MRS MORROW CAMPAIGNS AS A NEIGHBORLY FIGURE
Mrs Dwight Whitney Morrow tours New Jersey to support her husband’s senate bid while dodging politics. She speaks as a neighbor and poet active in Smith College alumnae and philanthropy, emphasizing human qualities over policy. The article notes her wit, charm, and reluctance to engage in interviews or fly with her husband, preferring home life and reader-friendly tales of Mexico. It also shares background on their early life and home life in Englewood and Plainfield.
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Finglewood
N. J
Dwight Whitney Morrow
New Jersey
Mexico
Dwight Morrow
J. P. Morgan
Navy
U. S. Senate
Morrow
Morrows
Neighbor Morrow
Lindbergh
Smith College
Englewood
Plainfield
Met
Gold Star Mothers Find Shrines Of Americans Better Kept Than Those Of Other Nations
Paris dispatch notes Gold Star mothers touring France find American cemeteries superior in upkeep with marble crosses, perfect alignments, and active care by veteran caretakers. The article lists key cemetery sites and caretakers, highlights French shrines, and mentions Paris Post No. 1 and regional American veterans in France.
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Paris
NEA
France
America
United States
Belgium
England
Sureanes
Jamce Duncan
Stockholm
Jim
Oise-Aisne
Seringes-et-Nesles
Suresnes
Smith College relay unit founder and poet Mrs Morrow
When the United States entered WWI Mrs Morrow organized Smith College relief unit the first women’s group to send workers to Europe. She then spent three months in France directing the front line activities. Poetry is her chief delight and she has published verses in national magazines. Her daughter Anne Lindbergh shares a similar poetic inclination and lineage.
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United States
Morrow
Smith College Relief Unit
Europe
France
Anne Lindbergh
Circles to Meet of the W M A First Christian Church
Circles 1 2 3 5 of the W M A meet this week with leaders Mrs Sam Lambert Mrs C H Smith and Mrs A H Henderson. Circle 1 Wednesday 230 on Cumberland road followed by picnic. Circle 2 Thursday 230 on Carolina avenue. Circle 3 Wednesday 130 luncheon at the church. Circle 5 Wednesday 230 at the YWCA quarters with joint hostesses Mrs L V Peery and Mrs Belcher.
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The
First Christian Church
Sam Lambert
Lambert
Cumberland Road
C. H. Smith
L. M. Pettyjohn
Carolina Avenue
A. H. Henderson
Delightful Bluefield Class Party Honoring Dailey Home
A Friday evening class party was hosted at Mr and Mrs A G Dailey’s Bluefield Virginia home. Attendees included Margaret Turner Louise Hurdle Mildred Hurdle Helen Dailey Elna Maye Nash Edna Tibbs Louise Edmons Ruth Mary Mirrus Vivian Palvey Mary E Newberry Dorthula Dailey Ruth Painter Audrey Hedge Lillian Dailey Clifford Ferguson Alvin Cook Ernest Gregory Bill Thompson Rich Thompson Howard Slagle and Allen Turner. Games were played and an ice course was served by the Daileys and Mrs John Turner.
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A. G. Dailey
Bluefield
Margaret Turner
Louise
Mildred Hurdle
Helen Dailey
Elna Maye Nash
Edna Tibbs
Louise Edmons
Ruth
Mary Mirrus
Vivian Palvey
Mary E. Newberry
Dorthula Dailey
Ruth Painter
Audrey Hedge
Lillian Dailey
Clifford Ferguson
Alvin Cook
Ernest Gregory
Bill Thompson
Simmerman-Snyder Nuptials Planned at Wytheville
Invitations go out for the marriage of Sidney Major Simmerman to Frank Scott Snyder, to be held Saturday at 8 p.m. at Anchor of Home Presbyterian Church in Wytheville, Virginia. The bride, formerly a Fairview school teacher, is popular in the community. After a honeymoon, they will live at Gray Court apartments in Winston-Salem.
