Twenty Years Ago Today Involving Lyons Train Accident
Twenty years ago today Eagineer Thomas Lyons was injured in a railroad accident at Flat Top yards when his engine sideswiped a draft of cars. M. Martin of Lenoir News was a guest of Dr. J. and Martin of Tazewell Street en route to the Pan American Exposition.
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Eagineer Thos. Lyons
M. (. Martin
Lenoir
N. CC
J. & Martin
Tazewell Street
KE. G. Kitts
Ellis Street
North Street
Appalachian Power Company
New River
Grayson
Ivanhoe
Morning thoughts of avoiding work and a ball game
A narrator considers skipping work while his wife covers for him. He hints at wanting to attend a ball game and asks Mandy for help, but she keeps him in line by setting him to chores and denying any fun. The piece unfolds with humor and domestic tension.
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Mandy
Jakey
The Good Old Hymns and Frank L. Stanton Poem
A nostalgic verse about ancient hymns and memories of devoted singing. The speaker recalls childhood hymnals, distant lands of light, and a wish to hear sacred songs at life’s end as a tribute to faith and memory.
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Greeland
India
Canaan's Fair and Happy Land
Frank L. Stanton
Lessons on prayer courage and salvation in Sunday sermon
A Sunday sermon extols prayer as the power behind reform and revival. It cites Martin Luther, John Knox, Jonathan Edwards and an unseen revival in Chicago as examples of concern for souls driving faith. The speaker urges personal renewal, evangelism, and action to free the lost from sin.
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Sunday
Christ
Jesus
God
Jess
Heaven
Jesus Christ
Gethsemane
Hell
Martin Luther
John Knox
Jonathan Edwards
Church of God
Kingdom of God
Jerusalem
Chicago
West Madison Street
Moody
Carey
America
Fata
Lord
Prizes Offered for Drawings of Black Beauty by Children
The Colonial Theatre invites children under ten and ages ten to fifteen to submit complete drawings of Black Beauty for prizes. First prize is five dollars. second prize is theatre tickets. Entries must include the artist’s name and address on separate sheets and be mailed or delivered to the box office. Winners announced next Monday night.
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Colonial Theatre
Government action to aid disabled soldiers gains speed
Evidence shows both Congress and the President's commission moving faster to relieve distress and aid disabled veterans. Public opinion and soldiers groups drive reform as Washington and Generals committees work together. The nation cannot fully repay the debt to the blinded, gassed, crippled, and disfigured heroes.
Warning ignored as floods claim lives and wisdom urged
A weather warning was ignored as flood waters receded leaving bodies in the ooze. The piece notes public indifference to warnings and cites Mexico easing soldiers into farming for dairying and scientific training. Veterans and homesteaders shaped the West with aid from soldiers.
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Mexico
Wnion
Soldie Milders
Odd Train Tale Sparks Laughs on Pullman Ride
Column recounts a Pullman conductor spotting a man with two wooden legs and a joking passenger quip about a wheelbarrow in the berth. It notes a St. Louis wristwatch prize in a goose race and then pivots to a science aside about tails at the base of the spine and Arthur Keith’s claim of many cases.
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Arthur Keith
RetireWest on the Pull of the Harness in Aging Careers
The piece argues voluntary retirement is rare among steadfast workers who value continuing effort. It profiles Gustav Lindenthal at 71 planning a monumental Hudson bridge and William Hood at 75 seeking large projects, praising their relentless work ethic and harness mindset. It notes Scott C. Bone’s Alaska gubernatorial nomination and a Minnesota official removed for cigar distribution on election day.
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Gustav Lindenthal
Hudson
Brooklyn
William Hood
Southern Pacific Company
Lindenthal
Mr. Hood
Scott C. Bone
Alaska
Bone
Unusual Wooden Wedding In North Carolina Attracts Notice
Miss Ada Oakes married Walter Pine in a wooden themed ceremony held in Washington North Carolina. Guests and participants bore tree names from pine to wood. Afterward the couple traveled to Hickory North Carolina to visit the groom's aunt Mrs. E W Shingle. In Canton Illinois Frank Mayberry and Jake Mayberry motored to Gillespie Illinois with belongings for a long stay. Ellen Haynes aged sixty three dies in Battle Creek Michigan reportedly from smoking cigarettes.
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Ada Oakes
Walter Pine
Miss Ada Oakes
Robert L. Birch
Ann Lee Laurel
Oscar T. Wood
Washington, N. C
Hickory, N.C
E. W. Shingle
Jake
Frank Mayberry
Gillespie
Canton
Daily Ledger
Ellen Haynes
Battle Creek, Mich
Child welfare needs early social and medical care
The piece argues welfare starts in social environment and requires medical observation. It compares care for pets and livestock to children, warns many undernourished, poorly fed children with common defects, and urges early preventive medicine, diet education, and hereditary disease detection as essential.
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Bulletin of the
West Virginia Health Service
Cruelty to Husbands in Philadelphia Divorce Case
A Philadelphia divorce court weighs alleged cruelty by a wife who disturbs her husband’s sleep. The husband claims she pokes him with a hairpin, kicks him, dumps him from bed, and slaps him for dozing, while snoring like a planing mill. The Los Angeles Times notes Philadelphia’s sleep emphasis and jokes at the idea.
