Graham Towns Bond Interest Delay Sparks Public Outcry
Graham officials seek interest on $10,000 allotted for street improvements from a county bond issue after three idle years in a Tazewell court house bank. The delay deprives Graham taxpayers of about $1,200 in foregone interest and prompts calls for accountability. A related note lists local real estate for sale and mentions electricity rate anxieties tied to a state highway and Graham’s industrial plans.
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Tazewell Court House
Highway Commission
Corporation Line
West Virginia Line
Graham Over the Top in Children's Home Drive
Graham reaches its $250 over the top tally for the Children’s Home Society of Virginia. County chairman J Powell Royall urges others to donate before the 25th as Red Cross plans and local efforts gather support in Tazewell County Virginia.
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Palmer
Children’s Home Society of Virginia
Tazewell County
J. Powell Royall
J. W. Chapman
Red Cross
Davidson
Grahan Red Cross
Tazewell
Power rate petition hearing set in Virginia
The Appalachian Power Company seeks an advance in rates in Virginia and faces a hearing before the state corporation commission in Richmond Thursday morning. City Attorney V L Sexton travels from Graham to represent the town in opposing the request. If granted the increase would affect the company’s general schedule including street car fares in the area.
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West Graham
R. K. Morton
Charleston
Dequeter
Mary
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Presbyeran Hill
Marie Cole
Williamson
Mary Moore Morton
Miss Cole
W. L. Sexton
H. ©. Yallaway
Richmond
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Appalachian Power Company
Fred Taylor
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Mary Hughes
Edward Hughes
Wellesly College
Miss Hughes
Chatham
Virginia
V. L. Sexton
Graham
Power Company
Rotary chief calls Americanization at port of entry
Frank Mulholland international president of Rotary Clubs urges immediate Americanization of new arrivals at the port of entry. He warns foreigners must learn the United States is not a nation of tea flags murder or anarchy during his Fergus Falls tour.
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W. Va
Frank Mulholland
Rotary Clubs
Rotarians of America
Penna Ratifies Federal Woman Suffrage Amendment
Harrisburg reports Pennsylvania becomes the seventh state to ratify the federal woman suffrage amendment. The House approved the resolution 155 to 44 and the Senate had ratified it last week by 32 to 6.
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Pennsylvania
House of Representatives
Senate
Troops Arrive from France Aboard Montpelier
Nine officers and 470 men of the 306th supply train of the Lister Wild Cat division, with North Carolina and Florida troops, are among 2 040 arriving in Newport News from France aboard the transport Montpelier.
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Newport News
North Carolina
Florida
France
Montpelier
Anti horse thief group assigned to guard Kansas wheat fields
Kansas City reports the anti horse thief association with a chapter in each of Kansas 166 counties was tasked to protect wheat fields and granaries from incendiary fires. Paris council referred Scapa Flow sinking to experts to assess armistice breach.
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Kansas
Paris
Council of Three
Scapa Flow
Opposition to Government Merchant Fleet Proposal
Senator Fletcher of Florida introduced a resolution opposing the government merchant fleet plan. He intends to address the Senate on the subject.
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Washington
Fletcher
Florida
Senate
Day Honored By Welshmen On St David's Day Traditions
March first is celebrated as St David's Day in Wales in honor of Saint David. Leek badges symbolized the day with historic battle uses and hospitality customs. War Savings Stamps are urged as a thrift habit with thrift stamps and war savings as aids.
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Pardon Granted for Mrs J Switzerland Pritt
Charleston June 24 Governor John J. Cornwell pardons Mrs J Switzerland Pritt wife of C W Pritt of Pocahontas county mother of three children. Convicted of second degree murder last December for shooting her father J Henry Walton to avoid danger as he approached with a pitcher.
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W. Va
Net
John J. Cornwell
Switzerland
Pritt
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Pocahontas County
Manndeville
J. Henry Walton
American Expeditionary Forces Total Casualties Reported
Washington reported by the War Department the AEF total casualties to date 389,016 including 93,754 killed in action 1 570 died of wounds 23 296 died of disease 4 942 died from accidents and other causes 75 662 total deaths 219 984 wounded in action 2 370 missing in action.
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Washington
War Department
Krakatoa and Java: Nature’s Fury and Island Dread
The text describes Krakatoa’s eruption toll and Java’s vast, perilous landscape. It notes 85 000 deaths from Krakatoa, many at distant points by drowning, and highlights Java’s size and population. Native fatalism, inscriptions, and folklore about earth swallowing dancers illustrate the perilous island environment.
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Washington Monument
Krakatoa
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Volcano disaster in Java shocks world with vast losses
Official dispatches report the Klottor Kalut eruption in Java killed about 40 000 natives and ruined 20 000 acres of rice crops while ash falls caused multi million dollar damage beyond the devastated zones. Krakatoa’s prior eruption is recalled as even more catastrophic with mass destruction in the Sunda Strait region.
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National Geographic Society
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Sunda Strait
Sumatra
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