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Coe
Frank Scott Snyder
Home Presbyterian Church
Wytheville
Virginia
Fairview
Gray Court Apartments
Winston-Salem
Foote Announcement: Harriet Evans Marries William Cole
Here On Honeymoon Mr and Mrs Frederick N Foote announce the marriage of their daughter Harriet Evans to Mr William Paul Cole on the seventh of June 1930 in New York City. Attractively engraved cards are being sent to friends as the couple honeymoon with the groom's parents in Bluefield. The bride is popular in Bluefield and the groom comes from a prominent local family.
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Frederick N. Foote
Harriet Evans
William Paul Cole
New York
Mrs. Cole
W. J. Cole
Bluefield
Mr. Cole
Marriage Of Interest In Western Virginia News
On June 5 at Springton West Virginia Miss Hortense Riggs daughter of Mr and Mrs Robert L Riggs of Matoaka became the bride of Ray Angle also of Matoaka. They traveled by car to Springton where Rev Byrd performed the ceremony. Hortense is a Matoaka High School graduate and studied at West Virginia Business College Bluefield last winter. She is now employed as bookkeeper for her father. Ray Angle son of Mr and Mrs A A Angle of Matoaka is a trusted young man employed by the Turkey Gap Coal company at Modoc. Roanoke visitors Mrs June Woolridge and Mrs H M Harris attended the Pythian Sisters meeting in Matoaka and are guests of Mrs Thomas H Scott. Edith Clarkson left for Washington to visit her sister Mrs R R Gwin. Mrs J S Hargis and her mother E M Eldridge will spend the summer with Mr Hargis, VP of First National Bank Honaker. Mrs C P Blair and daughter Catherine have been visiting her parents Dr and Mrs T S Hamilton.
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Springton
W. Va
Hortense Riggs
Robert L. Riggs
Matoaka
Ray Angle
Byrd
Matoaka High School
West Virginia Business College
Bluefield
A. A. Angle
Turkey Gap Coal Company
Modoc
H. A. Lucas
Roanoke
Robert
James Elmer Brown
June Woolridge
H. M. Harris
Pythian Sisters
Thirteenth District
Thomas H. Scott
West Virginia
Edith Clarkson
Washington
R. R. Gwin
J. S. Hargis
E. M. Eldridge
Hargis
First National Bank
Honaker
C. P. Blair
Catherine
Roanoke Residents Return Home After Week Away
Walton avenue residents came home to Roanoke Saturday with Mrs. Hugh I. Shott Jr. staying for a visit. Miss Brock Hamilton and Miss Eliza beth Taylor returned from Abingdon Virginia where they attended the Ep worth league conference. Miss Sallie Reese and Miss Grace Moyer will arrive today from Salem Virginia for a short visit. Dr and Mrs J B Eades are in Huntington for the Virginia Osteopathic association meeting.
Mother and Daughter Die in Car Train Collision
In Chicago this afternoon a car struck by a Wabash passenger train killed a mother Mrs Charles Ernst and her seven year old daughter Marjorie. Two other children, Billy aged five and Mary Catherine eleven, were seriously injured.
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Chicago
Charles Ernst
Marjorie
Billy
Mary Catherine
New Chinese Railroad To Cost 18.9 Million Dollars
Shanghai reports a new 317 mile Hangshaw to Kiangsi railroad line with construction starting soon. Orders for materials will go to foreign companies. Total project cost is expected to be 18.873 million dollars.
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Shanghai
Hangshaw
Kiangsi
Helen’s divorce degree annulled in Romania
Vienna reports King Carol has annulled all laws after his 1926 banishment and declared Princess Hyrjea, now Queen Helen, as queen again by canceling her prior divorce. Queen Mother Marie seeks reconciliation with reports of Magda Lupescu’s possible return. police find no evidence Lupescu is in Romania.
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Vienna
Bucharest
Carol
Romania
Holy Synod
Hyrjea
Helen
Mme
Magda Lupescu
Marie
Queen Marie
Londbdn
Madame Lupescu
Baden
Automobiles Build Tire Industry for Japan
Tokyo reports that automobiles transformed Japan from a net importer to a rising rubber tire exporter. In 1929 Japan produced about 2.9 million dollars worth of tires, shifting from jinrikisha tire demand to domestic and foreign supply as auto use grows despite rough rural roads.
