Pagan Wedding Rites Gain Favor Among Reich Elite
Berlin reports that pagan weddings rooted in ancient Germanic rites are rising in popularity among Nazi youths, especially the SS. In a Pforzheim ceremony, guests decorated a forestlike hall with evergreens and Swastikas, and a Germanic table bore runes and a sun-wheel motif. Partners entered to Lohengrin’s bridal chorus and exchanged rings after a ritual with bread and salt, torchlight, and fire, ending in a conventional Christian exchange.
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Universal Service
Berlin
Europe
Wagner
S.S. S
Pforzheim
Germany
Helgi
Sigrun
India
Willam Domes
Stratosphere Rocket Aims for 25 Mile Flight and Safe Return
Soviet aeronautical engineers unveil a stratosphere rocket designed to reach 25 miles high and descend by parachute. Reported speed nears 700 meters per second with a 57 second ascent, featuring a regulated liquid oxygen fuel system. The craft would carry four to five small instruments to measure temperature wind velocity and cosmic ray activity during descent.
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Moscow
Spectre Stone Haunts East Boston Cemetery
East Boston residents walk with quicker steps at night near Bennington Street Cemetery. A tombstone's eerie light and strange noises spook locals. Police tried to cast a shadow from a lamp post but found no explanation. No solution to the mystery has been found.
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Boston
East Boston
Bennington Street
Octogenarian Fighters in Alms-House Fist Fight
In Springfield Massachusetts two elderly men Charles Smith and Thomas Wallace clashed at the city alms-house breaking the peace. Judges suspended one month in the house of correction for each after a lenient ruling.
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Springfield
Mass
House of Correction
Charles Smith
Thomas Wallace
Y W C A announces summer swim schedule and classes
The Y W C A pool offers sessions for girls from four years to adults and boys under 10 may join classes. Daily plunges join regular swimming, Friday private rentals planned, with Mrs. Madelyn Flynn as instructor. Read lists show many enrolled children and adults. Also noted is a fall international pair event.
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Madelyn Flynn
Tommy Bensinger
Billie Greenlee
Odine Young
Cynthia Cannon
Barbara Perkins
Mary Cason
Margaret Cason
Betty Doolittle
Jane Cunningham
Virginia Johnson
Alice Bartlett
Virginia Stewart
Suzanne Stewart
Laura Gouldman
Patricia Morgan
Edith Cassady
Joanne Rudel
Nancy Herschel
Evelyn Goldfarb
Wanda Whitefield
Frances Shewey
Evelyn Davidson
Mary Turner
Ruth Barton
Virginia Jayvns
Phyllis Edelman
Adele Hea Ener
Wilma Young
Betty Kart
Betty Thompson
Jean Bensinger
Barbara Greenies
Mable Hines
Japanese Jury Acquits First Defendant in Jury Trial
In Kobe on June 29 a Japanese jury acquitted Tamejero Umehara in an arson case, the first such verdict in Japan after six years of jury trials. The defense challenged a confessed statement obtained under coercive methods while 22 witnesses testified and the judge later ruled the verdict not to release the prisoner could stand.
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Kobe
Japan
Tamejero Umehara
Umehara
Road Commission Names W. Landa Lilly to Post
The state road commission yesterday appointed W. Landa Lilly of Beckley as chief right-of-way agent. He succeeds George W. Williams of Beckley.
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Road Commission
W. Landa Lilly
State Road Commission
Beckley
George W. Williams
Midelburg Auditorium to Open July 8 with Isham Jones Orchestra
The Midelburg Auditorium on Lee Street between Broad and Dickinson opens Monday evening July 8. Isham Jones and His Columbia Orchestra of 17 artists headline the debut, with a vast 12,000 square foot floor and seating for 4,000. The arena will host dances, boxing, pictures, vaudeville, and other events, with modern electrical and radio systems installed.
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Isham Jones
Columbia Orchestra
Midelburg Auditorium
Lee Street
Broad and
Dickinson Streets
Midelburg
West Virginia
Broad
Reunion Planned at Four-H Fairgrounds Below Dunbar
A reunion of the Davis Edwards and Thomas families is set for Thursday at the Four-H fairgrounds below Dunbar. W H Thomas of Montgomery is association president with officers including W L Davis East Fultonham vice president Ruth Walthall Huntington secretary and Ella Norton Charleston treasurer. A rotating committee will modify the program with Mrs James Bennett Cecile King Montgomery and others involved. Montgomery residents and guests will provide entertainment featuring talks devotional by Rev Smith Montgomery a baby show group singing ball games and races with luncheon and dinner served on the grounds.
