NRA Campaign Enlists Charleston Merchants
A committee led by G. B. Corrie vamps Charleston merchants to promote the NRA cause and recruit blue eagle backers. Meeting at Bartlett's funeral home will divide the city into districts for canvassing to begin tomorrow morning. The plan includes postoffice support, volunteer cards, and a women’s division headquartered at the local club house.
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Charleston
NRA
Blue Eagle
G. B. Corrie
Leroy Swinburn
George W. Quick
W. A. Foster
J. L. Pauley
J. T. Reynolds
Dale Thomas
Wesley H. O’dell
Sam Slomovi
Charles Goff
L. G. Lundquist
Peter Silman
W. A. Abbitt
Bartlett
Joseph Norton
DeVan
West Virginia State Restaurant Association
Daniel Boone Hotel
Clarksburg
John F. Hurt
G. T. Leslie
Bluefield
T. H. McKinley
Parkersburg
Gotses
Fairmont
Carl H. Sterk
Kanawha Valley Restaurant Association
New State Association
Sterk
Morgantown
Postoffice
Julius W. Singleton
T. O. Timberlake
United States
Cyrus W. Hall
Tiberlake
Hall
Nelle Huneke
Red Cross
Bradford Noyes
United Daughters of the Confeder
Superintendent Roles Expand With County Unit Act
The office of county superintendent was abolished by the county unit act, yet the attorney general ruled duties persisted under new designations. New county boards made superintendents executive officers, increasing duties. Several counties granted pay raises from a few hundred to over a thousand dollars yearly after Trent urged higher compensation and planned to seek Holt’s ruling.
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Trent
Holt
Coal and Retail Codes Highlight NRA Talks and Labor Tension
Union and operator representatives met under NRA oversight as Johnson pressed toward a coal code and a broader retail code. Talks with Deputy Administrator Simpson and labor leaders continued amid disputes over employer classifications and union rights, while a nationwide drive to promote the blue eagle began.
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Johnson
NRA
Kenneth MM. Simpson
Donald Richberg
R. E. Taggart
Philadelphia
James D. Francis Huntington
West Virginia
Charlies O'Neill
New York
Duncan Kennedy
Charleston
John D. A. Morrow
Pittsburgh
John L. Lewis
Philip Murray
Thomas Kennedy
van A. Bitner
Henry A. Warrum
Pushes
Roosevelt pushes credit plan to aid new deal jobs
President Roosevelt speeds an afternoon train to push aides to work on a proposal ensuring credit for employers joining his plan to spread jobs and raise wages. The move aims to bridge higher overhead and later profits, with banks or direct government talks on credit mechanisms. Montagu Norman and George Harrison visit, fueling currency stabilization speculation, but no gold standard return.
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Roosevelt
Federal Reserve System
Montagu Norman
Bank of England
George Harrison
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Scientific effort tests mild disease in animals
Science continues on page with researchers studying a method to induce a mild form of a disease in animals. The plan includes experiments on small pigs, rabbits, and mice to assess potential effects and outcomes.
Death In Michigan
Michigan health authorities checked all hospitals in the state in search of sleeping sickness victims after an eight year old girl died and two others were stricken. The death and illnesses prompted a statewide health response in Detroit and surrounding areas as officials investigate possible cases and sources of infection.
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Michigan
Detroit
Mich
Progress of Vocation Work Plan at Capitol Meetings
Vocational education heads to a four day Capitol session led by Miss Lena M. Charter to boost domestic science teaching. She notes this year will raise the subject’s value amid depression and that teachers will apply lessons at home, continuing through summer. County boards show growing interest in practical domestic science training.
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Capitol
Lena M. Charter
State Department of Education
Charter
Miss Charter
Accused Accessories to Deputy Shooting Stand Trial
Harper is charged as an accessory and will be tried. Frazier previously said he fired the shots killing the deputy sheriff and his prisoner, but after conviction and reviewing bullet holes he claims he could not have fired them. Cano says he was forced to ride with Harper and Frazier and did not want involvement. Judge Miller named lawyers Wolfe Crow Hyre Heilman to defend Cano, with Belcher and Robertson retained by Mrs. Mairs and Mrs. Prazier.
