Judge McClintic Praises West Virginia Heritage at Kiwanis Talk
Judge George W. McClintic told Bluefield Kiwanis members that absorbing West Virginia would be absurd and that the Mountain state has a distinct heritage superior to Virginia. He traced Virginia boundaries, West Virginia’s 1863 formation, and noted boundary disputes while praising the state’s history and people.
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Virginia
West Virginia
George W. McClintic
Bluefield Kiwanis Club
McClintic
Blue Ridge Mountains
Judge McClintic
Virginia Company
England
Old Dominion
Thomas H. Scott
O. W. Evans
Williamson
Bluefield Club
Kiwanis Clubs
W. J. Bruch
Mr. Evans
Huntington
Robert T. Peters
Thomas Settle
Toronto
J. Stephene
Chamber of Commerce
Missionary worker Mary James of Virginia Side dies at home
Miss Mary Catherine James a long time Baptist missionary in Bluefield Virginia Side died after a long illness at her Embrey Court home in Virginia Side. She was daughter of the late RB H James and sister to several relatives. Funeral services will be Wednesday at 2 30 PM at Memorial Baptist Church with Rev H A Willis officiating. Interment at Maple Hill Cemetery West Graham.
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Mary Catherine James
Bluefield
Embrey Court
Virginia
Miss James
The
Baptist Church
RB. H. James
Fauquier County
C. E. Miller
Charleston
Memorial Baptist Church
H. A. Willis
Maple Hill Cemetery
West Graham
Condition of auto wreck victim improves
The condition of Thurman Hodge, 23, of Widemouth, one of three men injured in a Saturday night automobile wreck, was reported somewhat improved last evening. He is a patient at the Bluefield sanitarium. Hodges, driver of the car, suffered injuries.
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Thurman Hodge
Widemouth
Bluefield Sanitarium
Hodges
Home Drug Co. Offers Liver and Gallstone Treatment Literature
A Minneapolis advertisement from Home Drug Co. promotes a specialist’s liver and gallstone prescription with literature and treatment guidance. It claims 28 years of gratifying results and encourages readers to clip the ad for guaranteed money savings.
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Write Home Drug Co
No. Fourth St
Minneapolis
Minn
Cotton Frocks and Travel Tour Advertisements
Sale ads for Cotton Frocks with broadcloth and pique materials priced at 1.98 and 2.98. All-Expense Tour to Chicago Century of Progress departs July 6 from Bluefield for 32.50 with Annie D. Woolwine contact. Local shoppers Betsy W. Harry and Florence Mica visit. Joseph Scruggs returns from New York trip.
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Betty Lee Shoe & Dress Shop
Chicago
Century of Progress
Bluefield
Annie D. Woolwine
W. C. Harry
Mica Florence
Boiscevain
Joseph Scruggs
C. E. Scruggs
New York
Auto crash leaves three men injured at sanitarium
A car overturned down an embankment sending three men to the sanitarium overnight. The injured include the driver, a fracture at the base of the skull, and two others Robert Gray with facial lacerations and Arthur VY Pennington with chest injuries and a rib fracture. All work for the American Coal company at Widemouth and were brought in about 11:30 Saturday night.
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Robert Gray
Arthur VY. Pennington
Gray
Pennington
Widemouth
American Coal Company
Clinic for Benefit of Crippled Tots in Bluefield Thursday
A clinic to aid crippled children in Mercer McDowell and surrounding counties expands to include Wyoming Monroe and Summers. Dr A S Jones and Dr E B Henson will operate from 8 30 to 5 at the public health offices in the municipal building with nurses assisting. open to all children up to 18 regardless of race.
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Bluefield
Mercer
McDowell County
Wyoming
Monroe
Summers
Nellie Poff
Mercer County
State Welfare Department
A. S. Jones
Huntington Orthopedic Hospital
Home Run Leaders and Standings Highlight Yesterday
Baseball notes show Johnson of the Athletics with five home runs yesterday and Gehrig of the Yankees at seventeen total, with other top sluggers like Crosetti and Foxx mentioned. League totals appear around the 282 and 268 ranges for American and National circuits amid a scramble for pace and power.
