World’s Fair popularity contest seeks Bluefield entries
The Daily Telegraph and Sunset News report a crowded field of about three hundred young women from Bluefield and nearby towns entering the World’s Fair popularity contest. Nominations close soon. supporters are urged to collect coupons, vote for favorites, and help four finalists win trips to the Chicago World’s Fair with visits to pavilions, shows, and replica African exhibits.
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Bluefield
Daily Telegraph
Sunset News
U. S. Army
Capetown Road
Directors Divide On Peddler Vote
The board split on refund denial for a peddler named Jones. Mayor Lilley cast the deciding vote after Directors McCue and Phelps held their positions while Sublett and Walk changed theirs. Jones sought recourse, offered up to 50 to pursue rights, and was told he could appeal as the city solicitor declined to advise further.
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Lilley
McCue
Phelps
Sublett
Walk
Jones
Disruptions Mark Four Year Board Administration
The solicitor signaled he would have advised against certain moves, marking another notable disruption in the board’s four year tenure. Earlier, the hawker and peddler ordinance had caused the first significant disturbance when it was introduced.
Cyrus H K Curtis Publisher Dies at 82 in Wyncote
Cyrus H K Curtis publisher of newspapers and magazines died at his suburban home in Wyncote after a long illness. He was in his eighty third year and had suffered from a heart ailment and age related infirmities.
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Philadelphia
Cyrus H. K. Curtis
Wyncote
Senator Worth Smith Visits Roanoke After Speech
State Senator W Worth Smith of Louisa spent the night in Roanoke after delivering a speech. He planned to visit Bristol next but warned plans might change. Civil and governmental aircraft in the United States used 54055431 gallons of gasoline and 1568523 gallons of oil in 1932.
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Roanoke
W. Worth Smith
Lousa
Bristol
United States
Rheumatism cure notice promises swift relief
An old world remedy named Allenia is advertised to ease pain and inflammation from excess uric acid within 48 hours. Allepru is touted as a guaranteed formula through Goodykoonts Drug Stores and other leading druggists with a generous notice offer and money-back assurance.
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Allenia
Allepru
Goodykoonts
Linen Dress Sale At Fretwell’s In City And Coalfield
Linen dress in green blue brown and maize sizes 36 to 44 discounted to 79 cents from $1 at Fretwell's. Also a round trip World's Fair air ticket offered at sacrifice price. Bailey Lumber announces a large paint shipment for lower prices. Summer violin course by Mrs Henry Rodgin, phone 1415.
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Fretwell's
Henry Rodgin
Phome
Clues Sought in Slaying of Two Women at Sea
Miami Beach investigators pursue clues in the slaying of Miss Lillian Howard and Mrs. Meyer Shapiro of Woodstock Va whose bodies were found in Dunfinding Bay Two garments picked up on a highway were examined including two shirts and two pairs of trousers A local witness reported the clothes falling from an automobile The stain is believed to be blood and laundry marks may identify the wearer Investigators abandoned a search for the sisters’ car found last week by a dredge crew
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Miami Beach
Fla
Lillian Howard
Meyer Shapiro
Woodstock
Dunfounding Bay
D. M. McPherson
Fulford
Emsiey
Miss Howard
Re. Shapiro
PRINGETON NAMES HARPER 19 MAYOR IN CITY ELECTION
In Charleston West Virginia on June 6 nearly 100 towns chose new municipal officers. The Democrats won the recorder post and four council seats while Henderson Mason county faced a tied race for mayor with S L Pierce Citizen Peoples one vote ahead of Robert Darst Independent.