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Frazier
State Penitentiary
Cano
Harper
Relief Group crafts plan to boost employment drive
Administrators met in four group sessions to map district employment challenges. Turner will hold short conferences tonight, with general discussions resuming tomorrow as Governor Kump aims to push a major employment campaign, joined by Federal Employment Director W. H. McGinnis who will speak at the session.
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Turner
Kump
W. H. McGinnis
Wallace Agreement Hinges on Four Nations Pact
Wallace said a key export treaty will take effect only if the United States Argentina Australia and Canada sign a supplementary understanding. The deal would divide a 560 million bushel export quota for the year starting August 1. Canada and Australia have approved. Argentina must sign for U S delay.
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United States
Argentina
Australia
Canada
Wallace
Thomas le Breton
Man Killed In Gas Blast At Indiana Refinery
WHITING Ind Aug 28 One man burned fatally and 18 others severely burned in a refinery gas explosion at Standard Oil Indiana Michael Balog 60 died soon after hospitalization A R Weices Huntington Cal engineer for Pacific Pump and Albert Walzak Chicago maintenance man for Standard Oil may die Doctors say A quick warning by L C Wheeler assistant superintendent who detected leaking gas saved another crew of 60 workers from the blast.
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Whiting
Ind
Standard Oil Company
Indiana
Michael Balog
A. R. Weices
Huntington
Cal
Pacific Pump Company
Albert Walzak
Chicago
Standard Oil
L C. Wheeler
Obituary Mrs Lucinda Acree Dies at 62 in Brown Street
Funeral services for Mrs. Lucinda Acree 62 who died Saturday night at her Brown street home will be held at 10 a m at Central Methodist Church with Rev J B Workman officiating Interment will follow in Spring Hill cemetery She was the wife of former Desk Sgt Dayton Acree of the city police Active pallbearers are C H Martin R H Spradling John Bland Albert Atkinson N H Spradling Honorary pallbearers include Dr W L Price W Wertz J M Life Lou Reynolds D H Alexandra and Peter Silman
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Lucinda Acree
Brown Street
Central Methodist Church
J. B. Workman
Spring Hill Cemetery
Albert Atkinson
N. H. Spradling
W. L. Price
W. W. Wertz
J. M. Life
Lou Reynolds
D. H. Alexandra
Peter Silman
Funeral services for Mrs Margaret Anderson in Pratt
Mrs Margaret Anderson 81 died Sunday at her Kanawha City home. Services at Pratt Baptist Church at two this afternoon, with burial in Pratt Cemetery. Py thian Sisters Union Temple to conduct. Born East Bank, she spent life in Kana wha valley and is survived by 66 descendants.
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Margaret Anderson
Kanawha City
Pratt Baptist Church
Pratt Cemetery
Pythian Sisters
Union Temple
Anderson
East Bank
Kanawha Valley
Funeral services for Lewis Allen 65 held at daughter's home
Lewis Allen died Saturday at his South Street home. Funeral services were held at 10 this morning at his daughter Mrs. L. G. Tillis home on Homer Street. Interment followed at Spring Hill Cemetery. Surviving are his widow five daughters Mrs. P. A. Costello Mrs. P. H. Mairs Mrs. Val Gardner Mrs. O. W. Perry and Mrs. Tillis of Charleston and Mrs. E. J. Frizzell of Texas and one son Denver Allen of Charleston.
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Lewis Allen
South Street
L. G. Tillis
Homer Street
Spring Hill Cemetery
P. A. Costello
P. H. Mairs
Val Gardner
O. W. Perry
Tillis
Charleston
E. J. Frizzell
Texas
Denver Allen
Qualls Services Held for Clover Sprint Mine Victim James Qualls
Funeral services are set for 2 30 this afternoon at Harden and Harden mortuary chapel for James Qualls who died in a mine accident at Clover Sprint Kentucky on August 24 Rev R Wesley will conduct at Spring Hill cemetery He is survived by one daughter Camelle Qualls.
