TUNNELTON News: Laura Weaver Dies at Home
Laura Weaver of Tunnelton dies after a three year illness. She was found dead in her bed Friday night. Survived by her father T W Weaver sisters Pearl Pratt Harold Harold and others. Funeral Friday at home with burial in Camp Ground Cemetery.
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Laura Weaver
T. W. Weaver
Sarah Weaver
T. Weaver
Pearl Pratt
Grafton
Harold Weaver
Preston
Harry
Portsmouth
Radio Program Schedule Highlights Across Cities
AP reports Tuesday August 12 radio listings across Eastern time. Stations like WEAF WIZ WOR KDKA and WBAL feature orchestras bands dramas comedies and news with programs such as Uncle Abe and David, Lombardo’s Orchestra, Amos n Andy, and Midnight Melodies. Included are Duke of musical variety and sports updates with multiple regional listings and station names.
Monongahela Railway seeks halt of two Fairmont trains
In Charleston on August 12 the Monongahela Railway filed with the Public Service Commission for permission to discontinue two trains between Fairmont and Randall due to lack of patronage. A hearing is scheduled for August 26. The services to be dropped are Nas 33 and 30.
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Charleston
Fairmont
Randall
Public Service Commission
Monongahela Railway Company
Huntington Newspaper Named in Libel Suit Defendants
Gus C Nations sues over false statements printed about him in several papers including the Huntington Advertiser. The action also targets Mrs O M Willebrandt David Lawrence Current News Features Inc and Hilmar Daulhage. Nations seeks damages of 200000 in DC court.
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St. Louis
Gus C. Nations
Missouri Prohibition
Advertiser
Huntington
W. Va
Nations
O'Mabel Walker Willebrandt
David Lawrence
Current News Features, Inc
Hilmar Daulhage
Washington
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Minnesota Border Busy With Immigrants In Fiscal Year
Duluth Minnesota reports about 250000 people entered the United States by automobile at the northern Minnesota border in the fiscal year ending June 30. An additional 66843 entered by train as border traffic remains brisk.
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Duluth
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United States
Acro
Minnesota
Veterans of B. and C. to Picnic on August 20
The veteran employees of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad eastern lines will hold their ninth annual picnic at Shady Grove Park near Connellsville Pennsylvania on Wednesday August 20. The event is named Tom Jones Day in honor of Thomas Milton Jones an assistant to Charles W Galloway vice president in charge of operation and maintenance. Jones began his career at Connellsville near the park.
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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Eastern Lines
Shady Grove
Tom Jones
Thomas Milton Jones
Charles W. Galloway
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Mr. Jones
Connellsville
One Killed Thirteen Injured In Powder Explosion
In New York an accidental powder explosion in a fifth floor laboratory killed one man and injured thirteen others. Marcus Cohen, the chemist, suffered burns and could not explain the cause as debris collapsed into a nearby two story building.
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New York
Marcus Cohen
Cohen
Determining U S Drug Needs Draws Officials
Washington August 12 The task of calculating yearly narcotic drug quantities for legitimate use and scientific study brought together manufacturers medical leaders and Public Health Service officials led by Surgeon General Cumming. The aim is to inform the narcotic bureau after congressional directive. J K Caldwell of the State Department attends to represent the United States at a Geneva conference on global legitimate narcotics needs.
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United States
Cumming
Public Health Service
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J. K. Caldwell
State Department
Geneva
Famous Soldier Dies At Age Of 72 In England
Chippenham England Aug 12 General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien aged 72 died. A renowned British field commander and veteran of modern warfare, he served in campaigns from the Boer War to the First World War and held high rank in the British Army.
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Sir Horace Smithdorrien
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Famous British Army Leader Dies After Car Crash
Prominent veteran commander of the Second Army of the British Expeditionary Force in 1914 15 died today after sustaining severe head injuries in an automobile accident yesterday. He served as aide de camp to King George in 1910 and retired from service in 1923.
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Aged Woman Victim of Unidentified Slayer
Los Angeles report states 70 year old Barbara Doyle was killed by an unidentified assailant who knocked at her front door and fatally beat her Sunday night. Neighbor G A Kelly, a truck driver, was detained for questioning but no charges filed. Doyle’s body was found behind the door with blunt force trauma and the house appeared undisturbed.
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Los Angeles
Barbara Doyle
Thjunea
G. A. Kelly
Charge Man Tried to Kill Father-In-Law
Jacob B. Kissell was held for the grand jury on a charge of shooting Roy Covert, the father of Kissell’s wife, in Cleveland. The incident followed Kissell’s elopement with Covert’s daughter and her divorce proceedings.
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Jacob B. Kissell
Romney
Roy Covert
Nashville
Kissell
Covert
West Virginia
Merger Trial Delayed By Death Of Co-Plaintiff
In Youngstown Ohio a four hour delay in the case to enjoin the merger of Montague Sheet and Tube with Bethlehem Steel followed the death of co-plaintiff Myron C. Wick Jr. The court adjourned to probate Wicks will and appoint executors whose names will be substituted. Wick died of pneumonia after a weekend adjournment as funeral services were held.
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Youngstown, .C
Moungetown Sheet and Tube Company
Bethlehe Steel Corporation
Myron C. Wick,Jr
Tammbrrow
Wick
Prisoner to Sioux City for embezzlement trial
Harry M. Holt, 49, who surrendered in New York to Chief Postal Inspector Charles H. Clarahan, will be returned to Sioux City for trial on charges of embezzling 10000 dollars from the post office where he served as cashier of the money order department. Holt, in postal service more than 18 years, is said to have admitted taking the money. offense carries up to 15 years and a 10000 dollar fine.
