Better Homes and Industrial Show Opens at City Auditorium
Readied for a week long Better Homes and Industrial exposition by Bluefield Post No 9 at Municipal Auditorium. Exhibits highlight new manufacturing and home essentials with daily contests for Miss Bluefield brides and babies, plus vaudeville acts and a gift filled week ending with grand prizes Saturday night.
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Bluefield Post
Municipal Auditorium
Mies
Blue City Boys Orchestra
D. P Rcott
Philadelphia
Gladys Bishop
May Mine Death Toll in West Virginia Reaches 54
A May tally shows 54 deaths in West Virginia mines and surroundings, including 49 inside and 5 outside the mines. The list names miners by county with ages and causes such as falls, runovers, and gas explosions, spanning McDowell, Mingo, Raleigh, Marion, Wyoming and Logan counties.
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West Virginia
MccDowell
Fallen Bay
Upland
Upland Coal and Coke Co
McDowell
Fayette Reynolds
Carswell No. 2
Houston Collieries Co
Devery Biadock
Junior
Junior Pocahontas Coal Co
McDoweill
Thomas Coleman
Krollita
Wakenva Coal Co., Inc
Mingo
Joese Ryles
Gates
Crystal Block Mining Co
B. Davia
Bartley
Pond Creek Pocahontas Co
Mathew Justice
War Eagle
War Eagle Coal Co
Mike Gregory
Empire Mine
Empire Coal and Coke Co
MecDowell
Vance Conley
Raleigh
John Blevins
Slate
Raleigh Fire Creek
Raleigh Fire Creek Coal Co
John Hodge
Blunt
Blunt Coal Co
Wyoming
J. O. Hamblett
United Pocahontas Coal Co
Vincente Lopez
Slab Fork
Slab Fork Coal Co
Ruben Mitchell
McDowell Coal and Coke Co
Sid Huff
Tipple
Crystal Black Coal and Coke Co
Marion
John McKnight
Cosgrove-Meehan Gas Coal Co
Page Marshall
Killarney
U S Tops Florence as Arts Patron Says Sitwell
English poet Osbert Sitwell, after an eight month visit to America, praises the United States as the world’s chief patron of the arts. He credits money making with culture and lauds American honesty and genuine devotion to books and pictures over European pose. He contrasts American professionals with English amateurism. June 19 London.
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London
United States
Florence
Osbert Sitwell
Sitwell
America
New York
Clemenceau Honors Dead Friends In Paris Tribute
In Paris on June 19, Georges Clemenceau, dubbed Old Father Victory and The Tiger, delayed public appearances for a memorial at Gobelins honoring Gustave J and celebrated Monet with a personal exhibition. The ceremonies drew photographers as Clemenceau hosted journalists and lifelong friends in a public display of mourning and solidarity.
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Paris
M. Georges Clemenceau
Gobelins
Gustave J
Clemenceau
Dreyfus
Geoffroy
Claude Monet
Monet
Architects of France Move to Enforce Ethics
Paris June 19 architects seek to form a close corporation to discipline members and cancel building rights when needed. They claim high ethics but lack recourse against unfair competition. A bill to place them near lawyers is before parliament.
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Paris
France
Borough Abandons Hall for Fire House
The mayor and aldermen of the borough of Mueggelheim near Berlin will move from their shabby city hall to a new fire house. Economic constraints forced years of official business in a writable shack, but plans call for a formal, improved municipal home.
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Berlin
Mueggelheim
Greater
Fragments of Nibelungen Manuscript Found in Austria
Fragments of an ancient Nibelungen manuscript were discovered in Klagenfurt Austria by Dr. Hermann Menbard director of the Klagenfurt Library. The pieces are Bavarian Austrian language middle ages and likely belonged to a wandering minstrel of the twelfth or thirteenth century.
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Berlin
Jane
Hermann Menbard
Klagenfurt
Austria
Famous Wine Cellar to Dispense Beer in Leipsic
Berlin reports Auerbachs Keller in Leipsic will add beer to its offerings starting in July while preserving wine in the historic rooms reserved for wine drinkers. The famed site, linked with Faust lore, will keep beer banned in those rooms.
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Berlin
Auerbach
Keller
Leipsic
Mecca
Faust
Paris Judge Upholds Right to Beat Wife
Paris June 19 A Paris court upholds a husband's right to strike his wife if she needs it with Judge Pontremoli arguing that brutality is not reprehensible when provoked by a wife's bad conduct. The ruling reflects that French law still treats the husband as head of the family, though in practice such cases are often contested in court.
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Paris
France
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City Auditorium
Orkney
Kingston-Pocahontas Coal Co
Floyd C. Stringer
Peerjess Coal and Coke Co
Earl Dockery
Howard Maxwell
Valenty Kovil
Harry Leiding
Lester Burk
Joe Gudger
Will Smith
Will Griffin
Central Pocahontas
Stickney Mine
Glegora Coal Co
Logan
London Green
Loma No
Standard Island Creek Coal Co
U.3
Poet
England
Architects
Nibelungen MS
Kohler Or
Kohler
W. A. Bodell CO
Bluefield, W. Va
Bluefield Floral Co
Clifford M. Brown
Bland Street
Bluefield Better Homes and
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Bluefield Gas & Power CO
Bland ST
Bluefield
West Va
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