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Johnson
Athletics
Gehrig
Yankees
Crosetti
Hisaeve An Klein
Cubs
Eevikt
Ronura
White Sox
Giants
Foxx
Father of Local Minister's Wife Dies in Missouri
Death occurred Sunday afternoon at LaGrange Missouri to J A Roberts 80 father of Mrs Howard L Weeks wife of the pastor of College Avenue Baptist church this city Mr Roberts death followed a lingering illness He succumbed three hours before the arrival of Mrs Weeks who left Bluefield Saturday for his bedside He is survived by his widow one daughter and one son Funeral services will be held at LaGrange this afternoon.
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LaGrange
J. A. Roberts
Howard L. Weeks
College Avenue Baptist Church
Roberts
Observes Smoke Drift on Flight Over Bluefield to Newark
W B Koepler reports smoke from a nearby forest fire drifted in a thick stratum twenty to thirty miles wide and two hundred fifty miles long. The plume moved east toward the Atlantic Ocean as the plane passed north to Baltimore. Air was bumpy and smoke likely affected flight conditions and future air service.
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Bluefield
Newark
N. J
W. BE. B. Koepler
Pocahontas Operators Association
Baltimore
Atlantic Ocean
Mercer and McDowell Medical Societies Joint Meeting
A joint meeting of the Mercer and McDowell Medical societies is set for Thursday at 8 15 p m in the Municipal building directors room. Dr C C Fulcher and Dr H T Schifelbein of Welch will present papers on Pre sacral Sympathectomy for Bladder Conditions and Crossed Eyes with refreshments served afterward.
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Mercer and
McDowell Medical Societies
Municipal
C. C. Fulcher
H. T. Schifelbein
Welch
Fulcher
Congress Adjourns With Independents In Full Command
Congress ends its session with independents in influence as Roosevelt praises the cooperation between branches. Garner receives a standing tribute from the Senate after presiding, praising impartiality and efficiency while assuring protection of each senator's rights. Borah introduces the sentiment memorial and calls for rising adoption.
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Congress
NRA
AAA
Roosevelt
Senate
Garner
Borah
Idaho
Robinson
House
Kee files formal candidacy in Fifth district race
U S Representative John Kee filed formal notice for the Democratic renomination in West Virginia's Fifth district. The district covers McDowell Mingo Wyoming Mercer Summers Monroe and Greenbrier counties. Roy E Wiseman of Elk Garden Mineral county also filed for the Republican nomination for state senator in the Fourteenth district seeking E B Reynolds seat in Keyser.
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Charleston
W. Va
U. S
Johnee
Kee
McDowell
Mingo
Wyoming
Mercer
Summers
Monroe
Greenbrier
Roy E. Wiseman
Elk Garden
Mineral County
Grant
Hardy
Mineral
Preston
Tucker
E. Bunker Reynolds
Keyser
Nightingale Limited wreck injures several near Mountain Lake
Several persons were hurt, none seriously, when four coaches of the Nightingale limited of the Chicago St. Paul Minneapolis and Omaha railroad left the rails near Mountain Lake Minnesota early today.
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Mountain Lake
Minn
Nightingale Limited
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha
Wheeling Couple Held on First Degree Murder Charge
Mr and Mrs Mahlon Watt were held for first degree murder by Magistrate J W Kinder berger in Wheeling West Virginia for the slaying of Mrs Watt s brother in law George Cutler on June 1 Mrs Watt is charged with the actual shooting while her husband is accused of forcing the door and discarding the revolver used in the crime
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Wheeling
W. Va
Mahlon Watt
J. W. Kindeberger
Two Army Reserve Officers Die In Fort Harrison Plane Crash
Lieut. Edward M. Johnson of Indianapolis and Lieut. James L. Bruce of Terre Haute were killed when their Army Reserve airplane crashed after takeoff from Fort Benjamin Harrison. Bruce died hours after rescue. Johnson was dead at the wreck. They were en route to Dayton, Ohio and were on active duty. The crash cause was undetermined. The article also notes that alcohol in candy remains adulteration despite repeal of the eighteenth amendment.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Edward M. Johnson
James L. Bruce
Terre Haute
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Here
Lieut
Bruce
Johnson
Dayton
Ohio
Lieut. Johnson
U S Moves to Protect Holders of German Bonds
Washington reports the United States instructed Ambassador Dodd in Berlin to register a strong protest against Germanys moratorium on transfers of interest on foreign obligations. Secretary Phillips announced the protest after German Ambassador Luther met with officials and prepared to sail for New York.
