West Virginia Grocers Attend 45th National Convention in Chicago
About 100 delegates from West Virginia arrive in Chicago to attend the 45th annual National Association of Retail Grocers convention at the Palmer House. The event, amid new government food trade regulations, draws a large attendance. chartered coach parties and numerous WV attendees listed by name.
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West Virginia
Chicago
National Association of Retail Grocers
Palmer House
Yocers
George W. King
Rocers
E. M. Tutwiler
Mt. Hope
West Virginia Association of Retail Grocers
New River Company
Tutwiler
Alicia
King
A. C. Rader
Mise
Lodghtly
G. E. Harvey
Sprague
Ernest Lilly
Wickham
E. W. Webb
Prudence
C. B. Powell
Harve
Robert BE. Craver
Glen Jehn
C. B. Smith
Price
Council May Discuss Renaming of Streets
City council expects to discuss pending street renaming and house numbering ordinances in tomorrow night’s session. Mayor Dawson says no action until two committees finish deliberations. Routine business only unless a Wertz field property deal arises over the weekend.
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Dawson
Wertz Field
Samson Feasts on a Lion with Ulcer Pains Claim
A fragmented ad style notice discusses a biblical theme of Samson feasting on a lion and stomach pains. It mentions indigestion and acid discomfort and promotes Udge Tablets from Cohen Drug Company with a promise of relief or refund.
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Samson
Auman
Cohen Drug Company
Adv
Timely Convincing Is De Seversky's Air Power Book
Major Alex ander P. de Seversky's Victory Through Air Power is the June Book of the Month from Simon and Schuster. Critics call aviation the war’s key and hail the book as clear, dynamic, and highly engaging for lay readers. It argues air power has determined and will decide the war's final course, urging careful reading to reshape thinking.
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Morning War News
Alexander P. de Seversky
Simon and Schuster
New York
de Seversky
United Nations
MacCorkle Avenue Opens in Kanawha City Soon
The four lane divided highway on MacCorkle Avenue through Kanawha City is open beyond Sith Street and will be completed and open to traffic within two weeks of good weather. Currently 500 feet of one way traffic east from Libbry Owens Ford Glass plant remains, with two way traffic expected by next Monday. Paving should finish this week with full traffic onto the new concrete east of the railroad to follow.
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MacCorkle Avenue
Kanawha City
Sith Street
State Road Commission
Libbry-Owens- Ford
William Kyle
Kyle
3400 Train With NYA For War Factory Work
More than 3400 young men and women are in training for war production work in NYA projects. West Virginia hosts the efforts including 1150 in the South Charleston project. Glenn Callaghan, state youth administrator, announced yesterday.
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NYA
West Virginia
South Charleston
Glenn 5. Callaghan
Princeton to Admit Women to Classes This Summer
Princeton will admit women to classes for the first time in its 196 year history. They will take tuition free courses in the school of engineering focusing on map making from June 29 to August 29 under the U S Office of Education sponsorship.
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Princeton
N. J
Princeton University
Kenneth H. Condit
U.S. Office of Education
12th annual American Folk Song festival planned at Traipsin Woman cabin
The 12th annual festival directed by Jean Thomas will occur next Sunday at the Traipsin Woman cabin on Mayo trail south of Ashland Kentucky. It features Rowan County Gregorian Chanter and West Virginia musicians including Esther Eugenia Davis Sid Hatfield and Bud McCoy with plans for reconciliation ceremonies between feuding families Hatfields McCoys and kin of Martins and Yollivers.
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Mayo Trail
Ashland
Boyd County
Jean Thomas
Kentucky
Rowan County
Aumt Alice
Martha Williams
Bruce Crawford
Will Cut
West Virginia
Crawford
Martha Atwood-Baker
Metropolitan Opera
New York
Esther Eugenia Davis
Charleston
Sid" Hatfield
Logan
Bud" McCoy
Tug Fork
Miss Davis
Mary
the Wild Moor
Hatfield
Sergeant York
Last Hope Hallow
McCoy
York, Tennessee
Sid” Halfield
Anse Talfield
Jeader
Bud” MccCoy
Randall McCoy
Hatfields
Jackson's Mill
West Virginia Federation of Music Clubs
Recreation Centers Provide Morale Boost in West Virginia
The Federal Works Agency funds an $18 million program to build 55 recreation centers near army posts and naval bases in Virginia West Virginia North Carolina and Maryland. C L Vickers notes 25 centers in Virginia three in West Virginia 19 in North Carolina and eight in Maryland with a total cost of about 3.5 million. Fortified by Lanham Act funds the War Department will operate the centers with dances concerts and other events planned at the larger sites.
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Richmond
Uncle Sam
Federal Works Agency
United States
Virginia
West Virginia
North Carolina
Maryland
C. L. Vickers
FWA
War Department
United Ce
Alloy Mine No 2 Wins Safety Sentinel Award
Alloy Mine No 2 in Alloy Fayette county earned the federal Bureau of Mines Sentinel of Safety trophy for operating 335 000 man hours without a lost time accident last year. The mine placed among six winners nationwide in the 17th annual safety contest, vied against 250 mines and 151 quarries across 40 states.
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Electro Metallurgical Company
Alloy
Fayette County
Federal Bureau of Mines
Bureau
Girl Keeps Family Laurels At Sacred Heart School
Elisabeth Ann Shawver daughter of Mrs William P Shawver of 413 Rowne Street became the fourth member of the Shawver family to hold the year’s highest eighth grade average at Sacred Heart school. A gold medal was not awarded this year due to war conditions.
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Elisabeth Ann Shawver
William P. Shawver
Rowne Street
Shawver
Sacred Heart School
Elizabeth
William Floyd Shawver
Johan Paxton Shawver
Song of Bernadette by Franz Werfel book selection
The 1940 Nazi invasion prompted Werfel to Lourdes where he studied Bernadette Soubirous and wrote a sympathetic account in The Song of Bernadette. The Viking Press June release portrays a true story set in reality with miracles discussed by physicians and scientists.
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Bernadette
Franz Werfel
France
Franz. Werfel
Lourdes
Viking Press of
New York
Werfel
St S Lows
Our Lady of Lourdes
Napoleon II
Victory Safety Meet Planned by Coal Institute
The New River and Winding Gulf Mining Institute led by Robert Lilly announces a Victory safety meet on September 18 at Woodrow Wilson High School stadium in Bedley. The program highlights first aid and safety education amid war activities with a women's division for home accident contests judged by nurses and other qualified first aid workers. Miss Henrietta Burt dies in Hove England after serving one family for eighty years.
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Woodrow Wilson High School
Bedley
New River and Winding Gulf Mining Institute
Robert Lilly
OCD
Beckley
Lilly
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U.S
West Va
Alloy Mine No. 2
Safety Sentinel
Sam
POAC
Pontiae
Pontiac
Dickinson Street
AAA Service
Service Department
Coal Institute
Henrietta Burt
Hove
England
Soka
Cathart
Montgomery Ward
Washington
A. W. Cox Dept
Capitol St
Lalor
Kanawha
Kanawha Furniture
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