New Orleans Opens Home Aiding Luckless Men And Damsels
A New Orleans woman funds and dedicates the John N Jonner Home to care for aged and luckless men and women. The gift totals about 2125000 with additional support from Mrs Eliza Gladney Person. Officials and church leaders join a boat ceremony to dedicate a modern facility on a plantation with orchards for outdoor work and self support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
John N. Jonner
Lelia Bonner Dwyer
John M. Bonner
Dwyer
Eliza Gladney Person
Alabama
Fire loss suits seek 50500 against 11 insurers
Pocahontas Inn fire losses from February 17 1915 prompted fifteen suits in Tazewell County Circuit Court seeking 50500 from North British and Mercantile Niagara Wire National Fire Georgia Homes Commercial Union Aetna Westchester Liverpool London and Glasgow Royal Exchange and others. Plaintiffs claim insurers and adjusters failed to settle despite years of attempts. The docket also notes naturalization finalists and civic efforts by Hoy Scouts and the Methodists picnic plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia Trust Company
New York Trust Company
Dec. W. Woodruff
Pocahontas Consolidated Collieries Company
Sam G. Walker
Pocahontas Inn Company
Creait
Tazewell County
North British and Mercantile Insurance Company
Niagara Wire Insurance Company
National Fire Insurance Company
Georgia Homes Insuranc Company
Commercial Union Insurance Company
Aetna Insurance Company
Westchester Fie Insurance Company
Liverpool
London
Gice Insurance Company
Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Company
Royal Exchange Assurance Company
Pocahontas Inn
Pocahontas
J. F. Hurt
Bluefield
H. T. Nelson
Richmond
Miss Rena Tuttle Heads to Burlington for Summer
Miss Rena Tuttle left yesterday on No 2 for Burlington Vermont where she will spend the summer with her sister She filled the vacancy in the high school faculty caused by Miss Mahalamumets ay Christmas and during her stay has won admirers and friends all hoping for her return in the fall Ladies Bible Class Friday evening the monthly meeting of the ladies union Bible class will be held in the Presbyterian church all members are earnestly asked to be present
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vermont
Rena Tuttle
Burlington
Mss Tuttle
Mahala
Ladies’ Union
Presbyterian
Mission Study Class Meeting This Afternoon
Mission Study Class will hold a meeting this afternoon at 3 o clock with Mrs G A Swope. All members are requested to be present. Personal items note Attorney Lawson Worrell of North Fork was here yesterday for court. R L Johnson of Anawalt was a business visitor. Miss Bess Watson went to Bluefield to visit her sister Mrs B B Afae.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. A. Swope
Lawson Worrell
Northfork
R. L. Johnson
Anawalt
Bess Watson
Bluefield
B. BD Afae
Personal paragraphs list Roanoke area visitors in Bluefield
Samuel Elam of Roanoke is in Bluefield on business. Mr. and Mrs Bascomb Hale report a son at 202 North Mercer Street. Attorney Thos Hy Scott spent yesterday in Narrows on legal business. Hh Lemon, Paint Bank prominent citizen, is in the city on business. Mr. and Mrs J W Chapman of Tazewell visited yesterday. Mrs J KB Hatcher left for Moneta to visit her mother. Mr and Mrs O W Frazer and family drove to Lynchburg and other cities. Misses Clara and Blanche Gilliam of Roanoke visit J R Litchford on Rogers Street. Will Turner of Radford was in town on business, then went to Norton. Mrs Nancy V Wills of Peterstown visits her son Ira C Wills on Fairfax Street, accompanied by her daughter Edith. D KE May, Arch Thompson and B E Steel of Tazewell are in the city for a few days. Mr May is a former Bluefielder who once worked at the Hotel Mats as clerk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clara and
Blanche Gilliam
Roanoke, Va
Mrs. J. R. Litchford
Rogers Street
Will Turner
Radford
Norton
Nancy V. ‘Wills
Peterstown
City
Ira C. ‘Wills
Fairfax Street
