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Newspaper

Charleston Gazette

Location

Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America

Date

Apr 17, 1925

Page

7

May Star Gazing Begins With Saturn In Opposition

Washington April 16 Saturn with three rings will open the summer star gazing season on May 2. It will be in Virga between Vireo and Libra and in opposition with the sun, bringing Earth between the planet and the sun. Saturn will be nearer Earth on May 2 than any other time this year. The show continues all summer with the rings highly inclined for clear viewing. Uranus and Neptune are distant. Neptune requires a telescope. The article also highlights the Dipper, Hydra, Corvus, Crater, Bootes, Arcturus, Vega, Capella, Leo, Deneb, Leo’s Sickle, Virgo, and Mira’s immense size and distance, noting Mira is 182 light years away and 259,000,000 miles in diameter.

Washington Saturn Virga Vireo Libra American Nature Enseciation Wim Tise Uranus Neptune Hydra Corvus Crater Bootes Arcturus Vega Capella Leo Regulus Zeath Virgo Earth Mira Hetet- Guess Hligh Antares

Engaged by Fay Stepenason

Serial plot from 1904 with Marcella Lane eighteen engaged to Robert Hansen. The piece follows their engagement and initial family introductions including Hansen’s mother Mrs Hanson and sister Betty. Tension between marrying into a wealthy family and preserving personal autonomy is set alongside social calls, dances, and wedding planning.

Marcella Lane Robert Hansen

Ada G Wells Recovers Bets From Bookmaker in New York

On April 16 at New York race tracks Mrs Ada G Wells recovered 7635 from Philp 5 Abrahams a bookmaker after a Supreme Court directed verdict by Justice Proskauer. The ruling rested on penal law allowing a loser to recover the losses from a bookmaker. Wells sued for 11000 claiming higher losses and testified she had destroyed checks for the excess.

New York Ada G. Wells Philp Abrahams Supreme Court Proskauer

Ozone Backed To Further Lives In Schools

Cleveland April 16 Thousands of lives would be saved annually if schools and names had apparatus for ozone circulation an oxygen compound BE S Hallett chief engineer of the St Louis board of education told the national warm air heating and ventilating association convention. Ozone may be produced by chemical or electrical process injected into a building one part to a million parts air it effects nearly 100 percent purification. Hallett said in five years ozone has been used in St Louis public schools tuberculosis cases reduced more than 50 percent.

Cleveland Ohio BE. S. Hallett St. Louis Board of Education National Warm Air Heating and Ventilating Association St. Louis

State Police Get Whitesville Gin Heist Details

The Whitesville West Virginia station reports a tampered box of liquor triggers an investigation by Privates Kuhn and Hull. Magistrate Hill ordered remaining items destroyed as troopers seek the thiefs behind the confusing shipment scheme and fictitious consignor names.

Whitesville W. Va KC. Kuhn Hull Jand W. Hill Sit Consignee

Scapa Flow Yields 17S June and Atlantic Salvage Plans

April 11 dispatch reports salvage of the German fleet sunk at Scapa Flow with eight destroyers raised. Salvagers aim to raise the 25,000 ton battleship Weidenburg next year as hulls are towed to shipyards for breaking. European emigration notes Swiss flock to California as Alpine villages empty.

Scapa Flow Edinburgh Seawevd Barnavies Weidenburg

Captain Campbell Named Navy Judge Advocate in Washington

Captain Edward I. Campbell assistant chief of the Bureau of Navigation is appointed judge advocate of the Navy to succeed Rear Admiral Julian Latimer in Washington. Campbell, who held the post formerly from 1907 to 1909, will hold the grade of rear admiral office.

Edward I. Campbell Bareau of Navigation Navy Julian Latimer Washington Campbell Omice

Matilda Prior Leaves Estate to Son in Separation Case

Eng Mrs Matilda Prior bequeaths her $45 000 estate to her son after separation from her husband. She directs only $69 to be given to him as a token of remembrance, creating a notable provision in the will.

Matilda Prior

Mammoth News Highlights Local Travel And Visits

Ben Taylor and Miss Sally Symonds traveled to Charleston on Saturday. Garnet Larabee returned home after a two week visit with relatives in Dunbar. Ward visitors included Stanley Shamblin Ed Hanley Buck White Clifford Skiles and James Troster. Robert Larabee made a business visit to Charleston last week. Mrs. John Brobesky returned from Pennsylvania. Sam Shdeed and William Shdeed motor to Charleston on Tuesday. Ressie Lee Walker was a visiting businessperson in Charleston. Charles Whitley of Ward visited. Mrs J B Bagley and family returned from Gauley Bridge. QB Harrison and Tom Inghram were visitors Sunday. A French glider stayed aloft for nine hours reaching 400 feet.

Ben Taylor Boad Taylor Mrs. Taylor Sally Symonds Charleston Miss Garnet Larabee C. M. Caldwell Dunbar Amony Ward Stanley Shamblin Ed Hanley Kck White Clifford Skiles James Troster Robert Larabee John Brobesky Penneslvania

Steel Officials Form New Open Hearth Industry Group

A national organization of open hearth steel manufacturers formed at a Pittsburgh meeting. More than 75 metallurgical engineers and industry officials from the east and Midwest attended under the American Institute of Milling and Metallurgical Engineers.JV. W. Rein ders of New York outlined aims and expected benefits, including tracing cattle plague and improving operations in the steel sector.

Pittsburgh East Middle West American Institute of Milling and Metallurgical Engineers JV. W. Reinders New York United

Cooperation Talk Promises Closer Ties and Savings

A brief note describes industry leaders urging closer cooperation to achieve cost savings. The statement highlights expected efficiency gains and mutual benefits from intensified collaboration between firms.

Marriage Licenses Seized Hair Tonic Probe Advances

The county clerk list shows couples married yesterday including Robert R. Ranson and Lesete My Barlow in Kanawha county, G. E. Hance and Johnsnty agemma in New York, and Charles L. Darrow with Fanchon Alexander in Hanewha county. Prohibition officers seized 45 cases of so called hair tonic at Wheeling station. liquor found in the load was eight gallons of grain alcohol bound for Brooklyn.

Robert R. Ranson Lesete My Barlow Kanawha County G. E. Hance Agaemma Johnsnty Younes Charles L. Darrow Fanchon Alexander Hanewha County Wheeling Baltimore and Ohio Fraight Antonio Zaccagani Bellaire Ohio Tom Vechiune Benwood Dea Drug Company Brooklyn

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