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Davis
Edwards
We. Montgomery
Harvey Musselman
Montgomery
Clyde Hhinehart
Rev. Smith
Sin Ming
June Postal Receipts Set Historic High for Charleston Post Office
Postmaster J W Singleton reported June receipts at 51 951 002, the highest monthly total in Charleston post office history, up from June 1931 figures. For the first half of 1933 receipts totaled 144 86, Singleton cited improving business conditions as the main reason for the rise.
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Charleston
J. W. Singleton
Singleton
Prominent Sons of Famous Men in New Deal Era
The piece profiles sons of notable figures joining the New Deal era roles, highlighting names like Philip Young and Gerard Swope Jr. and noting their SEC positions and NRA ties. It contrasts capable executives with less able youngsters receiving up to six thousand dollars yearly. It also notes Jesse Metcalf’s charitable generosity and a 1932 Providence bank Christmas savings incident.
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Straus
Philip Young
General Electric
Owen D. Young
Securities and Exchange
Gerard Swone
SEC
John Isaac Newton Phelps
Stokes
Anson Phelps Stokes
Washington Cathedral
Kilbourne
Pitt Johnston
Hugh Johnnson
NRA
James G. Walsh
Frank P. Walsh
Roosevelt
Charles Eliot
Harvard
Eliot
The
Natural Resources Board
W. Brockhart, Jr
Lex
Brockhart
Arthur Mullen, Jr
Nebraskka
George Peek
Irport-Ixport Bank
Charles Edison
Thomas A. Edison
South
Department of Commerce
Jesse Bleteslf
Rhode Island
Senate
College of Chemistry
Brown University
Khan Asland School of Design
Washington Theaters and Names in Roosevelt Era News
A feature listing notes on Roosevelt aides and officials including Hughes Jr and Rush Holt, plus comments on Dr. Finot and John Roosevelt. It mentions Congresswoman Norton’s prostitution penalties bill stalled in Palmisano’s committee, and the growing attention to Washington during a boom era.
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Charles Evans ‘Hughes
Fera Paystoll
Charles Evans Hughes
Justic
Supreme Court
Rush Holt
West Virginia
Enrique Finot
White House
U.S
Chaco
Roosevelt
Finot
John Roosevelt
Harvard
Cambridge
Mary Norton
Colombia
Palmisano
Maryland
Washington
United Features Syndicate, Inc
Head scratching myths and Paris nightclub reborn in Montparnasse
A quirky column notes belief in scratch therapy to stave off baldness with figures like Paderewski and Lloyd George cited as head scratchers. It also reports a Paris note about a new Montparnasse club once called La Boite aux Ordures now dubbed The Last Refuge after neighbors objected, with a Hooverville style exterior.
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Paderewski
Lloyd George
Paris
Boite de Nuit
Montparnasse
West Virginia to observe styled steamboat sesquicentennial launch
The sesquicentennial of James Rumsey’s first steamboat launch and the opening of upper Kanawha waters for inland navigation will be observed in Charleston on Friday. Gov H G Kump and Mayor D Boone Dawson are to speak aboard the Liberty at 8 15 a m. About 50 officials from state and city will ride upriver, with civic groups providing flowers for the tribute. Dawson endorses the program.
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West Virginia
James Rumsey
Putomat
Charleston
H. G. Kump
D. Boone Dawson
Liberty
Lever Wharf
Dawson
Kanawha River
Rumsey
Davis
A. E. Waleren
William Morris
Robert Clutter
Rotary Club
Herman Bennett
Young Democratic Club
Chapman Revercomb
Young Republican Club
W. C. Handlas
State Agricultural Department
P. G. Meador
Union League
Civitan Club
W. C. Easley
State Road Commission
Robert Jarrett
The
Lincoln Club
Anita Buchanan Speer
George Washington Foundation
China Shifts to Industry as Factory Toll Grows
Statistics show 7400 workers killed or injured in Chinese factories over the past year. The dead totaled 5011, underscoring the rapid industrial transition and risks faced by laborers.
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Peiping
China
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