WECTU Honors Every Mother in May Meeting
Bewlesburg hosts a Mother’s Day and National Child Health Day themed WCTU meeting. Mrs. Dewey Peaslee’s home hosted readings, songs, and talks on child health and beverage alcohol. Local president Miss Alma Eaton and attendees led devotionals and a brief business session before a social hour. In a related note, Rowlesburg Four H clubs presented at the local PTA meeting in the high school auditorium.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bewlesburg
Alma G. Eaton
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Dewey Peas- Tee
Mary Punk
Phyllis Mulslngie
Margaret Myers
Mary Myers
A. A. Pickering
Trene Deets
Willam Francis
Machitée
Helen Rose Hooton
A. ¥. Cheney
Betty Adams
Lrs
Hooton
Rowlesburg Go-Getters
Manheim Valley Diggers
Rowlesburg
Parent-Teacher Association
Auiditorium
Scarlet Fever Cases Grow Alarming Here
Eleven scarlet fever cases are reported in Taylor county. Seven are in Grafton with four in West Grafton and the rest scattered in the city. Outside Grafton two cases are in Booths Creek along Route 250 and two in Knottsville, says County Health official R D Stout.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grafton
Taylor County
R. D. Stout
West
Booths Creek
Knottsville
Prisoner from Welch Faces 1 to 20 Year Slaying Sentence
Marvin J. Franklin, former Welch lumber official, was convicted of the March 10 slaying of James Walker, 38, after a sanity defense and seven hours of deliberation. The prosecution sought the death penalty, but the court ruled him sane. Franklin faces one to 20 years imprisonment and may seek a new trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Marvin J. Franklin
Welch
W. Va
James Walker
Walker
Franklin
Radio Listings and Orchestra Schedules Across Stations
A dense listing of radio programs with times, stations, performers, and orchestras. Entries name CBS NBC WGN KDKA WLW WWVA and others, detailing shows like Easy Aces, Amos n Andy, Burns & Allen, Guy Lom Bardos, and various orchestras. The schedule spans daytime and late evening slots with many musical acts and dramatic sketches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Niigwi
Gallagher
Sheenyce Armstrong
CBS
Music Box
Orches
Kdka—Dance Orchestra
NBC
Wdj2
Lowell Thomas
WBC
Billy and
Betty
WGY
Miners
KDEKA
Amos
N’ Andy
WGN
Jimmie Allen
WWVA
Tommy Tucker
Wiz
Tony
Gus
Sum
Abner
KDKA
Widz
Red Davis
WLW
Bob Newhall
Boake Carter
Uncle Ezra
Wee Ryan
One Man's Family
Johnny and the Foursome
Babs
Hal Kemp
Léné Ranger
World Peace Foundation
Webe
Capt
James
R. Brown
Terry
Ted
Bill Artiz
Wayne King
Guy Robertson
Palmer
Emily’ McGowan
WSM
Missouri Mountaineers
Wwya
Terry and
Red
Gur
John
Charles Thomas
Chandu
Magician
Burns & Allen
Ferde Grofe
WFBE
Leroy Bradley
Hary
Esther
Nat Brualba
WHAM
Pleasure Island
Guy Lombardo
Bill Ferrara
Alfred E. Smith
Billy Cooke
Norman Gordon
Howard Barlow
Ray Noble
WJZ
America In
Attilio Baggiore
Claude Hopkins
Sleepy Hell
Laurie Hawkins
Jesse Crawford
Bill Hogan
Tum
Jerren
Ink Spots
Jolly Coburn
Wayne Sine
Thenghams
Bedden
Pea Coburn
Enric Madriguera
Shandor
Gene
Marvey
Old Timers
Jimmy Joy
Freddie Martin
W4jz
Dick Fidler
Will_Ryshanek
Kay Kyser
Keith Beechtt
Johnny Burghardt
Babbitt film stars Kibbee and MacMahon in sharp comedy
Aline MacMahon and Guy Kibbee star in a film version of Babbitt as the two leading comedic performances. Kibbee plays a pompous small town realtor lured by a blackmailing widow while MacMahon reveals the real heart behind his vanity. Claire Dodd plays the widow with Glen Boles as the son and Nan Gray as the fiancée.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aline MacMahon
Guy Kibbee
Herb' Sert
Kibbee
Babbitt
O. McIntyre
Aline
Claire Dodd
Glen Boles
Nan Gray
New Dixie Theatre Hosts Babbitt Screen Premiere
New Dixie to win the Nobel prize in literature is scheduled as the feature attraction tonight and Thursday at the New Dixie Theatre. Transferred to the screen with Babbitt, famous Lewis, its subtle humor and philosophy, best seller booked for dramatic adaptation, headed by Aline MacMahon and Guy Kibbee. The film version of the Lewis novel is expected to rival in American prestige.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aline MacMahon
Guy Kibbee
Mrs. Babbitt
First National
New Dixie Theatre
Babbitt
Lewis
