State Education Board to Convene at State House
The state board of education will convene at the state house for a four day session to outline plans for the coming fiscal year starting July 1. They will elect a new secretary after J Frank Marsh resigned to head Concord State Normal school at Athens. R Moore Dodrill is favored by many board members.
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State Board of Education
State House
West Virginia University
J. Frank Marsh
Concord State Normal School
Athens
R. Moore Dodrill
Nent
Switchback
McDowell County
Dodrill
Watt
Mende
State Educational Institu
Gharleston
West Virginia U Enrolls 1 182 for Summer Activity
West Virginia University begins its summer program with 1 182 students enrolled for the six week term. Registrars note courses run by university faculty and visiting educators from outside the state. The mining short course at Morgantown has 15 students and Beckley 4 in its first year. State certificate exams for mine foremen and fire bosses will be held at both sites.
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Organtown
West Virginia University Ties
L. L. Friend
School of Mines
Morgantown
Beckley
C. E. Lawall
The Studio Murder Mystery Opens at Virginian Theater
A midnight show launches The Studio Murder Mystery at the Virginian with Nel Hamilton Warner Olund Predric Maren and Florence Eldridge among the cast. The Cosmopolitan production directed by Frank Tuttle centers on a youth death amid a magazine contest victory with a shifting lineup of suspects and a jail break and city-wide chase.
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Weress &m
Frank Tuttle
Edingtons
Tuttle
Silke and Saddles photoplay at Rialto theater
The Rialto opens with Silke and Saddles a romance comedy and racing melodrama about a jockey tempted to throw a big race. Marian Nixon stars with Gerald Beaumont and Richard Welling in a tale of love and sport amid race fixing. Cast includes Mary Nolan Otis Harlan Sam DeGresse Montague Love Claire Macdowell David Torrence. Meanwhile reports note Germany lost 10,549,474 working days to strikes in 1928 and a man named 2 pank man ager from Ashby England was found as a coal pit foreman.
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Rialto Theater
Gerald Beaumont
Marian Nixon
Stacy Ring
Richard Welling
Mary Nolan
Otis Harlan
Sam DeGresse
Montague Love
Claire Macdowell
David Torrence
Iun
Germany
Not Quite Decent at Kearse Theater This Week
A five photoplay feature portrays a mother’s struggle to shield her daughter from a life of tela vision via a midlife vaudeville singer turned speakeasy entertainer. Cast includes Jie Collyer Louise Dresser Allan Hale Oscar Apfel Paul Nicholsen Marrjorie Beebe Ben Hewlett Jack Kennedy. Based on Wallace Smith story The Grouch Bag.
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Kearse Theater
Nevuces
Jie Collyer
Louise Dresser
Allan Hale
Oscar Apfel
Paul Nicholeson
Marrjorie Beebe
Ben Hewlett
Jack Kennedy
Wallace Smith
Fim
Mame Jarrow
Mame
Ruler of the Waves by W B Maddy at Capitol Hotel
An advertisement for permanent hair waving by specialist W B Maddy offers a Spring Special of 15 dollars and 8 cents, Eugene Ware at 10 dollars, a Demonstration Wave of 1 dollar, and a Pleetwood Wave, with contact at Capitol Hotel on Capitol Hill.
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W. BE. Maddy
Eugene Ware
Capitol Ht
Friendship Between Britain and U S Looms as Dawes Reaches England
News digest notes budding goodwill between Britain and the United States as Ramsay MacDonald and Charles Dawes prepare for talks in Washington. Reports reference wartime settlement efforts, the Young Plan, and diplomacy at Madrid plus League of Nations discussions on Rhineland evacuation, Saar control, and minority questions. Protests surface from Hungary toward Bethlen’s speeches amid Entente tensions.
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U. S
Dawes
England
Uhe
Associated Press
Great Britain
United States
Ramsay MacDonald
Charles G. Dawes
Prio
Washington
Hoover
MacDonald
Madrid
Gustav Stresemann
Aristide Briand
Council
League of Nations
London
Libie Entente
Council of the League of Nations
Mt Madrid
Hungary
Little Entente
Rumania
Czechoslovakia
Yugoslovakia
Entente
Stephen Bethlen
Hungary warns of unfair treaty and seeks revision
The Hungarian government rejected the Treaty of Trianon as unfair and pledged to pursue revisions by peaceful means. It centers on 3,000,000 Magyars who lost citizenship after borders shifted to successor states. The report also notes rising tensions between nationalist China and Soviet Russia over diplomatic relations amid Communist activity disclosures.
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Trianon
Hungary
China
Russia
Chiang Fal-stek
Nanking
T. Wang
Moscow
Bianchuiria
Raids, debts and emigration blur global tensions
Fragments note profits from the Chinese Eastern railway used to disrupt Chinese unity and invite communistic influence. Holland raids Willemstad seizing arms and officials, then ships to Venezuela. Britain avoids incident. A Scots geologist gift of 125,000 pounds to Edinburgh, with matching pledge next year. In 46 hours, about Irish immigrants moved through Queenstown toward the U S and Canada.
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Ments
Chinese Eastern Railway
Holland
Willemstad
Dutch West Indies
Venezuela
Edinburgh University
Scotland
Queens Town
England
United States
Canada
Fort Hill home design sparks talk of improvement
A local proposal touts a new residence on Fort Hill as a model of better curb appeal. Residents weigh aesthetics against impact on neighborhood character and property values, with planners emphasizing harmony with surrounding homes and streetscape.
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