Workers Placed on Radford 108 Project and Powder Plant
Elmer C. Smith of the Bluefield office announced 250 skilled workers placed on the Radford Virginia housing project and $35 million Hercules powder plant work. Bluefield acts as Virginia labor clearance for the Radford project, with more than 500 referred to the powder plant site.
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Radford
West Virginia State Employment Service
Elmer C. Smith
Bluefield
Ercules Powder Company
Smith
Montgomery County
Hercules Company
Pee Plant
Informa
Virginia
Hercules powder plant ramps up in Virginia with 300000 pounds daily
The project progresses with temporary buildings including an electric shop and carpenters’ shop while labor remains sufficient for now. Hercules plans worker training and some employees already head to other plants. Eight barracks aim to house 700 men and completion is set for early summer, with a guard force over 100 and daily material shipments via Norfolk and Western.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia
West Virginia
Hercules Company
Hercules
Norfolk and Western
Radford
Mason and Hanger Company
War Department
American Legion
M. M. Serrem
Local Employment Office Staff and Overwhelmed Workload
The local employment office lists Dabney Trice as interviewer for men along with Mrs Mary Jane Porterfield in charge of clearance and civil service. Helen handles activities, Mrs Taylor oversees domestic placements, and Miss Kirsta Hunter is the reporting clerk. The Hercules employment has been described as overworked due to hundreds of job applications.
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Keeling
Huntington
Bluefield
Civil Service
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
Dabney Trice
Mary Jane Porterfield
Helen
Taylor
Kirsta Hunter
Hercules
Local wife cites relief from constipation with World's Tonic
Mrs. Austin Mullin of Bluefield Virginia reports dramatic improvement in kidney pains headaches and fatigue after using World's Tonic a herbal alkaloid remedy. She says digestion and respiratory symptoms improved and she feels more energetic. The ad promotes visiting Goodykoonts East End Pharmacy and other drug stores to learn about the product with no obligation.
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Austin Mullin
College Ave
Bluefield
Goodykoonts East End
Phcy
Prince’on Ave
W. Va
Goodykoontz East End
Pheys
Farmers in Mid-Atlantic States See Prices Above Averages
Department of Agriculture reports November 15 prices in West Virginia Maryland Virginia and Delaware above national averages. Corn up to 77 cents, oats 46 50 cents, potatoes from 55 to 80 cents, beef six to seven ninety, veal calves nine to ten sixty, sheep two eighty five to three seventy five, poultry around fourteen cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Department of Agriculture
West Virginia
Maryland
Virginia
Delaware
Department
South Atlantic
Deaware
Price Averages for Farm Commodities Vary Across States
The report lists regional prices for livestock and crops. Chicken prices near 16 cents per pound versus 13.1 national, turkey 18–20 versus 15.5, eggs 24.9–31.9 versus 26.2. Milk about 2.30 to 2.70 per hundred pounds, cows per head 47 to 80, apples 70–75 cents per bushel, hay 9.50 to 13.10 per ton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delaware
West Virginia
Virginia
Selective Service Nabs Bank Robber Suspect
A former convict Lloyd Warrick, 33, of Daybrook North Carolina was arrested after a bank break in at East Liverpool Ohio on October 16. Warrick was brought to Cleveland from Asheville North Carolina to face federal charges of entering the First National Bank. The arrest stems from his selective service registration on the same day.
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Cleveland
Liverpool
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Lloyd Warrick
Daybrook
N. C
Asheville
East Liverpool Bank Break-In Suspect Arrested by FBI
FBI Cleveland chief Wayne Listerman said Warrick was nabbed after a routine check of out of town registrants in East Liverpool hours before the break in. He admitted taking about 30 dollars from tellers and two revolvers but did not enter the vault or bring tools. He claimed he was just looking around.
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Tional
East Liverpool
Wayne L. Listerman
FBI
Cleveland
Warrick
Bus Drivers Held on Perjury Charge in West Virginia
Finley Fox a former Marion Ohio bus driver was ordered held for grand jury action on perjury charges after waiving a preliminary hearing before U S Commissioner A V Fitzwater Fox could not post 5000 bond and was remanded to county jail Fox testified for three Ohio convicts in the 1927 robbery of 19227 72 dollars theft case
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
W. Va
Finley Fox
Marion
Ohio
Federal
U. S
A. V. Fitzwater
Fox
George W. McClintic
Bank Holdup Suspects Sentencing Slated Tomorrow
First National Bank of South Charleston reports that Ivan Philips, 32, of Marion, River H. Whitt, 29, and Arthur Russell Howell, 26, of Columbus are set for sentencing tomorrow morning for the November 3, 1939 holdup.
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First National Bank of
South Charleston
Ivan Philips
Marion
Eiver H. Whitt
Arthur Russell Howell
Columbus
Olive Tablets Advertise Constipation Relief and Liver Bile Support
An old advertisement promotes Dr Edwards Olive Tablets as a vegetable remedy to ease constipation and stimulate liver bile for digesting fatty foods. It urges water, fruit and vegetables, claims 20 years of use by Dr F M Edwards, and lists prices 15¢ 30¢ 60¢ at druggists.
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Dr. Edwards
F. M. Edwards
Tick bird serves as body guard to rhinoceros
The small tick bird weighing under a pound protects the rhinoceros by guiding and alerting it to threats, while the latter remains several tons in weight.
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State Employment Service
Countess von Haugwitz Reventlow
Ibara Hutton
Atlanta
California
Franklyn L. Hutton
Harleston
S. C
Yis
OLD Quaker
the Old Queker Co
Ped
Federal St
Mme
Mii le
Telegraph Commercial
Healthgard
Pou
Tublast
Silvania Prints
Hull Bus
LY Amat
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