Concord State Normal summer enrollment rising at Athens
Concord State Normal’s summer session in Athens, West Virginia, reports 300 students enrolled to date after 25 new registrants this week. Notable staff include Laura McKinzie in primary methods, Elizabeth Rucker heading rural studies, and Laura Sarvey overseeing games, music, and drawing. Fifteen distinguished alumni petition the state board to upgrade the school to a full college with degree offerings. Faye Campbell leaves early due to her father’s sudden death.
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Athens
W. Va
Concord State Normal Summer School
Laura McKinzie
New York
McKinzie
Columbia University
State College of Georgia
Elizabeth Rucker
Hampden Sidney
Rucker
Harrisburg Normal School
Teachers College
Peabody
Laura Sarvey
Cortland
N. Y
Cortland State Normal School
Conservatory of Music
Concord State Normal
State Board of Education
Seasion
Faye Campbell
Gap Mills
Campbell
French bigamist claims patriotism spurred bigamy
Paris Louis Domergue a French bigamist said he was driven to lead a double life by patriotism to raise France s birth rate. Arrested in two towns 20 miles apart his wives defended him to the judge calling him the best husband ever and secured his release on pleas.
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Paris
Louiis Domergue
France
Convention notes and Russian anarchist raids in 1919 20
Greetings to the convention were received from Dr Francis E Clark founder of the Christian Endeavor in 1881 and from the Pennsylvania and Ohio state unions. A large banner hangs over the pulpit in the Christian church while raids and arrests target a Russian anarchist group using labor unions as camouflage. Many arrestees were deported to Russia aboard the Buford.
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Francis E. Clark
The
Christian Endeavor
Pennsylvania
C. E. Union
Ohio State
Miles Foland
Russia
United States Army
Buford
Pep-filled C E B folks invite church visitors
Readers are invited to visit the church today to see the energetic C E B group. They sing talk yell and work with pep and enthusiasm, demonstrating their lively spirit.
Silver pitcher presented to Homer Rodeheaver in Bluefield
After a Wednesday service the Bluefield Chorus presented Homer Rodeheaver with a magnicent silver pitcher engraved Homer Rodeheaver Director May June. James Elmer Brown handed it to him in a low key moment, prompting an emotional response from Rody and a grateful acknowledgment.
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Homer Rodeheaver
Bluefield Chorus
James Elmer Brown
Rody
Disappearance at Sea Tied to Soviet-Directed Plan
New York police link recent ship vanishings to a long alleged plan from radical groups to seize American vessels at sea and divert them to Soviet ports. Informants from confidential sources say unemployed mariners were urged to crew American ships and steer them to Russia. Police say they turned all evidence over to the Justice Department. The sources' identities were not disclosed.
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New York
Union of Russian Workers of the
United States
Canada
Russia
Department of Justice
Old Egyptian Due Bill in Berlin Shows Ancient Finance
A papyrus draft in the Berlin Museum, dating to around 850 B.C., records a loan of five deben of silver at 100 percent interest. Amon priest and royal treasury manager lent the funds, which supposedly belonged to the treasury of Harsaphes, an Egyptian god, indicating the metal’s fineness.
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Berlin
Judge rules on engagement ring returns in New Jersey case
Common Pleas Judge Lawrence holds that a man may reclaim an engagement ring if both parties mutually consent to break the engagement. Richard Rogers retrieved his ring from Mrs. Thomas Lane, a ruling described by lawyers as possibly the first such decision in English or American law.
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Asbury Park
N. J
Common Pleas
Lawrence
Richard Rogers
Thomas Lane
Dissent Over Ultra Modern European Dances in Rome
A Jerusalem letter reports Christians Jews and Muslims in Rome frown on contemporary European dance. Locals forbid their daughters from attending the shows amid public disapproval and cultural tensions.
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Rome
Jerusalem
Unita Catolica
Strother Has Fine Chance For Federal Judge Appointment
A West Virginia delegation traveled to Washington to press Judge Jas. French Strother of McDowell for the new federal associate judge post in Southern West Virginia. The group included Wm. D. Ord, Sheriff Hatfield, I. J. Rhodes, Sam Polen, J. M. Crockett, Floyd Cunningham, J. M. McGrath, E. L. Greever, J. C. Pack, and H. I. Shott, with others joining in hearings and conferences with senators.
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Washington
Jas. French Strother
McDowell
Federal Court
West Virginia
Wm. D. Ord
Landgraf
W. J. Hatfield
Strother
I. J. Rhodes
Sam Polen
Jos. M. Crockett
Welch
Floyd Cunningham
Eckman
J. M. McGrath
Princeton
E. L.greever
Tazewell
J. C. Pack
Bramwell
H. I. Shott
Bluefield
West
Endorsements Back Judge Stroth for Federal Court Seat
The article notes Judge Stroth er has broad support from nine counties bar associations business interests county officials women’s clubs workingmen and capitalists in southern West Virginia. Delegations returned yesterday and others due back today as his appointment gains solid front from the district’s major business base.
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Tors
Strother
West Virginia
Womens Clubs
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