Bread and meat lines form as shops reopen in Bluefield
Long bread lines appear near the South Bluefield liquor store as The Southern Baking Company ships about 1,600 loaves daily. Kroger and Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company reduce bread supply prices, while meat lines also run dry with customers buying up to 50 dollars worth of meat in short windows.
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South Bluefield
Williams Street
Southern Baking Company
Bluefield
Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
Kroger
Deadline Looms for Mercer County Tax Payments
The sheriff warns Mercer County taxpayers two weeks remain to pay county taxes. Payments may be made at the sheriff's office in Princeton or at the courthouse in Princeton. Some residents have not received statements, but collectors can inform totals. final payment day is Saturday June 29.
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Sheriff's Office
Mercer County
Princeton
Ice, Law and Commerce
Immediate admission of 100000 Jews to Palestine urged
Public plea condemns British rejection and urges President Truman to implement the Anglo American Committee of Inquiry findings. It calls for immediate transfer of 100,000 Jews to Palestine and demands justice for displaced Jewish people. The appeal emphasizes American support and British compliance with the committee's unanimous recommendations.
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Barl Harrison
University of Pennsylvania
United States
Europe
Palestine
Truman
Attlee
Great Britain
State Department
Joint Committee
Notable Names in a Jazz Age Public Figures List
A dense roster of prominent figures spans military, government, academia, journalism, religion, arts, and industry. Among them are Maj Gen Maxwell Anderson Donovan Moss Hart Holmes Kent Lubin Luce Mann Mather McMahon Niebuhr Nizer Overstreet Paty Reynolds Owen Schlesinger Shapley Sockman Sternberger Straus Swope Wanger Wilder Wolfert Wolley Zanuck.
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Lasse
Siboney
Siboney Distilling Corporation
Phlladelphia
New York, N.Y
Hitler
America
F. M. Archer
J. $. Bobbitt
Cecil V. Cook
Harold Clouch
F. E. Comins
Rev
J. M. Helm
James J. Hott
G. H. Lawhead
Samuel Moore
Jas. E. Mann
E. G. Otey
C. H. Patterson
Harmon Ramsey
Paul Roger
Clyde J. Stephens
Laurence E. Tierney, Jr
Co. G. Taylor
T. E. Vass, M. D
Harry A. West
Mayor City
Bluefield, W. Va
Jim Ed Wagner
F. Morton Wagner
Judge Criminal Court
R. A. Yarbrough
Louis Adamic
Maxwell Anderson
Henry A. Atkinson
Roger N. Baldwin
Talluah Bankhead
Manchester
John Dewey
William Donovan
Melvyn Douglas
Stephen Duggan
Angus Dun
Can Wyck Brooks
Albert Einstein
Henry Seidel Canby
George Fielding Eliot
Bishop Francis J. Haas
Moss Hart
John Haynes Holmes
B. J. Hovde
Quincy Howe
Eddie Cantor
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Fannie Hurst
James B. Carey
Gene Fowler
Dr. Alvin $. Johnson
Carrie Chapman Catt
Frank Gannett
Robert L. Johnson
Emmanuel Chapman
Lewis &. Gannett
Marquis Childs
James W. Gerard
George L. Cross
Frank Gervass
Rockewll Kent
Serge Koussevitzky
Ely Culbertson
Dorothy Gish
Albert Lasker
Walter Damrosch
Herbert H. Lehman
Jonathan Daniels
Morton Gould
William Green
Emil Lengyel
Walter C. Loudermilk
Isador Lubin
Henry Luce
Thomas Mann
Prof
Kirtley F. Mather
Francis E. McMahon
George Meany
Edgar Ansel Mowrer
Philip Murray
Reinhold Niebuhr
Louis Nizer
Harry A. Overstreet
Raymond R. Paty
Norman Vincent Peale
Ferdinand Pecora
Daniel A. Poling
Walter P. Reuther
Quentin Reynolds
Ruth Bryan Owen Rohde
Arthur M. Schlesinger
Dr. Harlow Shapley
Guy Emery Shipler
Spyros Skouras
Ralph W. Sockman
Estelle M. Sternberger
Rex Stout
Nathan Straus
Herbert Bayard Swope
Mark van Doren
Walter Wanger
Thornton Wilder
Ira Wolfert
Mary E. Wolley
Darryl Zanuck
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