Bluefield College seeks 100000 expansion funds
Edwin Mann and George Dunglison urge Bluefield citizens to raise 100000 for college growth. They cite a million dollar plan, 400000 already invested, and Baptist support to leverage further gifts. A broader community campaign begins June 25 to finish needed buildings and grounds.
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Bluefield
Bluefield College
Virginia Baptists
Lieve
College Avenue
Graham Pike
Mark
Chamber of Commerce
Southern Baptists
Edwin Mann
George Dunglinson, JR
Silent Ed Remembers the Maine Sinking from Prison
George Britt writes of Ed Smith once a swift Great Lakes seaman now longtime inmate at the Illinois State Penitentiary. The 25 year memory of the USS Maine explosion haunts him daily as he recalls February 16, 1898 and a life altered by war and capture.
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George Britt
Toilet
Ill
Maine
United States
Illinois State Penitentiary
Ed Smith
Havana
Smith
Great Lakes
Maine Memory Ends In Fatal Bar Fight
A man recalls a barroom altercation sparked by anti American sentiments after which he struck the German bartender with an iron pin, the bartender dying and the man receiving life imprisonment. He reflects on the Maine sinking and his enduring memory.
Duncan Shows How Cowboys Joke In Playing It Wild
Cowboys enjoy practical jokes as William Duncan and Edith Johnson star in Playing It Wild at the Alto Theatre today and tomorrow. Duncan plays a carefree cowpuncher who taunts a bridegroom in a broad jump contest and loses after being helped by a hay waterhole prank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Duncan
Edith Johnson
Alto Theatre
Duncan
The White Flower Pleases at Colonial
Betty Compson stars in The White Flower at the Colonial Theatre in Honolulu Hawaii. She plays Konia Markham, a half American, half Hawaiian girl, with Edmund Lowe and Arline Pretty supporting. The film, based on a Julia Crawford Ivers story, is praised for plot and photography.
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Betty Compson
Paramount
Colonial Theatre
Julia Crawford Ivers
Hawaiian Islands
Miss Compson
Konia Markham
Edmund Lowe
Bob Rutherford
Arline Pretty
Edward Martindel
Leon Barry
South Seas
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F. M. Archer
W. J. Cole
F. S. Beasley
W. C. Given
C. S. Cheyney
Thelemkuml
Ie Qasonic Temple
William Duncan and
West
Harold Lloyd
Ed” Smith
Colonial
Telegraph
Jonnal
Bet Ompson
Betty
Hawaii
Waikiki
Pest
Fox News
Colonial Orchestra
Bluefield Fair Ground Park
Jamisons
Palmolive
Kraft’s
Peian
Ster
Ling
Vienna
Keystone
W. Va
Northfork
Princeton
Welch
Sterling
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