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Sioux City
Harry M. Holt
New York
Charles H. Clarahan
Ratil Holt
Holt
Crazed Father Sets Dynamite Discharge Killing 3 Children
In Bumnbay British Columbia Otto Zellar killed his three young children and himself with dynamite Sunday night by placing them in a stump-hole. Zellar’s wife had left him recently amid alleged cruelties. A child had warned a friend days earlier that their father planned to kill them.
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Scaffolding Collapse Injures Two at Capitol Building
In Charleston on August 12 two Wheeling Structural Steel workers were injured when scaffolding in the main unit of the state capitol under construction collapsed. Grover L. Yost of Coldwater Doddridge county suffered a broken leg, bruises, and possible internal injuries, while R. W. Aley of Owens was cut and bruised after falling about 26 feet to the basement.
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W. Va
State Capitol
Wheeling Structural Steel Company
Grover L. Yost
Coldwater
Doddridge County
R. W. Aley
Owens
Earl Carroll and His Follies Girls Freed
Earl Carroll and eight members of his cast from Charleston were freed from charges of immoral performance after a grand jury declined to indict. Officials of Hamlin Water Company and local citizens had pressed complaints over the installation of water meters, and a meeting was planned for August 20 in Huntington to seek a compromise on the complaints.
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New York
Earl —Carroll
Charleston
Hamlin
Public Service Commission
Huntiington
Mode of dress and etiquette in Oklahoma runoff primary
Oklahoma City August 12 Democratic runoff primary focuses on table manners and dress. Key contests include William A Alfala and Murray versus Frank Buttram for gubernatorial hopefuls and T P Gore against C J Wrightsman for senate designation. Murray led Buttram in the July 29 first primary by about 65 000 votes. Gore and Wrightsman attack each other’s eligibility while the winner faces Senator W Hy Ping in November. No major Republican contests as incumbents were renominated.
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Okla
Oklahoma
William A.alfalfa
Murray
Frank Buttram
T. P. Gore
C.J. Wrightsman
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Gore
Wrightsman
W. Hy Ping
Tree Sitter Clings To Limb Hours Before Fall
Minneapolis August 12 Stephen Streleck 16 a tree sitter suffered a badly fractured skull after a limb she perched on for nearly 400 hours broke, dropping him about 25 feet to the ground. He is in critical condition at a city hospital.
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Minneapolis
Stephen Streleck
Loan to partners urged for farmer relief
Topeka Aug 12 Jonathan Davis Democratic nominee for U S senator and former Kansas governor telegrammed President Hoover urging the issue of 500 million Federal Reserve notes for loans to farmers in drought distressed areas Local country banks should, gladly do this work gratis in cooperation with your relief campaign.
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Jonathang. Davis
United States
Kansas
Hoover
Federal Reserve
Breakstone Family Reunion Big Affair
Breakstones plan their third great tri bal reunion at Pat In Bay Ohio on August 24 with descendants of a noted Hebrew landowner ancestor. The Breakstones Breck steins and related families maintain strong ties and own a family newspaper. More than 200 attended the 1929 reunion.
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Fleeing Liquor Owner Arrested After Delivery Attempt
Wheeling reports Pete Henry aged 40 fled his car during a prohibition sting. He allegedly attempted to deliver a gallon of contraband liquid, dropping the jug as he fled and was jailed on a second charge of violating prohibition laws. He is already facing an indictment under the Jones Law.
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Wheeling
Pete Henry
Heney' Aledady
Hicine
Epworth Institute Nears 300 Delegates at Buckhannon
Nearly 300 delegates registered as Epworth institute opened in Buckhannon West Virginia with class work starting. Oscar Thomas Q more delivered an address and Guy Chester Jones spoke on world peace for the church commission while John L. Wolfe directed a large forum on daily problems including divorce remedies and science versus religion.
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W. Va
Epworth Lenetic Institute
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More
Renee
Guy Chester Jones
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John L. Wolfe
Charleston
Automobile Rise in Ethiopia Reflects Early 1930s Growth
At the start of 1930 Ethiopia had 588 automobiles, a surge from about a dozen five years earlier. Most of the earlier cars were gifts to the royal family, illustrating gradual modernization and expanding motor access in the region.
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Ethopia
Konjola Praised In Testimonial From Patient In Gratton
Mr Robert Meacham of 28 Bosvobel Street Naghwille Tennessee testifies Konjola cured his back pain rheumatism and night rest disturbance. He credits the medicine with lifting his symptoms and enabling easier work. Konjola is claimed alcohol free and free of nerve depressants and is sold at Gratton Va via Gratton OA Chemical Company and local druggists.
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Thal
Konjola
Donaldee
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Gratton
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al Towpathi
Deaths and Obituaries From The Associated Press
Vienna professor Cornelius Doelta eighty noted lecturer in mineralogy and chemistry. Kane Pierce Augustus Gatney twenty six president of American Plate Glass Corporation. Miami Florida George Giberti ninety nine former resident Jackson Grove Illinois helped build first roads for Pennsylvania Grand Trunk and Baltimore and Ohio railways. Daily air service inaugurated between Montrey Mexico and San Antonio Texas by a Mexican company using an American made plane.
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Unive S of
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Jackson Grove
Ill
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