Mrs. Cynthia Cole Dies at Home in Grafton
Mrs. Cynthia Cole 65 wife of B P Cole of High Street died at 2 a m after paralysis illness. Born April 1858 in Barbour County daughter of Mr and Mrs John R Posten she is survived by husband son Guy and daughters Mrs Charles C King and Mrs William Watson. Also five brothers and two sisters. Funeral at Pentecostal Church 0 p m Wednesday with Rev John Potters officiating. Interment Bluemont Cemetery.
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Cynthia
B. P
High Street
Cole
John R. Posten
Barbour County
Pheobie Tosten
Cole Ix
Guy Cole
Mall Street
Charles C. King
Willam Watson
Grafton
Alo
Sanford Charles
Harry Felix
Garethil
Philippi
Mary Williamson
Charles Mantz
Philipp
Tentecostal Church
John Potters
Bluemont
Mrs Garden Heads State Officers Delegation in Wheeling
Mrs James B Garden of Wheeling presides as president as other state officers attend. Large delegations from Morgantown Grafton Elkins Beverly Shinustown and Farmington will be presented.
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James B. Garden
Wheeling
Morgantown
Grafton Elkins
Beverly
Shinustown
Farmington
Injunction Move Against Lumber Trust
Federal government files injunction in St. Paul to end operations of Western Pine Manufacturers Association claiming price list scheme restrains interstate lumber trade. About fifty corporations named. effort directed by Attorney General Daugherty.
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Washington
Certan
Westsern Pine Manufacturers’ Association
St. Paul
Minn
Daugherty
West Virginia Federation of Women's Clubs convention planned in Mannington
Fairmont West Virginia April 30 plans are complete for the annual convention of the West Virginia Federation of Women's Clubs to be held May 16 and 17 in Mannington. The program includes an automobile tour of the city and a banquet at Bartlett Hotel.
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Fairmont
W. Vas
West Virgina Federation of Women's Clubs
Mannington
Bartlett Hotel
Musical Clown Teaches Children Health Rules United States
The Jolly Jester Spank entertains school children with Milk and Fresh Air and vegetables while promoting health education. He travels with Minnie Ina and Charlie Carrot dolls and a ventriloquial clown to deliver lessons on infant welfare, pre natal work, and national health aims. Herbert Hoover is named president of the American Child Health Association which seeks to give every American child an equal chance to be healthy with services from birth to maturity. Members can contact national headquarters at 632 Seventh St. N. W., Washington, D. C.
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Spank
Feschool Children of
America
Jolly
Minnie Ina
Charlie Carrot
Harry
Golly
Herbert Hoover
National Organization
National
Sevennth St. N. W
Washington, D. C
Jar
Amett Holt
Livingstowan
Retoe i
Fromas D. Wood
Col University
Philp Vana
Personal notices of visits around Clarksburg region
Mrs L R Mason left for Swanton to visit relatives and friends for several days. Frank Alexander returned today from Charlestor after attending a Virginian Elector company meeting. Mr and Mrs Hollis and son Frank, Mr and Mrs Kart Young visited James Bartlett home in Clarksburg. George Granneman and Waughter Lucile in Thornton Smitting with friends and relatives. Sayers of West Main street visited relatives in Clarksburg yesterday. Mrs Wayne Carney of Morgantown visiting her mother in Knottsville. E Phillips near Fairman in city today for social and business matters. Mrs W H Shafferman and son Richard of Love Land Addition visiting sister Mrs H D Powell in Clarksburg. Angus Ferguson visiting friends in Clarksburg. Miss Helen Jackson returned from Clarksburg after visiting Sunday. Mrs H E Fisher and son of Pruntytown visiting in city this morning. Mrs J Truthman of Fairmont spent weekend with sister Mrs W Parkhill on One Street. Mrs Frank Bennett and two children returned from Fairmont after weekend visit. Harold Tregillas spent Sunday in Clarksburg visiting relatives and friends.
