Charleston Doctor-Commander Elected VFW Leader
Charleston physician Dr Bowyer was elected WV VFW Department Commander succeeding James R Davis of Williamson. Officers for 1948 49 include Mrs Ruth Bowyer conductress and Mrs Pearl Walters senior vice treasurer. Delegates selected Parkersburg as next encampment site with installation of six district commanders and remarks by Senator Revercomb on veterans legislation and the Displaced Persons bill.
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Bowyer
James R. Davis
Williamson
C. EB. Goodwin
Ripley
Ida Mae Blackwell
Huntington
James A. Mack
Spencer
de P. Cline
Max C. Welch
VFW
Department
Davis
Frederick G. Riggs
Weston
John C. Skinner
Charles Town
C. A. Hammond
H. H. Moats
Clarksburg
Parkersburg
J. L. Green
Charleston
Claude C. Brown
Dunbar
Hugh Runner
Morgantown
Hugh G. Muffy
Philippi
Harold Welker
Romney
Wadson Hyatt
VET
Chapman Revercomb
Ladies’ Auxiliary
Moose Club
Pearl Walters
Mary Morrison
Cleta Yoho
Fairmont
Lula Cole
Sallie Turner
Ruth Bowyer
Guard
Marjorie C. Sidebottom
Evans
Bull Market Seizes Baby Hippopotamus Sale
Memphis tims June 26. The bull market today caught up with a baby female hippopotamus weighing 800 pounds. The unnamed hippo sold by Over ton 200 to a circus for 3500 dollars, 500 dollars more than a prior hippo sale to Fort Worth zoo. Superintendent H S Lewis notes the animal is the twelfth offspring with another hippo on the way.
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Memphis
Tenn
Overton
Fort Worth Zoo
H. S. Lewis
Venus
Horse Hash in Lexington Eats and Ecuador Naming
An average race horse in Lexington consumes 20 pounds of hay nine quarts of oats and two quarts of bran daily. The country of Ecuador got its name from the Equator as it lies on the great circle of the earth.
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Lexington
Ecuador
Rites and Obituaries From Keystone Area Deaths
Death notices from Keystone West Virginia list Louigi D Andrea and others. Survivors include wives, parents and siblings with services at Sacred Heart church Powhatan and Hawkins funeral home Bluefield. Rites for three local soldiers, a Bluewell reinterment and several church services are noted with burial plans in Woodlawn and Monte Vista cemeteries.
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Keystone
W. Va
Louigi D’ ‘Andrea
Boston
Mass
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
Powhatan
Thomas Rafferty
Woodlawn
D'Andrea
San 'Martino
Perugia
Italy
United States
Ashland Coal and Coke Company
Ashland
UMWA
Ae Order of Moose
Northfork
Teresa Simonetti
Patton Funeral Home
Father Rafferty
Funeral Services for Mrs. R. P. Bolen at Home
Funeral services for 70 year old Mrs. R. P. Bolen will be held at her home at 4 this afternoon with Rev. C. G. Eastwood officiating. She died at 1:45 yesterday after a lengthy illness and her death followed her second stroke of paralysis. Born Henrietta Harman in Hillsville Virginia, she was the daughter of the late Henry and Elizabeth Harman. She had lived in Bluefield.
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Charles E. Musser
Lamar
Memorial Hospital
Princeton
Bailey Funeral
Matoaka
Mr. Musser
Ivanhoe
Sallie Musser
Groseclose
F. L. Musser
Lamar Col‘liery ‘Company
Musser
Lamar Methodist Church
Prince‘ton Lodge
United Mine Workers of America
Amny B. Musser
Charles E., Jr
Mullens
Mary Ellen
Harry Sisk
Dan Kegley
I. A. Gadd
Monte Vista Cemetery
Carl Shrewsbury
Clifford Blankenship
Robert Tabor
Tom Miller
Mark Graham
Ritter
Pfc
Lewis Harry Lundsford
Hawkins Funeral Home
Pather Rafferty
Powhatan
Bluefield
Charlotte
Hawking Chapel
Woodlawn
Nannie Lundsford
Bluewell
William Lundsford
Charlie Andrew Sharp
Richlands Hospital
Raven
Albert Ball
Myrtle Elsie Fink
Lilly Addition
Pentecostal Holiness Church
Straley Avenue
Mr. Williams
Oakwood Cemetery
A. A. White
Earl Higgenbotham
Bill Caldwell O. R. Griffith
Billy White
Sam Wright
Neices
Memorial Funeral Directory
R. P. Bolen
C. G. Eastwood
Bolen
Henrietta Harman
Hillsville
Henry and
Elizabeth Harman
Yugoslavs Free Five Americans
Yugoslav authorities released five U S soldiers after detention of about ten days for entering the Yugoslav zone by small boat while swimming near Capodistria. The State Department protested the prolonged detention and identified the five as George C. Wilson Jarvis L Saulnier Augustine Santana Gordon J Foster Archie M Vanway.
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Trieste
Capodistria
U. S
State Department
Belgrade
George C. Wilson
Southern Pines
N. C
Jarvis L. Saulnier
Manchester
N. H
Augustine Santana
New York City
Gordon J. Foster
Falls Church
Vam
Archie M. Vanway
Stoudsburg
Albaro Vescova
Free Territory
Charleston Truck Driver Wounded in Downtown Shootig
Charleston West Virginia June 26 Hugh A Browning a 39 year old truck driver was wounded in a downtown restaurant Det Lt L B Warren said Clifton A Ayers a 44 year old Charleston barber was charged with shooting with intent to kill and arrested after the incident Ayers admitted the shooting claiming Browning and his companion threatened and kicked him Browning's companion Julius A Bennett 31 said Ayers fired as they left the restaurant Browning works for a contracting company in Rand Kanawha county and was shot in the lower abdomen.
