Seventeen Charges Report Out In Full At Conference
The Bluefield District Preachers and Workers Conference met at Hotel Northfork with Rev. E A Ghugart presiding. Nineteen pastors and one layman attended. seventeen of twenty six charges reported benevolent funds fully raised. Discussions covered pastors attitudes to amusements and higher criticism, with papers by Rev. Benton and Rev. Hoppe approved for republication.
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Bluefield District
Hotel Northfork
E. A. Ghugart
Midland
Bluefield
Jesse F. Benton
Gay
Lewis EB. ‘Hoppe
A. B. Moore
The
Rock Charge
FE. B. Groseclose
Roderfield
H. A. Carlton
HM. L. Dean
McDowell
R. W. Watts
Matoaka
V. Giveon
Keystone
Do Not Get Careless With Your Blood Supply
Public health notice urges readers to avoid sluggish blood and use S. S. S. a vegetable blood medicine. It claims purified blood wards off disease and promises renewed strength and vigor. Advert says visit drug store and consult Medical Director Swift S Co. in Atlanta for advice.
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Swift S Co
Swift Laboratory
Atlanta, Ga
Healed Cuts and Sprains Relief Ad for Remedy
Quick healing claims for cuts burns and wounds swellings inflammation reduced sprains bruises neuralgia relieved and stiff joints loosened by the product.
Montague's Liniment Promoted as Gentle Germicide
A positive germicide that does not smart or burn but cools soothes and heals. Marketed as more effective than burning liniments and suitable for home use in emergencies for both man and beast.
Praise of District Meeting Spurs Pastors and Laymen
The gathering is praised as one of the most interesting yet held and is reported to bring great good. Meetings benefit pastors and laymen by offering social, religious, literary content and fulfilling a long felt need in preachers lives. District pastors, many of them energetic youths, take a day from work for recreation and fellowship.
Seven Concessions and One Show Shut by City Police
City and county officers closed nine entertainment concessions in the west end of the city under the investigation led by Justice of the Peace M. Postlethwaite. Seven were shut last night and two earlier, with $250 in fines collected for fake schemes. A $100 bond forfeited for non appearance. One wheel of fortune and another ring device were found invalid and closed for fraud and safety concerns.
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Justice of the Peace M.3
Postlethwaite
Squire Postlethwaite
Akers
Dillon
Tiwa
Authorities Crack Down On Buy-Back Shows And Fines
Officials fined the owner $100 and an alleged accomplice $50 for a demonstration using large rings. They ordered all money games closed and banned further buy-back practices. One act, an oriental dance titled the Submarine Girl, was shut down.
Eye fatigue blamed for airmen crashes
Air service doctors warn that skilled airmen sometimes err during landings due to eye strain. A smooth lawn misleads them into a poached egg crash as eye muscles and nerves fail to convey accurate ground pictures. Exercises for the eyes are designed to correct this defect.
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Air Service
Future Naval Attack Methods by Rear Admiral Fullam
Rear Admiral W F Fullam outlines a future naval attack method using long range gunfire ore plunging, air bombing, submarine mines, and torpedoes from subs or destroyers or torpedo planes. He asserts aircraft will determine range and sea power hinges on air control, with the superior fleet prevailing when air superiority is achieved.
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W. F. Fullam
Scientific American
Germany seeks international air port service with foreign firms
Negotiations are under way between German and foreign companies to secure Germany’s participation in an international air port service. Regular Berlin to Copenhagen airmails are expected to begin soon, with plans for other Scandinavian countries. An airarm portion will help convey telegraphic messages, while gasoline shortages in Germany limit aircraft mail use.
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Germany
Berlin
Copenhagen
Scientific American
War Spirit Inspires Evening Theater Talk
Mrs Gotham expresses a desire for a dramatic evening with fighting, while Mr Gotham notes the production of German operas has been halted. The couple discusses options for theater or opera tonight reflecting wartime mood.
