Piquefield Automobile Club Promotes Motorist Welfare
Directors George Dunglison Jr J Fr Salisbury W D Shuff of Princeton West Virginia outline the Piuefield Automobile Club as a business organization serving motor car owners. It focuses on member services affiliated visits road information distribution and safeguarding motorists in West Virginia and Virginia. The club seeks to protect motorists rights locally and nationally and promotes tourist travel and services for visitors.
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Piuefield Automobile Club
West Virginia
Virginia
The
Automobile Club
New A A A Tour Book Available for Northeastern States
The Bluefield Automobile Club announces the new A A A Tour Books and map for the Northeastern States with 260 routes, city maps, highway numbers, and a back map of the entire territory. It includes official hotels and garages, strip maps, and reverses on separate pages, tailored for summer touring.
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Lake States
New England
Canadian
Bluefield Automobile Club
Bluefield
Carry Your Cards for Road Tours Advises Club
Members urged to carry registration cards when touring as several states require them. Enforcement varies by state, so motorists should include the card as essential equipment for extended trips.
Rapid progress in road building across West Virginia
The June report by the State Road Commission shows 660.33 miles of routes under construction with several highways nearing completion. Notable gains include 8.14 miles of concrete on the Northwestern Turnpike from the Ritchie county line to West Union, and remaining gaps on Parkersburg to Grafton.
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State Road Commission
Ritchie County
West Union
Parkersburg
Grafton
Dallison and
Nutter Farm
Macomber
Maryland Line
Panhandle
Short Creek
Warwood
New Martinsville
Sisterville
Belmont
Wood County
Sandyville
Ripley
Kenna
Kanawha City
Marmet
Maret
Logan
Huntington
Charleston
White Sulphur Springs
Ohio
Honor Roll of Club Weekly Update and New Members
The note lists monthly honor roll details for club boosters and new member signups. April added 9 members, May 24, June 23, with dues payment required for credit. names from Pocahontas and Bluefield appear among contributors and signups.
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Fred D. Rhodes
Pocahontas
Va. A
Charles Jock
E. K. Kitts
The Right Way to Turn Is Very Important Item
The law regulates how you may turn your automobile for safety and traffic flow. Drivers should signal before turning and follow specific steps for right, left, and complete turns at intersections, avoiding turns on main roads in heavy traffic.
Bluefield Automobile Club Expands Emergency Road Service
Arrangements with Fiat Top Motor Company and Barnett Brumfield Garage enable emergency road service for Bluefield West Virginia members. Benefits include towing within ten miles, start assistance, tire and fuel delivery, mud recovery, and more. Similar AAA affiliated services available nationwide.
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Fiat Top Motor
United States
Canada
American Automobile Association
Board of Governors
Bluefield Automobile Club
Invitation to join Bluefield Automobile Club
Motorists are invited to join the Bluefield Automobile Club in West Virginia. The notice offers a $10 annual dues, a radiator emblem, membership card, and a $10 book of coupons stamps. Applicants must fill a form with personal and car details and remit payment to join.
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Automobile Club
Bluefield Automobile Club
West Virginia
Bluefield Autobile Club
Bluefield Signs Spreading Along All Approaches
Club members erect road signs into Bluefield along major routes from Lewisburg Narrows Peterstown Union and other towns. Signs reach Princeton Athens Hinton Alderson Lewisburg and White Sulphur Springs with detours via Beckley Shady Springs Matoaka Giallo Herndon and Mullens road. A secretary handles the task amid office workload.
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Bluefield
Lewisburg
Narrows
Peterstown
Union
Llanhur Springs
Princeton
Athens
Hinton
Alderson
White Sulphur Springs
Beckley
Shady Springs
Matoaka
Giallo
Herndon
Mullens Road
Loop
Aswell
Simmons Main
East River Mountain Road Nears Completion in August
Construction on the Fast River Mountain route progresses with contractor Mr White reporting a completed graded road by August. The road will be about forty feet wide and allow traffic during construction, though wet weather should be avoided due to a new, ungroomed grade.
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Nicholases
Beech Green
Ansted
Kanawha Falls
Mercer County Line
Spanish Bars
Bayefield
Spanishburg
Charleston
Midland
Bluefield
Sam Black Church
Cawley
Alderson
Hinton
Princeton
Marmet
Madison
Oceana
Davy
West Virginia
Ohio
Glenwood
Parkersburg
Fast River Mountain
White
State
Steam Shovel Opens Road Work Between Narrows and Pearisburg
A steam shovel has moved from Narrows to the Pearisburg area and begun grading between Newrows and Pearisburg. The stretch is dangerous, and widening work has started. A ferry at Pearisburg will soon operate, with traffic crossing the river to the Pearisburg side then crossing a bridge back to the main highway.
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New River
Pearlsburg
Fragmented Auto Monologue From Aunts Driving Style
A fragmented reminiscence describes an aunt as a loud monologist driver who blames external factors for missteps. The narrator riffs on gasoline woes and street hazards, musing on careless pedestrians and mothers letting children near traffic. The piece reads like stream of consciousness humor.
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Getaoe
Electric shovel unearths Devonian fossils in Cleveland
In Cleveland, the Cleveland Museum of Natural History uses an electric shovel to dig fossils from Big Creek and West 128th Street. Since May 13, curator Jesse E. Hyde and collector Peter A. Bungart supervise, yielding preserved fishes, Cladoselache sharks, and other relics in rock concretions. A twelve-foot waterlogged tree trunk turned to coal amid the mud of Ohio’s ancient sea.
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Cleveland
Cleveland Museum of Natural History
Jesse E. Hyde
Peter A. Bungart
Big Creek
West 128Th Street
Ohio
Traffic Rules in Bluefield Urge Enforceable Safety Measures
Editorial urges strict enforcement of existing traffic laws in Bluefield. Warns careless drivers, highlights glare from headlights, wrong positioning, and speed. Calls for educating drivers, stopping double parking, and ending crisscross driving to reduce accidents.
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Bluefield
Cooperation urged for safer city traffic
Motorists and authorities alike show general observance of traffic laws though minor improvements are possible. In a few small areas better cooperation could yield a safer and faster moving city.
Athens doctor links milk to cow mentality at congress
London report says Dr Stavroes Damaglov of Athens warned that drinking large quantities of milk can induce cowlike mentality in people. He also declared the hen's egg a major center of infection while addressing a vegetarian congress.
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London
Stavroes Damaglov
Athens
Dr. Damaglov
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James E. Mann
Claude E. Taylor
J. F. Salisbury
Pearle A. Brammer
J. A. Bodell
J. M. Lewis, Jr
Jam E. Mann
George Dunglinson, Jr
J. Fr
Salisbury W. D. Shuff
Princeton, W. Va
A.A.A
Tory
Harry W. Biggs
Bluefield, W. Va
Insurance
Travelers’ Insurance Co
Law & Commerce Bldg
W. Va
FE. H. Easley Insurance Agency
Bluefield, West Va
East River Mountain
Pearisburg
Shewey’s Tire
the Automobile Club
Raleigh St
Chrysler
S. J. Kell
Bland Street
Hudson
Essex
Peerless
Bluefield Garage
Dodge Brothers
Graham Brothers Trucks
W. R. Keesee
Bluefield Avenue
Ford
Lincoln
Mercer Garage
Raleigh Street
Studebaker
Flat Top Motor Company
Motor Sales CO
Jordan—Willys-Knight
Republic Trucks
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