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Philadelphia
Los Angeles Times
Wisconsin campus condemns short skirts and bare shoulders
Milwaukee reports the Wisconsin University student paper mirrors Brown University’s stance by denouncing exposed arms legs and shoulders on campus. It calls shockingly abbreviated skirts inappropriate and scandalous in campus life.
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Milwaukee
Brown University
Daily Cardinal
Wisconsin University
New York Health Code Toughens Penalties on Littering
Health Commissioner Copeland amends the sanitary code to impose a fine of 500 dollars a year or jail or both for anyone who throws milk bottle empties into ash cans. The move targets littering in urban areas and aims to reduce municipal waste.
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New York
Copeland
London police probe after card lures them to crime scene
Police in London followed a card to a house where a woman's mutilated body was found. The author of the card, believed to be the killer, remains at large.
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London
Pipe smoking rise among women noted by Alfred Dunhill
Alfred Dunhill, pipe maker, predicted a surge in female pipe smoking and cited a market pipe designed for women. He said the trend was growing while noting a large French lacemaker employs women with eight generations of lace making lineage. Telegraph Want Ads bring results.
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London
Alfred Dunhill
Short Cuts From Exchanges Coll Harvey and Global Jibes
A digest of brief quotes from various papers. Col Harvey has thrice crossed the Atlantic, nearing Arkansas Gazette circulation. commentary on separation, international alimony, street violence in Cairo, vanity of fears, and a quip about Maid Left Employer 11000 dollars. Also tax debates and bridge humor plus dancing teachers predicting footwork revival.
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Col. Harvey
Atlantic
Arkansas Gazette
America
Europe
Norfolk
Virginian-Pilot
Fragmented Humorous Exchange on Ears and Matrimony
A comical clash on conversation and manners unfolds with riffs about ears being raised like onions and medicated departments for girls. A teacher probes slum pupils as a child jokes about burning doors and stairs before leaving home. A servant mentions uncertain marriage timing and fortune tellers advising go ahead.
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Mary Jane
The Knife Pride and a Boy’s Rough Work
A narrator reflects on cutting and whittling wood with knives that are sharp yet not too sharp for pride and survival. He recalls a rite of finger injuries and a mother’s saying about tying a wound. The piece contrasts boys’ toys with real tools for men and ends with a dental-like ad and a drugstore promotion.
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Atlantic Monthly
Bramwell Hosts Dr M Newman for High School Graduation
Bramwell residents will hear Dr M Newman head of the English department at Virginia Polytechnic Institute address the high school graduating class tomorrow evening. The program includes the graduates class night exercises and a novel, interesting program designed to inspire the young people who have kept the faith and fought a good fight.
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Bramwell
M. Newman
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Newman
WY. P. 1
Concord Normal begins exercises with baccalaureate sermon
Concord Normal School Ath ens opens its commencement week with Rev Samuel W Moore delivering the baccalaureate sermon The theme Music of Life and a later sermon on The Investment of a Life are noted The week includes plays contests class day activities a music recital an alumni banquet and the commencement address by Professor Mabel Carney of Teachers College Columbia University with state board members in attendance
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Concord Normal School
Athens
Samuel W. Moore
Bluefield
Mabel Carney
Teachers’ College
Columbia University
State Board of Education
Old Age Signs and Lydia E. Pinkham’s Medicine
Oliver Wendell Holmes cites three lines between the brows as a sign of age. The article suggests women’s ailments such as backache and nervous mood indicate need for a woman’s remedy. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound is praised as a natural restorative for these troubles.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Lydia
Pinkham
Glen Cove Seeks Public Bathfront Despite Private Water Front
Glen Cove on Long Island claims to be the richest city of its size but owns only 300 feet of waterfront while seven miles remain in private hands. Prominent residents including J. P. Morgan Herbert L. Pratt Paul A. Dana and Clarvey Ladew hold the rest of the water front as the city seeks a public bathing area.
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Glen Cove
L. I
J. P. Morgan
Herbert L. Pratt
Paul A. Dana
Clarvey Ladew
War On Whales Stir in French Navy Requests
The Ministry of Marine is urged to deploy French Navy vessels to shoot white whales blamed for consuming sardines at a perilous rate. Fishermen petition for navy rifles and ammunition to aid in extermination of whales.
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Ministry of Marine
Dog guards motherless kittens in Crissman home
In Lock Haven Pennsylvania an English collie dog protects four orphaned kittens at the home of H. H. Crissman in nearby Upper Lockport. The mother cat has deserted the litter and the dog prevents any stranger from approaching.
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Doe
Lock Haven
H. H. Crissman
Upper Lockport
Revival crowd seals the pledge as Billy Sunday speaks
The Tabernacle overflows with 400+ attendees as revivalist Billy Sunday preaches on repentance. Delegations from Boissevain Welch and Brace M E Church join in special songs and prayer led by T S Hamilton. The final night features calls for offerings next Sunday to benefit Sunday and a flood of converts comes forward.
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Jesus Christ
Rody
T.S. Hamilton
Boissevain
Royal Steam Laundry
Tazewell
Grace M. E. Church
Mr. Carr
Asher
W. H. Thomas
Billy
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