Free your child from fear of creatures in the country
Alice Fudson Peale urges parents to ease children's fears of spiders snakes and toads by education and gentle exposure. She advises showing that spiders are mostly harmless toads cannot give warts and snakes reveal beauty and movement. The piece notes Nedra Williamson and family leaving via motor for Salem Ohio.
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Epideras
Toad
Boots
Nedra Williamson
J. DE. Hoffman
Leong Gull
Salem
Ohio
Battery Charging Station Opens at Barrett Street
Notice announces new Battery Charges installation at Battery Station, 220 Barrett Street. Bring batteries to be charged between hours and call 617 for same service.
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Battery Station
Barrett Street
Radio Station Schedule Highlights Evening Programs
A radio timetable lists New York WABC WJZ WOR and more with times for baseball scores concerts orchestras and dances. It catalogs hourly programs across stations in New York Newark Baltimore Pittsburgh Schenectady Springfield Cincinnati Cleveland Detroit and Atlanta with lead programs like WEAF WJZ and the Navy at 10:00.
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WJZ
New York
Knickerbocker Trio
Tiremen’s
KDKA
Pittsburgh
Central and Southern
WLW
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Ohio Caverns
Fillmore
Radio Schedule Fragments From Weaf WHAS and More
Fragmentary broadcasting list shows WEAF programs at 8 8:30 10 and 0 with Amos Andy and Orchestra listings. WHAS Toursville 820 and WSM Nashville 461.3 are noted along with news dance and movie segments.
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Wox-Wik
Detroit
Wiz
Amos
WEAF
Amos-Andy
WHAS
Toursville
WEAP
WSM
Nashville
Crate’s Orchestra
Frontier Tragedy in 1774 Prickett and Ox Attack
In September 1774 Josiah Prickett and Mrs Susan Ox left Prickett’s Fort near Newport to drive cows. A party of Indians killed and scalped Prickett and captured Mrs Ox on their return. Dunnington’s History of Marion County notes settlers exposed themselves leaving forts while Indians lurked nearby, with explanations tying to prior warfare and frontier life.
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Josiah Prickett
Susan Ox
Prickett
Newport
Oxprisoner
Dunnington
Marion County
Logan
West Virginia
University Radio Tieup With State High Schools Outlined
Morgantown West Virginia June 4 Plans for a radio tieup between West Virginia University and state high schools over WMAM Morgantown were outlined by Alumni Secretary F Roy Yoke to the West Virginia alumni association Yoke said he was working on a program by which university faculty would broadcast lectures designed for high school students Arrangements were made for daily general assembly periods in high schools when students would listen to the broadcast lectures.
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Morgantown
W. Va
Tune
West Virginia University
F. Roy Yoke
West Virginia Alumni Association
Yoke
My Neighbors Yard and Colonial Struggles Inspires Dark Times
A collage of verse and prose presents a lilting poem about a neighbor’s garden and summer flowers followed by stark passage on settlers facing danger from a wily savage. The text contrasts peaceful domestic scenes with harsh frontier hardship and hunger.
State liquor laws tighten penalties and home brew limits
State legislators enact stricter prohibition measures detailing penalties for drunken driving intoxication and violations of liquor laws. New provisions raise first offense fines to 10 to 50 dollars and subsequent offenses to 25 to 100 dollars with jail terms up to 60 days. Home brew possession or manufacture becomes a misdemeanor with fines up to 100 dollars and potential year in county jail. Stills operators face harsher sentences and railroads are prohibited from knowingly transporting illegal liquor.
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Gand
Aiders
Wsth
Jstruts
Prohibition Offence Penalties Outlined in Law
The statute bans malt beer vinous or fermented liquors and any mixtures used intoxicatingly. First offense carries a 50 to 100 dollar fine. Subsequent offenses carry 100 to 500 dollars and one to two months imprisonment.
Overnight News Highlights Across Nations And Careers
Domestic reports note cruiser construction will proceed without interference from Hoover. Douglas Fairbanks Jr and Joan Crawford wed. Senate finance committee backs open hearings on tariff bill. Countess Bernadotte arrives after appendicitis treatment. O'Brien divorce from Mabel Taliaferro O'Brien confirmed. Navy tragedy details include pilot killed and mechanic escaping by parachute. Senate backs aid to discover cancer cure. Jury concludes deputy sheriff Crowe’s death case. Congregational Churches join with General Convention. Ramsay MacDonald expected to lead for at least two years. Wedding postponement noted for Mabelle Gilman Corey and Prince Louis of Orleans. Belgium reparations talks referenced with watch return and paper scraps.
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Washington
Hoover
New York
Douglas Fairbanks Jr
Joan Crawford
Senate Finance Committee
Folk
Bernadotte
Estelle R Manville
Reno
Josephus P O'Brien
Mabel Taliaferro O'Brien
San Diego
Henry “P
H. S. Neumann
Senate
Abingdon
Sherif Crowe
J. W. Kendrick Emory
Henry College
Detroit
National Council of Congregational Churches
General Convention
The
Christan Church
London
Ramsay MacDonald
Express
Infanta Anlalia
Mabelle
Gilman
Prince Louis of Orleans
Paris
Anks
Germany
Belgium
Newton Mayor and Postmaster Milton A. McCord Dies
Milton A. McCord, age 84 and a former Newton mayor and postmaster, died today after a six week illness. His two daughters Madea and a second unnamed daughter were at his bedside, and his death was reported by authorities.
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Newton
Milton A. McCord
Madea
State Briefs From The Associated Press
Wheeling inquest into fatal shooting of two hegro bandits by Wheeling police set for Friday. Moundsville Aneilla Expostle, 30, Wheeling, put in padded cell after three attempts at auleida. Cameron delegates to annual encampment of Independent Order of Odd Fellows gather for three day meeting. Jacksons Mills because of cold weather only small class appears at swimming first aid and life saving school here. Martinsburg Catholic Daughters of America of West Virginia open fifth biennial convention here. Charleston State game and forestry commission names Harold Newins chief forester of State succeeding P. M. Browning. Charleston Another effort is started to obtain pardon or parole for John C. Bond former state editor. Logan John Quincy has Big Creek killed as car plows over bank onto railroad track. Williamson John L Startaggh, 78, attorney, dies. Logan Millard Brownlig 8 held in jail awaiting outcome of knife wounds he is alleged to have inflicted on an estranged wife. Point Pleasant Five men injured one probably fatally as tuck plunges of highway on burve. Charleston State Road Commission announces highway between Beckwith and Fayetteville will not be closed during reconstruction.
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Charleston
State Game and Forestry Commission
Harold's
Newins
Stte
P. M. Browning
John C. Bond
UPS AND DOWNS in August Mail Delivery
In Auburn and Cal, Uncle Sam's mail carriers will face preparing time as August Swiga regular mail delivery starts here. The town in the Sierra Nevada foothills spans 22 miles of streets with elevations from 1,090 to 1,545 feet. Carriers will have to hoof it twice daily.
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Auburn
Cal
Uncle Sam
Enug
Sierra Nevada
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