Blind children improving after West Virginia eye operations
Eight of thirty children from Romney West Virginia who were operated on at St Luke's hospital in Wheeling show progress. Dr J B Blaydes reports right eye surgeries on groups Friday and Sunday aimed at restoring sight. Additional operations are planned for several children with results expected over weeks.
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West Virginia
Echoe
Romney
St. Luke's Hospital
Nieely
J. B. Blaydes
Bluefield
Blaydes
State Board of Control
Nellia Copley
Ida Copley
Joe Conley
Eeith Copley
Pauline Mesk
Copley
Pauline Meek
Blayden
St. Luke's
Woodrow ,Haws
George Brown
Junior Lee Chadwell
Hawae
Former president of W C T U dies at 78
Castile New Jersey June 28 Miss Anna Gordon 78, former president of the International Women's Christian Temperance Union, died of old age and ill health. A native of Boston, she was a longtime temperance worker, served 11 years as secretary to Frances Willard, and was one of four presidents of the World League Against Alcoholism.
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Castile
N. J
Anna Gordon
Ivanaton, II
International Women's Christian Temperance
Boston
Mas Gordon
United States
Tate
Frances B. Willard
W.C.T. U
Dith
World League Against Alcoholism
Capron Ends Life After Letter Aimed at Ease
In Chicago today Capron, 40, shot himself after a letter signed by his son urged him to seek an easy out. The letter, found in his pocket, instructed that his body be used for medical research by the time of his death, a plan Capron carried out.
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Haly Way
Chicago
Hile Son
Capron
Corsets and furniture sale at Pretwell's store
Local ads announce corsets and brassieres starting at $2.00 plus exotic furnishings at Pretwell's. New manager Myron Marsh invites friends to inspect the Commercial Hotel remodeling and a nine piece Maple Bedroom Suite priced at $93.00 from Warnck Furniture. Also includes a note about Bluefield Mason chapter No. 20 meeting and a Gary funeral for Mrs. Elizabeth Lester, 60, with interment at Thorpe cemetery.
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Ae Commercial Hotel
Warnck Furniture Company
Rosa Arch Masons
Bluefield
Thia
Fk. D. Payne
Gary
Lester
Attacks on Custom of Selecting Chairman and Officers
Forty Deposit Md June 4 A former Senator Joseph J France who seeks the Republican nomination for president denounces the custom of the presidential nominee selecting the national party committee chair and officers He says the practice is unsound prejudicial to party government and urges its removal He pledges to decline any input in committee affairs in the next campaign Charleston W V June 18 The Supreme Court issues a writ of error in a Monongahela West Penn Public Service Co case arising from a Wood County death claim for Emma Edna Hendricks in a collision between a streetcar and a child’s truck
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Forty Deposit
Joseph J. France
Cnae
National Party Committee
Dr. France
Nepublican National Committee
Grayt
Charleston
W.va
Dime 18
Atte Aaprame
Monongahela West Penn Public Service Company
Wood County
H.H. Ulendricke
Emma
Edna
Move to Deport Strike Rbtators Now Under Way
Belmont and Jefferson counties facing a new factor in coal labor unrest as the National Miners union directs about 3,000 miners to walk off in Belmont Jefferson and Harrison counties. Authorities say the strike idles 1,500 men and threatens mine reopenings without new clothing for workers.
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Belmont County
Howard Duff
Latos
National Miners Union
Jefferson
Belmont
Harrison Counties
Dunn
St. Claireville
Ohio
National Miners’ Union
United Mine Workers of America
National Mineral Union
United Mine Workers
Springfield Ill
Ita dl
Warrison
Pittsburgh
National Miners
the & E
Hawan
Lla
Organized
American Federation of Labor
M. A
Jacksonville
Miss Stahlman to undergo tonsil operation in Bluefield
Katherine Stahlman of Charleston, formerly Dippfeld, will undergo a tonsil removal at St Luke's Hospital today. She was brought to Bluefield by her parents Mr and Mrs C C Stahlman and Henry Butia. The family stays with Mr and Mrs F L Black on Summers Street during the visit.
