Endurance flight tests and public health warning mix in Chicago report
A Chicago family dies from escaping gas in an electric refrigerator raising safety questions about refrigerants and public health action. The article also covers Buckhannon bank trial outcomes, banking integrity, and plans for a New York to Nome Alaska air endurance flight led by Capt. Ross G. Hoyt.
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Chi
Pub Health
Tiwan
Ige
Chicago
Army
Ross G. Hoyt
New York
Nome
Alaska
Eight hop flight tests aviation progress and Elkins civic spirit
A long range flight plan aims to cover about eight hops between New York and Nome in around 75 hours with one hour rests at each stop and a six hour layover at the turning point. The piece notes aviation development as constructive, praising Elkins residents for voting yes to a city electric plant and detailing the ongoing bond appeal and legal steps, plus a Boy Scout camp program emphasizing swimming, merit badges, and First Aid training for numerous youths.
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New York
Nome
U. S. Army
Elkins
Attorney General's Office
Supreme Court
Council
Kiwanis Scouts Camp At Deep Creek Lake
After two weeks at Deep Creek Lake near Oakland Maryland Kiwanis Boy Scout Troop returned home with praise for the Kiwanis Club. The trip began June 30 with private cars taking the boys to the camp site. Leaders view the experience as valuable guidance away from urban life, emphasizing independence and character building under the motto WE BUILD. The camp sits ten miles from Oakland on private grounds and offered a nearly perfect site.
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Deep Creek Lake
Oakland
Kiwanis Boy Scout Troop
Kiwanis Club
Riwants
Scout Camp Test And Ceremony Describe A Long Program
First Class tests and map reading were conducted as several boys like Forrest White Woodrow Sauvirés and Robert Staf ford earned Second Class after a big camp fire ceremony. The event featured an Indian appearance Justice Jones and a Bible on the table with candles symbolizing the Scout Oath and Laws. A July 4 program included fireworks and a care of trees talk by Frank Collins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Steel, Jr
Donald Flynn
Stanley Tobin
Frank Kunst
Kiwan-ian Ralph Kunst
George McDaniel
Charles Gall
Forrest White
Woodrow Squires
Robert
Woodrow Sauvirés
Robert Stafford
John Cather
Joe Keener
Russel Mathews
Robert Davisson
James Foy
Tom Stafford
Leon Werner
Phillip Gerkim
Eagle Scouts
Oakland
Stanley
Logan
W.va
A. J. Torrey
Justice Jones
Talmage H. Chilson
Jesus Christ
Frank Collins
Davey
Frank
Phillip Bowie
Archdeacon
Brooks Gall
Carrol Kelly
Califf
Blen Avon Hotel
Arthur Yates
Scout Troop Seeks Volunteers for Three Vacancies
A notice states three scout troop vacancies will open in early fall. The Scoutmaster invites interested youths to drop by and apply, noting that only those willing to work should apply and that slides may be shown in the high school or another suitable place.
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Wis
Board of Education sale and city home auction notice
The Fet terman District Board of Education offers coal hauling and concrete work contracts with sale at Blueville schoolhouse July 20 at 2 pm ED. Also a separate Commissioner's sale of Olive Lowther estate lot 96 Knotts addition Grafton W Va set for August 3, 1929 at 1 pm.
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Board of Education of
Fetterman
Thornton
M. L. Devers
Blueville
Gans
Circuit Court
Taylor County
Sidney H. Sommerville
Charles. Lowther
Deeres
W. Va
Knotts
Grafton
Olive Lowther
Mary A. Nicola
Sidney H. Sommeryilly
All Grafton Will Give Help Fill the Spaces
A long list of donors and amounts appears, naming individuals and businesses such as Dr. D. C. Peck Gordy Bailey Evans Hardware Co C V Miller and many more. The article records a community fundraising effort with numerous contributions and contributors including local firms and residents.
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All Grafton
Braves name Walter Maranville as team manager
Boston, July 20. President Emil E. Fuchs announces Walter Rabb it Maranville veteran shortstop is appointed manager of the Braves. Fuchs had managed the club previously. Maranville played with the club in 1916 when it won a streak of games against the Philadelphia Athletics in a world vertex.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Emil E. Fuchs
Braves
Walter “Rabbit
Maranville
Fuchs
Philadelphia Athletics
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Grafton Sentinel
Howard
Latrobe Street
580 Printing Co
R. Companyt
Associated Associated Presd
Republi
Ews
Apecia
Buckhannon
Main St
Klein & Co
State Board of Health
Salvation Army
Webster
J. E. Guth
W.B. Cruise
Yates Ave
Berkeley Run Springs
Berkeley Run
Simpson, W. Va
D. C. Peck
Gordy Bailey
G. W. Loar
C. A. Keefer
T. W. Engle
Smith Auto Co
D. W. Linaon
William A. Beavers
W. L. Reddick
R. M. Parrish
B. M. Tomlinson
Paul Warden
Jed W. Robinson
John W. Brown
Evans Hardware Co
Clyde G. Turner
Eugene Kersting
C. BP. Schroeder
Charles W. Steel
S. A. Waller
Ray A. Monroe
Z. M. Piérpoint
Stehler Furniture Co
C. V. Miller
H. M. Queen
Robert Hier
H. L. Rogers
F. W. Woolworth Co
Brodoks R. Gall
Cash
B. FP. Clark
McCartney
Mays
C. N
Phillips
Pitor
Pittman
Panite
Riley
Reeder
Stuck
W. B
Bayre
J. W
Summers
Shanabarger
Ac Bert—Terrapy
J. Eeedey
Brace
A. J
Charles Jaynes
H. B. Scranage
R. B. Gall
John
B. Kimmelt
Tillman Hustead
J. M. Kimmble
M. H. McDante
T. W. Heironimus
Guy D. Allender
Frank Morgan
Weat Side Beauty Shop
Daughters of American Revolution of
Gratton
Une
Andrews Andrews M. E. Church
Order of Eastern Star
Accounting Office
Rebecca Lewellyn Bible
St. Paul's M. E. Church
Imperial Tce Cream Company
Ladies' Aid Society
Baptast Church
Greaness Bible Untytown M. E. Church
Whit
Charleston
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