Edith
D. KE. May
Arch Thompson
B. E. Steel
Tazewell
Mr. May
Hotel Mats
Bluefield Route Drives Virginia Rail Plans
The Virginian Railway eyes a line into coal and timber districts of Buchanan County Virginia and possibly to Louisville Kentucky. A June 20 inspection by board members will review under construction territory in Buchanan County with W W Boxley managing the contract. Describes Bluefield Chamber efforts to press the Virginian into Bluefield frontier expansion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mercer
West Virginia
West
Buchanan County
Virginian Railway
Kentucky
Louisville
The
Virginian
W.W. Boxley
Roanoke Times
Daily Telegraph
Boykip
New York
Bluefield
Commercce
Indians Pitch Camp at Festival in Portland Rose Week
Indian chiefs and medicine men of the Blackfoot tribe arrive in Portland Oregon for the Rose Festival week. They travel from Glacier National Park and will join parades and celebrations with war dances, under leaders Chief Three Ears and Joe Bad Marriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Ore
Glacier National Park
Panama, Canal
Louis W.rill
Great Northern Railroad
San Francisco
Chie
Joe
Tuxpam Captured by Villa Forces
Washington reports via Vera Cruz wireless that Villa forces seized Tuxpam on Sunday. One British citizen died and four others were wounded during the fighting. Consul Silliman notes Obregon's victory over Villa at Leon and mentions Panfilo Natalea occupying Guanajuato, with Na tera reported to seek reentry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
State Department
Vera Cruz
Tampico
Tuxpam
Villa
Ss. P. Jones
Thomas Mallard
Obregon
Liman
Mexico City
Apizco
Nogales
Sonora
Encenada
Californi
Nevo Laredo
San Luis Potosi
Panfilio Natera
Guanajuapo
Natera
Carranza
Obregon Forces Reported Joined By Some Supporters
Reports indicate forces aligned with Obregon have joined him though no official guidance confirms this move. The lack of advisory statements leaves the situation unclear and disputed among observers.
Three Norwegian Ships Sunk by Submarines
The Norwegian vessel Trudvang and the bark Superb were sunk by German submarines. A third Norwegian steamer, Glitterhind of 376 tons, built 1913 and 186 feet long, also sunk. Survivors and crews were rescued by patrol boats at Milford Haven and Margate.
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London
Superb
Saint Annes Head
Milfford Haven
Millford Haven
Fastnet
Margate
Trudvang
Suffragists Do Not Approve Militancy
In Chicago at the National American Woman's Suffrage Association closing session delegates condemned militant tactics used to press for an interview with President Wilson. The group credited militancy to suffragists in general while Dr. Anna Howard Shaw urged public education and reiterated opposition to militant methods. A brief resolution supported constitutional federal action to grant women suffrage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Wilson
National American Woman's Suffrage Association
Anna Howard Shaw
Von Hindenburg Sees Italy Entry No End to War
Field Marshal von Hindenburg writes to a Berlin friend on Italy entering the war. He says Italy's intervention may prolong the struggle but will not alter the final outcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
von Hindenburg
Berlin
Italy
Norfolk and Western Orders Rails From Steel Firms
Roanoke news reports Norfolk and Western Railway ordered 5100 tons of rails from Carnegie Steel and 3000 tons from Pennsylvania Steel, signaling a heavy expansion of track material. The action underscores ongoing rail infrastructure investment in the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roanoke
Norfolk and Western
Carnegie Steel Company
Pennsylvania Steel Company
Santa Fe Retains Saloon Vote Margin at Local Election
Figures from Santa Fe New Mexico show city voters backed retaining saloons by a 157 vote margin in yesterday's local option election. Telegraph notice lists Try on Telegraph as an ad.
