Local Social Notes From Bluefield and Nearby
Several locals host guests and family visits mark the week with trips to Knoxville Gary Dublin and Boston. The Bluefield Chamber of Commerce directors meet at Hotel Matz for a luncheon session to wrap up the current board’s activities.
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Ida Effron
Jennie Paker
Welch
J. F. Neighbors
Knoxville
Bank of Berwind
Claude V. Boughner
Gary
St. Luke's Hospital
Ner
Gertrude Thayer
Boston
Geoffrey Thayer
H. C. Jordan
Thayer
J. A. Jennings
Hazel
Margaret
May
Fern Jenings
Dublin
Robert Crockett
J. L. Crockett
Augusta Military Academy
Fred Black
F. L. Black
Black
Philadelphia
Depta
W. B.B. Gilsson
Bluefield
Western Union Telegraph Company
Wheeling
Bluefield Chamber of Commerce
Matz
Burglar Attempt at Rodgin Jewelry Store Foiled
Two youthful colored lads tried to enter the Henry Rodgin Company jewelry store on Princeton Avenue last evening. One lad was arrested several blocks away by H. Bin.
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Rodgin Jewelry Store
Lad
Henry Rodgin Company
Princeton Avenue
H. bin
Youth Burglar Pursued After Window Break
A witness named Sohn turned a youth over to Chief of Police Dillon after two boys burglarized a store. One suspect was captured following the alarm from a smashed rear window as the other fled.
County Officials and Jazz Sextette Open Vaudeville Week
Tom Brown's County Officials and a rude saxophone sextette headline the Elks Theatre bill opening the second week of vaudeville. The six musicians display versatility while Tom Foolery and Pal Seybert and It, and Kimo and Kimo add songs and chatter. A selected photoplay, The Dead Line, screens today and tomorrow.
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Tom Brown
Elks Theatre
Tom Foolery
Pal
Seybert
Kimo
Gieorge Waleh
Bible Class Supper at Presbyterian Church
The Men’s Bible Class of the Presbyterian Church invites all men of the church and congregation to a Friday evening supper. Dr. D. N. McLaughlin will deliver the address after the meal, and Ray Evans asks attendees to RSVP today to gauge plate numbers. The Ladies’ Aid will serve, promising a generous spread and a pleasant social gathering.
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Presbyterian Church
D. N. McLaughlin
Second Presbyterian Church
Norfolk
McLaughling
Ray Evans
Birle
Ladies’ Aid Society
McLaughlin
Cardui credited for relief from back and side pains
Marksville woman Alice Johnson describes a year of constant back and side pain then relief after completing a bottle of Cardui. She says the medicine let her straighten up, end the misery, and resume work, praising Cardui for her recovery.
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Marksville
Alice Johnson
Cardus
Cardui
Bea
Aie NC
Wanted All He Could Get Last Summer Pilot Pays for Thrill
The Kokomo Indiana airplane ride tale recalls an elderly man paying a pilot to perform aerial maneuvers. The pilot initially limits stunts for heart safety but the passenger insists on full thrills and prods the pilot to “give me all you got” as he exits, praising the ride.
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Kokomo
Ind
Ian
Immelman
Indianapolis News
Lost Idaho Mine Becomes Riches After Century Quest
The article recounts the rediscovery of an ancient Upper Salmon river district gold mine in Idaho. Two prospectors found a rich lodge, fell out, a Spokane policeman learned the secret, searched 20 years, and the vein is four to six feet wide with a rich quartz streak. The tale echoes King Solomon's Mines.
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Sir Rider Haggard
King Solomon's
Idaho
Upper
Salmon River District
Spokane
Rockefeller gifts Libby Castle home to Paulist choristers
John D. Rockefeller Jr. provides Libby castle on Washington Heights New York for 50 Paulist choristers ages ten to seventeen. The house built 25 years ago blends medieval Norman and Spanish architecture and serves as a center for music academic study and physical training.
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John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Washington Heights
New York City
Libby Castle
Union
New York Times
Lost colored woman sought at Canadian railway station
A Savannah News item reprints a humorous exchange where a Southern man in Canada asks an old colored man for directions. The man explains he is searching for a colored woman, not his wife, and has been wandering back and forth for a long time hoping to find her.
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Canada
Columbia
Los
Hugh
Savannah News
Turtle Eggs in Chow at Guantanamo Bay Marines
Marines at Guantanamo Bay Cuba add boiled turtle eggs to mess duty after capturing two 200 pound turtles in the bay. Each turtle yielded over 100 eggs, with eggs resembling a hen egg in size and a soft shell. eggs are boiled hard and peeled like onion skin.
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United States
Naval Station
Guantanamo Bay
Cuba
Mother of One-Year-Old Blake Coughlin Appeals to Newspapers
Norristown Pa June 7 The mother of thirteen months old Blake ly Coughlin abducted last Wednesday appeals to newspapers to reach abductors and urge contact by mail.
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Norristown
Blakely Coughlin
Newspanove Ton
Sht
First Republican National Convention in Chicago
A 60 year old retrospective recalls the 1860 Chicago meet. Iowa delegates walked 150 miles to rail, special rates boosted attendance, and hotel rooms ranged from 1.50 to 2.50 per day. Crowds filled Wigwam as women decorated the hall and rockets announced dignitaries.
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Chicago
Iowa
Massachusetts
New England
Abraham Lincoln
Prohibition Leaders to Address Mass Meeting in Cheargo
William Jennings Bryan will address a mass meeting of supporters of the national prohibition amendment in Cheargo. The event is set for tomorrow afternoon between sessions of the Republican convention. National officers of the prohibition party released the notice today.
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Cheargo
William Jennings Ryan
Beaver Dan Cover Order Carload Unloaded Early
Local notice reports a Beaver Dan cover order carload was unloaded early by Will Omona at Lussaor Co with phone contact 88.
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Jn T
Lussaor Co
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Burglar Alam Works
Frank Laboratories
Ie 4 Bros, Inc
Strouse & Brothers, Inc
Imore, MD
Thornton Clothing CO
Princeton Ave
Federal Bt
Cloverdale
Bluefield, Hufy, Andrews & Thomas
Cardzi Cave
G&t
Ebderly
Lucy Gates
Baby Mine
Graveure
Philharmonic
Mile
Modiste
Grici
Columbia Records
Columbia Graphophone Company
New York
Columbia Graphophones and Records
Cannon and Co
The
Chicago Historical Society
Bryan
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