Dolls Through Time Reflect Culture And Christmas Cheer
The article traces dolls from ancient idols to modern playthings, noting the high production of dolls in the United States and their role as a cherished Christmas gift. It highlights how dolls evolved from religious icons to widely enjoyed toys, with increasing craftsmanship and emotional significance for children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Santa Claus
Capitoline Museum
Rome
St. Agnes
Pericles
Igher
Puers
America
Blue Eagle Plan to Extend into Next Year
The NRA announced the voluntary re employment pledge will continue into next year with only a tiny share of about 1 in 10,000 of 3,000,000 employers displaying the blue eagle deliberately violating the code. NRA chief Hugh S. Johnson cited 311 complaints to Washington, thousands settled locally, and highlighted wage and payroll gains in October as evidence of the program’s impact.
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Washington
NRA
Hugh S. Johnson
Tocal
Moro Manufacturing Company
New Orleans
Convicts maim selves to gain transfer to Huntsville
Three prisoners at Retrieve state prison farm Texas reportedly maimed themselves to obtain transfer to the Huntsville penitentiary where work is heavier. Julius Koch, Melvin Underwood, and Harry Bertoline harmed their left hands in separate incidents. Warden Waid calls it laziness, not brutality, and notes a prior case involving Clyde Barrow.
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Houston
Tex
Retrieve
Julius Koch
Huntsville
Melvin Underwood
Wellington
Harry Bertoline
Fort Worth
Hunteville Penitentiary
Ike Kelley
Underwood
Brazos River
Gulf
W. W. Waid
State Penitentiary
Ward
Clyde Barrow
Eastham Farm
Barrow
Aeaearree
Community Christmas Tree Fundraiser Aids Bluefield Children
Bluefield hosts a WHIS sponsored program to raise funds for needy children. organizers urge local support to ensure no child faces hardship this holiday season.
Christmas Tree Funds Sought On WHIS Broadcast
Bluefield seeks 1500 donations to aid 1500 needy children via the Community Christmas tree appeal on WHIS. The 1 PM program features Hunter Redeheaver, Eddie Galloway’s orchestra, and 20 plus local performers with readings and skits to reach the goal before dusk.
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Bluefield
WHIS
Hunter Redeheaver
Siger
Melvin Barnett
Eddie Galloway
Bluefield Telephone Company
T. O.J. Wilson
Mercer Woman Held in Shooting at Modoc Home
Mrs Vernie Arrington of Modoc Mercer county is hospitalized at Memorial hospital Princeton with three pistol wounds after a shooting at the Arrington home Saturday night. Mrs Oscar Woolwine of Modoc was arrested on the shooting charge by county officers. Sheriff J C Fanning said cause of the trouble was not yet learned.
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Vernie Arrington
Modoc
Mercer County
Memorial Hospital
Princeton
Oscar Woolwine
Arlington
J.C Fanning
Kentucky Governor Orders Tobacco Warehouses Closed
Governor Ruby Laffoon issued a proclamation calling for all Kentucky tobacco warehouses to close until acreage reduction and price adjustments can be implemented by the federal government.
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Frankfort
Ruby Laffoon
Kentucky
Railroads Seek Huge Equipment Order T: Railroads To Place Big Equipment Order
New York December. inquiries by Van Sweringen lines indicate a $25 million rolling stock order, largest in years, covering Chesapeake and Ohio New York Chicago and St Louis Erie and Nickel Plate systems. C and O seeks 800 fifty ton box cars and 4 500 sixty ton hoppers among others. Erie plans 125 seventy ton flats and 500 fifty ton auto cars. Nickel Plate lists locomotives and a wide mix of freight cars including gondolas and livestock cars.
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New York
van Sweringen
Chesapeake and Ohio
Chicago and St. Louis
Erie
C. and O
Lehigh Valley
Tragic hunting accident claims Tazewell man
Matthew Barrett 21, employed by Pocahontas Fuel, died after a rabbit hunting accident near Tip Top Virginia. The bullet from 15 year old Charles Vaughn struck Barrett in the left side, causing mortal wounds. Barrett died at Bluefield sanitarium, the first hunting fatality in the area this season.
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Matthew Barrett
Pocahontas Fuel Company
Charles Vaughn
Iron Lithia Spring
Tip Top
Barrett
Bluefield
Vaughn
Frank Pyott
Tazewell
D. R. .Barrett
Horsepen
Tazewell County
Virginia
Abbs Valley
Major General O'Ryan to Head New York Police
Mayor elect LaGuardia tapped World War II era General John F. O'Ryan to command New York City's 19 000 police. O'Ryan led the 27th Division in France and will become police commissioner succeeding James S. Bolan. Fire Chief John J. McElligott will be elevated to fire commissioner when the administration starts January 1.
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New York
Fiorello H
LaGuardia
Fusion
John J. McEiligott
Woman 3 Found Guilty in Torch Murder of Husband
Estranged wife Mal Hanson 34 found guilty by a Rockford Illinois circuit court jury of murdering Marl Hanson 42. She received a 14 year sentence after nearly two weeks of testimony focusing on her diary and letters. the verdict followed a plot to torch his car last August near her home.