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Angus Ferguson
Clarksburg
Helen Jackson
H. E. Fiesher
Son
Pruntytown
J.truthman
Fairmont
W. Parkhill
Frank Bennett
Harold Tregillas
Couple in Miserable Equator s Home Endures Harsh Life
The couple occupied a small one room home near Schoppert Fora bhidsé. Death occurred from Whitmore's disease due to lack of proper medical care. They lived in a cramped dwelling called hrom, its tarred pipe walls sheltering them as they ate and slept in a single room.
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Schoppert Forabhidsé
Hright
Equators
Hrom
Supreme Court limits liquor on ships in port
The court ruled foreign and American steamships may not bring sealed liquor into American ports for passengers on outbound voyages, affirming Judge Hand on that point while allowing beverages aboard outside U S waters. Dissenting Justices Sutherland and others rejected the in-port prohibition for foreign ships. Ship owners held a rapid conference at Cunard Line offices to plan maritime liquor handling under the ruling.
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Washington
A.p
Supreme Court
Daugherty
Hand
New York
Judge Hand
Cunard Line
France to reinforce Syria mandate with two divisions
The French government moves to bolster the Syria mandated territory by adding two divisions, bringing total troops to 46,000 under General Weygand. Weygand sails for Beirut to assume duties as French High Commissioner and commander of the Army in the area amid Turkish border tensions.
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Pari
A.P
Syria
Weygand
Beirut
TAS
Baby boy foundling seeks new home in Grifton area
Childless couples in Grifton are urged to consider adopting a foundling boy named Danny Hall described as 100 percent physically and mentally perfect. Placed initially at a Jersey City Mothers Institute, he is now deemed too old for the institution and is awaiting a permanent home as Jersey City Mayor Frank Hague seeks a family.
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Grifton
New York World
Danny Hall
Jersey City
Frank Hague
M. W. O'Gorman
Chetri Min
Division of Child Hygiene
Bunny
Danny
Martinsburg Woman 18 Found Dead in Shack
Authorities near Martinsburg investigated a tragic incident after an 18 year old woman was discovered dead in a shack shortly after April thirty-six. Local reports indicate the scene involved a man named William Paylor and a complex family arrangement.
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Martinsburg
Martinsbire
Wiliam Paylors Young
Famous writer ends career in hospital
The noted American author Emerson Hough died in Evanston hospital at sixty six after admission with an intestinal obstruction. An operation was performed and death followed from heart and respiratory complications. His best known works include The Mississippi Bubble and 04-40 or Fight.
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Chicago
Merson Hough
Evanston
Calla
Hough
Mississippi
Midland Author Society Presidents Highlighted
The text notes that he served as president of the Society of Midland Authors in 1917 and again in 1948, marking his leadership across two distinct eras in regional literary activity.
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Society of Midland Authors
Baptist Rules Attacked by Famous Pastor
The Rev. Cornelius Woofkin of the Park Avenue Baptist Church challenged long standing Baptist doctrines as reactionary. He urged his flock to abandon them and defended the stage while praising Sir Oliver Lodge Conan Doyle and Christian Science. He questioned excluding members of other denominations from communion and argued for broader Christian unity.
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New York
Cornelius Woofkin
Park Avenue Baptist Church
Missouri Mob Lynches Negro for Assault
Columbia Missouri April 0 Leade rs of the mob that stormed the county jail and hanged James Scott charged with assault on a 14 year old daughter of Dr H F Almsteadt plan immediate grand jury action. Prosecutor Rubey M Hulen says he will seek grand jury convening for investigation and action.
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Columbia
James Scott
Nekro
H. F. Almsteadt
University of Missouri
KL. Uhien
Boone County
James T. Scott
Rubey M. Hulen
Elrenit
Outbreak in Columbia Ends in Lynching of Scott
More than 500 men, many boys, mobbed the county jail in Columbia with acetylene torches, broke into Scott's cell, dragged him through the streets, and hanged him from a bridge over the Missouri Kansas Texas line. Gov. Arthur M. Hyde ordered a National Guard unit mobilized, but the lynching occurred before it could be deployed. County officers offered only passive resistance.
