Graham Daily News Campaign Quiet Ahead of Graham Election
Graham municipal election occurs Tuesday to select mayor city treasurer and town council members. Fourteen candidates vie for council, seven current council members seek re election. New contenders include Poindexter Neikirk Boyd Nash Baugh Roberts Huf ford Mathews Yost Fink Graham Anderson and Frazier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. EK. Nash
W. F. Baugh
J. W. Roberts
N. Hufford
R H. Mathews
J. B. Yost
W. J. Fink
J. B. Graham
J. R. Anderson
H. B. Frazier
Appetite Returns With Peruna Tonic
An advertisement extols Peruna as a remedy for loss of appetite and malaise. It claims a tea spoonful before meals revives interest in food and improves digestion, with testimonials of thousands. The copy promotes Peruna tablets as an alternative to liquid medicine and emphasizes natural tonic effects.
Appalachian Power Company seeks Bramwell WV franchise
The Appalachian Power Company applies to Bramwell town council for a franchise to construct operate and maintain electric transmission lines and distribution within Bramwell West Virginia. The application is on file with the town recorder and a public hearing may follow after thirty days from the first publication.
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Appalachian Power Company
Virginia
West Virginia
Bramwell
Ramwell
Herbert Markle
Graham Va Mayoral and Treasurer Candidates Announced
To the voters of Graham Virginia R B Williamson announces candidacy for mayor in the June 9 election and seeks support. J E Morton announces candidacy for town treasurer and asks for votes. H C Callaway also declares for mayor and requests voter backing.
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Graham
R. B. Williamson
J. EB. Morton
H. C. Callaway
Palmer denial of bond proceeds split between two banks
William Mitchell Sr. of Graham Virginia recounts a 1914 exchange about a bond issue. He claims R H Palmer stated he would divide town bond proceeds between First National Bank and another local bank if elected treasurer. Mitchell describes attempts to secure Palmer’s pledge with witnesses and notes Palmer’s supposed condition.
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Graham
R. H. Palmer
Daily Telegraph
Palmer
P Palmer
First National Bank
Cooley
WM. Mitchell
Mr. Mitchell
Mr. Wirborne
Mr. Palmer
Episcopal Services and Local Notices Across Communities
The field notes include a 1914 notary record by Wm. Mitchell and V. L. Sexton, with commission details. Epworthian Rev. FE. A. Ritch delivered the Chatham Female Institute graduation address and will preach in Pocahontas and Pounding Mill before heading to Tazewell. G. Mullen from Tazewell visits Graham to handle Falls Mills farm affairs, staying with aunt Amy Mullen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Mitchell
Mr. Palmer
V. L. Sexton
Wm. Mitchell, Sr
Co. H. Mahmood
FE. A. Ritch
Chatham
Chatham Female Institute
Rich
Pocahontas
Pounding Mill
Tazewell
G. M. Mullen
Graham
Amy Mullen
Falls Mills
Pictures in the Paper Through English Journal History
The New York Sun notes the evolution of illustrated journalism from the Mercurius Civilius during the English civil war to later illustrated broadsides and diagrams. It highlights 1683 frost fair Thames prints, Queen Mary II funeral depictions, Jacobite and South Sea Bubble caricatures, and 18th century periodical illustrations.
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Mercurius Civilius
England
Charles I
Cromwell
Prince Rupert
Thames
South Sea
Daily Post
Admiral Vernon
Porto Bello
St. James Chronicle
France
Gentlemen's Gazette
Edward Bright
Town and Country Magazine
New York Sun
Voice Cultivation and Cadence in Speech
A New York Sun passage on improving American speech through cadence and inflection. It argues for developing a mellower middle register and ear coordination to avoid monotony. The piece contrasts American and English speech in cadence and notes crowd cheering tendencies.
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson
New York Sun
A Tardy Act of Justice in Years Of Marital Sway
English actresses who wed high born suitors in the eighteenth century formed a pattern. Lavinia Fenton became Duchess of Bolton, Miss Sarren wed Lord Derby, Miss Brunton became Lady Craven, and the Earl of Peterborough publicly acknowledged Anastasia Robinson on his deathbed, a tardy justice that moved the singer to swoon.