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Qualls
Harden and Harden Mortuary
James Qualls
Clover Sprint
R. Wesley
Spring Hill Cemetery
Camelle Qualls
Funeral services for S A Mathews held at Asbury cemetery
Funeral services for S A Mathews aged 53 who died Sunday at his home on Charleston street are set for ten this morning at Asbury cemetery near Nitro. Dunbar Council No 49 Junior Order of American Mechanics will oversee with pallbearers T E Keeling Co M Good Wilbur Riffie L A Kirk Roy Javins and Harry Stover named.
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S. A. Mathews
Charleston Street
Asbury Cemetery
Nitro
Order of American Mechanics
Dunbar Council
T. E. Keeling
Co. M. Good
Wilbur Riffie
L. A. Kirk Roy Javins
Harry Stover
Insull Case Up Today in Greek Court Detention Awaited
Athens Aug 28 The Athens appeal court is to decide if Samuel Insull must remain in detention while extradition proceedings continue The U S government case against the former Chicago utilities operator is expected to progress tomorrow in Greece
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Athens
Greece
United States
Samuel Insull
Chicago
Miss Stevens Visits Eastern Cities On Trip
Miss Stevens, city jail matron, returned yesterday from a visit with her sister Mrs. Paul B. Cunningham of Washington, D. C. The trip included Baltimore Annapolis and other eastern points.
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Myrtie Stevens
Paul B. Cunningham
Washington, D. C
Detroit Critics on New York Banking Practices
Detroit economist condemns New York banks as cold blooded before the national bank holiday. He argues such moves would have caused a nationwide banking collapse a year earlier. He warns there is far more deposits than currency and likens New York’s actions to a bank run, with the first in line taking funds and others left with losses.
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New York
Virginia considers referendum on repeal of bone dry laws
Governor Pollard signed the referendum bill setting October 3 as the repeal vote date in Virginia. Thirty delegates will be chosen for a convention in Richmond on October 25, with candidate filings due by September 2. Ballots will feature equal numbers of dry and wet options.
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Virginia
Richmond
Pollard
Secretary of the Commonwealth
Oil Millionaire Weds Mrs Pauline Dresser
Henry Huddleston Rogers, famed Standard Oil financier, marries Pauline Van Der Voort Dresser at her Long Island summer home. The couple plan to sail aboard the George Washington for England to join Rogers daughter Millicent and her husband Arturo Peralta Ramos. The 52 year old industrialist has a history of high profile marriages and is tied to old New York colonial lineage through the bride.
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Southampton
N. Y
Henry Huddleston Rogers
Standard Oil Companies
Pauline van der Voort Dresser
New York
Long Island
Rogers
George Washington
United States
England
Colonel Rogers
Millicent
Arturo Peralta-Ramos
Count Ludwig Salm-Hoogstraten
Paris
Mary Benjamin
Holland
Basil Miles
Philadelphia
Reno
Carl K. Dresser
Bradford
Sherman
Rhode Island
Peter van der Voort
New Amsterdam
Reducing Drug Overdose Fatal to San Francisco Doctor
San Francisco on August 28 a doctor, Dr Hans Gessnar a 40 year old Vienna graduate living at the M C A, died at Central Emergency Hospital after an overdose of dinitrophenol a new reducing drug said to burn off flesh. Investigators attributed the death to taking a larger dose to address overweight while denying a sacrifice to science.
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San Francisco
Hans Gessnar
University of Vienna
Dr. Gessnar
Moley Denies Resignation Dispute With Hull
New York Aug 28 Raymond Moley, a key presidential adviser, named reports of his resigning as assistant secretary of state over a disagreement with Secretary Hull as interesting but untrue. He rejected the claim, stating there was no such dispute.
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New York
Raymond Moley
Hull
Girl Is Hurt On Way to Her Wedding
Thelma Van Hoppy, 20, a Pittsburgh night club hostess, was wounded in a morning car crash on the way to Wellsburg West Virginia where she was to marry Allen Haid. Bridesmaid Frances Watkins Susman, 26, died when the gasoline tank exploded after the collision. Lawrence Meyer, 24, was seriously hurt.
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Pittsburgh
Thelma van Hoppy
Frances Watkins Susman
Lawrence Meyer
Wellsburg
W. Va
van Hoppy
Allen Haid
Cases Instituted in Common Pleas Court
Several civil filings appeared in Common Pleas Court yesterday including William Kirk versus Hugheston Gas Coal Company Rosa Tasker versus A G Tasker Cynthia Edens versus J A Edens James L Oliver versus W E Wheatcraft and Katherine Gullian versus James Gullian in a series of new cases.