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Charleston
W. Va
Henderson
Mason County
S. L. Pierce
Citizen- Peoples
Robert Darst
Edward Rustemeyer
Friendly
West Union
Recorder
Leon
Alderson
Ronceverte
F. E. Craig
Reedy News
Reedy
Clark Wright
People’s
J. F. House
Roberts
Judson McClung
A. L. Thrach
T. W. Lattimer
Ernest Fore
George T. Myles
Fayetteville
L. Ebersole Gaines
John L. Ryan
Citizens’ Party
R. J. Thrift
H. D. Propps
A. J. Duncan
G. Duncan
C. G. Janutolo
J. R. Gregory
C. C. Baker
Charles Lynch
Barboursville
C. C C. Swan
A. C. Blackwell
L. C. Hunter
G. L. Burgess
D. E B. Spencer
I. J. Adkins
J. B. Yoak
Wayne P. O. Simpkins
G. H. Keck
Homer de Haven
George Morey
Fred Warren
W. B. Schaeffer
Jane Lew
Roy Brown
R. E B. Jackson
Myn Bryan Watson
J. A. Grant
Cecia Johnson
West Mil
Pittsburgh Conference Elects Church Officers
Rev W L Wilkinson of Follansbee West Virginia was elected secretary of the annual Pittsburgh conference of the Methodist Episcopal church tonight. The conference opens tomorrow at the Bellevue Methodist Episcopal church with Bishop Adam W Leonard presiding.
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Pitteburgh
W. L. Wilkinson
Follansbee
W. Va
Pittehurgh
Methodist Episcopal Church
Bellevue Methodist Episcopal Church
Adam W. Leonard
C. C. Declines Permit Scrap Iron Rate Boost
The Interstate Commerce Commission today declined to permit railroads to increase freight rates on scrap iron. The decision was announced in Washington on June 6. No changes to existing rates will be allowed at this time.
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C. C
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Lynchburg Protest Halts Scrap Iron Rate Increase
Lynchburg chamber of commerce protested a proposed freight rate rise from $5.10 to $6.17 per ton on carloads from Lynchburg Virginia to Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. The commission suspended the higher rate until October 1 1933 and ruled the increase unjustified, ordering reinstatement of the previous scrap iron rate.
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Lynchburg
Pittsburgh
Oil amendment deemed useless by Ickes in oil control plan
Secretary Ickes called the Connally amendment useless as a substitute for the administration’s oil stabilization plan. He said it would fail to curb overproduction since it ties production to state law maxima, noting California lacks a true maximum and that several states set too high limits.
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Washington
Ickes
Connally
Senate Finance Committee
Secretary of Interior
Texas
California
World flier Mattern aims for Chita after Omsk stop
The aviator Mattern, delayed by post Gattie winds in Omsk, reports a cracked right landing strut but says he is fit and rested. He plans to fly to Chita if weather and conditions allow, otherwise to Krasnoyarsk, hoping to beat the 1931 Wiley Post Harold Gatty record.
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Jimmy Mattern
Wiley Post
Harold Gatty
Floyd Bennett Airport
New York
Siberia
Omsk
Moscow
Mattern
Etrut
Chita
Q Krasnoyarek
Leaders Seek Compromise On Budget Bill As White House Talks
Chairman Buchanan of the appropriations committee and President Roosevelt pursue a compromise on the administration’s cutback proposal. Speaker Rainey hopes to move the measure to conference with the Senate by Thursday or Friday. A White House note warns a $170 million tax-free rise could spark price drops in cotton and wheat if Congress insists. Direct service connected veterans face payments cutoffs limited to 25 percent, averaging 18 percent, for World War and Spanish American veterans as well as certain peacetime disabilities.
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Texas
Appropriations Committee
Roosevelt
Special
Veterans’ Committee
Representative Crosser
Ohio
White House
Rainey
Senate
Congress
Morgan Records Without Guard Amid Gold Hoarder Hunt
Records of the senate committee investigating J. P. Morgan and company are without a government guard as the justice department shifts agents to the gold hoarder search. The special agent guarding the evidence was withdrawn to aid the chase, despite protests from the committee.
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Washington
Senate
J. P. Morgan and Company
Justice Department
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