Happy reunion at Gra mfest night and town progress talk
The Gra mfest reunion reunites a deaf boy and his mother at Hotel sham after a separation. The event features J W Hicks guiding the boy from Tip Top to Graham, while Mrs Morris learns her son is safe in Bluefield. The Graham Progressive League hosts a theater with I H LaBeume praising roads factories and farmers for town growth. Sunday school picnic moved to Hockman with attendance 9:30 at Graham high school.
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Gra Mfest
Hotelsham
Shy Morris
Coeburn
Staunton
Graham
Graham Progressive League
I. H. LaBeume
Norfolk and Western Railway
LaBaume
Sexton
Graham Baptist Church
Hockmah
Lovers Lane
Graham High School
Hockman
Great Interest In Convention and Delegates Rally
Reporters discuss the Chicago convention and delegate voting. Taft is favored by Virginia on the first ballot but may lose enough delegates to nominate another candidate. Roosevelt’s chances for Virginia’s contested delegates appear limited. Roanoke’s convention questions popular will and instruction of delegates. Jonel J. S. Rownine travels to Chicago to gauge sentiment as Ninth district Republicans plan a post Chicago call.
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Graham
Tedhy
Thureday
Ber E Liment
Ford
Virginis Delegwion
Taft
Virginia
Enowgh
Aout
Roosevelt
Roanoke
Southwest
Jonel J. S. Rownine
Windy City
General Avers
Chicago
Mr. LaBaume Speaks Pleases Lavee Audience at Gem
Mr LaBaume delivered remarks before a large audience at the Gem venue on Friday night with strong reception. The event drew notable locals and highlighted community topics discussed during the meeting.
Graham Hosts Gary Club In Local Tennis Match
The Gary tennis club visits Graham to play a match on the local courts this afternoon. Dr. C. M. Fisher and R. Kk. Baylor are expected to defend home pride in the contest. The event draws interest from the season's tennis contests.
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Gary Tennis Club
Graham
Graham Club
C. M. Fisher
R. Kk. Baylor
Sunday church schedule and personal notes from Graham area
Sunday school at 9 30 led by Prof J A Livesay with preaching at 11 am and 8 pm by the pastor Epworth league at 7 15 led by Miss Gertrude Rucker Young people’s missionary society at 3 pm under Mrs H B Frazier Delegates report from Bluefield conference Homer Asierson returns from Roanoke College commencement Ada Burton arrives from Harrisonburg to teach at Graham High Miss Ada from Unaka to teach term Annie Mullin returns to Graham from Lexington Kentucky
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J. A. Livesay
Epworth League
Gertrude Rucker
Bluefield
Young People’s Missionary Society
H. B. Frazier
Homer Asierson
Salem
Roanoke College
Ada Burton
Harrisonburg
Ada
Unaka
Graham High
Annie Mullin
Student Annie to spend summer in Graham
Miss Annie, a Hamilton College student and niece of Miss Amy Mullin, will spend the summer in Graham to the delight of her many friends. Miss Anna Holbrook of Wrights Valley is home from Harrisonburg Normal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamilton College
Annie
Amy Mullin
Graham
Anna Holbrook
Wrights Valley
Harrisonburg
Prospects of Caples for C and O Railway Presidency
Bristol dispatch reports Martin J. Caples, vice president of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, likely to become president as President Stevens nears retirement due to poor health. Plans to extend the Carolina Clinchfield and Ohio Railway from Danville to Elkhorn City aim to link with C&O, creating a trunk line from the South Atlantic coast to the Great Lakes.
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Bristol
Martin J. Caples
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Co
Stevens
Chesapake
Ohio
Carolina
Chesapeake and Ohio
Ohne
Carolina, Clinchfield
Atlamic Coast
Great Lakes
Question of Stranger’s Right to Found New Masonic Lodge
Police broke up a near riot on Day and Lawazon streets as about a hundred colored men gathered at Cleophes Peery’s home to question the authority of a New York gospel minister claiming to organize a colored Masons lodge. The crowd dispersed after city hall discussions with grand masters from both sides.
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Lawazon
Cleophes Peery
J. B. Thornton
W. 183Rd Street
New York City
Niagara Falls
N. Y
A. F
A. M
E. L. Hendricks
Peery
Thornton
City Hall
Lodge
New Lodge
Cismont No. 31
Cleophas Peery
Black lodge turmoil in Lawson street area sparks police action
The report details a forced entry and a hidden man surrender to the chief with officers aiding. Officials investigated a planned lodge meeting from Anklin North Carolina as sixteen Black men reportedly agreed to join a new lodge paying up to $10 each. Local Mason J B Thornton faced scrutiny after four meetings at Peery homes. Police urged caution while contacting the state grand master and prevented further trouble at the city hall.
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Thorriston
Moore
Lawson Street
Keister
White
Williams
Carter and
Calloway
Long
Thornton
Anklin
N. C
Assie
Scott Street
S. B. Thornton
Peery
New Lodge
Thhem
Court House
Cleophas Peery
Polles
J. B. Thornton
James Peery
Peasley Street
Chaphas Peery
Day
Lawson
KE. L. Hendricks
Massie Bankruptcy Petition Seeks Discharge in West Virginia
A. T. Massie of Pringeton Mercer County WV petitions for discharge from debts under federal bankruptcy law. The court orders a hearing for July 13, 1912 at Bluefield and directs notice by publication and mail to known creditors.