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Tokyo
Japan
Colorado moves snow from scenic highway
Estes Park Colo June 14 Approximately 70 000 cubic yards of snow have been removed from Fall River Pass the main highway through Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado for summer tourist travel A steam shovel worked for weeks through 17 foot snow depths between Fall River Pass 11797 feet and Milner Pass 10795 feet Fall River Pass connects Keates Park Last year more than 110 000 cubic yards were dynamited away on this road Warm April weather reduced this season’s work and sun may melt the rest by July.
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Estes Park
Colo
Fall River Pass
Rock Mountain National Park
Colorado
Milner Pass
Keates Park
Machines reduce labor on railroads in France
Paris June 14. Shovels and wheelbarrows are prehistoric instruments in the new machine age program of the French State railway. Big car washing machines track laying and ballast making machines elevators conveyors and like devices have simplified and speeded work. Eventually all will be operated electrically. Ticket printing machines Made in Germany men are being installed. They were obtained from Germany under the preparations treaty. Dumping freight cars are being added steadily for gravel and coal.
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Paris
Germany
U S Forests and Parks Prepared for Tourists
Washington reports national forests and parks being prepared for the summer influx. Uncle Sam is stringing miles of telephone lines, building bridges over streams, and adding ranger cabins as visitation rises to 31 million in forests and over 2 million in parks. There are 150 national forests and 20 national parks, with the forest service maintaining more than 36,000 miles of telephone lines through rugged terrain.
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Washington
Sarfl
National Forests
National Parks
Forest Reserve
National Forest Service
Airplane sowed clover seed boosts East Texas pasture
Beaumont seed scattering from an airplane led to a near perfect stand of clover on Ed Herbert’s pasture near Beaumont. On March 22, about 15 acres were planted in lespedera by air, using five bushels of seed, as part of a pasture campaign sponsored by the East Texas and Beaumont chambers of commerce to interest farmers in permanent pasture in east Texas.
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Beaumont
Tex
Ed Hebert
Herbert
East Texas
East Texas and
Beaumont Chambers of Commerce
Thousand Armed Troops Surround Bombay in Picketing Crackdown
Bombay under martial posture as 1000 troops encircle the city to enforce Mr Irwin’s ordinance against Gandhi followers picketing. Congress volunteers, numbering in the thousands, prepare for Sunday actions while police clash and rioting spreads from Agra to nearby towns.
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Bombay
India
Lord Irwin
Mahatma Ghandi
Congress
Poona
Manchester Regiment
Seconderabad
Frederick Sykes
Sholapur
Agra
Navy Ace Proposes Stunt Flying Trio
Washington June 14 Navy air ace Lieut M B Gardner leads a plan to form a stunt trio with two more pilots Lieut A P Storrs III and Lieut F M Trapnell Gardner known as the navys top aerobatic flier will head a squadron with special fuel and oil tank devices to perform extended inverted stunts on a ship once home to Lieut Alford J Williams Gardner recently practiced the inverted leaf maneuver for ten days on Williams legacy and says the wind made the feat harder but the team aims to extend daring routines across three planes with the same stunt gear as a public demonstration
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Washington
Navy
Alford J. Williams
M. B. Gardner
Anacostia Naval Air Station
Williams
Gardner
Gardners
A. P. Storrs
Trapnell
The
Red Rippers
Storrs
Sea Hawks
Pacific Coast
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John Pantelis
St. Mihiel
Adolph Kaess
Belleau
Meuse-Argonne
Romagne
Walter Sheild
Joseph Brady
Somme
Bony
Joh Blain
Flanders’ Field
Jean Revoire
Brookwood
Verdun
Chateau Thierry
Marne
Provinces
Featuring
Marion Smith
Thomas Edward Simmerman
Sidney Major Simmerman
Scenic
Dana
Edith Blake
Evelyn Shaffer
Dana Harris
Bluefield Floral Co
Bland Street
Ashion
U. S. Forests and Parks
Navy Ace
Electrolux
Oes
Bluefield Gas & Power Co
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