Welch to Open Laundry Here in Town
R C Jackson of Charleston arrives for preliminary talks to establish a modern laundry in Welch. J Frank Johnston plans a new building on Elkhorn Street near Maxwell Garage. Sunday School Day to be celebrated at the Methodist church at 11 a m with a special program. Presbyterian services to be led by Rev DeForest Wade of Manasas Va next Sunday both morning and evening. Personal notes include Miss Pearl Oxborne visiting Mrs Henderson Hitchell and reports on Mrs Payne’s return to Bluefield and K M Bright’s Johns Hopkins Hospital update.
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R. C. Jackson
Charleston
Welch
J. Frank Johnsdhill
Elkhorn Street
Maxwell Garage
Pearl Oxborne
William Osborne
J. Nenderson
Hitchell
KE. Payne
FE. W. Womack
Bluefield
W. W. Henritve
K. M. Bright
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Dickens on Croy Wedding In Home Ceremony
In the presence of relatives Miss Mabel R. Croy married Ro HL Dickenson of Honaker Va yesterday morning at the Croy home. Rev Pl Hlasselvander officiated. Guests included sister Ella Bryant Dickenson and family. The couple will travel to Richmond Norfolk Washington and Baltimore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas R. Croy
Mabel R. Croy
Ro HL. Dickenson
Honaker
Pl’ Hlasselvander
Christian Church
Ella Bryant Dickenson
Lohenn
Ckenson
T. F. Dickenson
Bluefield
Southern Express
Thoroughly Modern Seven Room Home on Vineyard Street
A well updated seven room residence with immediate possession offered at 10500 dollars on terms of 2500 dollars cash and 50 dollars per month. Also a four room cottage on a 40 by 200 foot lot priced at 3200 dollars with terms of 1500 dollars cash and 20 dollars per month. An eight room home with hot water heat and hardwood floors is listed at 10000 dollars on terms of 5000 dollars cash and 50 dollars per month.
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Vineyard Street
South Bland Street
Seven room home in prime city location for 7800
Duhring Street offers a good seven room house with hot water heat in a top location. Price 7800 with terms 2200 cash and 50 per month. Also a new six room bungalow on two and a half acres priced 5800 on terms. A bargain.
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Washington Street
Duhring Street
West End
Midway
Car Line
Dog Meal Service Takes Center Stage in Hotel Tale
A West to New York couple with a dog check into a grand hotel. The husband orders dog food after the floor waiter and dog waiter quarrel over service. The dog waiter brings a silver tray with vegetables meat and crackers priced at one dollar. The husband buys the meal for the dog claiming it is the best and cheapest option.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Samuel G. Blythe
Saturday Evening Post
Knife ends M Clemenceau’s pet squawking row in London garden
Paris premier Georges Clemenceau kept peacocks and storks in gardens beside the interior ministry. Neighbors complained of loud cries affecting peace, leading to police action and a solution in which the birds were given a minor operation to silence their squawks.
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M. Clemenceau
London
Ministry of the Interior
Beauvan
Police
Rue Franklin
And Still Eggs Are High The Chicken Farm Diary
The piece portrays a poultry farm with 18 000 eggs hatched at once under electric light. Hens are kept awake from 10 p m to 4 a m as lights gradually brighten. The hens get about six hours of sleep nightly while workers run the operation daily.
Stalled Car Incident Ends With Girls Falling Into Ditch
A man recalls driving with four girls when his faulty clutch forced them to push the car. On returning to the girls home they planned a slow stop by jumping out, but they fell in a ditch instead. Parents witnessed the awkward scene from the porch.
Brazil Hires Agricultural Experts for Minas Geraes
Rio de Janeiro counsels Minas Geraes to hire specialists from the United States. The state will contract one cotton expert, two fruit culture experts, three grain specialists, one tobacco culture expert, two livestock experts including a veterinarian, and one dairy expert to serve as traveling teachers in interior districts.
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Phillips
Rio de Janeiro
Minas Geraes
Brazil
United States
State of
Progress in Burma’s blind schools expand services
Burma reports two schools for the blind, one in Rangoon and one in Moulmein. Rangoon now has fifteen pupils, seven of them girls, and recently gained the services of a blind Oxford graduate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Progress
Burma
Rangoon
Moulmein
Oxford
West Virginia youths gathered for state boys and agriculture prize event
Morgantown West Virginia June 16 over 450 boys and girls from fifty counties attend the state boys and agriculture club prize event with the exhibition and judging underway.
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Morgantown
W. Va
West Virginia
Agriculture Club
Courre
Pheattendance
Taw
State university offers long running courses with special train
The state university continues its established courses for several years and a special Baltimore and Ohio train will Saturday take the youngsters home to Parkersburg.
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State University
Baltimore and Ohio
Parkersburg
Kipling Manuscripts and Editing Oddities in Sale
The Christian Science Monitor notes a sale of Kipling manuscripts including a typewritten copy of Tom Hinson from January 1802 and shows editing tensions with Henley. It also mentions Kipling revising the poem Cleared from an Irish voice to a different phonetic spelling.
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Rudyard Kipling
National Observer
Henley
Tom Hinson
Kipling
Christian Science Monitor
Baby airplanes take to the skies in Britain and France
The era of tiny aircraft expands as trial flights occur across England and France. The “British Crew” baby weighs 220 pounds and speeds near full-size planes, while the pocket airplane spans its wings at 16 feet and folds for trunk transport. A French infant monoplane from Gar say with an 18 foot span reaches 62 mph, 20 mph landing. Prices for these mini aircraft run from $1,000 to $1,200.
