Christ's Triumphal Entry emphasizes humble kingship and heart allegiance
The weekly lesson on Luke 19 29 40 portrays Jesus entering Jerusalem on a colt to fulfill prophecy. It contrasts outward homage with inner devotion, urging personal surrender to Christ as Lord while noting his approaching suffering and sorrow for the city.
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Christ
Zacchaeus
Lord
Jesus
Jericho
Jerusalem
Sir Walter Raleigh
Queen Elizabeth
First Car Sold in 1925 Marks New Year at Bluefield Garage
Bluefield Garage salesmen celebrated New Year’s night by selling three automobiles as 1925 began. R L Brinsfield of Crumpler reportedly planned to sell the first car in the state, but fellow salesmen matched or surpassed the feat. Brinsfield sold an Essex coach to T N Penland of Ashland, D W Short delivered D K Bivens an Essex coach, and W C Byrd sold a Hudson sedan to Dr F W Lomax, making it a profitable start for the firm.
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Bluefield
R. L. Brinsfield
Crumpler
Brinsfield
T. N. Penland
Ashland
Essex
D. W
D. K. Bivens
W. C. Byrd
F. W. Lomax
Officers Too Busy To Check Up Offenders
Local officers, overwhelmed by 1925 license tag applications, could not leave the office to check 1924 plates. No arrests were made as enforcement of the new tag law began after January 1, with warnings from the state road commission. It will take a few more days before officers can check all cars bearing 1924 licenses.
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State Road Commission
Breakfast to Dinner Menu Notes for Health Rules
A menu lists breakfast items like grapen ham mush with prunes and creamed potatoes plus milk and coffee. Luncheon features creamed oysters on toast baked potatoes stewed celery and old fashioned apple cake. Dinner offers fried rabbit mashed potatoes sweet potato pie broiled parsnips pickled beets canned cherries and potato caramel cake. A health note says children under school age should not be served certain foods and that noon oysters reduce dinner meat need.
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California
Graham Mash With Prunes And Corn Bread Mix
Graham mash with prunes combines graham meal water salt and stewed prunes, boiled slowly then simmered overnight with added prune pieces in the morning. Corn bread uses corn meal flour baking powder salt molasses milk egg and melted butter mixed and cooked to rise.
Potato Caramel Cake Recipe Steps and Ingredients
A vintage style cake recipe outlines a potato caramel cake with ingredients such as milk flour sugar butter nuts hot mashed potato and chocolate. It describes creaming butter and sugar adding eggs and spices then folding in stiffly beaten egg whites and baking in two pans for forty minutes with no icing.
Thomas C Dooley Buried at Falls Mills Kentucky
Thomas C Dooley died December 18 at Lothair Kentucky after a ten day illness from pneumonia. He is survived by his second wife Ida Dooley and seven children from his first marriage, plus a brother and a sister. A retired mine foreman, he worked for Pritchard companies and Algoma Black Coal. Funeral by Masons and I O O F of Matoaka. Remains sent to Falls Mills Virginia for burial.
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T C. Dooley
W. B. Tabor
Lothair
Ida Dooley
Sarah Woodard
Minnie Davis
Red Jacket
Nettie Sublette
Williamson
Mary Hudgins
Crystal
Ruby Rutledge
Love
Clyde
Charles
James
Dry Branch
Betty Monahan
Princeton
Dooley
Baileye No. 137
Masons
Matoaka
Pocahontas
Pritchard Companies
Algoma Black Coal Company
Kentucky
Falls Mills
O. F
Matouka
Clergy thanks Klan members for gift at revival
A revival at the Pentecostal Holiness Church ended with a delegation arriving in robes to present Pastor J. R. Clowers a $25 gift. The pastor asks readers to thank the Klan for the gesture in the newspaper.
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Pentecostal Holiness Church
J. R. Clowers
Thanking friends for kindness after death and burial
Mrs. T. C. Dooley and family express gratitude for sympathy and flowers sent after the death and burial of their husband and father. They especially thank the Masonic Lodge and I. O. O. F. for support.
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Masonic Lodge
T. C. Dooley
Barber on River Barge Serves Artists in Paris
An exclusive barber shop for artists has opened on an abandoned barge in the Seine. The shop charges the town’s lowest rate, and patrons must demonstrate some achievement in the fine arts, no matter how small.
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Paris
Seine
Seven year old Falls Into Boiling Tar
In Little Rock Arkansas seven year old Thomas Shelton slipped into boiling tar used for road repairs and will be crippled for life. The incident highlights dangers of open tar during municipal maintenance.
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Little Rock
Ark
Thomas Shelton
West Virginia rises to twentieth in 1924 merch exports
State advances from twenty second to twentieth in the Department of Commerce third quarter rankings. West Virginia ships 5.88 million dollars, close to Missouri, with coal leading exports at 8.57 million. Nine months total reaches 30.01 million, placing WV behind Mississippi and ahead of Kentucky as the race for merchandise experts continues.
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West Virginia
King Coal
North Carolina
Kentucky
Mississippi
Missouri
Department of Commerce
Illinois
California
New Jersey
Louisiana
Michigan
Ohio
Massachusetts
Interesting facts on height, driving tests, and Marseillaise
The report notes that lowland men are taller than mountain men based on 30,301 Swiss recruits. It also foresees mandatory mental, vision, hearing, and decision tests for all drivers before license issuance. It adds the Marseillaise originated as Marseillais soldiers sang it during the French Revolution.
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Marseilles
Paris
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Thomas C. Dooley
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