Huge Dam Break Destroys Lake In Maryland Flood
A large recreation lake on a Maryland national guard reservation dried up after a 15 foot dam broke just after midnight. Water rushed down a narrow valley flooding farms near Rouzerville. Residents fled as eight girls near the dam received warnings and escaped. Mud coated streets and dead fish littered the village.
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Lake Rover
Maryland National Board
Blue Ridge Summit
John Heftner
Rouxerville
Houes
Dorothy Dix Continues On Respectability And Social Pressure
Dorothy Dix discusses parental concerns about daughters' dating behavior and social status. She recalls a mother who chose to warn her daughters after seeing peers with less restraint gain social access, suggesting that restraint and reputation influence opportunities with college-age suitors.
Mothers, daughters, and modern morals in the city nights
Dorothy Dix argues mothers fail to rear daughters who respect rules as girls tour the town with young men. She asserts mothers who push for “good times” drive rebellion, urging disciplined upbringing to prevent late nights and loose conduct, noting blame lies with weak, indifferent mothers.
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Dorothy Dix
Day by Day Continued From Page Park Tidbits
A fragmentary account describes random theater scene details with references to Mayor Walker and publisher Paul Block. Courtney Ryley Cooper paces Madison Avenue outside a tailor shop selling an expensive suit, while Cooper contemplates self-promotion.
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Mayor Walker
Paul Block
Courtney Ryley Cooper
Madison Avenue
Tme McNaught Syndicate, Inc
Women workers seek marriage life with idle prospects
The piece notes typists aiming for married life with lazy pleasures while others work hard. It mentions women forced to rise early, take orders, and face social limits from employment. It also cites an older bread-baking woman and a rising trend of newly married women choosing to have no children and perform useful work. It hints at Brazil embracing phonograph records locally.
Contract Let For 230000 Hospital By C C Railway
The Chesapeake and Ohio railway awarded a contract for a new hospital at Huntington to the John W. Cowper Company of Richmond. The building will cost about 280000, sit on Sixth Avenue and feature a fireproof reinforced concrete frame and brick walls in a Colonial Georgian four story design. The present four story hospital will adjoin the new unit and be remodeled for kitchens, dining, bedrooms, wards, and staff areas.
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The
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Huntington
John WW. Cowper
Richmond
J. J. Bernet
Sixth Avenue
New hospital to house 133 patients in Sunderland
Plans call for a new hospital with 133 beds including five contagious wards, 21 colored and 107 white, more than doubling the current capacity of 68. Construction starts immediately with occupancy hoped in eight months. In other news, Thomas Kinnell, 24, died in the Sunderland poorhouse. securities valued at 140,006 were reported.
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Pet
Rich
Foorhouse
Sunderland
Eng
Thomas Kinnell
Adeleih
Dimity
River Movements and Stage Readings on Kanawha and Ohio Rivers
Movements of boats on the Kanawha River reported to the U S river engineer include Chris Greene down through Lock 11 at 5 o clock Katherine frown Lock 1d Sutherland up Lock Seven 10 45 Lane down Lock 14 2 Wilson up Lock Seven 17 F up Lock Six twelve The seven o clock river stages show Pittsburgh 10 2 feet Dam Six 7 8 Dam 13 .1 Parkersburg 11 1 Dam 22 42 Point Pleasant seven precipitation .20 Dam 24 6 8 precipitation 22 Dam 268 8 1 Dam 29 8 7 precipitation .06 Portsmouth 13 Cincinnati 19 4 precipitation .18 Allegheny at Franklin .% falling Mononghela at Lock Seven 10 6 pool Muskingum at Zanesville 2 2 pool News at Radford 2 2 rising precipitation .10 Hinton three stationary Kanawha at the falls three falling
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Kanawha River
United States River Engineer
Chris Greene
Katherine
Frown
Sutherland
Lane
Wilson
Ohio
Pittsburgh
Dam
Parkersburg
Point Pleasant
Portsmouth
Cincinnati
Allegheny
Franklin
Mononeshela
Lock Seven
Muskingum
Zanesville
Radford
Hinton
Kanawha
the Falls
Unclear Race Notes From Charleston Pool Event
Fragmentary notes mention Charleston, seven, pool, precipita and forks at Willemeon and Pikeville with distances 2.2 and 2.6, plus a falling Levine fork. Details are incomplete and names are partially garbled.
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Charleston
Tog
Willemeon
Fellings Levine
Pikeville
Falling
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Mamie
Sadie
Brazil
C. & C. Railway
Phillips
Magnesia
Charles H. Pillys Chemical Company
Charles H. Phillips
Kant Krush Suits
Wardway Electric
Windsor
Saturday Evening Post
Riverside
Tube Pricen
U. S
Montgomery Ward & CO
Wrashington St
Charleston, W. Va
Espinosa
M. W
Midiron
Mashie
Ing
Nurses
Ine
River News
A.W. Cox
Department Store
Cox
Batiste
Men’s Unions
Insian
Yale
Voile and Naingcok
Palm Beach
Be Hoys
Morel
Golf Knickere Fm
Pesss Ees
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