Society notes from New Century club meeting on West Main
At the Tuesday gathering of the New Century club with Mrs J D Foy on West Main Street the group explored History Games aided by Mrs E N Passmore Miss Sue Malone and Sere Benton Quick. Will Flowers presented Co of Alexander the Great as closing program. A D Field of Geneva visited on business Tuesday.
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New Century Club
J. D. Foy
West Main Street
E. N. Pasemore
Sue Malone
Sere
Benton Quick
Will Flowers
Alexander the Great
Foy
BI. D. Bica
Philadelphia socialite Harriet Drayton weds Warrenton man Groome
In Philadelphia yesterday Miss Harriet Dawson Drayton, of a prominent family, married Harry Connelly Groome from Warrenton Virginia. The bride knew the groom since childhood and he is a Spanish American War veteran. Read the Classified Ads in the Eagle for profit.
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Philadelphia
Jan. G
Harriet Dawson Drayton
Harry Connelly Groome
Warrenton, Va
Drayton
Groome Ince
Unsolved slayings plague Birmingham area cases
In 1981 the Birmingham district recorded 22 slayings labeled unsolved with eight more victims of hit and run. Discrepancies arose over deaths of Lettie Leola Black and James F. Green. Notable cases include Ralph Pilcher, Robert Rockett, W H Massey, George W. Dease, William D. Crews, William R. Todd, T E Morris, Stokes Galloway, William C. Stiff, and Findley Tate, with twelve Black victims in total and six of them unresolved by police.
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Birmingham
Lettie Leola Black
James F. Green
Black
Green
West End
Ralph Pilcher
Robert Rockett
East Lake
W. H. Massey
Mt. Pinson
George W. Dease
William D. Crews
Homewood
William R. Todd
T. E. Morris
Stokes “Galloway
Roadhouse
William C. Stiff
Findley Tate
Inglewood
Weather expert to write 12 daily articles for papers
The Eagle and NEA service commission Charles Fitzhugh Talman of the U S Weather Bureau to author a twelve day series on weather. Talman, librarian since 1908, wrote Métagorology and other popular weather works. Also notes Ohio farms on gravel or better roads and Florida grapefruit market delays this year.
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Mississippi Valley
California
Eagle
NEA Service
Charles Fitzhugh Talman
U. S. Weather Bureau
Washington
Ohio
Boys Admit Burning Eight In Cabin Last Spring
Gallia county sheriff says two Lancaster boys from the industrial school confessed to building a funeral pyre in a log cabin, burning eight people to death in Gallia county last spring. Albert Reymer of Gallipolis and Elsworth Mowyer of Bucyrus confessed, saying revenge motivated the act and they were conscience stricken afterwards. The cabin occupier James White, 40, and seven of his children perished. the youths allegedly nailed doors and windows to prevent escape prior to the blaze.
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Gallipolis
Ohio
Charles Swanson
Lancaster
Gallia County
Bwanson
Albert Reymer
Elsworth Mowyer
Bucyrus
James White
Two Men Sentenced to Die in Alabama Highway Robbery
In Alabama the first two men ever sentenced to die by electric chair for highway robbery await the Supreme Court decision. Four suspects, Percy Irvin, Robert Strickland, Isaac Mims, and Otis Taylor, fled after a Greenville police chase following a Montgomery theft and the fatal box car attack on February 17, 1931.
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Montgomery
Jan
Alabama
Supreme Court
High Court
M@Bile
Letohatchie
John Clark
Shelly Weaver
Weaver
Greenville
Percy Irvin
Robert Strickland
Isaac Mims
Otis Taylor
Murphy
Mims
Evangeline Booth Returns to Command in United States
A new photograph shows Evangeline Booth, commander of the Salvation Army in the United States, back on duty after a Europe trip upon arrival in Newark. Separate notes report highway robbery charges against Strickland and Irvin, and Alabama’s electric chair record since 1927 shows no executions for highway robbery. Supreme Court reviews of Shreex cases focus on court records with no bills of exception filed, and the justices Knight, Brown, and Thomas named for early study as the full court prepares a banc session for the final decision.
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Evangeline Booth
Salvation Army
United States
Europe
Newark
Strickland
Irvin
Alabama
Supreme Court
Bn Banc
Thomas E. Knight
Joel Brown
Williard H. Thomas
Pansey Woman Funeral Set At Pansey Church
Heavy rains across Berlin region cause washouts and damaged roads as mild temperatures persist. Funeral set for Pansey Woman at 8 o clock in Pansey Church with Rev J L officiating. Fellows and For in charge.
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Banke
Germ Berlin
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Flowers
Henry Flowers
R. L. Gaines
Lewis
A. Y. Malone
A. J. Miller
E. N. Passmore
W. Flowers
J. T. Trawick
A. D. Field of
Geneva
City
The
Eagle For Profit
de Cossard
Liney
Blauty
Setierre
Blum
Berg
Blumberg’s “Dethan’s
Speier
Barto
Florida
Mary
Elmo Sfle
Mark Twain
Jack Altman
Acorn
Dothan
Altman’s
Acorn Store
East Main Street
Jbo.a
Goodyear
Prepa Aldally
PyaMatte
Gos
Pathfinder
E Goodyear
Amecten
Cordyear
Veaki
P. O
Pdi
Pansey
Lydia E. Pinkham
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