Graham Council Cuts City Engineer Salary Amid Bid Contempt
The Graham council voted to reduce city engineer Z. H. Neff's pay to sixty dollars a month after J. T. Vaughn bid forty dollars to take the job and water rent. Neff, long-time employee, directed pumping operations and now faces a ten dollar monthly cut. The board also notes routine matters and discusses the town's need for a modern post office building to serve a growing community.
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Graham
Z. H. Neff
Neff
Mr. Neff
D Graham Post Office
Bids Received For Graham Postoffice Quarters
The Post Office Department set the last day for receiving bids on Graham postoffice quarters. Several bids were submitted and patrons await the final successful bid with interest as the process concludes.
Remarkable case of Mrs Ham Shamrock health cure
A Shamrock Missouri woman describes severe health problems including falling, inflammation, congestion, female weakness, backaches, insomnia, and nervous spells. After using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Blood Purifier she reports improved sleep, energy, appetite, and relief from hot flashes and pains. She credits the medicine with saving her from grave illness and says she can work all day and care for her family again.
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Shamrock, Mo
Lydia E. Pinkham
Shamrock
Lydia EF. Pinkh
M Medicine Co
Lyon
Mrs Una Burton Announces Tax Hold Notation in Oklahoma
In a Chickasha Oklahoma letter Mrs Una Burton states she holds all tax tickets on her property and that its public advertisement was an oversight. She adds she has been re elected as a Chickasha high school teacher with a salary raise and praises Oklahoma while recalling Graham and friends. She mentions rainfall and harvests in the Washita River valley and notes her nine month move from Graham.
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Una Burton
Chick+asha
Okla
Graham
Burton
Chickasha
Washiow River
When Grandpa Comes to Town
A quirky poem about grandpa visiting a small town bringing change and excitement. It notes the town’s hopes and fears as outsiders arrive, children gather, and the community anticipates jobs and attention. The piece balances humor with social commentary on modernization and schooling during the grand entrance.
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Scribbler
Grandpa
Elopement Ties Lula Bailey and Graham's Walters in Bristol
Miss Lula Bailey of Matoaka and Mr Walter Walters of Graham eloped to Bristol for marriage, then honeymooned in the South. Walters is an express messenger on the Norfolk and Western line. They will return to Graham to occupy Walters's Highland Avenue home.
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I's
Lula Bailey
Matea A
McClure Walters
Graham
Twin City
Roxville
Waie
Bristol
Josephine Bailey
Matoaka
Mercer County
Walters
Norfolk and Western
Clinch Valley
Bluefield
Norton
If. Walters
Highland Avenue
Kentucky
Mayapple root laxatives advertised as safe calomel substitute
An advertisement promotes mayapple root laxatives as a gentle liver stimulant and safe substitute for mercury calomel. It claims no after effects and promises quick cleansing of poisons linked to headaches constipation and biliousness. A physician’s trial pane is offered free upon request from Sentanel Remedies Co. Covington Kentucky.
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Sentanel Remedies Co
Madison Ave
Covington, Ky
Wedding Trip Advised Homecoming After July First
wedding party passes through on No 6 en route east and plan to be at Barboursville after July 1 home to friends. Graham Rough Necks vs Norfolk Weston Safety First game set Saturday on fair grounds with John Mowbray to pitch. Gaston Callaway ill with gall stones resting at home. Dr Frazier attended. West Graham ladies host ice cream supper next to Uncle Sol Carter’s. Presbyterians hold strawberry and ice cream supper tonight at 7 with cake coffee and candy.
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Barvoursville
Graham Rough Necks
Norfolk and Weston
Firot
Fair Grounds
Rough Necks
Appalachian
Gafety
Graham
Pocahontas
John Mowbray
Gaston Callaway
Bluefield
H.R. Frazier
West
Presbyterian
Visit of Mrs LB BE Stanley to Kiliston sister
Here visiting sister Mrs LB BE Stanley of Kiliston is the guest of her sister Mrs Walterson on Highland avenue.
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LB. BE. Stanley
Kiliston
M. &. ‘Walterson
Highland Avenue
Measured by Inches
A New York American dispatch argues that inch by inch progress governs every aspect of life from business to tragedy. It claims small missteps can ruin plans while careful, inch by inch discipline builds success across work, art, and personal conduct.
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Dife
New York American
Dr Howards remedy for constipation offered at half price
Druggist Goodykoontz promotes Dr Howards Remedy for constipation and dyspepsia at 25 cents a bottle, guaranteeing satisfaction with a full refund if it fails. The offer targets those with constipation, headaches, dizziness, liver trouble, and general prostration, urging customers to try while the 50 cent bottle is sold at half price.
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Goodykoontz
Dr.Howard
Dr. Howard
Palmistry Ad Seeks Readings By Mail
Madam Eldon, famed palmist and clairvoyant, offers tests reading by mail. Send birth date on five 2¢ stamps to 4500 Fourteenth St N W Washington DC. Includes a note about a daily Macdold event on Saturday.
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Madam Eldon
Fourteenth St
N. W
Washington, D.C
Ten Thousand Return to Ohio Coal Mines After Strike
Cleveland June 10 Fully ten thousand men have returned to deserted Ohio coal mines and five thousand more will be at work next month after an agreement in Cleveland ended one of the longest strikes. Operators will pay forty seven cents per ton, ending the mine-tun dispute and restoring most production across more than forty mines.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Fastern Ohio Operators’ Association
United Mine Workers’ Organization
Freckle-Faced Remedy Promises Clear Complexion
A newspaper warning offers Miss Freckle Face a remedy that guarantees removal of freckles with no payment unless successful. Buy ethine double strength from a druggist and apply to show a clearer complexion. rarely more than one ounce needed.
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Freckle-face
Bnes
Engineer Represented President at King George Coronation
A noted engineer served as the president's representative at the coronation of King George, handling ceremonial duties and formal presentations during the royal event.
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George
Committee elects chair and secretary for fair committee
The chamber of commerce formed a committee to promote the Pluefield-Graham fair. Yesterday the group gathered at the chamber hall and elected George Dunglinson, ir, as chairman and Bernard McClaugherty as secretary. They planned to reconvene Saturday at 2 p.m. on the fair grounds.
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Chamber of Commerce
Pluefield
Committees Urge Fair Association Groundwork by July Fourth
Officials of the fair association plan to inspect the property and discuss financing to prepare the grounds for use by July 4. The effort is pitched as beneficial to the city and its citizens.
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The
Fair Association
New Georgia seal on refunding bonds signed by Slaton
Bond issue signed by Governor Slaton bears the imprint of Georgia's new great seal as the June 10 ceremony marks the adoption of the redesigned seal on the refunding bonds.
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Georgia
Atlanta
Slaton
Early to bed Dallas described in city notes
The piece notes Dallas Texas as an earliest to bed city and describes quiet streets by nine thirty with homes dark by ten. It adds that Georgia peaches are now on the market in northern cities and mentions a daisy sale on Saturday.
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America
Dallas
Texas
Georgia
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