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Rockford
Ill
Mal Hanson
Marl
Hanson
Robert EB. Nash
Goembel
June
Lindberghs Return Home to Florida After Long Flight
The Lindberghs land at Miami International Airport after a 900 mile hop from San Pedro returning to North America for the first time since July. Crowds cheer as Col Lindbergh and his wife travel by motorcade to a Miami Beach hotel while planning a New York departure, with their plane undergoing overhaul.
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Miami
Fla
International Airport
San Pedro
Dominican Republic
New York
North Atlantic
Europe
Africa
South Atlantic
Brazil
West Indies
Florida
Lindberghs
Lindbergh
Miami Beach
Ocean Front
Page Nine
Four Seamen Missing After Ellen T MershaI Fire
Four men believed adrift in a dory after the Gloucester fishing schooner Ellen T. Mershall burned off Cape Sable Nova Scotia. Three known dead include Joseph White Tran John Hines and Vincent Musie. The search by US cutter Mojave Royal Canadian police cutters and Danish steamer Lars Kruse continues. Captain Hines recalls the sudden blaze and crew actions.
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Gloucester
U. S
Royal Candian
Halifax
N. S
Atlantic
Ellen T. Mershall
Cape Sable
Lars Kruse
Seal Island
Joseph White
Malden
Maée
Tran John Hines
Boston
Vincent Musie
William Beasley
Mass
John Clements
A. Reynolds
Lunenre N. S
George Esma
Boson
United States
Mojave
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Yarmouth
Hines
Boston American
Mob abducts Black man from Nashville relatives in lynching
Columbia Tennessee December reports say Cold Creek an 18 year old Negro abducted from relatives in Nashville after release from jail. He was found hanged from a cedar tree in Glendale. Sheriff Bauman called the kidnapping one of the most high handed acts. Investigation continued with no suspects.
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Columbia, Tenn
Cold Creek
Here
Nashville
L. A. Bauman
Bauman
Cheek
U. S
W. A. Pingston
Glendale
Death claims two noted novelists Vance and Chambers
New York reports the deaths of Louis Joseph Vance at 54 and Robert W Chambers at 68. Vance perished in a apartment fire likely caused by a cigarette while Chambers died after an operation at Doctors Hospital. Investigations consider heart attack as a possible cause for Chambers’ collapse.
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Robert W. Chambers
New York Hospital
Joseph Vance
New York
Louis Joseph Vance
Robert W.chambers
Vance
Chambers
Doctors’ Hospital
Chambere
Checks For Teachers Mailed By West Virginia Boards
Christmas money for teachers began moving today as West Virginia mailed 1,256,376 in checks to 55 county school boards. The boards will issue individual salary checks for the third month of the school year, funded by bank loans after the state anticipated delays before year’s end.
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Charleston
W. Va
Tax Dodger Warning Targets Storekeepers and Farmers
Local grocers and butchers were warned that handling from producers of flour pork and other commodities subject to the processing tax can lead to conspiracy prosecutions if the tax is unpaid Under AAA rules farmers may process for family or employees without tax but sales for others trigger the tax Slaughterers selling hogs must file a November 30 live weight return by December 31 and pay the tax due upon filing
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AAA
Sach
Tax ruling stalls West Virginia legislators in Charlestown
In Charlestown West Virginia the legality of the tax collection act is under review with the state supreme court. The legislature faces potential changes to debt assumptions and levy limits as the court decides. The tax act and kidnapping as capital crime top the session agenda amid plans to adjourn after Christmas. Checks for unpaid teachers were issued from a $1 million loan secured by Governor Kump.
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Charlestown
W. Va
Supreme Court
Senate
House
Kanawha County
Tragedy at Peerless Coal Camp: Deputy Sheriff Wounded
A fatal clash at Peerless Hill near Kimball leaves Deputy G C Stringer 50 dead and Ed Wheeler 21 fatally shot. Deputy L K Cruise is wounded with bullet wounds to both legs and loses part of an ear as miners resist arrest after a disturbance started by Lewis Wheeler. State police investigate. Cruise had prior fatal self defense shooting two months earlier.
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L. K. Cruise
Peerless
Ed Wheeler
McDowell County
Kimball
G. C. Stringer
Bottom Creek
Stevens Clinic
Lewis Wheeler
Cruise
Wheeler
Peerless Hill
Stringer
Stevens
Welch
Peerless Coal and Coke Company
George Crawford Receives Life Sentence in Virginia Murder
Leesburg Virginia December 16 a jury awarded life imprisonment to George Crawford a Negro for the murder of Mrs Boeing Lisley a prominent Middleburg resident. Crawford was taken to Richmond under guards to serve life in the state penitentiary after the verdict. the state had sought the death penalty.
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Leesburg
George Crawford
Boeing Lisley
Middleburg
Richmond
State Penitentiary
Election Protest Petitions Mailed by Steel Workers
Edward W. Miller said he is airmailing 253 petitions and affidavits from Weirton Steel employees to the national labor board alleging coercion and intimidation in a company union election. He claimed workers lacked a fair chance to vote and that ballots were controlled.
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Pittsburgh
Edward W. Miller
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers
National Labor Board
Weirton Steel Company
Miller
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National Museum
Johnson
Mercer
Verne Arrington
Tazewell Man
Mathew Barrett
O’ryan
May Hanson
San Pedroz
Pado
M'Dowell
Miner
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