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Common Pleas Court
William Kirk
Hugheston Gas Coal Company
Rosa Tasker
A. G. Tasker
Cynthia Edens
J. A. Edens
James L. Oliver
W. E. Wheatcraft
Katherine Gullian
James Gullian
Bank Seized in Havana Amid Machado Regime Probe
Military authorities seized El Banco Commercial in Havana founded by Machado officials. They aim to sequester accounts of fugitive ex president and associates while the supreme court pursues murder treason and robbery charges. Deposits blocked nationwide.
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Havana
el Banco Commercial
Machado
Supreme Court
Lumber mills ordered to limit September hours
Production Limited Memphis reports the Hardwood Manufacturers Institute issued an order restricting southern and Appalachian lumber mills to 160 hours of operation for September as the divisional administrator for the hum-
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Memphis
Tenn
The
Hardwood Manufacturers Institute
Hum
Birth of John Prince Harris announced in Elkhorn
Mr and Mrs John Roy Harris announce the birth of a son named John Prince Harris on Thursday August 24 Mrs Prince is formerly Miss Nelle Prince The note also mentions Elkhorn Wis and the citys municipally owned light and water commission building being rebuilt after a fire damaged the old structure with no loss of service and the old building torn down after completion
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John Roy Harris
John Prince Harris
Prince
Nelle Prince
Elkhorn
Wis
Light and Water Commission
Lee Week Opens At White Sulphur
A week of celebration to honor General Robert E. Lee opens at White Sulphur Springs with social events. Distinguished guests include Governor Kump of West Virginia, Dr. Gaines of Washington and Lee, former Governor Conley, Stuart Gibbons, Garland Peed, Rear Admiral Rand, and other New Yorkers. Charles Colfax Long lectured at the Greenbrier on Washington from dawn to dusk with color pictures.
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White Sulphur Springs
Robert E. Lee
South
Siont
Lee Monument
Kump
West Virginia
Francis Pendleton Gaines
Washington and Lee University
Conley
William P. Newell
David Sholtz
Florida
Sholtz
Stuart G. Gibbons
New York
Jefferson Memorial Foundation
Gibbons
Garland P. Peed
New York Southern Society
Rand
U.S. N
P. N. L. Bellinger
U. S. Navy
Bellinger
Francois Benoist
St. Louis
Kanawha 4-H Sheep to Exhibit at Greenbrier Fair
Kanawha county four-H clubs members raising sheep attend Greenbrier Valley fair to compete in the regional sheep show. Attendees include Joan Jordan Virginia Jordan Chauncey Hunt Delphia Summers William Young and Woodro Probe. Three pens of market lambs will be exhibited funded by Kanawha Banking and Trust Company.
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Kanawha County Four-H
Greenbrier
Joan Jordan
Virginia Jordan
Chauncey Hunt
Delphia Summers
William Young
Woodro
Kanawha Banking and Trust Company
State balance due paid today as sheriff reports
The Kanawha county sheriff's office said $8,191.56 balance in the June 30 settlement will be paid into the state treasury today. About $72,200 has already been paid since July 1, with more to come today. Land formerly used for rice in Hawaii now yields a large potato crop.
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Kanawha County
Hawaiian Islands
Blue-Jay Corn Remover Ad Claims Safe Quick Cure
An advertisement asserts personal financial independence and warns against debt. It promotes Blue Jay as a scientific, safe corn remover from Bauer & Black, promising instant pain relief and disappearance in three days. The copy targets consumers with a bold sales pitch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bauer & Black
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D. H. Gates
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Poca
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J. A. deGruyter, Sr
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S. L. Carter
Gordon Woody
George F. Holmes
Otto E. Kessler
M. Kornstein
J. L. Goshorn
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E. B. Stephenson
Tom Gates
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Edward Hutchinson
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Braxton Miller
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Evanston
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San Antonio
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Appalachian
Pennsylvania
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Labor Board
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American Federation of Labor
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