State Opens Bids On Road Projects
State road commission opened bids for concrete surfacing on 9.166 miles of U. S. route 21 between Charleston and Sissonville and 1.633 miles in Parkersburg. W. H. Armstrong company bid 269748 for Charleston to Sissonville. F. W. Fimple bid 54995 for Parkersburg. Bids await federal approval before signing. work planned within 60 days.
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Charleston
Parkersburg
State Road Commission
Kanawha County
W. H. Armstrong Company
Washington, D. C
Sissonville
F. W. Fimple
Fairmont
U. S. Bureau of Public Roads
Road Commission
Greenbrier County
White Sulphur Springs
West Virginia Construction Company
Harrison and Doddridge
Bristol
U. S. 50
Harrison
Smithburg
Doddridge
W. F
Adkins
Branchland
Brooke- Bellepoint
Criss and Shaver
Anne Adams Summer Pattern Book Teases Seasonal Styles
Pattern book ad promises bright, quickly sewn styles for sportswear and other occasions. Readers urged to order for summer outfits, featuring multiple patterns and easy construction.
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Anne Adams
Fascist Leanings Denied by Lodge of Nathan Hale Knights
Charleston chartered the Knights of Nathan Hale denied as fascist by a lodge member. The organization plans to charter lodges nationwide for civic moral and patriotic aims while dismissing charges about Aryan membership as false. Strunk and other signers defend the group saying it rejects Jews Syrians Greeks and Italians only for those not subscribing to its tenets.
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Knights of Nathan Hale
Charleston
Nathan Hale
Andrew Strunk
Fife Street
Seveal Jewish Legionnaires
Wilbur N. Jarrett
Clell Sayre
Owen D. Hill
J. W. O'Neil
Strunk
Pattern advertisement for sewing books and wearables
A compact ad promotes sewing patterns for babies and children with wearables for all ages. It offers a book and pattern combo at 25 cents and pattern alone at 15 cents, encouraging quick home sewing and easy projects.
Don Walter to Headline West Virginia Air Show at Wertz Field
Don Walter of Columbus Ohio, a noted acrobatic airman, will soar at Charleston’s first major air show at Wertz field next Sunday. Officials of the West Virginia Sportman Pilots association and The Gazette announced his appearance after his recent feats at the National Air Show in Cleveland and the All-American Air Show in Miami.
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Charleston
Wertz Field
West Virginia
Sportman Pilots’ Association
The
Gazette
Don Walter
Columbus
Ohio
Cleveland
Miami
Fla
Hubert Stark
State Board of Aeronautics
All-West Virginia Air Meet, Inc
Plight of B and O railroad detailed at hearing
John J. Cornwell, former wartime governor and B and O general counsel, testified at a public service hearing that the railroad posted a 13 million dollar deficit last year. He described potential elimination of multiple West Virginia trains including Nos 35 36 Elkins to Adrian Junction and Nos 47 50 Buckhannon to Tygart Junction, with Western Maryland service also facing cuts.
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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Public Service Commission
John J. Cornwell
West Virginia
Cornwell
Grafton
Charleston
Elkins
Adrian Junction
Buckhannon
Tygart Junction
Weston
Pickens
Clarksburg
Burnsville
Maryland
Man Dies Two Years After Funeral Sermon
Wade Millman a 93 year old eccentric farmer from Hendricks County Indiana died in Indianapolis two years after he preached his own funeral sermon. He had entered a hospital May 20 for a heart ailment and had gained nationwide notoriety for conducting his own last rites in a frame church near Coatesville. He spoke for nearly an hour to a crowd that filled the church and yard before pallbearers carried his crude coffin carved from an oak tree on his farm to a nearby cemetery.
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Indianapolis
Wade Millman
Henricks County
Millman
Coatesville
Ind
Life magazine founder Edward Martin dies at 83
New York June 13. Edward Sanford Martin, 83, one of Life magazine’s founders, died today in an orthopedic hospital. He helped establish the publication with John Ames Mitchell and authored its editorials for many years.
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New York
Edward Sanford Martin
Life
Martin
John Ames Mitchell
Famous Magazine
Women of the Moose Chapter 317 Host Package Party
The Women of the Moose chapter No. 317 will host a package party Friday night at the Moose hall on Capitol Street.
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Women of the Moose
the Moose Hall
Capitol Street
Broad education urged as base for world peace
Allen D. Albert of Paris Illinois told 500 Rotary delegates at White Sulphur Springs that broad non technical general education forms the foundation for public opinion in democracies and for long term neutrality. He urged local Rotary clubs worldwide to foster such education as delegates split into groups to study 20 subjects this week.
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White Sulphur Springs
Allen D. Albert
Paris
Ill
Albert
U. S
International Rotary Assembly
Cleveland
Rotary
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