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Lavinia Fenton
Polly Peachum
Gay
Duchess of Bolton
Miss S’arren
Lord Derby
Miss Brunton
Lady Craven
Lord Thurlow
Miss Bolton
the Earl of Peterborough
Anastasia Robinson
St. James’ Palace
The Luxury of Sugar in Diet History
Sugar's rise from luxury to daily staple reshaped European eating habits. The piece notes how tea coffee and sugar altered drinks and meals, reducing reliance on meat and ale. It reflects on sugar as a blessing despite modern overuse and compares breakfast beverages and cereals with beef and beer traditions.
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Europe
Boston Herald
Freshman’s Erratic Sketch of Alexander the Great
A high school freshman offered an improvised account of Alexander the Great describing him as quick tempered and prone to anger after drinking. He claimed Alexander killed his best friend and, in grief, did what he could to help turn his friend’s fate, though the phrasing shows unfinished thoughts and errors.
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Alexander the Great
Alexander
Civic club meeting closes well along with library notes
The Friday session led by Mrs. F L Black approved library board changes with Mra Hudgins resigning and Mrs H C Weller and Mrs H U W Lee nominated. New members Mrs T Henry Becker and Mrs Sid Hatcher joined as the club planned a yearbook, while funds redirected from a closed Federal street rest room supported other aims.
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Civic Club
F. L. Black
Heek
Treasuer
Federal Street
Mra
Edwin Mann
Proposed Visiting Nurse for Bleefield Aims by October
Civic club plans to place a visiting nurse in Bleefield by October to aid the unfortunates with medical care and home hygiene. The effort mirrors Richmond programs, with no charge to the poor, and requires physician involvement for ongoing cases and coordination with attending doctors.
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The
Civic Club
Bleefield
Richmond
Nurses’ Settlement
Old Dominion Hospital
Bluefield
Visiting Nurse Association
Kindergarten Exercises Delight Local Audience
Bland Street church hosted a Friday evening kindergarten recital by Miss Blanch Miller's class. The program featured "A Day in Grandmother's Garden" with sixteen costumed tots as flowers insects and critters, plus "Topsy-Turvy" and "The Foreign Waitresses" to strong encores.
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Bland Street
Blanch Miller
Grandmother’s Garden
Martha Alden
Dorothy Burks
Jaret Mason
Sweet Pea
Pavsie Hawley
Mary Elizabeth Martie
Daisy
Margaret Frazier
Dorothy Beals
Pink
Louise Ruff
Ragged Robin
Dorothy Henderson
Pansy
Nancymith
Rose
Catherine Stahlmann
Auction Bridge Luncheon Hosted by Mrs. Black in Vivian
Mrs. John R. Black of Vivian entertained on Wednesday at an auction bridge luncheon for guests from Lynchburg Bluefield Graham Kimball Powhatan and Vivian. The rooms were decorated with cut flowers and greenery. fruit punch was served and music provided by a vietrola during a luncheon following card play.
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Jluefield Society
Pasteek
George M. McCulloch
G. M. McCulloch
Aleo
F. L. Wilson
Louise Wilson
Portland
Ore
Wilso
Wilson
Wilner
R . Carreatt
F. J. Brown
W. BE. Gilkerson
W. If. Strair
Sesiing
T. E. Peery
C. O. Wright
James M.nn
Vincent Poolicho
C. C. Jenkins
S. M. Bernard
Ruth McClaugherty
Sallie Sanders
Hazel Becker
Florence Uecker
Lucy Shirey
Mary and
Ghys Jenkins
Hal Jorary
Auction Bridge
John R. Black
Vivian
Shawn Morris
Lynchburg
James William Overstreet
Bluefield
Ethel Killey
W. B. Harris
J. Clark Killey
Walter L. Shields
T. A. Newton
Reception for Mrs McCulloch and Mrs Wilson
Mrs Harry Charleton will host a Thursday afternoon reception in compliment to Mrs Geo M McCulloch Jr and Mrs F P Wilson of Portland Oregon.
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Harry Charleton
Geo. M. McCulloch, Jr
FP. L. Wilson
Portland
Oregon
Three Children Die in Simmon’s Fire Tragedy
Mrs. Wiley Belcher, wife of a Nor folk miner, returned home to find her Sim mons residence in ashes. Three children aged one to five were found dead in the ruins after the blaze at noon. The cause of the fire at the Belcher home near the Booth Bowen tipple is not known.
