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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1925
Page
12
A local notice states Dunbar Street paving plans will be reconsidered at a Monday meeting. Property owners may petition and attend council sessions to discuss a proposed widening and new foundations guiding the project.
A ruined report describes a banquet by an electric firm at the Kanawhi hotel with local officials present. The event highlights state projects on potential power plants and hydroelectric development in West Virginia.
A dense schedule lists WEAF and many affiliates with hourly programs, music, educational segments, and evening concerts. Entries name stations such as KDKA CKCL KFI KHJ WGN WEAF and WABC along with cities like Toronto Regina Vancouver and Moncton.
Mrs Carl Chittlina hosted a Christmas gathering at her Rhmer Street home with many local residents attending. Reads list of guests, travels, and holiday plans including church events and visits among St Albans families during December.
Acree Lee will be formally charged as one of two men who attempted to crack the Coyle and Richardson safe on Dickinson street. The incident occurred about 6:20 to 6:30 a.m. Sunday as two men tried to blow the safe with nitroglycerine before being interrupted by Myron Eberly, a window display man, who fired. one robber was said to be shot in the leg and about $7,000 reported to be in the safe.
Arguments were heard in the Nicki Pinto merger case as headlines note the return of General Pershing and Colonel Morrow from Arica and the withdrawal of Brigadier General Smedley Butler's resignation from the Marine Corps.
Marriage licenses listed from the county court clerk show couples from Kanawha county including Iliam J. Melton and Vera Pay Skaggs, Thomas Paxton and Elsie Thoms, Emmett Jackson and Rubyta Gueran, Johnson Walker and Elizabeth Christy, Walter Smith and Emma Garrison, Kyes Simms and Bisle Arline Smith, Wyatt Sianell and Ida B. Burns, Herman Stewart and Nellie Carlisle, Fred Jenkins and Lota Carron, Joseph D. Wiseman and Minnie Belcher, Dante Ashbury and Helen McClanahan, Lorentz Hodges and Mary L. Cabell, Samuel Ver Blankenship and Bertha Lee Smith, Helge Alliater and Mary Mullens, Joseph Hinton and Marguerite Hayes, Clarence Lovejoy and Fiora Beach, and Joan L. Brown and Gladys Thaxton. A separate note mentions Mrs Esther Rowland, in temporary insanity, throwing her baby from a cliff.
A dense catalog lists MEEDA BISCUITS OYSTERETTES and GRAPE NUTS. It also highlights pudding mixes, Jello flavors, marshmallows, salad dressing, apple butter, dried fruits, baking powder, cocoa, cornstarch, beans, fruits, jams, and pantry staples with brand names and package sizes.
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