughter Of Mine by Louise Emery
Cecily's wedding is over and Cecily faces a complicated family dispute over her upbringing and social status. The narrator recounts tensions with Delia and Cecily as playground dynamics reveal biases toward classmates, with Val and Stevie Ralston competing for Cecily's attention and acceptance.
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Spac
Louise Emery
NEA Service, Inc
Conflicting Chinese Policies and Sun Yat Sen’s Appeal
A critical piece analyzing conflicting American policies toward China. It notes Mme Sun Yat sen’s appeal to Americans, contrasts Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists with Communists, questions motives, and warns that mixed Policy risks China’s independence and US relations with Russia. It cites General Marshall’s efforts and possible embargo plans, highlighting diplomatic confusion and potential consequences.
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China
Mme
Sun Yat-sen
Mme. Sun
Chiang Kai-Shek
Chiang c
Soong
America
United States
Russia
Sun
Marshall
Chiang
Washington
Kremlin
The Road to War Warns of Global Catastrophe
A nationwide survey finds 66 percent expect another world war within 25 years, 24 percent foresee lasting peace. The piece cites UN Security Council failure, power blocs, and threats from new weapons as risks to civilization, urging nations to avoid war and reconcile differences.
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United Nations Security Council
Soviet Union
United States
Congress adjourns boosting executive power and price controls
As the Seventy-Ninth Congress adjourns in wartime, executive agencies gain latitude to regulate inventories and prices without legislative check. The piece praises the price controls board heads, critiques Congress for waste and delay, and argues a recessed or extended session would share responsibility for postwar prices and economy.
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Washington
Httle
Congress
Messrs. Thompson, Mead and Bell
Truman
United Nations
Seventy-Ninth Congress
House of Representatives
Senate
Washington letter ponders Congress fatigue and political motives
Peter Edson notes Congress nears recess after a tough session with an election looming. He observes a conservative tilt, calls out conflicts over Soviet Russia and atomic energy, and highlights divides on draft, loyalty probes, social security, and minimum wage while stressing the global stakes for peace.
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Washington
Congress
Jand
Save Iing
United States
Soviet Russia
Britain
White House
State
War Departments
Ravenswood to Discontinue Gilmore High School
Ravenswood Gilmore high school will be discontinued and the building repurposed as an elementary school following a board of education decision last Friday. Nelson Critchfield moved the discontinuance, seconded by W S Ritchie. fellow board members George Walker and Vernon McCoy supported. Last year’s Gilmore enrollment was 100, but the district cannot sustain it as a first class school. consolidation will raise Ravenswood enrollment to about 400 this year. Reverend Albert C. Smith of Allentown Pa will arrive August 1 to serve as pastor of the local Presbyterian church, after selection at a special meeting with moderator Rev Claude Davis of Sistersville.
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Ravenswood
Gilmore High School
Board of Education
Nelson Critchfield
W. S. Ritchie
George Walker
Vernon McCoy
Albert C. Smith
Allentown
Mr. Smith
Claude Davis
Sisterville
Veteran Cpl. Bush Seeks Paris Return After Army Discharge
George Bush, discharged from the Army after serving in Europe, is visiting locally. He wore the purple heart and earned numerous awards. He was offered a civil service job with the American government unit in France and plans to return to Paris soon.
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Cpl
George Bush
Cpl. Bush
Bush
France
Paris
New Store Opens in Watt's Building Sand Street
A new cut rate store named Acnett's opens to the public in the Watt's building on Sand Street. Nelson E. Bonar recently departed for Panama aboard the CSS Pasteur after a posting in New Hampshire. The annual election for the King Merchants inon region covering Roane Ja 2 and Wirt counties was held at Rimey on July 13 with officers named William Bartlett Spencer president Roy Miller Spencer second vice president II Guy Lewellen Reedy and Kelly Somerville secretary treasurer. Directors listed include Willie W Stewart John Talbott O J Hockenberry Ward G Henry LaBeaumond Andrieks R. K. Gorden Lee Ellie L. O. Hunt Greelex Jarvis J. W. Sarre Ralph Ferguson and Starling Casto.
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Acnett
Watt's
Sand St
Nelson E. Bonar
Panama
CSS Pasteur
New Hampshire
For the King
Joseph Dillon Dies at 68 in Reedsville Area
Funeral services for Joseph Dillon aged 68 who died at his home near Reedsville were held at the Reedsville Church of Christ. Burial followed in Reedsville cemetery. He is survived by wife Ella Dillon two sons Cecil and Pearl Dillon both of Reedsville one brother Jim Dillen Ravenswood and two sisters Mrs Eva Aden Rockport and Mrs Gertrude Conley Chester W Va.
