Graham Furnace to Resume Operations in Graham
Graham Daily News reports the Graham blast furnace will blast within ninety days under new Philadelphia interests. The plant will likely use lake ores, produce pig iron, and employ over 100 workers. A new operating company, the Graham Furnace Company, may take over with a superintendent returning soon to confirm personnel and details.
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Graham Daily News
Graham
Graham Furnace
Philadelphia
New Furnace Company
Graham Furnece Company
L. J. Barbee Family to Move to Roanoke
Graham residents learn that L. J. Barbee and family plan to relocate to Roanoke soon after the new year. Barbee will keep his Graham home. his office is in Roanoke. He came to Graham in 1887 and to Falls Mills in the 1880s with Samuel Walton, later becoming president of Walton Construction Co., whose headquarters moved to Roanoke. The firm currently holds multiple grade contracts with Norfolk and Western.
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Graham
L. J. Barbee
Roanoke
Barbee
Falls Mills
Samuel Walton
Walton
Walton Construction Co
Norfolk and Western
Miss Sallie Litz Heads Toward Grand Opera
Graham girl Miss Sallie Litz is predicted to sing grand opera by New York vocal expert Professor Witherspoon. She studies under Witherspoon and Madame Florence Heinke in New York and Bristol, living in Graham with her mother Mrs Sallie Litz.
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Sallie Litz
Graham Girl
Witherspoon
New York
Professor Witherspoon
Miss Litz
8. T. Litz
Graham
Head of Elk Driven Out of Mountains by Fire
Farmers welcomed Tuesday rain as forest fires in the Blue Ridge near Troutville forced elk herds to flee. The elk, released years ago by Virginia’s Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, were driven from their habitat by fires burning Sunday and Monday.
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Graham
Blue Ridge
Troutville
Department of Game and Inland Fisheries of
Virginia
West Graham to Add Three Major Industries and Lumber Plant
West Graham will host three major industries with a new furnace already operating. The West Graham Foundry and Keys Planing Mill Company will run at full capacity alongside a belt mill near the new baseball park. A band saw may be added in the west end, with railroad sidings sought to serve a prospective lumber plant and a tramway planned to East River Mountain for timber extraction.
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West Graham
West Graham Foundry
Keys Planing Mill Company
West End
East River Mountain
Pickwick Pool Room Changes Hands
T Benbow yesterday purchased the Pickwick Pool Room fixtures and business from E G Harman and took charge immediately. Harman opened the pool room in 1918 and the enterprise is said to have prospered. Benbow, a known city real estate dealer, will focus on real estate and appoint a manager to run the pool hall. St Clairs School Boy Basket Ball Team Seeks Games. St Clairs School has a boys team ready for games, listing players K Harvey H Croy D Fee J Burress A Davis R Davis C Croy and C Harvey. Requests for opponents may be sent to A Nelson Davis West Graham Va.
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T. Benbow
Pickwick Pool Room
E. G. Harman
St. Clairs School
K. Harvey
H. Croy
D. Fee
J. Burress
A. Davis
R. Davis
Croy
C. Harvey
A. Nelson Davis
West Graham
Graham Personal Notice of Victor Devault Honeymoon Return
Mr and Mrs Victor Lee Devault returned from their honeymoon to a welcome at the station by many friends. The bride was greeted warmly by the crowd and celebrations followed at home.
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Victor Lee Devault
Local notes mention Galloway and Graham figures in town
Former Miss Mary Galloway, a well known city lady, is noted with her family. Clarence Boyd Galloway, a Graham College football player, is confined to his room with a heavy cold. Mrs Henry Beckett of Chase City visited relatives and returned home. C K Patty and J A Strickland came back from Roanoke after a business trip. Palace announces Monday Way Down Fast all star society entertainers.
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Mary Galloway
Jdannes
J. A. Strickland
Roanoke
Say It With Flowers Slogan originator recalls creation
Boston, Dec. 6. P F O Keefe, head of a Boston advertising agency, explains how the slogan Say It With Flowers originated in 1917. He advised Cleveland publicity officials for the Society of American Florists, drawing on a line about the language of flowers to craft a twentieth century phrase to encourage flower buying.
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Boston
Mass
O’keee
Society of American Florists
Cleveland
Mr. O'Keefe
Eec
Coxes
Rds
Lady Named Second Assistant Secretary of Railroad
Emma S. Redel of Minneapolis has been appointed assistant secretary of the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad, becoming the second woman to reach such a rail line post. She has served since 1908 as a stenographer, then chief clerk in the law department, and later chief clerk in the president's office, often handling finances and operations in the presidents’ absence.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Emma S. Redel
Minneapolis and St. Louis
W. H. Bremmer
E. E. Nash
Miss Redel
Joint-base Relief for Swollen Joints Claims Fast Action
An advertisement touts Joint-base as a remedy for swollen stiff joints across the body including ankle knee hip elbow shoulder and spine. The claim states it soothes pain in two seconds by penetrating skin and tissue to reach bone and ligaments and urges shoppers to ask Goodykoontz Drug Co. or any reliable druggist.
Napkin Etiquette at Table Manners Guide
A etiquette note instructs well bred diners to place a half unfolded napkin on the lap during meals and leave it laid on the table when rising. It warns against refolding or tucking the napkin into clothing or dropping it into the finger bowl or near the coffee cup.
Hall Mills Case Joins Unsolved Crimes Pigeonhole
In New Brunswick on December 5 the Hall Mills murder case, featuring Rev Edward Wheeler Hall and singer Eleanor Mills, was added to the ranks of infamous unsolved mysteries. Criminologists note the lack of indictments and compare it with Dorothy Arnold and Joseph Elwell cases, while Dorothy Arnold vanished December 12, 1910 and remains unsolved after extensive searches.
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Edward Wheeler Hall
Joseph Elwell
Dorothy Arnold
New Brunswick
N. J
Hall-Mills
Hdward Wheeler Hall
Eleanor
Unsolved Deaths Weigh on 1920 Murders Mystery
The Elwell case remains unresolved years after the June 11 1920 murder in his New York apartment with a forehead bullet wound. The “death by own action” theory has been dropped and no killer has been found. The article notes other famous unsolved crimes including William Desmond Taylor’s February murder.
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Joseph Bowne Elwell
Elwell
New York
Hall
Mills
William Desmond Taylor
Los Angeles
American supplies arrive near East for refugee relief
One thousand tons of refugee aid for Turkey has been unloaded at Seloniki under KR M Davidson, Near East Relief local rep from Ashland Kentucky. Kavalla relief work is led by American tobacco men while Dedeagac is directed by Dr W W M Wright of Philadelphia overseeing the effort.
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Seloniki
Turkey
American Red Cross
United States
KR. M. Davidson
Ashland
Kentucky
Kavalla
W. W. M. Wright
Philadelphia
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Trinity
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Lewiseburn
Cunningham Springless Shade Co
Greensboro, N. C
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Henry Ropein Co. Jewelers
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