Graf Zeppelin Progress Report From Atlantic Flight
German airship Graf Zeppelin gains ground on the trans Atlantic leg with favorable winds. Signals from Lakehurst indicate rapid progress toward Friedrichshafen as distances to New York shrink and speeds average around seventy miles per hour. Weather forecasts note a low pressure system north of Belle Isle and high pressure ahead.
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New York
Graf Zeppelin
Hugo Eckener
United State Navy Department
Lakehurst
N. J
Friedrichshafen
Germany
Atlantic
Navy
Weather Bureau
North Belle Isle
Winds Boost Graf Zeppelin Speed As It Flies South
Fresh west winds south of Nova Scotia push the Graf Zeppelin toward higher speeds for the next 12 hours. Navy department updates relay progress via sighting ships including President Roosevelt Rochambeau Commercial Trader Tomalva Benrinnes and Express as the airship advances.
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Nova Scotia
Navy Department
Airlner
President Roosevelt
Rochambeau
Commercial Trader
Tomalva
Benrinnes
Express
Nine Graduate From Elkins Summer School
Nine students graduated from Davis and Elkins College at the summer school commencement in Filkins West Virginia. President Dr James B Allen announced the regular 1929 30 school year would open September 18 with registration starting September 16.
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Filkins
W. Va
Davis and Elkins College
James B. Allen
Virginia Hull Durbin
Ralph Mattison
Fairmont
Miles Kochenderfer
Gerald Powers
Henry Hamilton
Elkins
Mary Clark
Davis
Earl Irons
Parsons
Grace Kerns
Sully
Harley Leader
Allen
Victer L Berger Lays In State In Milwaukee Hall
Victer L Berger former Socialist leader lies in state at Milwaukee City Hall from noon today until 2 pm tomorrow with a guard of honor beside the bier. The funeral will be public tomorrow with services at Forest Home Cemetery. Socialists nationwide plan memorials in various meeting places.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Victer L. Berger
Forest Home
Water Works Deal Involves Properties Worth $4,000,000
The National Water Works Company acquired three West Virginia plants at Buckhannon Pitt, and Kingwood along with three in Pennsylvania and two in New Jersey. The total value was announced as about 4 million dollars. The West Virginia properties were owned by Mountain State Utilities Corporation.
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Buckhannon
Philippi
Kingwood
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
National Water Works Company
Associated Press
Mt. Pleasant
West Virginia
Mountain State Utilities Corporation
West Virginia utility merger plans emerge in early 1926
West Virginia utilities organized December 1 1925 absorb Salem Electric Light Company Salem Midland Electric Service Company West Union Kingwood Water Company Kingwood Tygarts Valley Water Company Philippi and West Penn Public Service Company Buckhannon The Mountain State Utilities Corporation controlled by Allied Utilities Corporation Washington DC through stock ownership Surveyor B P Sessler representing Francis R Weller Inc visited Kingwood plant to plan improvements National Water Works Company also pursuing Buckhannon and Philippi projects Water supplies: Buckhannon from Buckhannon River Philippi from Tygarts Valley River Kingwood from deep wells Water shortage hit Kingwood this summer leaving many facilities without water at times.
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West Virginia Concern
Salem Electric Light Company
Salem
Midland Electric Service ‘Company
West Union
Kingwood ‘Water Company
Kingwood
Tygarts Valley Water Company
Philippi
West Penn Public Service Company
Buckhannon
Mountain State Utilities Corporation
Allied Utilities Corporation
Washington, D. C
B. P. Sessler
Francis R. Weller, Inc
National Water Works Company
Tygarts Valley
Accident Fatal to Woman on Bluefield Honeymoon Drive
In Welch on August 9 a bride Susie Tester Lowden aged 18 and groom Willie Lowden 19 were injured when their car left an embankment near War, twenty miles from Welch. Mrs Bert Tester of Bluefield died shortly after. Susie, an aunt of the bride, suffered a fractured skull and may not recover while Willie is reported to be improving.
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War
Man Admits Part in Slaying Messager
Camden police said Robert Tully, 30, of Audubon, admitted he and three companions helped hold up a man in a slaying. No further details were provided on the case or suspects.
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Man
Messager
Camden
N. J
Robert Tully
Audubon
Oil tank explosion kills one and injures eleven
A deadly blast at an oil facility left one dead and eleven injured this week. George Danielson, 76, a bank messenger, was fatally struck while delivering a $7,230 payroll from the bank to a factory as four assailants attacked him and fired. The suspects fled with the loot, while one suspect claimed others planned to loot more.
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George Danielson
Danielson
Tully
Asbury Park
Mullens Man Drowns In Guyan River
Mullens, Aug 9. Craig W. Mankin, 8, of Mullens, drowned when his automobile plunged over an embankment into the Guyan River. His body was recovered shortly after. In New York, Aug 9, One man killed and 11 injured aboard the Standard Oil tanker William Rockefeller at anchor off Bayonne, N J, after an explosion. The flaming tanker rammed toward the lower bay as burning oil spread over the water.
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Mullens
Craig W. Mankin
Guyan River
New York
Standard Oil
William Rockefeller
Bayonne
N. J
Lower Bay
New York Harbor
Sta
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