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Joseph Dillon
Reedsville
Reedsville Church
Rev Harvey McCoy Dies at 71 in Ravenswood
Funeral services were held at Cham bers- Egger funeral home for Rev. Harvey Murray McCoy 71 retired minister who died at his Ravenswood home after a long illness He left the ministry about 20 years ago his last pastorate being the Methodist Protestant Reddy Circuit He was born in Wirt County son of the late Andrew Jackson and Martha Rose McCoy Surviving are his wife Nancy a daughter Elnéa of Cleveland two grandchildren and two great grandchildren The Better War Bible Class of the Walton Memorial Methodist Church met at the home of Mrs Jessie Geren with Mrs Clara Smith and Miss Marguerita on July 16.
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Chambers- Egger
Harvey Murray “McCoy
Ravenswood
McCoy
Reddy Circuit
Wirt County
Andrew Jackson
Martha Rose McCoy
Nancy McCoy
Elnéa
Cleveland
Walton Memorial Methodist Church
Jessie Geren
Clara Smith
Marguerita
Radio Highlights Preview of A Busy Prospect Week
New York radio programs list upcoming features from air race coverage to an author playwright turned actor. Highlights include Meet the Press with Georgia governor candidate Eugene Talmadge on Friday and a CBS Sunday night Crime Doctor lineup. Radio schedules feature NBC NBC-6 Supper Club and CBS Ellery Queen with various dramas and music, plus NBC and ABC offerings and MBS’s Ben Kay Show and Xavier Cugat Band.
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New York
MBS
Eugene Talmadge
Georgia
CBS
Fred Allen
NHC
SBC
ABC
Cleveland
NBC
Pati
Art Sinistter
Kay Kyser
Kie Cake
Ben Kay
Xavier Cugat
Amesville Personal Notes Through A Busy Social Week
Amesville residents report visits from Alma Tinker Athens and Leonard Tinker Band Hill. Edna Fleming's friends and relatives from Wheeling and Reynoldsburg visited, and many traveled to Columbus Mansfield Zanesville and areas around Amesville. Local moves include Curt McPherson buying Harve Kittle property and Fred Wilson purchasing the McPherson home. A large Pomona Grange delegation attended Pomeroy and a Lancaster Institute trip is planned for Methodist youths. Two groups of visitors and a West Virginia Norwood retellings. The piece ends with a note on a historic Siam war over a white elephant.
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Amesville
Edna Fleming
Alma Tinker
Athens
Leonard Tinker
Band Hill
Cincinnati
Edward Morehead
Emma Bickerton
George Broski
Wheeling
Hor Morehead
Lewis Morris
Ray Walton
Galen Meseher
Riteman
Exsrett Moore
Myrtle Morris
Vernon
Newark
al Vernon
Ruth Jean Ose
Reynoldsburg
Hattie Taman
Ed Moore
Mansfield
F. L. Thomas
H. L. Shively
Cleveland
Charles Easton
Hollywood
Will Adair
Mars
Marshall
William
Brock
Corning
Lew Morris
Gilbert Boudinot
Dave Boudinot
New Jersey
Blanche Blincos
Dayton
Orville’ Boudinot
Carncord
Harlan Linscott
Hoopers Ridge
Alice Sedwick
EU 'P. Adar
Jackson
Mrr
Wooster
Yocum
Pomona Grangers
Ames
Pomeroy
Curt McPherson
Harve Kittle
Fred Wilson
McPherson
Merle Walton
Presbyterian Manse
G. L. Hines
Roy Ziegler
Methodist Church
Evelyn Linscott
Yattie Inman
Eastern Star picnic and piano recital noted in old Athens columns
Ten years ago Woodrow Wilson of Buckhan non W Va visited the home of A E Whalers on Cong St. More than 225 attended the Eastern Star picnic at the Roush home near Athens. Prof Paul Fontaine from Ohio University played a piano recital at Memorial Auditorium. Mrs Earl Beckley hosted a luncheon for Miss Mary Jo Twiss, soon to be a September bride.
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Woodrow Wilson
Buckhannon
W. Va
A. E. Whalers
N. Congress St
Eastern Star
Roush
Athens
Paul Fontaine
Ohio University
Memorial Auditorium
Earl Beckley
Mary Jo Twiss
Rhinehart Rites Held in Buckingham and Columbus
Peter Rhinehart 75 died Friday at his Buckingham home after retiring in 1926 as a coal miner. He came to America 64 years ago from Germany. Surviving sisters Mrs. Mary Schroeder Buckingham and Mrs. Gertrude Penman Columbus. Funeral Monday at St Bernard’s Church Corn ing with Fr James L Riley the officiant. Burial Maplewood Cemetery. Leather pegs and wooden soles described as Revolutionary era footwear.
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Corning
Peter Rhinehart
Buckingham
Rhinehart
America
Germany
Mary Schroeder
Gertrude Penman
Columbus
St Bernard's Catholic Church
James L. Riley
Maplewood Cemetery
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Troy
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