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Charleston
W. Va
Hugh A. Browning
L. B. Warren
Clifton
A. Ayers
Warren
Ayers
Browning
Julius A. Bennett
Bennett
Rand
Kanawha County
Postal Clerk Charged With Theft Of Money
Fairmont West Virginia June 26 theft of money from two letters charged today against a clerk in the Pennsboro post office Mrs Marie Watson 45 of Pennsboro the postal clerk had waived preliminary hearing on the charge She was released under 1000 bond for her appearance later in Federal court Eddy said he had ordered Earl Porter 37 of Martins Ferry C held in jail here in lack of 2500 bond on a charge of taking a letter containing a U S treasury check from a mailbox in Wheeling
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Fairmont
W. Va
Pennsboro
U. S
L. T. Eddy
Marie Watson
Eddy
Earl Porter
Martins Ferry
U. S. Treasury
Wheeling
Obituary and misc notices from Princeton area
The item lists survivors for a local deceased with family names and addresses including Abes and McComas families among others. It notes committal rites for Richard Wayne Martin, day-old son of Clayton and Mrs. Martin of Princeton with a sister Linda. A geographical fact states the equator crosses Ecuador’s Pacific coast.
Chicago Police Trap Mob of Gunmen at Suburban Quarry
Fifteen police squads aided by six planes closed in on gunmen entrenched in a West suburban quarry near Western Springs after a hijacking attempt. A patrolman was seriously wounded, and the mob fled toward Hodgkins as reinforcements and air spotters aided the chase. The quarry sprawls a forest preserve with ravines and dense woods, complicating the search.
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Chicago
Western Springs
Charles Peterson
Hodgkins
Glenview Air Station
Gzmman
Maywood
Gas Utility Customers Reach 21 590 000 by 1947 End
U S gas utilities reported a total customer base of 21 590 000 at the close of 1947 reflecting steady growth across service areas. The figure highlights expanded demand for gas energy and indicates the industry’s scale as it moves into postwar period.
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U. S
Scott Leads Carolina Democrat Primary
W Kerr Scott won the North Carolina Democratic gubernatorial run off over Charles M Johnson. Johnson conceded after 9 pm as Scott, a farm leader who left the agriculture post to run, led by about 30,000 votes with three fourths of precincts reported.
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Raleigh
N. C
W. Kerr Scott
Charles M. Johnson
Johnson
Scott
Nero Employs Emerald to Aid Gladiatorial View
Emperor Nero, nearly sighted, used a concave emerald to gain a clearer view of gladiatorial combats. The ancient anecdote highlights royal vanity and unusual spectacle in the arena.
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Nero
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Senator Revercomb
City
Philadelphia
Revercomb
Navy
Army
Truman
Rever- Como
Senate
VFW Department
West Virginian Hotel
William P. Cline
Frank Pietranton
Weirton
A. B. Bowyer
W. C. Minger
Aubrey Heflin
Hippopotamus
Bluefield Monument
Company
Lemarcale
Virginia
Louigi
D’andrea
Dewey C. Davis
Dewey Clinton Davis
Squire
Grassy Spurr Church
Bishop
Clyde Senter
Mr. McPherson
Tazewell
Grassy Spurr
Jacobs Fork Coal Company
Squire Thursday
James
Margaret Davis
Russel County
George Patton
Eunice Lowry
Téndssand
Peggy
Guidahy
North Tazewell
Nigal Powers
Hazel Laney
Golda
Erwin
Kingsport
Tressa Davis
Nel
Tivis
George Davis
George L. Crawford
MMM
Hawkins Mortuary
W. A. Crawford
L. H. Lundsford
Mrs
Margaret Jones
Margaret Mae Jones
Holden
Charleston General Hospital
Hawkins Chapel
Mack Thomasson
Woodlawn Cemetery
Trinity Methodist Church
H. H. Bolen
Athens
C. S. Bolen
Beckley
C. W Bolen
Clemson
S. C.) College
E. W. Foglesong
W. T. Hayes
Streator
A. W. Harman Candor
J. W. Gardner
Peachbottom
William C. Nixon
Fresno
Calif
W. E. Barnard
Rhoda Harman
Airy
J. E. Ayers
Pulaski
Monte Vista
L. C. Fowlkes
A. W. Easley
William L. Kell
Carlyle Cole
Nathan Platnick
E. M. White
Charlie A. Sharp
Myrtle Fink
Howard Lables
Howard L Benard) Ables
McComas
Saidor
New Guinea
Pene Cemetery
Washington
Equator
Ocean Terrace
Chesapeake Bay
W. E. Woodhouse, Jr
W. Oceanview Ave
Norfolk 3
Bluefield Hardware CO
Bluefield, W. VA
Flat Top National Bank
The
Federal Insurance Corporation
Carolina
Democrat
Dolly Madison
Taylor’s Drug Store
Princeton Ave
U. Ss. Air Force
Air Force
U. S. Air Force
U. S. Army
U. S. Army and
U. S. Air Force Recruiting Service
Peery Building
Post Office
Memorial
Welch Princeton
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