Two Meet Death in Auto Plunge Near Bristol
Charles W. Cash and Jace Bondurant, both of Bristol, died in a Sunday night automobile plunge near Denver Creek close to Bristol. The wreckage was found by a passing motorist. Cash had lived in Bluefield recently and worked for the Norfolk and Western railway. Funeral services are planned in Bristol today.
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Charles W. Cash
Bristo
Dinfield
Jace Bondurant
Bristol
Denver
Ereek
Bluefield
Caeh
Norfolk and Western Railway
W. L. Cash
Cash
Ruth Carey
Buffalo
N. Y
Harod Cash
J. W. Cash
Ernest Cash
C. W. Frances
H. B. Kitte
Matt Shorter
Bernard Cash
Williamson
Young Bondurant
L. A. Dunn
Henry Bondurant
Bondurant
Mrs J T Carey Injured In Fall At Son's Home
Mrs J T Carey suffered a fracture of the left hip after a fall while descending a stairway at her son Arthur G Carey's house 212 Union street Bluefield Roanoke native. She was taken to the Bluefield sanitarium and doctors reported her condition as satisfactory after the incident on Sunday morning.
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Union Street
J. T. Ca
Roanoke
Bluefield
Carey
Arthur G
James Carey
J. T. Carey
Easten Cereral
Murder mystery aboard boarding house escalates in New York tale
Emma Uogarth, inmate at Mrs Rhodes boarding house, is strangled. Detective Bonnie Dundle aids police as former boarder Emil Savier is suspected. Cora Barker is arrested as a material witness, later found dead. Suspects include Henry Down Norma Paige Walter Styles Bert Magnu Daisy Shepherd Sally Graves Dan Griffin and Sevier implicates Dondee and Cora. Griffin is charged with both killings.
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Emma Uogarth
Norma Paige
Walter Styles
Griffin
Rhodes
Down
New York Jones
Sevier
Tuesday
Mrs. Howarth
Cora
Dondee
Daisy
Wheeler
Magnus
Coroner Probes Tragedy as Bert Maenus Testifies
Coroner Price questions Bert Maenus about events Saturday night. The witness, badly aged by recent trauma, recalls focusing on rewriting his script More to Be Pitied and missing a theatre appointment with Miss Barker. He shows strain as he describes the fatal night.
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Cora Barker
Revelations Unfold in Hogarth Case With Cora Barker
Bert Magnus testifies that Cora Barker admitted planning with Emil Sevier to rob Mrs. Hogarth and that Barker tried to warn her of danger. Barker allegedly left a diary page torn and feared exposure while Sevier pressed for the crime. The coroner hints at further testimony as Emil Sevier is brought in.
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Mrs. Hogarth
Cora Barker
Dr. Price
Miss Barker
Bert Magnus
Cora
Bert
Mr. Mangus
Sevier
Laquire
Magnus
Brede
Emil Sevier
McClaren Named On Road Builders Directorate
Fifteen directors were elected at the West Virginia Road Builders association annual dinner to meet tomorrow for officer elections and to choose the 1930 convention site. The slate includes three directors from each of five divisions of the state road commission, with toastmaster CoR. Morgan and speakers C. E McCoy and George E. White among the attendees. The event drew about 100 members and the convention ends tomorrow.
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Charlestown
W. Va
Dee
West Virginia Road Builders Association
State Road Commission
B. W. Early
Clay
J. K. Monroe
Lewisburg
J. M Dunbar
Frankford
J. M. Oliver
Huntington
Brits Propose Open Annual Tennis Tournament
London officials report the British Lawn Tennis Association recommended to the International Federation that one open tournament be held yearly allowing amateurs to meet professionals. Similar action has been taken by United States tennis officials.
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London
British Lawn Tennis Association
International Lawn Tennis Federation
United States
Bland Street Methodist Church Buys New Parsonage
The Bland Street Methodist Episcopal Church South board of stewards contracted to purchase the M. G. Whitlow home at 2309 South Bland Street for 15 000 dollars to serve as the parsonage. Possession is to be available by January 20 with the old parsonage on Russell Street to be remodeled or sold to fund the new residence. Reverend S W Hayne awaits stewards action to move from Knoxville Tennessee.
