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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1931
Page
14
The description covers all of Western Pennsylvania with the exception of Bradford, West Virginia and the southwestern portion of Ohio.
Bluefield lodge 967 B'nai B'rith hosted about sixty members and guests at the Miz hotel hall for a seasonable banquet prior to a summer break. B D Sennett welcomed attendees while B J Wagner acted as toastmaster. Speakers included Max Turk Sidney Kwass and Jerome Katz with delegates reporting from the Atlantic City convention.
Henry Baum of Princeton and Philip Angell of Huntington joined lodge members as evening visitors. Angell served as assistant United States district attorney.
The Brown-Webber Prayer circle will meet this evening at 7 45 at the home of Mr and Mrs W B Webber 175 Roagoke street with Mrs Emma Boyd to lead the gathering.
Dr and Mrs Walter M Given announce the marriage of their daughter Flora Virginia to Mr Kenneth Keith Hood on Saturday June 20 1931 in Fairmont West Virginia The couple will reside at 238 Watson Avenue August fleet 238% at home The bride is a Cincinnati Conservatory of Music graduate and former Fairmont High School music teacher with many friends in Bluefield
Miss Pauline Shrewsbury of Ma toaka returns from a three weeks trip with Miss Gene Carpenter of Fairmont. They toured northern West Virginia and Pennsylvania visiting places of interest and attended Bethany College commencement where Miss Carpenter is a graduate.
The state board of control awarded a contract for a bakery and storage building at the Huntington state hospital to Augustus M. Van Hoose of Huntington. His bid was 39 273 dollars.
The Pittsburgh Terminal Coal, Pittsburgh and West Virginia railway, and Mutual Supply filed suits in U S district court to recover 299,890 62 dollars paid in 1917 income and excess profits taxes claiming improper deductions for depletions and interest and that the statute of limitations had run before collection. Attorney Co F Taplin, coal and railroad margin of Cleveland, filed through a local firm.
Cyril McCormick Jr., grandson of the reaper inventor, told the American Society of Agriculture Engineers that agriculture is not bankrupt and will not be until people stop eating. He praised his grandfather for opening the door to modern farming, beyond the 100 years since the reaper’s invention.
Pittsburgh June 25. A production curtailment program invoked by the Pennsylvania crude oil conservation board will be continued. Bradford and Alleghany fields have 50 percent reductions, with the rest of the Pennsylvania crude area at 30 percent. Alleghany fields extend into New York.
Mary Boland declares age is no barrier to radiance and credits Lux Toilet Soap for maintaining a youthful complexion. She notes many stage and screen stars rely on Lux, with 605 of 613 Hollywood actresses using it regularly, a claim tied to studio endorsements.
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