Seven Year-Old Vergie James Sets Academic Pace
An exclusive dispatch profiles Vergie Lee James, eight years old, as she prepares for high school and potential college entry by eighteen. Despite limited schooling, she passed Nebraska state seventh and eighth grade exams with a 92, outpacing older peers. Her mother, her first teacher, notes Vergie’s rapid reading and spelling talents.
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Widen
Nebi
Vergie Lee James
Vergie
Nebraska
Wergie
Ead
Grafton residents travel and local scene noted
A stream of visitors and travelers is recorded with Hugh Barbee returning to Philadelphia and a series of individuals from Grafton and nearby towns attending events in Wheeling Baltimore Clarksburg Philippi and Bayard. The piece notes business and social visits a court session in Elkins and a gambling crackdown by Chief Barnett at local poolrooms including a warning against baseball and racehorse pools.
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Hugh Barbee
Philadelphia
Grafton
George Hardin
Knottsville
M. J. Kinney
John Keir
Wheeling
Lutheran Missionary Society
Kinney
Keir
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Lester Bush
Mondray
Baltimbore
C.A
Florence Hamilton Wilkinson
Baltimore
Melba Malcolm
Fairmont
Delbert Lough
West Side
Fred Whitlock
Kingwood
R.C. Jones
Lena
Elizabeth
Georgia Lough
Simpson
Glenda Moore
George Percell
Philippi
William Lawhorn
Friends
Sidney Sommerville
Elkins
United States Court
Watson
Clarksburg
Edward Barnett
West Virginia Briefs Youths spared by storekeeper’s aim
Morgantown youths, both minors, narrowly survive after a storekeeper fires at them while they attempt a burglary at Lloyd Brand’s store. The bullets miss when they strike a window ledge. one suspect is the son of a former city police sergeant now deceased. Juvenile officials order hearings. In Mill Creek a coroner’s jury absolves Police Chief Richard Barrack of blame in a separate death case linked to a financier’s collapse.
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Morgantown
Lloyd Brand
Brand
Ixonerate
Mill. Creek
Grover Hamner
Richard I. Barrack
Stark Shreve
Miner Dies After Gas Tap Accident Near Lynn
Thomas R. Shea of Weston, age 40, died in a local hospital at 5 10 p m yesterday evening from infections following injuries when a coupling blew out while he tapped a gas line near Lynn in Gilmer county early Saturday morning.
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Miner
Clarksburg
Lynn
Gilmer County
Thomas R. ‘Shea
Weston
Japanese Girls Demand Soldierly Husbands
Members of the Maidens Association of Ishikawa Prefecture resolved they will not marry men without military training. Vernacular papers report other associations across the empire weighing similar bans. The rationale is that unsoldierly suitors are inferior mentally and physically to those who have gone through the mill.
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Tokyo
Japan
Maidens Association
Ishikawa
Maidens’ Association
London peeress runs dressmaking business in Mayfair
Lady Clanmorris, a prominent London peeress, becomes a director of a Mayfair dressmaking establishment and also directs a decorating business in Soho. She maintains regular salon hours at 9 each morning, advising on clothing and handling gown and hat orders while staying active socially.
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London
John McIntosh Elected Eminent Commander of DeMolay
Sir Knight John McIntosh was elected Eminent Commander of DeMolay Commandery No. 11 Knights Templar at the annual officers election in the Masonic Temple. Other officers named include Charles Skaggs generalissimo and W R Hart captain general with several others reelected or appointed.
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John McIntosh
DeMolay
Knights Templar
Masonic Temple
Charles Skaggs
W. Rd. Hart
Leslie J. Loar
W. W. Powell
Samuel MussTove
O. Jay Fleming
J. B. Bradford
Charles
Corbin
Clyde N. Mays
Charles Payne
Warder
John T. Pilson
Tiler
Henry Harter
Dallas Wolfe
J. E. Stafford
Roy G. Nestor
Joseph B. Bradford
D. Jay Fleming
Fleming
Grafton Commandery
Lorain Company Plans To Abandon Mines In Ohio
Lorain Coal and Coke Company based in Columbus plans to abandon five Ohio mines and shift equipment to West Virginia where it holds 16 000 acres of Pittsburgh Seam coal in Ohio County. The move would affect Belmont county sites employing 200 to 600 miners each and create successor mines east of Wheeling named Wheeling Creek Crescent Blaine Stanley and Lincoln.
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Wheeling
H. J. Johnson
R. L. Wildamuth
Lorain Coal and Coke Company
Columbus
Ohio
West Virginia
Charles Albasin
Pittsburgh
Ohio County
Belmont County
Wheeling Creek
Crescent
Blaine
Stanley
Lincoln
Bridgeport
Shoes Sell at 81 000 in Parisian Shop
Paris reports rumors that a designer sold a pair of shoes for 20 000 francs or 1 000, triggering astonishment in fashion circles. The heels were real gold and encrusted with semi precious stones, said to be the highest price paid for such footwear.