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Santa Fe
New Mexico
Dinner Party Dinnertime Monomania Twist
Mrs Middleton's dinner party pairs Mr Kenworthy with Miss Steele a monomaniac who believes every man loves her. He tests her and nearly proposes, only for Miss Steele to reveal no memory of the scene. She later marries another, while Kenworthy spends a year chasing a being who never remembered the night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Kenworthy
Kenworthy
Miss Bliss
Miss Steele
Mrs. Middleton
New St. Louis Catholic Seminary Opens in Glennon Park
In St. Louis on June 8 the old Kendrick Seminary closed to make way for the new St. Louis Roman Catholic Seminary costing $600,000 erected in Glennon Park. Moving will finish in early fall when 200?
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New St. Louis Catholic Seminary
St. Louis
Kendrick Seminary
Seminary Moves Under Archbishop Glennon Direction
Students will take up their work in new quarters under Archbishop Glennon. The seminary is built on the monastery order and hailed as an architectural triumph.
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Glennon
Floating Fortune Ambergris Found Off Portland Coast
A drifting ambergris fortune, valued around 250000, is the target of a coast wide search. A skipper reported the drifted substance and recovered hand fulls worth about 2000 during rough seas. Ambergris sells for about 40 per ounce and is used to make high grade perfume.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Ore
Cockroaches in the Kitchen Copied Ad Copy
An old style advertisement targets the neat housewife, touting Stearns Electric Paste as a deadly vermin killer for cockroaches rats and other pests. It promotes a two ounce box for twenty five cents with directions in fifteen languages and claims immediate dead roaches by morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stearns
Fire Alarm Signals Across City Streets and Stations
A catalog of fire alarm signals and station locations lists Central Station on Pulaski Street and multiple cross streets including Princeton Avenue Russell Street Bluefield Avenue and others. It notes telephone contact numbers and references a Militia Call with ventral station messaging.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Hall
Princeton Avenue
Russell Street
Bluefield Avenue
Mercer Street
Sublette & Barnes
Then Street
Chest Street
Spin Street
Che
Raleigh Street
Fede Avenue
Raleigh and Stewart Streets
Wyoming
Monroe Streets
Giles Street
Lee and
Franklin Streets
Reese and Marshall Streets
Allen and Powell Streets
Pulaski and
Park Streets
Bland and Jones Streets
Bland and Williams
Bland and Wills Streets
Land and North
South and
Jefferson Streets
Pen Mar and Frederick Sts
Middle Adams Street
Roanoke and
Clark Streets
Norfolk and Western
Hardy and Orange Streets
Standard Oil Co
Bird. Ave
Midway
Henry and Greenbrier
Upper Jones Street
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Honaker
Mennen
Colgate
Us2oe
John N. Bonner
Haven
United States
Mobile
Bluefield Normal & Business College
Crockett & Graham Block
Conninghamn
Prin Phane
Anil ii
Wright CO
Boston
Geo. H. Hill
Thorntos
W. VA
W. L. McCray
Third St
Anet Moet
Mah Sehaal Phane
Welch News
Circuit Court
H. W. KE. Sanders
Frederick Taylor
Richard Mathews
Christodnja Nick
Tony Casella
Kassem Ameco
Stanley Lepaec
J. J. Ascough
Cerae Barilla
Louis Nathan
Abe Foreman
Philip
Hoy
F. G. Kell
Aid Society
Ladies’ Aid Society
Method'st Church
Samuel Elam
Horn
Bascomb Hale
North
Thos. Hy. Scott
Narrows, Va
I Hh. Lemon
Paint Bank
J. W. Chapman
J. KB. Hatcher
Moneta
O. W. Frazer
Lynchburg
Bluefeld
Villa Forces
Randolph's
E. F. Randolph
Jewelers
James E. Mayer
Alanfield, W. Law
Commerce Building
P.O
Trown and Bridge Work
Efcort
Yzani
Virginia Mountain
Tazewell Mfg. CO
Virginia
Craig Healing Springs
Craig Healing Springs CO
Ing. Springs
Tip Top
Norfolk and Western Railway
Edward L. Jenkins
Mgr
Sylvania Woods
Clifton Mills
Central Station
Pulaski Street
Ets
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