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Washington
United States
William F. Dodd
Berlin
William Phillips
Hans Luther
State Department
New York City
U. S. Europa
Luther
Phillips
France
England
Suspect Freed in Greenbrier County Kidnapping Case
Charleston state police released a Texas suspect in the Dorothy Bradley abduction after fingerprint evidence showed he is not William Mavin Roman. The case involves a six year old girl from Rupert, Greenbrier County, with Roman charged in a separate 1950s disappearance. An unrelated fishing anecdote mentions an angler using a mirror on a hook to attract fish.
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Charleston
W. Va
Palestine
Texas
Greenbrier County
William Mavin Roman
Dorothy Evelyn Bradley
Rupert
Ballard Named Home Loan Appraiser in Huntington District
Charleston West Virginia six preliminary appraisers named by the Home Owners Loan Corporation for district offices include O H Ballard for Bluefield and others for Huntington and Wheeling districts. The appointments were announced by Walter V Ross state manager of the HOLL.
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Charleston
W. Va
Home Owners Loan Corporation
A. N. Thompson
Charles Read
BE. Rhodes
Huntington
O. H. Ballard
Bluefield
Lyle V. Horner
Clarksburg
W. E. Lawler
Fairmont
Wheeling
Walter V. Ross
the Holl
Attorneys Volunteer in Death Penalty Case in Denver
Philip Horbein and David Rosner, Denver attorneys, volunteered their services. Governor Ed Johnson refused to commute the death sentence. The youth pleaded guilty and a jury recommended the death penalty after hearing the evidence. He said, I didn't intend to shoot him, but I got worked up and shot where I didn't mean to.
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Philip Horbein
David Rosner
Denver
Ed ©. Johnson
New Trial Granted in Colorado Gas Death Case
Colorado Supreme Court grants Walter Reppin aged 18 and Louisa Virginia passenger a new trial for the fatal holdup at Colorado College that killed Vincent Regan, a student and taxi driver. Reppin, formerly from Newark New Jersey, faced death by gas at the state prison.
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Denver
Colorado Supreme Court
Walter Reppin
Newark
N. J
Louisa
Colorado Prison
Colorado College
Vincent Regan
Colorado
Regan
Supreme Court
Three Men Arrested in Jones Death Near Huntington
Huntington West Virginia three men Kalie Adina 34 Henry Mounts 24 and Owen Slagel 33 were jailed on murder charges in the death of Manuel E Jones 25 whose body was found on railroad tracks after a Saturday night dance in Guyandotte Investigators say he suffered deep head wounds and was believed beaten with a tire changing tool by the suspects after the gathering across from the tracks
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Huntington
W. Va
Manuel E. Jones
Kalie Adina
Henry Mounts
Owen Slagel
Guyandotte
Jones
Baseball Player Charles McKinney Dies From Injury
Charles McKinney an 18 year old third baseman for the Widemouth team died at 1 45 Sunday morning at the Bluefield sanitarium from a ruptured intestine after a ball struck him in the abdomen while receiving a throw The injury occurred last Wednesday and his condition worsened after admission Friday He was the son of Mr and Mrs Landon McKinney and worked as a tipple employee for the American Coal company.
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Charles McKinney
Widemouth
Bluefield
McKinney
Young McKinney
Landon McKinney
American Coal Company
Lottery ticket sellers held for grand jury
Five defendants including Co. P. Mingo J. Lubliner Samuel Smith James Holmes and Capid Johnson waived preliminary hearing before Magistrate W McNeal and were held for Mercer county grand jury on lottery charges Arrests of operators buyers and sellers followed a raid on Sportsman and The Hub last week The five were released on 500 bail each
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P. Mingo
J. Lubliner
Samuel Smith
James Holmes
Capid Johnson
W. McNeal
Mercer County Grand Jury
Sportsman
Beer change linked to Giants streak after games
A New York sports writer notes a change in the beer served to the Giants in the locker room before their early June batting surge. The observer did not disclose any trade secrets.
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Giants
New York
New York Sports Scrvbes
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Russell County
Lebanon
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Frosty
Black Margaret
Roxie McDonald
Wonderland Chief
Harry C. Stuart
Missouri
John Kee
Army Reserve
United Wrepee
Union Steel Workers
Pittsburgh
Father Casimir Orlemanski
Warlick Furniture Store
Bluefield, W. VA
Callaway
Ballard
Berryman Cleaners
Stewart St
Nates
PERRY
Goodykoontz Drug Stores, Inc
Princeton
E. B. Spangler & Co
Southland
Turkey
Greece
Tay Toile Beiter
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