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Bland Street
Christmas Pageant Set At Bland Street Church
Dr. B W Hayne of Bland Street Methodist announces a unique Christmas pageant by the church Sunday school on Monday evening December 23. Elizabeth Shelton directs rehearsals with the young people handling costumes decorations and lighting for a grand scale production portraying the Christmas story to engage all ages. Parents are urged to plan ahead so their children may attend this special event.
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8. W. Hayne
Bland Street Methodist Church
Elizabeth Shelton
Two Bus Franchises Approved and Denied by WV Commission
The West Virginia road commission granted Blue & Gray Transit a Charleston to Parkersburg route via Ripley and denied their Sissonville to Mason City service. It approved West Virginia Transportation Company for a Point Pleasant to Ripley line and denied its Charleston Parkersburg plan.
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Charleston
State Road Commission
F. C. Sanders
Blue & Gray Transit Company
Parkersburg
Ripley
West Virginia Transportation Company
Charleston-Parkersburg
Point Pleasant
Blue & Gray Line
Sissonville
Mason City
Garment Workers Approve $600000 Strike Fund Plan
Delegates at the International Ladies Garment Workers union convention authorize a $600000 strike fund for two years. The plan, approved unanimously, would collect $5 yearly from each of the 65000 members to cover potential strikes and a portion to clear union debt.
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Garment Workers
Cleveland
International Ladies Garment Workers Union
4 H Club Leadership Trophy Awarded at Chicago Exposition
Theodore Lorenz of Hitchcock Oklahoma and Lois Bailey of Eugene Oregon received the leadership contest trophy at the International Livestock Exposition in Chicago.
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Theodore Lorenz
Hitchcock, Okla
Mies Lois Bailey
Eugene, Ore
Chicago
Miss Ollie Smith Dies Near Raven Va
Miss Ollie Smith 18 daughter of Mr and Mrs James Smith Red Root Ridge near Raven Va died Sunday night at home from a long mangnan ailment. She became blind deaf and dumb during childhood and never developed. Survived by parents several brothers and sisters one brother in grave condition with bone erysipelas. Funeral from parents home today with burial in family burying ground.
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Ollie Smith
James Smith
Redroot Ridge
Raven
Car Tumbles on Slippery Richlands Road
James Wilson of near Richlands Virginia escaped serious injury when his car slid on a slick stretch on the Richlands Jeweidge road a few miles north of Richlands. The vehicle was badly damaged but Wilson suffered only a minor finger injury.
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James Wilson
Richlands
Richlands-Jeweidge
Wilson
Construction man pinned under car at Cedar Bluff
Fred Tate of Lambert Construction narrowly escaped serious injury when his Chevrolet roadster collided with another machine and went over an embankment opposite the Cedar Bluff Blanket Mills in Cedar Bluff Virginia. Tate was pinned beneath his car until a passing motorist alerted rescuers. The other vehicle fled the scene.
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Fred Tate
Lambert Construction Company
Cedar Bluff
Tate
Student Birdman Makes Solo Hop In Bluefield Aeronautics
Clyde Smith of 1924 Vineyard Street earned his first solo flight at the local flying field near Bluefield airport last Saturday. Maj. Otto Camp, H. S. Howard, Frank Houston, and Fred Wetzel attended a dinner at the West Virginian hotel celebrating the event. Several students have soloed recently and Bluefield is expected to produce a new flock of aviators by next summer as others prepare for license examinations.
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Clyde Smith
Vineyard Street
Bluefield
West Virginian
Maj
Otto H. Camp
Pocahontas Air Transport Corporation
H. S. Howard
Frank Houston
Fred Wetzel
Rock Hurl by Playmate Injures Lowe Boy
Glenn Settles 10 of Lowe West Virginia was struck by a rock thrown by a playmate on Sunday afternoon. He lies at the Binefield sanitarium with a skull fracture. Doctors say the injury was accidental and his condition is hopeful for recovery.
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Glenn Settles
Lowe
W. Va
Binefield Sanitarium
How To Relieve Sick Headaches In 3 Minutes
A North Carolina druggist touts a remedy named B C that promises instant relief from headaches and other pains. The ad claims five ingredients work together to relieve pain quickly with no bad after effects and can be obtained at drug stores or soda fountains.
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North Carolina
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Manaoser
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40Th ST
New York City
Ghoston American Hotel
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Hes Dent
Dundee
Rhodes House
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