Norfolk and Western timetable updates from Roanoke
Train schedule details list departures to Lynchburg Roanoke Philadelphia New York and Norfolk with Pullman sleepers and cafe cars. Notes station agents in Roanoke Virginia approve carriage options and contact routes for further information.
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Bluefield
Lynchburg
Roanoke
Pullman Sleeper
Norfolk
Richmond
Pullman
New York
Hagerstown
Philadelphia
Shenandoah
Charleston
Columbus
Cincinnati
Chicago
Jaeger
Williamson
Gary
Norfolk and Western Railway
W. B. Bevill
W. Co. Saunders
Pass
Traf
Mgr
Virginia
For Sale Small Hand Elevator Platform 36 by 36
Classified brief offering a small hand elevator platform measuring 36 by 36 inches for sale. Casual inquiry via Daily Telegraph classified section.
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W. T. Owen
Barstreet
South Bluefield
Lathrop Coal Company
Care Daily Telegraph
Daily Telegraph
Greens Win Membership Contest In Presbyterian Class
The ladies union bible class at the Presbyterian church held a month long contest between Whites led by Mrs. D J F Strother and Greens led by Mrs. W W Henritze. Greens won with sixteen new members to thirteen for Whites bringing total to 29. The Whites will host the Greens and the class under Warren A Wilson is raising funds to add classrooms and enlarge the church building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies’ Union Bible Class
The
Presbyterian Church
D. J. F. Strother
W. W. Henritze
Greens
Wile
Warren A. Wilson
Election and meeting notices for church ladies' aid groups
The Methodist church ladies are urged to attend the annual officer election at the next meeting. The Presbyterian ladies shift meeting to Mrs. C Frank Wright’s home instead of Mrs. E H Sudduth’s. Plans for the bazaar are in progress.
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Ladies’ Aid Society
The
Methodist Church
Ladies’ Aid Society of the Presbyterian Church
C. Frank Wright
E.H. Sudduth
Value of Federal Reserve System Highlighted by M Madoo
M adoo extols the Federal Reserve System as central to the nation’s rise from debtor to creditor status. He notes a gold stock above 2.7 billion dollars as of November 1, 1916 and criticizes omnibus public-building bills as wasteful, urging evaluations of needs before construction and tying authorizations to genuine public necessity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Federal Reserve System
Federal Reserve Banks
Congress
Lyceum Series at Gary High School This Winter
Gary high school hosts lyceum entertainments this winter under the Redpath bureau. Three programs have been presented and three more are scheduled including January 11 The American Girls Trip February 9 Frederick Hopkins March 30 Wells Watson Ginn. Events take place in the high school auditorium.
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Lyceum
Gary
Gary High School
Redpath Bureau
Frederick FE. Hopkins
Wells Watson Ginn
Augusta visitors and illness update in Welch scene
James Pralley and his young son of Augusta county Virginia are guests of Mr. and Mrs. EB Bralley in Welch. J Bolling Purcell of Huntington visits Welch and greets many friends. Mrs. I J Partlow, recently ill for weeks, is now able to sit up.
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Wes. James Pralley
Little Son
Augusta County
EB. C. Bralley
J. Bolling Purcell
Huntington
Welch
I. J. Partlow
Navy to award bids for four new battle cruisers
Washington announces bids opened for four giant battle cruisers to complete a vast navy build program. Contracts already set for four battleships scout cruisers destroyers and more. The 850 foot ships will reach 35 knots with ten 14 inch main guns and ten reserve guns.
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Washington, D. C
United States Navy
Navy Department
Congress
Cascarets Ad Promises Quick Health Boost
A vintage advertisement touts Cascarets as a remedy for liver and bowels improving by morning. It targets men women and children with claims of cleaning stomachs removing foul gases and bile, promising a ten cent box leads to healthy bowels and cheerfulness for months. It also mentions a soap-nut tree thriving in Florida.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
Algiers
Florida
AMERICAN RESTAURANT Mince Se Raisin Se Apple Se on i Peach Se
A readable fragment notes a list of fruit items used in dishes at an American restaurant. The text mentions raisin apple lemon and peach, with pumpkin appearing in the same context. No clear event or outcome is described.
Omnibus Bill Critique Spurs Separate Project Measures
A report to Congress argues that many building proposals, if enacted as separate measures instead of omnibus bills, would curb abuses and evils associated with omnibus legislation.
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Congress
Four Hundred Delegates Meet in St Louis
Four hundred and fifty delegates from thirty leading Protestant denominations gather in St Louis for the third quadrennial Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. They discuss Christian education evangelism temperance missions family life Sunday observance country life church social service federated movements and peace and arbitration.
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St. Louis
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ In America
Attorney General Report outlines major war commission reforms
Washington reports Attorney General Gregory urges congressional action to end railroad production under the commodities clause, extend authority over corporations, broaden search warrant rights, and stiffen arms labeling laws. The dispatch notes progress in suits against Southern Pacific over oil lands, and lists indictments and convictions tied to wartime neutrality breaches and Mexican tensions.
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Washington
Gregory
Congress
Supreme Court
Lackawanna Coal Company
Mexico
Southern Pacific Railroad
Nole
Family Avoids Scrigus Sickness in Melon, Va
A local family credits long remedy use to prevent illness described as scrigus sickness. The ad highlights a tonic product, claimed to ease weak stomachs, indigestion, colic wind, nausea, and headaches. It cites 70 years of constant use and over a million people treated.
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Alee
W.w.hart
Marion
West Virginia
Kentucky
Damat
Eare Daily Telegraph
O. Box
W. Va
Coal Company
Radford
McDowell County
Sandy River
Said
W. J. McClaren
W. W. Whyte
New Norfolk
Ewester
Wonker
Eczema Remedy
Easley-Penn Drug CO
Blueflid
Hale Addition
T. Care Telegraph
Remington
Itypewriter
Freeman
Plymouth Rock
O. K. Lambert
McCray
Northfork
D .L. Talbert
Abingdon
Sharon Coal and Coke Co
Sharondale
Frederick Street
Niet
Princeton Power Company
H. Markovitz
J. W. Douthat
Westinghouse
Princeton
Raleigh Terrace
F. L. Black
Fiat
Princeton Avenue
South Mercer Street
Bland Street
Mercer St. d
Y.M
Bath
Hasley-Wilson Co
Law and Commerce
Lee Street
Sycamore Coal Co
Cinderella
Mingo County
Gordon Setter
Roberts
Bluefield Avenue
TOST
Sublette’s
Bluefield Pharmacy
S16
Madison Street
Kyle
Maybeury
Welch News
Bradley's
M’adoo
Princeton Ave
Dee Mack
la Province
West Virginia Armature Company
Electrical Contractors
L. Smite
Frederick L. Black Dentst
Bell-Ans
Whedford
Td Pkeen
Fereoot
Albert’s Barber
Lettie F. Goodwyn Cosmetician
Marinello
Columbia Grafonola
Columbia
Columbia Records
Central Pharmacy
IO Flynn
Columbia Grafonole
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