Baseball Scores Across National and Virginia League Play
National results include Roanoke 7 Lynchburg 0, Richmond 2 Danville 6, Portsmouth 4. Virginia League shows Cincinnati 2 Boston 0. American circuit notes Washington 4 St. Louis 0 and Boston Detroit rain with Philadelphia 1 Chicago 0 New York 3 Cleveland 1.
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Roanoke
Lynchburg
Norfolk
Richmond
Danville
Portsmouth
Virginia League
Cincinnati
Boston
Pittsburg
New York
Chicago-Philadelphia
St. Louis
Brooklyn
Washington
Philadelphia
Chicago
Cleveland
Drummers Invade Parkersburg for United Commercial Travellers Meet
May 14 Parkersburg West Virginia reports a large influx of drummers for the grand council of the United Commercial Travellers with delegates from Kentucky Virginia West Virginia and the District of Columbia. Reports hint at rising membership and strong organizational health as the convention runs through the week. May 14 San Antonio Texas welcomes commercial travelers for the Texas division convention of the Travelers Protective Association with offices contests and entertainment planned through Saturday. May 14 Decatur Illinois sees about 600 members and spouses arriving for the annual state convention of United Commercial Travellers of America with business sessions starting tomorrow.
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Parkersburg
W. Va
United Commercial Travellers
Kentucky
Virginia
West Virginia
District of Columbia
San Antonio
Texas
Travelers’ Protective Association
Decatur
Ill
United Commercial Travellers of America
Night riders terror in Kentucky counties grows
In Bracken and Mason counties near Lexington nightly attacks persist despite troop presence. Residents report a reign of terror with about two beaten weekly, and several fear talking to reporters. Last night four Degiman farm plant beds were destroyed near soldiers, with a warning note left.
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Lexington
Bracken
Mason Counties
C. C. Degiman
Mason County
Degmen
Bankrupt's Petition for Discharge in West Virginia Court
W G Denny of Kimball McDowell County West Virginia petitions for discharge from all debts provable under bankruptcy acts. Hearing set May 23 at 10 am in Bluefield before Judge Keller with notice to creditors via Bluefield Telegraph.
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District Court of the United States
West Virginia
W. G. Denny
Benjamin F. Keller
Kimball
McDowell
G. Denny
Maefield
Bluefield
Saidsmut
Pardons Granted to Two Chain Gang Members for Rescue
In Suffolk Virginia Mayor Northfleet pardoned James Gray and Frank Kelly, two chained prisoners who risked their lives to save Captain Willig H. Taylor after lumber cars rolled loose on a grade. Taylor, crushed and nearly killed, was helped to a doctor and is later expected to recover.
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Suffolk
Willig F H. Taylor
James Gray
Frank Kelly
Br. Northfleet
Tewler
West Suffolk
Taylor
Gray
Kelly
Northwest Louisiana Tornado Kills Dozens Across Towns
A tornado swept Northwest Louisiana causing an estimated thirty deaths and about two hundred injuries. It devastated three small towns, wrecked homes, and ruined crops across a mile wide, fifty miles long corridor.
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Shreveport
Louisiana
Joe Gans Wins Lightweight Title in San Francisco
Joe Gans defeated Ralph Anholz the fight ending in the eleventh round to claim the lightweight championship in San Francisco. The Chronicle notes there is no hod carrying to Japan and comments on mortar transport by native builders, describing a street mixing method and relay toss to a rooftop.
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San Francisco
Joe Gans
Ralph Anholz
Japan
San Francisco Chronicle
Women First in Playwrights Ambition Says Theater Magazine
The first aim of the modern playwright is to please the women in the audience. The second thought is for the female characters in the play. If a play finds favor with the women it is bound to be a success. The man will go if only because she is there or to act as her escort.
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Theater Magazine
Literary quotes clash spark marriage question
A quip from the Cleveland Plain Dealer about marriage harming literary work ends with a quip that love stories threaten writers. The Manchester Union comments that a quarrel becomes breakfast food and warns of marital indigestion.
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Cleveland
Plain Dealer
Manchester Union
Bandits Rob El Paso Train. $85,000 Loot Fled North
Three robbers fleeing with an $85,000 haul broke into the French station on the Santa Fe line near East Last Vegas New Mexico. They bound the agent and guard, blew the safe, then rode off pursued by men and bloodhounds. A tramp freed the injured staff and raised the alarm. Loot was sent from Albuquerque to pay miners at Rawson New Mexico.
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el Paso
Texas
French
East
Last Vegas
N. M
Santa Fe
Albuquerque
Rawson, N. M
Beauty sparks court aid in Virginia marriage
Miss Urcyla Verne White from Portsmouth Ohio sought a license to wed Stewart Grafton of Coyington Virginia but at twenty faced license hurdles. Judge Holt granted a guardian and the Rev H H Sawmill officiated, uniting the couple with guardian consent.
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Staunton
Urcyla Verne White
Portsmouth
Stewart Grafton
Coyington
Ohio
Holt
Corporation Court
HH. P. Sawmill
M. Khehureh
South
16000 Miners Strike Halts Indiana Coal Output
About 16 900 bituminous miners in Indiana walked out today after wage scale talks broke down. Officials from both sides expressed regret but said the strike should spur renewed negotiations.
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Terre Waute
Ind
Indiana
Wedding Houses in English Towns and Villages
The old wed lite house offered a public venue for newly married couples to entertain friends after a church wedding. Couples paid only for the provisions they supplied, while the house itself was provided free for the day, as noted by the Westmingtor Gazette.
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England
Westmingtor Gagette
Carter's bankrupt sale ad of stock of Banks and Rosenheim
The notice reports a bankrupt sale ad for stock belonging to Banks and Rosenheim scheduled for publication on the second page of the issue, reference 510-6.
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Carter
Banks
Rosenheim
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Straus-Gunst & CO
Bluefield Beer
SOS
Bey Ares
Ryh
Cafe Gars
Bluefield Brewing CO
Bluefield, West Virginia
Clark & Co
Eee
Glark & CO
Princeton Avenue
Compton Bros., State Bank
Dentists
Gompton B Bros
State Bank Building
Bluefield, W. VA
Magninery Company
Miller Supply Company
W. L. Draper
Studebaker
Geiser
Bluefield Implement & Machinery Co
iIntermont Electric Co
Bluefield Bottling Co
Edwin M. Keatley
Ly B. L. Bowman
Boer
Women and the Theater
Dr. King
Thagat
LU Iguaranteed Sastel
PHICK
Hannat
Eureka Hardware Co
The
Daily Telegraph
R. L. Morris
Bluefield Normal & Business College
Corn Fielda
Pitman, Gregg and
Oliver, Underwood, Remington and
Smith Machines
W. H. Cunningham
ANTES
Benjamin
York
Shumate Clothing Co
F.rp
Chambers Lumber Go
Eckman
West VA
Bluefield Book & Stationery
Elk’s Building
Westinghouse
A. GC. Motors
Bluestone Traction Company
Priege
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