Comfort at little cost from a home made heater
Dr Alexander Graham Bell explains a self built warming system using a zinc water tank in a wool filled wooden box heated by a lamp flame. The design preserves heat overnight and provides a warm bath each morning with a straight chimney pipe delivering heat to the study fire.
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Alexander Graham Fell
People’s Magazine
Nova Scotia
Barbara Friet ch ie s courage in 1863 flag stand
A Chicago Journal account recalls Barbara Frietchie, an elderly Union supporter in Frederick Maryland during Lee's invasion in 1862 or 1863. She raised a captured flag in her attic window as Confederate forces approached, challenging Stonewall Jackson and drawing a dramatic response from him.
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Barbara Frietchie
Lee
Frederick
Stonewall Jackson
United States
Barbara
Jackson
Chicago Journal
Knights of Columbus Heater Incident At Vladivostok
William F. Fox records a Vladivostok steam heat installation for the Knights of Columbus sub aboard a Siberian railway mission. The radiator began emitting musical quavers and a Russian soldier mistook the pipe for an American talking machine, believing the tube played the national anthem until Yankee soldiers showed him the furnace rites.
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William F. Fox
Knights of Columbus
Siberia
Trans- Siberian
Vladivostok
Barefooted school strike shocks Victoria parents
In Victoria Australia a new protest against high shoe prices has children walking to school barefoot. Parents and some kids discard boots. a bootseller even sends his own children barefoot. No footwear rule exists and warm days aid the stunt. Peru faces anti Chinese unrest as immigration triggers new limits.
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Victoria
Australia
Peru
Anti-Asiatic League
Picturesquely Put Disgusted Cop at Crossing
A Boston Transcript quip mocks a chauffeur by comparing his warning to a nonchalant crossing. The caption suggests a dismissive take on a pedestrian safety moment and riffs on desert imagery.
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Sahara Desert
Boston Transcript
Diamond Cutters Migration From London to Amsterdam
About two hundred years ago English diamond cutters, once the world’s finest, centered in London. Persecution drove the trade to Amsterdam, where they have remained since.
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London
Amsterdam
Fight on First Ballot Delays Oregon Delegates Vote
Judge Wallice McCamant of Portland refuses to vote for Johnson on the Oregon slate and plans to back Wood, while nine other Oregon delegates will vote Johnson. The dispute centers on binding instructions versus personal choice at the convention on the first ballot. Danish scientists probe seaweed as cattle fodder.
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Chicago
Oregon
Wallace McCamant
Portland
Senator Johnson
McCamant
General Wood
Johnson
Wood
National Nor Credentials Committee
Hung Jury In Case Of Alleged Profiteering
Charleston West Virginia June 7 The jury in the governments case against the Diamond Shoe and Hosiery Company of Charleston and two officers on profiteering charges returned unable to reach a verdict The foreman said the jury stood none to three and further deliberation would be useless Judge Jeter Pritchard allowed the jurors to separate and go home but ordered them back tomorrow morning The court reviewed Lever act rules applying equally to fashionable garments and staples The case of United States versus Sehon Stephenson and Company Huntington wholesale grocers for Lever act violations was called with demurrer overruled and a trial set to begin tomorrow It is charged they priced sugar carloads based on replacement costs Dr Jesse Ward Huntington physician pleaded guilty to narcotic act violations and sentence was suspended until the next term of court
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Charleston
W. Va
Diamond Shoe and Isment Company
Clarence Dudding
Jeter Pritchard
United States
Sehon Stephenson & Company
Huntington
Jesse Ward
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Methodist Preachers’ and Workers
Northfork
Midland Methodist
Bluefield, W. Va
Montague
Dillon Swoop
Cohen
Isadore Cohen Company
Princeton Ave
Bluefield Furniture Co
Huyler’s
Nunnally's
Liggett's
East End Pharmacy
Princeton Avenue
Bluefield Pharmacy
Bluefield Avenue
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