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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1939
Page
2
Tilman George of St Clair was hurt Tuesday in a slate fall at the Page mines. He is a patient at Lairdemorial hospital in Montgomery with a broken leg and bruises.
In Albuquerque on December 7, Si Olguin’s friends organize a benefit dance to raise 200 dollars to cover his fine and prison term. If the fine is not paid, he faces another month behind bars.
Clydesdale stallions owned by Nathan Goff of Clarksburg West Virginia won three placements at the International Livestock Exposition in Chicago. Woodbank Magnate took second and Milton Goldfinder third in the four years and older division while Torrs Captain earned third in the under two years and over one year division.
Roanoke report notes Mrs. Nannie Smith filed her tax return and in error listed her husband as not living there. She received a tax bill for "Mr. Lefttown Smith" prompting confusion over the incorrect listing.
The Metropolitan Opera broadcasts Moussorgsky Boris Godunoff in full for the first time on NBC and WGKYV Saturday matinee, 1:55 pm to 5:30 pm. Ezio Pinza sings Boris, Irra Petina Teodoro, Marita Farell Xenia, Charles Kullman Dimitri, Kerstin Thorberg Marina, with Ettore Panizza conducting and Milton Cross announcing. Transmissions reach South America and Europe. The work premiered in St Petersburg in 1874 and at the Met in 1913.
George E. Deatherage of St. Albans sues American Rolling Mill Company of Middletown in district federal court alleging breach of contract. He says in 1932 he submitted ideas for lightweight corrugated steel sheet metal piling to replace wood sheathing, was promised compensation if accepted, plans were returned, and the firm later patented and produced the product. He seeks an accounting of profits.
A Negro defendant confessed to Judge G W Cowper that he had stolen $35 but claimed someone stole it from him during the night. He said I didn't get any of it yet received a 12 month sentence.
Services will be held at 2 30 p m today at Fifth Avenue Baptist church Huntington for John T Pancake 38 who died Wednesday at his Huntington home of a heart ailment Rev Cornelius Bowles and Rev Armand L Currie will officiate Burial will be in Woodmere cemetery He is survived by his widow one daughter his mother and a sister and one brother Paul Pancake all of Huntington Miss Nannie Teays of St Albans is an aunt
M. M. Konarski consulting architect for the Kanawha county school building program will speak at 3 30 p m today to West Virginia State College students in the teacher education department at the Institute elementary school.
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