Largest Diamond Arrives in N Y
A 720 carat uncut diamond named the Jonker arrived in New York aboard the President Roosevelt shipped insured for a million dollars. Harry Winston will exhibit it. the finder, J. J. Jonker, is a poor Pretoria farmer who sold the gem for over 200000 dollars and funded a land-improvement fund for farmers. The Jonker ranks among the world’s largest stones alongside the Cullinan and the Great Mogul.
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Harry Winston
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J. J. Jonker
Pretoria
Elandsfontein
South Africa
Bishop Gravatt Leads Episcopal Conference
Weston June 0 The seventh annual summer conference of the Episcopal diocese of West Virginia opens at Jackson's Mill for one week of study of church work under Bishop W L Gravatt of Charles Or A half hour each morning will be devoted to devotional life with Rt Rev Roe L Strider bishop coadjutor of Wheeling. Faculty includes J H A Bamberger Wheeling Clarence W Brickman Fairmont George J Cleveland Hinton Leicester C Lewis Chestnut Hill Pa and Miss Francesa Edwards and Miss Dorothy May Fischer New York.
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NRA Court Ruling Backed by League Launches Campaign
The American Liberty League moves to defend the NRA decision with aggressive legal challenges to other laws and a nationwide lawyers committee plans speaking engagements. It targets Hull's reciprocity tariff policy as unconstitutional while President Roosevelt defends it as legal. Prominent legal figures join the effort to protect constitutional rights.
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American Liberty League Today
Supreme Court
NRA
Cordell Hull
Roosevelt
Lawyers’ Committee
Liberty League
Ariane
Notable Legal Figures Named Hogan Wickersham Beck Beck
Frank J. Hogan, George Wickersham, James M. Beck, John Davis, David A. Reed, Charles Hamill, Frederick H. Coudert, Rush C. Butler, Merritt Lane, Borney Johnston, and Josiah Stryk er are listed among prominent legal and political figures referenced in the era's records.
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Frank J. Hogan
George Wickersham
James M. Beck
John Davis
David A. Reed
Charles Hamill
Frederick H. Coudert
Rush C. Butler
Merritt Lane
Borney Johnston
Josiah Stryker
Presbyterian Bible Teachers Have Picnic
Teachers of the primary department of the First Presbyterian Church Bible school held a picnic Friday on London Heights. Hostesses were Mrs. Joseph Hudson, Miss Betty Riffe, Miss Ruth Ackerson and Miss Dorothy Adams. Present were Margaret Hartman, Eleanor Johnson, Evelyn Hudson, Rhoda Springer, Clare Plummer, Joan Wagner, Carolyn Casto, Mary Ann Hamilton, Nancy Casto, Barbara O’Connor, Barbara Mutrot, Emma Watts, Virginia Craft, Ann.
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First Presbyterian Church Bible School
London Heights
Joseph Hudson
Betty Riffe
Ruth Ackerson
Dorothy Adams
Margaret Hartman
Eleanor Johnson
Evelyn Hudson
Rhoda Springer
Clare Plummer
Joan Wagner
Carolyn Casto
Mary Ann Hamilton
Nancy Casto
Barbara O'Connor
Barbara Mutrot
Emma Watts
Virginia Craft
Ann
Local society names listed for forthcoming event
A long list of surnames and titles including Ruterford Watts Maddox Little Thompson Dahlstrom Temple Love Holand Peek Cornwell Snyder Pruitt Love Stuart Young Blindon McDaniels Amick Skinner Mohler Cunningham Guy Fellows Blundon Fellows Dahlstrom Maddox OConnor Roeland Roland and the Rev and Mrs Bitzer are recorded as attendees or participants in an upcoming community occasion.
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Ruterford
Pauline Watts
Shirley Maddox
Anne Little
Martha Thompson
Anne Dahlstrom
Lucy Temple Love
Nita Holand
Sarge Jllee Peek
Julia Ann Cornwell
Barbara Ann Snyder
Jane Pruitt
Naomi Love
Susanne Stuart
Jane Young
Betsy Blindon
Lorainne McDaniels
Stuart Thayer
Clarence Amick
John Ruterford
Robert Skinner
Daniel Mohler
Joseph Cunningham
John Guy
Charles Fellows
Robert Bond
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Artist B. B. Gordon Visits Washington Portrait Painter
B. B. Gordon of Washington is guest at the Hotel Ruffner. He is an artist who has painted portraits of some prominent figures in the United States and has married a Wheeling native.
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Washington
Ruffner
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Wheeling
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