Do You Remember Charleston Public Schools 1864
The Charleston Gazette recalls the 1864 organization of public schools in Charleston after West Virginia statehood. Charleston was split into two districts with a board of trustees, the town owning buildings and renting other spaces for school purposes. The system served white and Negro children with Martin Hill teaching the first white school and Thomas Moore the first for Negroes, assisted by Miss Ole Sparrow.
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Public
Charleston
Truslow
Martin Hill
Thomas Moore
Miss Ole
George Clendenin
Clendenin
Kanawha County
Thomas J . Bullitt
Fort Lee
Virginia Assembly
Jemima
Elk River
John Young
Presvent Kenewhe Blvd
Court Stiemas
Beltone hearing device promises in home demonstration
An advertisement touts a compact Beltone hearing device that fits in the hand and requires no battery pack or wires. It claims clear, powerful tones, adjustable to changing hearing, with free home demonstrations and a descriptive booklet offered from Beltone, Dept. 6, Chicago.
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Council On Physical Medicine
Ameriedical Association
Beltone
Dept
West
19Th St
Chicago
Ill
Adv
Questions and Answers from the Quiz Page
The page presents a Q A snippet where a question asks which insect is considered man’s worst enemy with the answer noting mosquitoes rank first in the United States. It also asks the significance of the three figures on Arlington’s Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, answered as Valor Victory and Peace by sculptor Thomas Hudson Jones. A final note mentions that cotton yield per acre has recently doubled in the United States.
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United States
Navy plans radar for four engine planes seen ahead
The Navy announced it will equip all four engine transport planes with a new anti collision radar that provides a pilot with a map of the area ahead for the first 100 miles. The system reduces instrument weight to about 150 pounds and is offered for commercial airline use. deliveries begin in 1948.
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Navy
American Airlines
Howard Hughes
Inap
Houston Corp
Los Angeles
Cal
Weekend Getaway for Rev and Mrs West with Mrs Grad
A report notes Rev. and Mrs. C. L. West spent last weekend with Mrs. Bert Grad. The item mentions recent reductions in U S tenant farms due to consolidation into larger operations and purchases by former tenant farmers who have prospered.
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C. L. West
Bert Grad
U. S
Jrom
World consumption fall hits 232 million bales in 1048
World consumption totals 232 million bales in 1048, about a quarter below the 1936 peak of 296 million. The drop follows a rising world population and shifts in demand across markets.
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The
Charleston Gazette
Virginia Beach
Atlantic Ocean
Los Anales
Pacific Ocean
West Virginia
White Sulphur Springs
Kenova
Bille Richardson
Baltimore and Ohio
Baltimore
Harper's Ferry
Charleston Bar Assoc
George E. Price
Joseph Rufer
de Witt C. Gallaher
Farmy
Kanawha Bar Assoc
Kanawha
Edward Graham
Dupont Paints
Arter Saint & Glass CO
Hale
Harry
Camp, Jr
Hes
Dewinion
E. F. Collins
Eyse
Glasnes
Quartier St. Fleet Medical Arts
Sasser
Phil. Bay-Lin
New York
N.Y
Schlitz
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co
Bummer
Pal
Phil Sasser
Madison Ave
Ry-Kitisp
Sereur
LHS
U.S
Canada
Dwight D. Eisenhower
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Eisenhower
Chester W. Nimitz
Charles 4. Eaton
N. J
Clendens
E. E. Osborne
Circle No. 1
First Methodist Church
George Kerr
Wade Hubbard
Nancy
Jo Anne
Carolyn Sue Young
Edna June Gallien
Betty Mick
Norma Lee Kennedy
Mary Ann Payne
Roberta Minder
Elizabeth Ann Young
June Welker
Jane Harris
Dorothy Shamblin
Phyllis Hall
Shirley Woods
Elk-Clay
Evelyn Hamrick
Eix
Homer Young
Blanche Shamblin
the First Methodist Church
Young
W.C. Q
Clifford
Myers
Mrs
J. M. Pryberger
Norwalk
Ann Cusic
Columbus. C
M. E
Dorothy Dalton
Vernele Smith
Patricia Buck
Lafayette
Ind
Clyde Dalton, Jr
Robert Rector
Morgan- Hown
Harriet Whelsel
Elkling
Charles McMullan
Pittsburgh
Ralph B. Currey
Rowley Hospital Land Clinic
Hastington
Shamblin
Rehi
Charleston Genral Hospital
Lorraine Given
Charleston General Hospital
Elizabeth Stephenson
Chilton Stephenson
the Thomas Memorial Hospital
Daytona Beach
Fla
Rey
A.B. Withers
Meredith
New York City
Girtha Engle
C.T. Hensley
Columbia University
Milfred Rogers
Huntington
Marshall Cotege
E. W. Bird
Bert Graddy
Mark Hardin
Cincinnati
Lida Luckulas
Versailles
Ivee
Mrs. Graddy
Belly Cook
Wanda
After Paint & Glass CO
Hale St
Fhone
Thera
American Plan
Insets Daily
Wire
Beach Plaza
Norman R. Lewis
Starcher Baptist
Weedward Drive
Dunbar Line
North Charleston
Ted Walls
Namaco
Deen In All
Klein
Lee
Leto Gastantes
Eee
W. Klein, Inc
Wood St. Dept
Fittuburgh, Pa
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