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Columbia
Scott
Arthur M. Hyde
National Guard
Sharp Break in Sugar Prices Drives Market Rebound
Raw sugar futures fell 22 to 42 points at market open while refined and granulated sugars dropped about 10 points. Wholesale prices ranged 10 to 10.15 cents per pound. Futures sit roughly 9 points below season highs as brokers cite a house boycott and the pending government request for a temporary injunction to curb trading unless actual ownership or control exists.
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New York
A.P
March living costs rise record high in 1913 comparison
Washington April 30. The cost of living in the United States last March was 68.8 percent higher than the 1913 annual average, per a Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics computation. The measure uses retail prices and housing costs across 32 cities.
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Washington
United States
Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics
Man admits girl murder in Richmond case
Joseph Enoch a railway foreman is jailed in Richmond charged with killing Celia Shreyick sixteen year old student. Police say he signed a statement admitting to striking the girl on the head and causing her death in an abandoned field near her home Friday morning.
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Puducam
A. P
Rosetta Warren
Henrietta, Wagner
Thomas
Emma Skil
Richmond
Joseph Enoch
Celia Shre Yick
Enoch
Senator Knute Nelson Dies Aboard Pennsylvanian Train
United States Senator Knute Nelson of Minnesota died on a Pennsylvania railroad train at 8 16 p m Saturday night on the way from Washington to Chicago en route to Minnesota. Cause of death was heart failure. He was 80, with 28 years in the Senate, and his death ends a long public career. Members with him included his niece Mrs Edith Truscott and Minnesota officials George W Wells Jr and Walker W Bedford.
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Harrisburg
United States
Knute Nelson
Senate
Pennsylvania Rail
Washington
Minnesota
Chicago
Senador Nelson
Congress
Senator Nelson Dies After Civil War Service and Political Career
Senator Nelson, a Civil War veteran who championed anti lynching and other reforms, died suddenly after his wife’s death a year earlier left him depressed. President Harding praised his public service, noting his rise from poverty in Norway to a long Senate career and urging national respect for his contributions.
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Nelson
Hel
Judiciary
Dillingham
Vermont
Judiciary Committee
Harding
American Society of Newspaper Editors
Minnesota
Norway
Union
Senate
City Slicker Sent to Clean Up Washington
New York officials plan a vigorous drive against bootleggers in social and official circles with New York’s most effective dirty enforcement agents transferred to Washington this week. Two New York agents have been in the capital for three weeks undercover.
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Washington
New York
National Capital
York
New York Herald
Thieves Take Dr Warden’s Dodge Car From Street
Dr Paul Warden a local physician reported his Dodge coupe stolen from in front of his Main Street office near the Webb building. Police launched a search but found no trace while the car insured will aid a nationwide effort to recover it. The license number was 95 and the motor number 819577.
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Taylor
Paul Warden
Main Street
Warden
Train Wreck at Flemington no crew hurt
Two cars of a fast freight train bound west from Grafton jumped the track east of Flemington around 6:30 this morning. The derailment twisted rails and snapped cross-ties. crews from the city Wan were called and worked all morning to clear and realign the track. Traffic was not seriously delayed.
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Grafton
Flemington
Religion Leviathans Rise in Postwar Europe Conflict
Religious strife spreads across Europe as new constitutions clash with traditional rights in Romania and Poland. Greek Orthodox, Uniate, Catholic, Lutheran, Calvinist, Jewish, and Muslim communities clash amid education and property disputes. In Serbia and Russia, Bolshevik repression targets churches, while Poles threaten retaliation by demolishing St Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Warsaw, fueling broader anti religious violence.
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Europe
Pontenoy
New York
Asia Minor
Russia
Moscow
Warsaw
Alexander Novski
Poland
M. Barbarish
St. Alander Neveki
Wisaw
Jin
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Lumber Trust
Pine Manufact Association
United States Rules of Health
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Heri
National Capitol
Pennsylvania Avenue
Butt
U. S
France
Emerson Hough
Misa Evelyn Rodd
Repnel Rodd
Italy
Thomas Emmet
England
Rockefeller” Avenue Baptist H
New Yorkr
Startlen
Missouri
New. York
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Hyde
Sen
Penna
DR. Warden
Roumania
Transylvania
Bucharest
Ferndinand
Alba
Serbia
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