Pisgah Fort pageant promises a day of pageantry in Bluefield
The Pisgah Fort celebration on July 3 in Tazewell county promises a grand pageant with mounted Klansmen, Shannondale bathing beauties, and elaborate floats. Pocahontas and Bluefield royals will attend as Pathe News signals filming. Local leaders, Klansmen, and Emory and Henry College figures slated to speak amid motorcade officers and pioneer displays.
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Pisgah Fort
Humming Birds
Bluefield
Pathe News
Tazewell
Pisgah
Clinch Villey
Virginia
J. N. Hillman
Emory and Henry College
Virginia Motor Vehicle Department
W. C. Breckenridge
Tazewell County
Bluefield Virginia News
Mountain Cut by New River Defies Common Theory
Article discusses how the New River cut through mountains, arguing the river formed after the mountains and carved its own path over millennia rather than forming simultaneously with the range. The piece reflects on nature’s forces shaping landscapes and counters creation-era assumptions.
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East River Mountain
New River
North Carolina
Could Start a Dandy Road Show Right Here
After a Friday musical by Miss Katherine James the idea of a local road show was raised. Names mentioned include Misses James Sallie Litz Katherine Strickland the Amato sisters Tommy Shawver and a Charleston dancer. The Amatos Eva and Annie Amato may soon be seen on stage.
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Katherine James
Misses James
Sallie Litz
Katherine Strickland
Amato Sisters
Tommy Shawver
Eva
Annie Amato
Warwick Piano Rooms
Musical program delights audience with Miss James and Miss St n
The crowd praised Miss Katherine James for a fine recital with piano by Miss Kathleen St n. The well attended show featured reading and singing, with James planning to teach public school music at Graham High School next term.
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Katherine James
Miss James
Kathleen
Graham High School
Elaine Newton
Thelma Phiegar
Famous Weather Prophet Uncle Hugh Ratcliffe Portrait Published
The Bluefield Virginian describes Uncle Hugh Ratcliffe aged about seventy from Tazewell county as a renowned local weather prophet who forecasts via the moon sun and stars. His life includes a market job a guiding astronomy lore and a charitable streak with no weather casts fee.
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Hugh Ratcciffe
Uncle Hughes
Bluefield
Hugh
Hugh Ratcliffe
Tazewell County
Biluefield
Beetle Pest Promises End by Next Year in Clinch Valley
Farmers and gardeners in the Clinch Valley anticipate the Mexican bean beetle will disappear by next year. The pest’s three year life is brief but destructive, yet local growers report rapid progress and expect full control of the weed.
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Clinch Valley
Many Changes in Hale a Century
The article recalls Hale's transformation since 1874 when E. H. Harman moved here. It notes a tiny early settlement with no railroad or phones, a weekly mail from Wytheville and Hinton, and a wagon trip to Dublin that now takes three hours. The 1881 railroad blaze opened Pocahontas coalfield, spurring ongoing regional activity and growth.
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E. H. Harman
Wan
Pin
Graham
la Cae
Bluefielden
Harman
Lindsey Thompson
Chicago House Furnishing
J .T. Linkous
John Bane
Dr. Brown Crockett
Dr. Crockett
W.L. Sexton
Sanders Drive
Bluestone
St. Clair’s Crossing
W. B. Morton
Hinton
Dublin
Mr. Harman
Nime
Rocky Gap
Lakes-to-Florida
United States Mail
Wytheville
Pinhook
Great Pocahontas
Haiwan
Bland County
Virginia Assembly Bypass Enacting Clause Raises Constitutionality Question
A Virginia press discusses the General Assembly’s departure from standard enacting language in passing a new act effective June 22. The piece compares the move to a colored woman writing a letter torn into the meat of the message and questions whether the act is constitutional without an enacting clause.
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Virginia
General Assembly
Building Log Cabins and Local Notices Highlight Bluefield News
A local feature profiles George Fields, famed for building log cabins and living in one of his own creations. The issue also covers Miss Umbarger not renewing her teaching contract, a water conservation order in Bluefield, a summer school in Logan Street, a stock sale at Bank of Graham, and other town notices and ads.
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George Fields
West End
Tazewell County
Fields
Mr. Fields
Virginia Side
Logan Street
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