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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1930
Page
7
A garbled Berlin fragment describes visitors hearing cave yodeling rituals at dusk and night in an area with locked apartment entrances. Porters guard entryways, keys determine access, and tenants face occasional hunger while debates over housing survive amid noisy nightly performances.
The Charleston Gazette Pattern Dept offers Style No. 2563 in sizes 30 through 50 inches with a reverse neckline bow trim and circular lower skirt. The pattern suits silk pique, crepe, linen, and cotton tweed. price 15 cents. Also contains children styles. copies 15 cents, or 10 cents with pattern order.
A reader asks if a wife should praise her husband to keep him faithful. Dorothy Dix warns that withholding compliments invites rivals and suggests openly appreciating his value. The column also includes a personal letter from an engineer widower who ponders marrying a much younger woman while facing a move to South Africa.
A reader asks whether to marry a village girl with limited prospects while the writer, Dorothy Dix, counsels that marriage to a worldly man may bring happiness and adventure. She notes village life is dull for women, contrasts mining camps with settle towns, and urges weighing romance against practical risks. A second note asks a 20 year old about choosing between two loves and a rushed marriage.
John B. Bastion of Williamstown joined George W. Sharp in filing to run for Congress. Easton seeks the Republican nomination in the fourth district after the death of James A. Hughes. Other filings include R. K. Kendle of Union Morroy county seeking the Democratic nomination in the fifth district and Robert J. Ramsey of Follanbee seeking the Democratic nomination in the first district.
Kanawha county court awarded the contract for constructing sidewalks on the Patrick street bridge approach to M. J. Smith of Chartenton for 61 207 60 dollars covering 5 080 square feet of walk.
Chief gunner's mate T Wilhite, recruiting officer in Charleston, was ordered to Richmond yesterday to join a conference of 18 recruiting officers. He will return to his post here on Wednesday. This item notes duties and travel within Navy recruiting operations.
Roy H Evans of Charleston was graduated today from the infantry school at Fort Benning with the rank of captain. He is assigned to the Twenty-fifth Infantry at Nogales Arizona. Evans is one of 158 infantry officers to graduate with ranks from lieutenant to major. The Fort Benning school opened in 1919 and teaches combined and coordinated use of infantry techniques.
The passage urges readers to travel across the United States to learn first hand about the nation. It highlights visiting state footstops of great men, shrines of freedom, courthouses, churches, and dooryards where history was made, to understand the country through personal experience.
The piece extols weight gain for undernourished boys using extract tablets. It suggests a pitiful child becoming sturdy and manly through scientific aids, claiming a boost of ten pounds in flesh and vitality.
The daily vacation Bible School of the Baptist Temple opened at nine o clock yesterday and will run for two weeks. Lessons will be taught in a classroom setting with activities for children.
An advertorial touts Radox as a simple English remedy to remove corns in a few days. It promises a nightly foot bath for 3 or 4 days, then easy corn removal, claiming hard corns callouses and hard skin will vanish with use. It urges asking G B Potterfield or druggists for a packet of Radox, now on sale in America.
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