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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1933
Page
8
The Department of Safety records show 370 auto license test failures in November. Failures included defective equipment 22, color test 25, literacy test 11, vision test 42, and learner permit expiration issues 11. Police reported 182 lights corrected, 42 brakes repaired and 43 brakes corrected.
Melton was hostess for Dorcas Bible class at her Twenty-fifth Street home with assistant hostesses Je f Javing and Otto E. Kessler. social time followed a business meeting presided by Mrs. Bugis Fowler. later bowling scores from Kanawha Valley Water and Papst Blue Ribbon teams show Bird 216 Comstock 205 and 200.
Salvation Army officials announced a toy distribution shop will open Sunday opposite the courthouse on Virginia Street and run until December 24 with toys mostly from the central fire department and individual donors. Mothers may obtain toys by securing orders from Salvation Army headquarters and fire mothers may select playthings. groups have been urged to help with doll clothes. Also noted is the illness and home confinement of Mr Earl Comstock and the death of Col T A Burns at Bur ett Texas aged 101 who was serving as assistant postmaster.
At Kanawha Camp United Spanish War Veterans election on Tuesday W. C. Hill of Maryland avenue was chosen commander succeeding H. J. Churchman. Other officers named include James Pratt as sector vice commander Harry T. Chapin junior vice commander Gaspar Hartman adjutant and Harry K. Griffith trustee. Hill announced appointments: Earl G. Bowyex instructor Richard L. Brown historian J. M. Sayre chaplain Arthur Wil20x sergeant major Brady Cole quartermaster and others plus a legislative committee.
A meeting planned a joint installation of the post and post auxiliary officers, with Pratt Griffith Freudenberger Heiniger and Churchoum among those involved. Arrangements were made for the ceremony to take place at the meeting on January 9.
Dr Arthur M Shipley of University hospital Baltimore operated on the arm of Dr V E Mace at Charleston General hospital yesterday. Dr Mace suffers no infection from hand injuries from a recent automobile accident and is in very serious condition. The Baltimore surgeon arrived in the city Tuesday.
The Woman's Auxiliary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People plans a meeting at 100 Lewis Street the home of Mrs William H Wright at five o'clock Sunday afternoon.
The Choru ts club with Roosevelt Junior High School orchestra presents two showings of The Prince of Ped dlers in the school auditorium on Friday at 3 30 and 8 02 o clock. Sara Grames Clark and Bryceaon Treharne wrote the operetta directed by Miss Jessie M Fraser with assistants Frances Hall Lara Deane Jackson Martha Swickheimer and student aide Hallie Louise Stine. principal parts for the afternoon were to be played by the listed cast.
The understudies and the same parts at night will be presented by a different cast. Sixty three boys and girls are to take part in the operetta. The principal characters with their understudies include Princess Gladys Gott and Frances Gooper, Prince Zeno Leslie Pield, Major Boobo Robert Martens and Dick Deakins, and Jester William Minnotti and Gerald Summers. The tale centers on the birth day celebration of the Princess of Bellaire, with a royal interruption by Major Bodbo and Prince Zeebo amid a drift of whimsical roles and a stray note of translated whimsy.
An advertisement promotes Dr David’s Sanative Wash as a cure for scabies with rapid itching relief and nerve calm, claiming the liquid destroys skin burrowing germs and may prevent blood poisoning. Sold at druggists or by mail for 60 cents postpaid with money-back guarantee.
A health ad claims to cure constipation by reducing stool content in the colon and recommends taking two Burtone Tablets every other night with water. It links constipation to various symptoms and insists the remedy removes toxins and improves health, priced at 25 tablets for 5 cents.
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