Clair Lewis
Bieing
Personal Finance Co. Contact Info Misread
The snippet lists a business address and phone while noting a location in Fairmont West Virginia. It appears to be a fragment of a directory or advertisement with Room 404 on the fourth floor of the Deveny Building at 228 Monroe Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deveny Bldg
Monroe Street
Fairmont
W. VA
Opera House Presents Shadows of the Cathedral
Claude Rains stars in a drama based on Charles Dickens works with Heather Angel and Douglas Montgomery. Rains plays an opium-eating choirmaster who loves Angel, her engagement to Manners, and a web of romance and betrayals unfolds. A murder investigation closes with Rains's death and Montgomery and Angel marrying. Show runs tonight and Thursday for teachers and children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heather Angel Douglass Montgomery
Claude Rains
Ore Mystery
Edwin Drood
Opera House
Douglas Montgomery
Heather Angel
da Manners
Valerie Hobson
Francis L. Sullivan
E. E. Clive
Walter Kingford
J. M. Kerrigan
John L. Balderston
Gladys Unger
Charles Dickens
Stuart Walker
Plot Rains
Angel
Manners
Montgomery
Hobson
Rains
Rotary convention schedule features tours and speakers
STATE ROTARY continued from page one highlights include a golf tournament sight seeing excursions and a session with Kenneth Kurtz Weston past district governor Joe Naylor Wheeling the Rev Norman W Cox Huntington Ed Johnson Roanoke Va and Professor E. E. Church Parkersburg high school principal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rotary
Kenneth Kurtz
Weston
Joe Naylor
Wheeling
Norman W. Cox
Huntington
Ed. Johnson
Roanoke
E.E. Church
Parkersburg High School
Widow Slays Suspected After CO Poisoning
Relatives say Mrs. Lewis was despondent before a carbon monoxide incident. Mrs. Lewis and her daughters were last seen alive after leaving a party Sunday night at the home of Mrs. George Scharschug in Oak Park, a former Sheridan resident and childhood friend.
Widow pleads with police over note before husband’s death
Police found a note saying the killer planned to take the children and asked for cremation and mausoleum burial in a Pittsburgh cemetery. Relatives cite despondency from financial worries and estate litigation as key factors behind the tragedy three years after the husband’s death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aes
Pittsburgh
Ly de
Wheeling Gas Hearing Postponed by Commission
The Public Service Commission postponed until tomorrow its hearing on fixing a permanent gas rate for Wheeling customers by the Natural Gas Company of West Virginia. The delay was requested by Wheeling city counsel after a temporary rate cut to 42 cents per 1,000 cubic feet was ordered last December.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
Pblic Service Commission
Wheeling
Natural Gas Company of
West Virginia
Veteran Ferry Boat Captain Passes Away
Huntington notes the death of Captain John Murphy aged 77, longtime owner and captain of the City of Ashland ferry between Ashland Kentucky and Coal Grove Ohio. He died after several weeks illness at his Ashland home. survived by a widow, three daughters, a son, two brothers and a sister.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huntington
John Murphy
Ashland
Coal Grove
Murphy
Honeymooned Barbs and Kurt Witz-Reventlow Arrive in San Francisco
In San Francisco on May 15 Count and Countess Kurt Haugwitz-Reventlow set up at the Mark Hopkins hotel after a Reno marriage to Barbara Hutton Mdivani. The Woolworth heiress, 40 million dollar fortune, plans dinner with friends Nicol Smith hosts a party, and the couple enjoys a private table and a two hour stay in high rise suites. The count vows he will not marry within a year and pays a $25 bet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Kurt Haugwitz-Reventlow
Barbara Hutton Mdivani
Reno
Nevada
Barbara
Prince Alexis
Mdivanis
San Francisco Bay
Kurt
New York
Europe
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WECTU
M. C. Martin
Bowlesburg
Lumber Company
Tommy
Cal
WQN
Holly
RCA
Favist
pUntaaih Ah
Cory
New Dixie
Personal Finance CO
Countess
Stanley
Ream Bolgers
Dow the Pike
Otey Walker
Bae Seo
Etta Kett
Smaterno
Judn
Eita
Paul Rown
Agan
Big Sister
Mye
Cent
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