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Wiley Belcher
Norfolk
Poeshontsas Consolidated Colliries Company
Simmons
Booth-jowen Tipple
Booth-Bowen Tipple
Belcher
Blood purifier claim for all disorders of the blood
An advertisement extols a product named 8. 8. A. as the world’s cure for all blood disorders. It promises to move every cell and flush impurities, urging readers to request personal blood tests from the Swift Specie Co. in Atlanta Georgia and obtain a bottle of S. S. S. today.
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Siwertal
Swift Specie Co
Swift Building
Atlanta
Huerta vows to quit office with no strings attached
Report recounts that Huerta promises to resign without conditions while mediators and American delegates await Carranza’s response. If Natera leads to Mexico City, he would act with humanity toward captured federals. Washington signals cautious optimism as formal replies depend on Carranza information.
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Ng Natera
Sugur
Natera
Mexico City
Arranza
Huerta
United States
Washington
Mexico
Pole
Men of national prominence visit a small town
The article recalls Robert Owen and his reforms at New Lanark, describing his impact on workers, housing, and shops. It notes his influence on social planning, the interest of figures like the Duke of Kent and Nicholas I, and his move to America to found a cooperative community.
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Little Town
England
Owen
New Lanark
Scotland
Nicholas
Russia
Duke of Kent
Queen Victoria
America
Rappites
New World
New Harmony Community and Owen’s Socialist Experiments
The 1826 constitution established the New Harmony Community of Equality. Robert Owen proclaimed mutual independence from private property religion and marriage on July 4. Owen left New Harmony years later returning to London to continue social reform work. Despite initial failure the community persists as a monument to his philanthropy and hosts notable reformers through its century.
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New Harmony Community of Equality
Owen
London
New Harmony
Mr. Owen
Ex-Senator Irbys Son Dies by Self Inflicted Shot
Charleston June 6. G Pope Irby son of former U S Senator John L M Irby of South Carolina shot and killed himself at his farm home twelve miles from the city. Coroners verdict states buckshot caused the wounds. Irby was thirty two years old.
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Irby
Self
Charleston
S. C
G. Pope Irby
United States
John L. M. Irby
South Carolina
Senate committee reports on trust bills in stalled trade commission move
The Senate Interstate Commerce Committee voted to report only the trade commission bill among three trust legislation approved by the House. Many saw it as signaling limits to the administration's program in this session of Congress.
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Waehingten
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Trade Commission
House
Congress
Militants Fire Mansion Near High Wycombe
Militants from the suffragette movement set fire to a fine mansion near High Wycombe, about thirty miles from London, continuing their arson campaign. The incident occurred in June as authorities investigated the blaze.
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Viery
London
High Wycombe
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Graham Daily News
Eering
Telegraph
J. C. Nelson
Bank OF Graham Graham
A. G. Hall
Duke
Daily News
Graham Town
Williamson
Roth
William Mitchell
WY. L. Sexton
Women’s Clubs
Library Board
Civic Else
Poppy
Mary Gordon Perkins
Damble Dees
Oscar Deyerle
David Thornhill
Shirley Trown
Hampton St. Clair
Sidney Bernard
Warry Goodson
Joe Ruff
Toad
John Alden
Milly Gilkerson
Poly Wood
Bobby Garrett
Billie Williams
Toulah Sutter
Katherine Markle
Helen Martin
Theresa Turk
Fenton Smith
Moutain Stream
Lucile Garrett
Marion Garrett
James Borden
Witt Mancork
William McCauley
Hill and Pale
Lorien Smith
Maude Rey- Nolda
Pollosnilss
Roxie [Pruce
Gnes Hinchee
Mae Patterson
Sejertion
Lilian Hawley
Frances Hutcherson
James Orden
Maalish
Katherine Markie
Elise Dever O
Louise Smith
Mary Chester Goody- Koontz
Marlon Garrett
Souvenir de Travatore
Bride
Mother
Union Bank & Trust Co
Armature
Hienora
Power House & Specialty
A. L. Smith
Bloefield
W. V
C. L. Ritz
Law
Ad Commerce Building
Bluefield, W. Va
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