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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1925
Page
5
Local society items report church events, dances and bazaars. Mrs. Jordan Mathews of Virginia attends Stuart Hall event. various residents travel, visit relatives, or return from trips to New York, Cincinnati, and Washington. Members of church and auxiliary groups plan meetings, entertainments, and charitable activities.
Mis ffaton Anthows, who twa atue, is listed in a terse personal intelligence note with unclear context. The fragmentary entry names an individual and hints at a follow up, but provides no concrete action, date, or affiliation to determine full meaning.
The report notes 509 injured seeking medical aid with 265 at West Frankfort, and that help has reached thousands of families restoring homes and farm buildings in Gorham De Soto Til and Griffin Indiana areas demolished by the storm. Some victims may wait a year for recovery or settlement.
European cuisines threaten tourist appetite as American visitors seek lighter meals amid heavy sauces and bakery staples. The piece notes English boiled dishes tempt waistlines, German fare remains cautious for fashion, and American dieters seek lighter options during tours in Paris and other cities.
In a lively mix of quotes a reader laments about cornbread and waffles with Vermont maple syrup while debating French cooking. The note compares nine hundred ninety chicken preparations to home frying and hints that American cooks could profit from mastering corn fritters and duckwheat soups.
In December the Red Cross maintains its largest disaster relief drive of the year, aiding Missouri, southern Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee after the March tornado. Nearly one million dollars has been spent assisting residents to rehabilitate communities, with a back to school campaign underway and fear of entering schools among children identified as a major challenge.
Forced buying by shorts pushed wheat higher on the Chicago board of trade, while corn showed independent strength and rallied late. Both grains fell at the open but recovered strongly near the close, aided by reports of rains in Argentina. Powerful Wall interests activated near the close.
Wheat prices rose across contracts as December led the advance, finishing at 1.73 a bushel. May settled at 1.73, December up 81 cents, and Aiay closed around 86 7-8 cents, with three cent gains in the session as buyers pushed prices higher.
The will of Mrs C B W Lakin sets aside five thousand dollars for her pet dog in its old age. The text notes a 2000 to 4000 used planes shipment to foreign countries by a dealer, with unclear reference to New Merke.
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