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United States of Americas
West Virginia
United States
A. T. Massie
Kenj. F. Keller
District Court of the United States
Pringeton
Mercer
Congress
A. D
West Virginis
Bluefield
Daily Telegraph
Benj. F. Keller
Edwin M. Ktats&y
D. C
U.S
D. W. Va
Foreman Fractures Skull After Shovel Blow
C. J. Shoffner roundhouse foreman at the local shops lies in St Luke's Hospital with a fractured skull after a blow from a shovel. W. E B Johnson, a yard holster, struck him during a dispute while Shoffner ordered him to stop an engine. Police searched for Johnson who disappeared by nightfall. Shoffner, a former Roanoke resident, is reported as resting well under treatment.
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C. J. Shoffner
St. Luke's Hospital
Scrous
Shoffner
W. E B. Johnson
Johnson
Abe
Roanoke
Paradox on Life Span From Global Circumnavigation
A Correspondent to the Herald recalls a paradox from Jesse’s Chymical Natural and Physical Magic about two people born together at the Cape of Good Hope. Fifty years after their deaths, moving west or east around the world at one year per cycle makes one see 100 days more than the other, due to daily gain or loss with longitude.
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The
Herald
Jesse
Cape of Good Hope
Clasgow Herald
Windy City Wife Accused Of Robbing Husband In Home
Gustav H. De Kolkey of Chicago says his wife his brother and a boarder robbed him at his own house. He claims 611 was taken from his pockets while two men held him down. Mrs De Kolkey admits nothing but says she sought money after a year without funds. The court rules the act perfectly justifiable.
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Windy City
Gustav H. de Kolkey
Chicago
Mrs. de Kolkey
Court
Seafaring Races and Head Shapes
The article compares portraits of Captain Amundsen and Dr. Nansen, noting a long narrow head shape common among seafarers across the Baltic and Mediterranean. It contrasts this with inland Europeans who are broadly headed, and mentions Japanese individuals as round headed yet skilled at sea.
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Amundsen
Nansen
Baltic
Mediterranean
Europe
The Beautiful Moonlight Camp by the Jersey Lake
A social worker calls the children to notice the moonlit lake in the Jersey hills. A child dismisses the scene, claiming the glimmering water is gas-lit wiggles rather than moonlight, in a wry, measured vignette.
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Jersey Hills
Demand for Pocahontas Coal Drives Record Shipments
The Norfolk and Western coal fields see an unprecedented demand as lake shipments resume. Pocahontas coal markets expand globally with shipments for eleven months rising sharply year over year and August 1911 beating prior highs.
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Norfolk and Western Coal
Oc. Eee
Fewer Storks in Alsace Mark Decline in the Bird
Alsace faces a shrinking stork population with only one of four nests occupied in Strassburg. The article cites marsh drainage, wires, and smoke as factors, notes German bird-registration efforts, mentions a Port Elizabeth doctor’s poisoning theory, and ends with a local Alsace-Lorraine correspondent suggesting closer-home causes.
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Alsace
Strassburg
Germany
Education Department
France
Cape of Good Hope
Prussia
Port Elizabeth
Alsace-Lorraine
South Bluefield Florist Plant Sale and Funeral Designs
Tomato plants all varieties pepper and beet plants one dollar per hundred cabbage plants fifty cents per hundred potted plants and cut flowers funeral designs and bouquets a specialty phone 885 Telegraph want ads results
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South Bluefield Florist
Lydia Pinkham Vegetable Compound Health Remedy Praise
A promotional notice extols Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a highly successful medicine for women's ailments. It cites numerous testimonials from women claiming health restoration and avoidance of surgery, noting the remedy is made from roots and herbs and is harmless.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia Pinkham
Pinkham Laboratory
Et Mass
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Mrs Laramore’s relief from dyspepsia with Black Draught
Mrs Riley Laramore of Goodwater Missouri says dyspepsia and heartburn vanished after using Thedford's Black Draught in small nightly doses. She reports two small packages cured her condition and kept it away, praising its gentle cleansing and digestive aid for 25 cents.
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Goodwater
Thedford
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Graham Daily News
J.C. Nelson Graham
Bank OF Graham
Mr. LaBaume
Lavee
Gem
Gary
H. E. Harman
Walnut Street
Mr. Harman
Will H. Stevens
Agriculture and Industrial Department
Graham Friday
Gem Theatre
Mr. Stevens
Virginia Press Association
Surray County
Tridge
Compton
Bluefield, W. Va
SCOOP
CUB Reporter
Peer LE DE Tee A
TVE
Cigniettes Abend
Pitta
Bon
Fulg
Cinchfield
Masonic
Foreman
Hostier
Round House
Lieven
Norfolk and Western
Tug River
Thacker
Kenova
Cinch Valley
Wrens
Telegraph
Lady In Goodwater
Cardus
East End Pharmacy
W. A. Bishop
Jas
Bailey
Lecy
Treas
Armature
Superior Supply Company
A. L. Smith
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