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Paris
Old Sage and Sulphur Hair Darkening Recipe
An old newspaper item touts Sage Tea and Sulphur as a natural method to restore hair color. It notes a commercial Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Compound sold for 75 cents that darkens gray hair quickly and evenly after daily applications, leaving hair looking younger.
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Wyeth
Public Notice of Land Dispute Proceedings in West Virginia
A lengthy legal notice in the West Virginia Circuit Court of Taylor County announces a July 18, 1927 hearing in Grafton. It lists numerous defendants and heirs, requests disclosure of land ownership and parcel details, taxes due, and other pertinent matters, with Commissioner Francis L. Warder appointed to report findings.
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M. § Goodwin
Mary M. Burnett
Benj. Coffman
L. M. Henry Lilian MC. Husteaa
Irvin Jenking
J. R. Goodwin
Martin J. Curray
Elizabeth Kennedy
Thos. Maxwell
Catherine McWilliams
Frank Reed
Reed
Goldie
Richardson
B.C. Riley
John Rus M
Joseph Fb Nile Me Ak Sather
Robert.w. Henderson
Pete Kajuia
Mathew Lawson
R. Fine
James Stafford
Carl Bailey
Jonah W. Curry
W. . Curry
Zoma Dawson
W. H. Howe
M.A. Lynch
Malinda Payne
Elijah Powell
Elizabeth Whitehatt
JW. Whitehatt
H. ¢. Carroll
TL. Cunningham
Jacob Dixon
John B. Glenn
Minnie B. Kearns
Mary Jane Painter
Emily J. Poera
Anna Reed
Minnie C. Bell Stone
Gearwin Taylor
Alfred
Taylor Hugh Watkin
C. Oh. Ansire
G. J. Bailey
Henry Hedrok
Rose Deberry McGraw
Rose McGraw de Berris
Billy Summerville
O. G. Augir
John W. Dodiaman
W. J. Dadlsman
Joel Harshbarger
Jos. McGee
Susan McGee
Flora Jiwell
C. W. Swain
Rebec
Og J. Hunner
CG. Bennington
John Breedrove
Margaret Carr
Anna Doak
Heira
Hayward Fleming
Hiram Gainea
Grafton
Taylor
Francis L. Warder
Circuit Court
Taylor County
Chancery
State of
Francia Warder
Ghancery
West Virginia
Sheriff Sale Notices From West Virginia 1927 Edition
The document lists sheriff sale notices in Taylor County West Virginia including levies on parcels and personal property. It names parties such as McClain Coal Co and Darby Coal Company and details sale times locations and assorted property from coal operations and equipment to rails and scales. Officials like J Frank M Holds Jr and J Burdett are noted as attorneys.
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McClairn Coal Co
W. Va
Weat
Taylor County
Erie
Cottman
West Va
Nwema
Sala Cash
Sherstiner Co
Sheriffs Saur Darby Coal Company
Rosemont
J .Va. Va
West Taler County
West Virginia
Darby
West
HW. B. Newson
Woman Reflects on Living One Month to Live
A refugee wife in Nanking recounts diary reflections published in Harper s Magazine asking how people would spend a final month. She notes living day by day amid siege and danger, tending a garden and cherishing ordinary acts to stay sane and brave under the advancing army.
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New York
Aniilbe Tindale
Hobart
Mia
Standard
Nanking
Harper's Magazine
Mra. Hobart
Not Always Bus Kent Clears The Way
Fragmentary OCR note shows a person addressing Kent as darling and asking for surname while a driver is urged to drive on, revealing a casual street scene with interrupted dialogue and unclear context.
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Kent
Maéam
Dent
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Burton & Sitter’s
Toggery
W. Main Street
General Préan
The
Sentinel
Vergle Lee James
Optometrist
Se Ae Mee
Bank Ee Iilen Rie
DUCO
Co Withers Bros
Pike and Sycamore Streets
Fetterman
BUICK
Starcher Chevrolet CO
Empire
Bax
Rogers
Beverly Hills
Calif
Will Rogers
Los Angeles
F. C. Collins
Neree
Dorothy Collins
Cumberland
Baltmore
G. M. Howell
C. Phillips
Tunnelton
Richard Sinsel
Dennison College
Gay Dent
Howard C. Fuller
Puller
Union Drug Company
Sam Christian
William C. Lawson
Pear St
Joseph Taylor
Gratton
A. L. Kesling
Glarksburg
Moore's Opera House
Murray Miller
Arden
Christine Malloy
Shreve
Baptist Church
A. $. Shomo
Watson Cemetery
London Peeress
John Wintosh
Lorain Company
Frank M. Holds Jr J. Burdett
Pigg
F. Friedman & Son
Kuppenheimer Good Clothes
Kyanize
LEE Bennett & Son
West Main Livet
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