Gridiron Club Stages Election Night Parody
The Gridiron Club staged a humorous election night performance lampooning politicians and events. Cast included “Joan of Arc” as Albert Beveridge and a Bull Moose mock battle ending with humorous political jabs and song. The event featured Carmen and a spoof Don Jorge Perkinsario with a chorus of club members in full costume.
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Joan of Arc
Albert J. Beveridge
Mary
Saul
Washington
Bizet
Don Jorge Perkinsario
Chile Concarne
Garthen
Taft
United States
Carmen
Roberto Lafolletite
Bull Mose
Champ Clarkie
Bill Bryan
Bill
Don Tafio
Vali
Don Jorge
Don Tafiio
Hilles
Local residents and visitors noted in Tazewell region
Capt Tynes appears youthful and active at a dinner party. Rev D P Hurley and family arrive as the new presiding elder. The YW Witten returns to Grundy. J N Harman Jr leaves for Welch to practice law. Mrs John E Jackson visits Amheret county. Margaret in Lynchburg Women’s College. Mrs J W Whitley hosts. Mrs J B Meek returns from Salem with daughter Ethel at Roanoke Woman's College. Mrs J T Barnes and children return from Salem. W A Newberry visits from Bland. Judge W J Henson of Roanoke attends court. Bland Lesiie from Clinch Valley News spends weekend in Richmond. Georg Moss of New York visits his parents in jurkes Garden.
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Capt.Tynes
D. P. Hurley
Emory & Kenry
Tazewell
JE. YW. Witten
Sand Valley News
Grundy
J. N. Harman, Jr
Welch
John E. Jackson
Amheret County
Margaret
Woman’s College
Lynchbur
J. W. Whitley
North Tazewel
William Whitley
Graham
J. B. Meek
Salem
Ethel
Roanoke Woman's College
J. T. Barnes
Tazewell County
W. A. Newberry
Bland
W. J. Henson
Roanoke
Farewell to Taft Echoes in Ohio Song and Chorus
The piece recalls a farewell to President Taft with verses and a chorus about Ohio. It mentions Cincinnati and Vine Street with electric lights and a sense of national farewell as friends in Columbus and Washington reflect on the distant Ohio connection.
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Moose
the & BP. A
Don Woodrow
Woodrow
Taft
Ohio
Cinecinnati
Vine Street
Rhine
Washington
Broad
Potomac
Fountain Square
Portrays Southern Life Opie Read to Speak at High School
Opie Read, a southern author, will address the Bluefield high school audience on December 12, 1912, sharing beloved southern tales from his twenty books. Admission is fifty cents, children thirty-five cents. Also note endorsements of SAUER'S PURE FLAVORING EXTRACTS by food chemists.
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THE
Swift Specific CO
Atlanta, GA
Opie Read
Southland
Bluefield
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John M. Wirgman
Philadelphia
Easley & West Bluefield
W. Va
West Virginia Armature Company
Superior Supply Company
A. UL. Smith
Nanager
Bluenield
W.A
Royal Steam Laundry
Tazewell Lodge
Hi. Claude Pobst
S. M. I. Coulsing
J. Sam Bennett
Trasugory W. T. Gillespie
John 8Nllimere
James W. Harman
W. Bland Leslie
John 'S
Thompson
KE. Wiley
C. R. Brown
J. FE. Linkous
G. C. Reetor
Music Club
Posaic Crogkett
Sallie Harrison
Tot McCall
A. G. Russell
Mignon
Mabelle Greever
Avigon
Saint Saens
Hessie Crocket
Civic Improvement League
Court House
Tanewell County
J. N. Warman
Tasewell High School
Stinson
Kirlifith
Carrie Griffith
Dolph Stinson
Richlands
County
Encarcement
Richard Peters
Hope Conynaghim Peters
Ashby Henry
Philadelphia Ledger
Henry
R R N. Henry
Tasewell
Ster
Amoy Saate
Oone
Tavewell
Reese Kinder
Tavewell County
Newhampton
Missouri
J. Tynes
Gridiron Club
Aripides
Sopocles
Plato
Plutarch
Opie
Nat
Henry Rodgin Co
Jewelers
Opticians
Julius Kessler
W.h.msbrayer
Cedar Brook
Bond
W. H. McBrayer
Kentucky
Maryland
Pennsylvania
U. S
U.S
Gorham
Theodore Dilger
Bluefield Avenue
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