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England
Austin Whipple
Garsay
Little Brothers
Capronis
Handley Pages
Vimys
Odd Silk Bat Hats Noted in Statues Across Regions
The essay notes silk bats revived as headdress fashion inspiring sculptors. Statues include a Lincoln in the United States with a bare head and a toppier placed nearby. In Glasgow a James Oswald statue carries his topper inverted, drawing street children to toss pebbles into the hat.
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United States
Lincoln
Glasgow
Scotland
James Oswald
Oswald
Eight Thousand Swiss Soldiers in War Forged School Reads
Life notes that eight thousand Swiss soldiers entered French service in a war. Of these, eight hundred survived and many were wounded while seven thousand seven hundred were killed. About a thousand stalled a German advance at Verdun before perishing. The story of William Tell and Winkelried entered American readers decades ago, and the 8000 Swiss justified their inclusion.
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Verdun
William Tell
Arnold von Winkelried
Lost His Place at the Barber Shop
An elderly furnit ure store owner named Bitzer, visiting a neighboring town, stops at a barbershop then goes to a saloon for a beer. Returning, he finds another waiting and snaps at the barber asking if leaving briefly means he is still in line.
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Bitzer
Notable Ordeal At Flubdub’s House Alleged Wine And Cigars
A fragmentary Louis ne Couvier-Journal item describes an ordeal after a visit to Flubdub’s house. Ane allegedly drank homemade wine by his wife and smoked two Christmas cigars, leaving witnesses pale and feeble.
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Flubdub
Ane
Louisne Couvier-Journal
Personal notices from Bluefield city society columns
Notices list residents and visitors from Huntington Welch and nearby towns visiting Bluefield. Names include Dr. S Ware W D Hartsock Velda Painter and Blanche Elizabeth newborns. Travel includes Atlantic City Philadelphia Roanoke and Colorado trip plans for Miss Lula McFadden and others.
Relief From Blazing Skin Diseases
An advertorial claim that skin ailments stem from blood condition and that a remedy called 8. S. cleansing the blood and killing germs offers real results. It promises to improve general health and urges readers to write for literature to the Chief Medical Adviser in Atlanta.
Young Iveson Griffith of Richlands Drowned in Submarine 10 der
Iveson Griffith, 20, of Richlands, was among sailors who perished when submarine tender Eagle 25 capsized in a storm off New Castle Delaware last Friday. He enlisted in the U S Navy August 4 1919 and was a resident of Bluefield, son of Floyd Griffith a Norfolk and Western hostler at Richlands. He was nephew to several local residents.
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Iveson Griffith
Eagle
New Castle
Del
Bluefield
Floyd Griffith
Norfolk and Western
Richlands
United States Navy
J. A. Griffth
Greenbrier Street
J. F
Navy recovery of body to pass Bluefield en route home
The body recovered by the navy is expected to pass through Bluefield from Philadelphia tomorrow. Oscar E. Jennings of Welch visited the local navy recruiting office and claimed the deceased is his brother-in-law. Jennings said the family had lived in Pocahontas and now reside in Newport News Virginia. The funeral and burial will be held at Richlands.
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Navy Department
Bluefield
Philadelphia
Oscar E. Jennings
Welch
Navy
Reese Formula R-11 Praised By Mrs Wilson In West Virginia
Mrs Maude Wilson of Clarksburg says Reese Formula R-11 restored her after a year of stomach and kidney trouble. She reports improved appetite sleep and digestion and urges sufferers to try the remedy. The notice lists several Bluefield Matoaka Welch and Pocahontas area druggists for mail orders.
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James FE. Brown
Masonic Temple
Bluefield
W. Va
Wilson
Maude Wilson
Ocello Street
Clarksburg
Goodykoontz Drug Co
Tradley Drug Co
Matoaka
Westfield
Bridgeford Pahramaceis
Keystone
Rae Drug Co
Kimball
Palace Pharmacy
Welch Drug Co
Welch
Citizens Drug Co
Pocahontas
Pocahontas Fuel Co
Wilson Bros
Boissevain
Hale and
Princeton Pharmacies
Princeton
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Teleghipn
Wythe Avenue
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Springdale
Easley-Wilson Co
Federal Street
A. J. Cole
L. H. Layne
D. E. Leckie
T. O
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Ace
Europe
S. Ware
Mingo County
W. D. Hartsock
Huntington
Velda
C. W. Painter
G. A. Swope
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Hazard
Kahle
North Street
F. Chapman
Atlantic City
N. J
Prudential Insurance
L. L. Cheatham
Anawalt
St. Luke's Hospital
Theodore Turk
University of Pennsylvania
H. Lusk
Roanoke
F. R. Bachler
W. O. Tracey
Blanche Elizabeth
Bluefield Sanitarium
J. D. Kester
Chattanooga
G. W. Woodring
W. T. Douthat
Ross Perkins
Walter Perkins
Highland Avenue
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
John J
Joseph Conway
Shenandoah
W. A. Conway
P. J. Kelly
Rh. L. McLellan
Michael
McLellan
G. A. Shirey
Chicago
Hunter Nicholson
George Br. Evans
Princeton Avenue
Nicholson
Llrry G. Rees
H. G. O'Neil
Worthville
O'Neil
Mooseheart
Ind
FE. T. King
Mr. King
Painter King
Bland
van King
Lula McFadden
Honaker Department Store
Colorado Mountains
Young Iveson Griffith
Eagle Boat
Vatabh Ok
Ideal
Byron
Arlick
North
Mercer Street
Bluefield, W. Va
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