Mrs Kate Peck Dead After Sudden Sleep
Kate Barnett Peck wife of the late John K Peck of Athens died suddenly at her daughter Mrs Grundy Gilmer's home in Matoaka. The death followed an uneventful morning as she sat in a chair and appeared to sleep. Her husband John K Peck died similarly years ago. Mrs Peck leaves four children and was beloved in Mercer County. Remains laid to rest beside her husband in Athens cemetery. Bee reports note abundant early honey and a strong local baseball lineup at McNutt Park.
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Kate Barnett Peck
John Jeck
Athens
Grundy Gilmer
Matoaka
John K. Peek
Peck
David Barrett
Roanoke County
Catawba River
John K. Peck
Montgomery County
Bluefield
Mercer County
Mercer
Israel
Local Brick Plant Expands to Meet Demand
The Princeton Brick Company reports brick output at 20100 per day with demand far outpacing supply. Three kilns are in use and a fourth is being prepared as a large workforce operates on several acres near the Virginian scale house. County Clerk Bowling issued marriage licenses for Samuel Robinson and a Neponset partner, Robert Dickerson and Mabrey Cray, Glen Levett and Georgie Cowan, and Hiram Spirey with Ida Woods. The Princeton fee Company tee plant will begin manufacture soon.
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Princeton Brick Company
Samuel F. ‘Fobinson
Princeton
Tower
Neponset
Robert H. Dickerson
Mabrey KR. Cray
Minefield
Glen Levett
Georgie Cowan
Bramwell
Hiram ©. Spirey
Ida Woods
Freeman
Ice factory to begin production next week
Owing to delayed machinery shipment the company runs about two months behind schedule but expects actual ice production by the start of the coming week with large capacity to avert future shortages. Women’s Auxiliary meets today at the Presbyterian Church on North Walker Street. all members urged to attend. Suit filed in circuit court by Minnie Tolbert against O W Tolbert in chancery to July rules.
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Woman's Auxiliary
The
Presbyterian Church
North Walker Street
Minnie ‘Tolbert Seainst
O. W. Tolbert
Chancery
W. &. Ross
British Story Ship Dun Raven Captains Inspect Crew
Captain Campbell and his officers of the British ship Dun Raven pay close attention to details in their ship and crew. The ship’s wash hides the fl tions while the crew’s appearance signals innocence and readiness as cargo is moved and legends on papiermache freight cars imply ammunition bound for Mesopotamia.
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Campbell
Dunraven
Hong Kong Factories Knit with American and Japanese Yarns
Report notes Chinese factories use a mix of American and Japanese yarns for knit goods. Yearly American yarns valued around one million dollars flow to Honcheng and across the Far East. Goods travel via an “American Japanese Westery made in China” route to North China, the Dutch East Indies, the Philippines, Europe, and beyond.
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Hongkong
Far East
North China
Dutch East Indies
Philippines
South America
Europe
China
Orator Not Dependent on Notes for Speech
Lord Asquith cites John Bright as relying on notes but Bright’s practice showed he used half sheets for key remarks. Bright could repeat verbatim sentences even when applause masked them from reporters. Once wind disrupted his sheets atop his hat, yet he recovered and continued speaking.
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John Bright
Lord Asquith
Bright
Beim
Foxes Trapped by Blanket in Clever Hunt
R A Hutmacher recounts trapping four foxes on a steep rapatee hillside using a horse blanket. The foxes, about six weeks old, chased around the hill as the plan unfolded and all four were captured as the blanket folded over their hole. The duo then returned to town with two foxes each.
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R. A. Hutmacher
Columbus
Rapatee
Mr. Hutmacher
Hat mix up on wartime evidence shipment ends in comedy
Attorney General Palmer ordered New York Justice agents to transfer German propaganda files to Washington vaults. In a baggage car, Special Agent Bill slept on a case while Joe dozed nearby. next morning the hat vanished and lay flat under the case, discovered after a toppled box revealed the misplaced derby.
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Palmer
New York
Department of Justice
Washington
State Department
Department
Joe
Bill
Regulating Immigration Through History to 1920s
The text traces U S immigration policy from open borders before 1882 to increasingly restrictive laws. It notes 1882 exclusions for convicts and likely public charges, later bans on contagious diseases, serious foreign crimes, anarchists, paupers, and professional beggars. It cites a 191 report showing thousands barred or deported as below standard.
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Congress
Beveren Club Formed in London Rabbits for Fur
The Beveren club in London aims to breed rabbits for fur on a cooperative basis. Beveren and Havana strains will be raised. Beveren fur is lavender blue, long and silky. Havana fur is rich chocolate, thick and fairly long. The goal is durable natural fur that does not fade.
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Beveren Club
London
England
Tue Beveren
Havana
Elub
Beveren
Armenian women build roads for Red Cross in Mesopotamia
Five hundred Armenian women employed by the American Red Cross have built 100 miles of stone roads and reconstructed several steel bridges in Marash Mesopotamia over the last four months to ease supply transport. Capt. Edward Bickel of Seattle led the engineering work after no male laborers were available.
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American Red Cross
Associated Press
Marash
Mesopotamia
Red Cross
Edward Bickel
Seattle
Wastage of Coal Urges Households to Sift Ashes
The Anthracite Operators' Association tells Pennsylvania residents that sifting of anthracite ashes can cut waste, with mining experts estimating an average home wastes about three buckets of coal weekly by not sifting, totaling roughly a month's loss.
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Pennsylvania
Anthracite Operators’ Association
California Senator Johnson to Travel via Chicago This Week
Senator Hiram W. Johnson of California will arrive in Chicago Friday from Washington and depart for the Pacific coast on Sunday, accompanied by his son A. M. John. The trip is noted in a brief press item from Chicago dating June 15.
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Chicago
Hiram
Johnson son to accompany father from Chicago visit
The son, said today, Mr. Johnson, who has been in Chicago since the close of the Republican convention, will accompany his father.
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Johnson
Chicago
Crucible Steel Declares Dividends After Directors Meeting
New York June 16 stockholders learned that the Crucible Steel Company declares a 16 3 4 percent stock dividend on common stock at a Pittsburgh directors meeting. The dividend is payable July 31 to stockholders of record July 15. A cash dividend of two cents per share was also declared with earnings for the last months fully warranting paying 8 cents per share for the year.
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New York
Crucibie Steel Company
Ing
Pitsburg
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A. Mahood
Beckwith
Rixey
Akers
Higginbotham
Taylor
Spander
Schaffer
Roberts
Nelson
Repass
Candler
Phrardakeut
Princeton Fee Company
Owen Moore
Lewis Allen Browne
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R. Cecil Smith
Patra
North
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Nunnally
East End Pharmacy
Princeton Avenue
Bluefield Pharmacy
Bluefield Avenue
T. K. Massie
Watcher
Mabel Sarver
Winding Quit
M. &. Sarver
Erastus Eflison
Lower Bluestone
Eaits
Curtis-Seal Co
West Virginia
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Saturday Telegraph
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Bret Buckle
Isadore Cohen Company, Jewelers and Silversmiths
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Mimi
ACME
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