Kidnap Case Focuses on 17 Year Old Suspect
In San Francisco Nassau County teen Margaret Polly Weil 17 stands accused of kidnapping Krehe Osborn for 1600 dollars. A mental exam is ordered but Weil insists she is sane and desires prison solitude. Police support her single handed act theory while discounting the farm mortgage motive.
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San Francisco
INS
Margaret Polly Weil
Nassau, N. Y
Little Krehe Osborn
Public Defender’s Office
Dunbar Marriage of Miss Helen Ellis and Percy Smith
Mrs. F C Ellis announces the marriage of her daughter Helen Frances Ellis to Percy Leighton Smith on May 26 at the United Brethren parsonage officiated by Rev R L Kelbaugh. The couple will reside at 543 Pritchard street after brief receptions and announcements note the couple’s Dunbar high school and college backgrounds and current employments.
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F. C. Ellis
Helen Frances Ellis
Percy Leighton Smith
W. Harold Smith
Grosscup Avenue
United Brethren Church
R. L. Kelbaugh
Arietta Gillespie
Dunbar High School
Charleston Business College
Gravely Motor Plow Company
Mr. Smith
Dunbar High
Kanawha College
Fletcher Enamel Company
Pritchard Street
Most Persevering Girl Receives Northwestern Degree
Elizabeth Wehner, 28, is Northwestern University’s most persevering student and the first night school graduate after ten years. She attended three nights weekly, left her job as a bookkeeping machine operator, and earned a bachelor of philosophy with 2,400 hours in class and 3,600 hours studying. She plans to pursue a master's degree.
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Evanston
Ill
Northwestern University
Elizabeth Wehner
Miss Wehner
Northwestern
Italy's Air Force Losses in Civil War Report
Rome report says 175 Italian aviators died and 192 wounded in the Spanish Civil War. The Italian aviation corps claimed 903 enemy planes shot down and 40 destroyed by others, with 86 Italian planes lost.
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Italy
Rome
Dinner Guests Highlight Local Social Evening
Recent social rounds featured Rev. and Mrs. George T. Herring hosting guests for a dinner. Mrs. W. O. Knight and Mrs. Beatrice Frazier of Hyre visited Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Taylor and Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Cole on Friday.
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A. G. Rice
G. R. Nichols
R. H. Cole
A. D. McCormick
C. F. Stewart
C. H. Cole
George M. Speicher
T. E. Elkins
Hobart Fisher
George T. Herring
W. O. Knight
Beatrice Frazier
Hyre
R. A. Taylor
GE Leads Parade In Refrigerator Value
This year centers on greater value in refrigerators with GE again atop the list for beauty practical features and dollar-for-dollar worth. Consumers are urged to compare options before choosing GE.
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General Electric
Inside story on 1939 General Electric food preservation
The article touts selective air conditions as the practical low cost method for home food preservation. It claims no refrigerator preserves appearance taste and vitamins as well as the 1939 General Electric unit.
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General Electric
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Florence Sloan
Alice Billups
Barbara Billups
Mabel Brammer
Opal Brammer
Lorena Downing
Fannie Walker
Charles Baker Elkins
Clark Elkins
Edward Billups
William McCarty
L. A. Melton
A. H. Melton
Pearly Beller
Cleo Melton
Edr. Hill
Ellen Melton
L. A. Mel- Meton
George W. Gillespie
Tyler Mountain
Charles Calvert
Carolann
Western Port
Charles Pugh
Shirley Painter
Doris
Shirley Ann
Donald Lee
Louise Calvert
New York City
Marietta Gillespie
Jacqueline Fields
Anna Tinsley
Carlett Tinsley
G. B. Gillespie
Virginia Hinkle
Genevieve Hinzman
Ethel Archer
Peggy Towers
Wineyam Stillman
Daisy Runyon
Barbara
Juanita Johnson
Jacqueline Walker
Helen Ruth Coffman
Elsie Lou Harvey
Orville Hayes
C. C. Robb
E. S. Dudding
South Charleston
Johnson and
Walker
First Methodist Episcopal Church
C. H. Backus
P. E. Reeder
L. F. Poffenbarger
F. F. Hyre
C. Ray Stewart
Emma Dunbar
Farm Woman’s Club
J. Q. Adams
Doy Payne
R. B. Smith
Dunbar Garden Club
Guy Riddle
Hillside Garden Club
W. H. Marshall
E. R. Stanley
Gainesville
William Porter Marshall
Riverside Military Academy
B. R. Lakin
Bristol
Frances Powell
South Boston
Virgil Knopp
St. Francis Hospital
Nell Gene Stanley
Elkview
D. V. Given
Paul Mays
Mar
Marian Moore
Mason College of Music and Fine Arts
St. John’s Parish
Miss Moore
Grace Dorst
Emelie Schmidt
Batiste
Laird
Laird Memorial Hospital
Montgomery Presbyterian Church
Helen Johnson
Beckley
Dorothy Shuff
Lansing
Louise Lohman
Oak Hill
Mary Simms
Rainelle
Dolly Blake
Beckwith
Libble Malay
Wyco
Virgie Helena Tolley
Lookout
Gladys Crawford
Mt. Hope
Thelma Owen
Catherine Ward
Woodrums
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