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Katherine Stahlman
Charleston
Dippfeld
St.Luke’s Hospital
Bluefield
C. C. Stahlman
Henry Butia
Stahlman
Tir
F. L. Black
Fayssoux Astonishes Bluefield With Blindfold Drive
Spectacular free exhibition by William Payssoux Fayssoux drew hundreds as he blindfold drove a new Dodge through downtown Bluefield. He found a hidden key, opened a post office box, and delivered a letter to a recipient, all while hidden from view.
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William Irvine Payssoux
Vayssoux
Dodge
Lewis Furniture Company
W. H. Harry
J. T. Akern
Fayssoux
Mr. Warry
Yayasoux
Mr. Harry
Mr. Marry
Postoffice
Federal Building
Lynn Street
Bluefield Avenue
Telepathist Tour Ends Amid Island Tragedy Details
A telepathist and company perform nightly this week sponsored by Bluefield post and American Legion. Survivors and bodies are recovered with many lying in wind swept sheds along the shore. Captain Ollive of the excursion steamer perished in the disaster at sea, just before planned retirement and future service as a maritime liaison between Pornic and Notrmoutier.
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Telepathist
Bluefield Post
American Legion
Alma
Ollive
Pornic
Notrmoutier
Nantes
Voluntary bankruptcy petition filed in West Virginia
A voluntary petition in bankruptcy was filed last Saturday in the United States court for the southern district of West Virginia by Fred J. Eichert a Welch plumbing contractor. The listed liabilities were 115 to 83.92 with assets of 63 655.41 and creditors were mostly individuals and firms from Welch.
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United States
Court For
Southern District of
West Virginia
Fred J. Eichert
Welch
Lsted
Miss Ola Moore Recovering After Streetcar Crash
Miss Ola Moore of Cincinnati, 25, injured Saturday night when struck by an automobile after alighting from a street car on Bluefield Avenue at Beech Street. Now at Bluefield Sanitarium in favorable condition with injuries to forehead, right shoulder, and left leg. The auto was driven by Mercer County deputy sheriff A. L. Wagner of Montcalm. Police say the accident was unavoidable.
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Ola Moore
Cincinnati
Bluefield Avenue
Beech Street
Bluefield
Bluefield youth wins elimination in airplane model contest
Andy Peters son of A Z Peters 1237 Eldridge street won Bluefield chapter Airplane Model League of America elimination contest held yesterday despite bad weather keeping plane aloft for thirty seconds. He earns a chance at the national event in Dayton Ohio with expenses paid by Theatodeine company of Bluefield. Other four winners include Louis Douthat who receives a free trip to Charleston sponsored by Pocahontas Air Transport.
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Andy Peters
A. Z. Peters
Eldridge Street
Bluefield
Airplane Model League of America
Peters
Dayton
Ohio
Tneatodeine Company
Funeral Notices and Local Family Remembrances
Rudolph Lemons, five, entrusted by Edwin Mann president of First National Bank of Bluefield, Vernon Webb, and local AM L A MRS builders supplies. Mrs J B P Hicks attends funeral of her father Charles T Durman, Smythe County veteran. Uleke returns to Bluefield from Seven Mile Ford Va after attending his father’s burial. Mr Durman died at his daughter Mrs J F Snagely’s home. wife predeceased him. Surviving children include Mrs Hicks Bluefield Mrs Snavely Seven Mile Ford Mrs Jennie Lyons Radford John T Durman Weeping Water Neb Mrs Eliza Hicks and James H Durman Bel Air Md.
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Rudolph Lemons
Edwin Mann
First National Bank of
Bluefield
Vernon Webb
Hicks
Mra
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Gity and
Conlfield
Hbrassieres
Elizabeth Lester
T. L. Lester
Spencer
Winess
Trigg James
Gary Methodist Church
Thorpe
R. C. Gregory
Northfork
W.T. Black
Anawalt
Walch
Kentucky
A. M
Hazelton
Thomas Kennedy
Indianapollo
Internation
Mine Workers
West Virsida
Middle West
Pinchot
Miss Stahlman
Bluefield Folk
Kelvinator
Burgess Elec
WINGS
Goly Crowns
Dr. J
Compton
S.S
Oakland
General Motors
Welch Red Company
W. Va
Fisher
Mercer Garage
Bluefield, W. VA
Bristol, Va.tenn
Riverside Motor Company
Cleveland, Va
Perhanes
United Modern Dentists
Princeton Ave
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