Hat Shoppe in Wheeling Offers Reduced Childrens Hats
Local ad notes One Jot of Childrens Hats at 1.95 with reduced prices on all pattern hats. Mentions travelers and visitors including Dr and Mrs Alden Beagle, Lloyd C Morris, Lonnie Travis, William Bolyard, and Dr C F Shaffer. Also references trips to Parkersburg Boston Keyser and Trinity Lutheran Church installation. Straw hats featured.
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Lonnie Travis
Parkersburg
William Bolyard
C. F. Shaffer
Boston
Mass
P. Theo. Crickenberger
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Keyser
Z. Vorberg
Trinity Lutheran Church
Prussian War Leader General Von Stein Dies at 73
Berlin May 27 General Hermann Von Stein aged 73 former Prussian minister of war from 1916 to 1918 died today at his estate near Berlin Lehuin He gained fame as Quartermaster general signing daily front bulletins and later published memoirs accusing Emperor Charles of Austria Hungary of betrayal prompting duels from seven Austro Hungarian officers
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Berlin
Hermann von Stein
Lehuin
General Staff
von Stein
Charles
Austria Hungary
Gas Furnace Blazes Amid Four Deaths in Sanford
A massive natural gas well named McMillan number 1 gasser on Sanford's main street burned fiercely killing four and injuring seven with two believed cremated in the derrick. Firefighters fought the blaze as explosions threatened nearby structures and a Colt of workers including Tex Thornton set charges to relieve pressure.
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Sanford
Texas
Tex" Thornton
Torpedo Company
Consolidation Officer Resigns High Position
Fairmont May 27. H Tarleton who rose from mule driver to general manager of the Northern West Virginia division of the Consolidation Coal Co has resigned due to ill health. He began at the Grafton mine of the Fairmont Coal Co 39 years ago and stayed with Consolidation after the merger. His resignation at age 56 was accepted by company officers last night.
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Fairmont
H. Tarleton
Northern West Virginia
Consolidation Coal Company
Tarleton
Grafton
Fairmont Coal Company
Queen visits aged mother of missing aviator
Paris May 27 Queen Elizabeth of the Belgians visited Mme Nungesser mother of the missing ace Captain Nungesser. She climbed with her own steps to a top floor flat and spent an hour with the old woman offering comfort and urging hope. The Queen recalled Nungesser’s wartime exploits and his flight from Ypres to Ostend.
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Paris
Elizabeth
Nungessar
Mme. Nungesser
Ypres
Ostend
Royal welcome as aviator visits Brussels palace
An interrupted series of loops and visits to Brussels are described with the aviator guesting at the palace. He charms the royal family with gallant bearing and humor. Tears mark the Queen and the aviator’s mother as she praises the Queen’s heart and motherhood.
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Brussels
School Feud Leads to Wounding in Brooke County
In the Cross Creek Buffalo district George Begarmo Marmer is hospitalized with a kidney stab wound after a feud surrounding a school punishment. Professor T Byron McQuan head of the school is jailed in Wellsburg on a cutting charge as four men allegedly attacked him following a school entertainment.
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Wheeling
Cross Creek-Buffalo
Brooke County
George Begarmo
McQuan
Former Nurse Admits Slaying Her Landlord
Baltimore on May 27 Miss Mabel Swan a former nurse confessed to shooting and killing her landlord Daniel Mosser of Keyser West Virginia yesterday after he threw a brick at her Police say the tragedy grew from a feud over reported liquor making Swan kept a farm at Swanton Maryland near the West Virginia line
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Baltimore
Mabel Swan
Garrett County
Maryland
Daniel Mosser
Keyser
W. Va
Dangers Over as Flood Relief Shifts in Louisiana
New Orleans May 27 Major General Edgar Judwin said danger to levees on the east bank of the Mississippi was past due to large water diversions through Atchafalaya and crevasses upstream. McCroa crevasse cut off Morganza. Trains into New Roads halted. Water spread in St Martinsville and Breaux Bridge while Bayou Vermilion rose. National Guard to guard homes and stop looting. Hoover’s party to visit refugee camps in Lafayette Opelousas before returning.
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New Orleans
Edgar Judwin
Army — Engineers
Mississippi
Old River
Atchafalaya
McCroa
Morgansea
Hoover
Lafayette
Opelousas
Coolidge to Spend Summer in Black Hills
Senator Norbeck announced that President Coolidge would spend the summer in the Black Hills South Dakota despite no formal White House confirmation. White House aides discussed arrangements for summer activities and a June 13 departure from Washington.
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Coolidge
Black Hills
Washington
South Dakota
Norbeck
White House
Norbecks
Brooklyn Beats New York 5 3 In First Giants Double Bill
In Brooklyn on May 25 Dazzy Vance struck out ten as Brooklyn defeated New York 5 to 3 in the opener of a doubleheader. Rogers Hornsby of the Giants hit his eighth homer of the season and added a triple and a single.
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Brooklyn
Daz Zy Vance
New York
Rogers Hornsby
Giants
Elkins Man Sues to Alter Deed Terms in Trust
John T. Davis of Elkins West Virginia son of Henry Gassaway Davis former Democratic vice presidential candidate filed suit to change terms of a deed in trust. He alleges the deed was executed while he was ill and unable to understand its full meaning. suit targets his son Henry Gassaway Davis 3rd daughter Hallie Davis Percy and grandson George Almy Perry Jr and the National Savings and Trust Company of Washington.
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Washington
John ‘T. Davis
Elkins
W. Va
Henry Gassaway Davis
Hallie Davis
Percy
Shis
George Almy Perrey, Jr
National Savings and Trust Company of Washington
Davis
Irrevocable Transfer Plan By Father Involving Coal Mines
A father sought to avoid transferring more than $1,000,000 in property including coal mines in West Virginia to a trust company, proposing revocable terms that would allow management and control temporarily but aimed to carry the property to his children under an irrevocable instrument.
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West Virginia
Trust Company
Rich Farm Land Flooded by High Wabash River
Rich Farm Land Flooded by High Wabash River reports widespread flooding in the Wabash River Valley near Mt. Carmel Illinois. Thousands of acres inundated as river stage reached 22 feet, six feet above flood level and rising with forecasts of further increases. Some families evacuated their homes as the floodwaters extended for miles.
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Mt. Carmel
Ill
Wabash River
Baby Murdered and Family Injured in Night Attack
In Tampa on May 27 a crazed intruder killed three year old Buddy Merrill and wounded five relatives with a meat cleaver. The rest of the family escaped. eight year old Hugh Merrill discovered the scene this morning. The attacker remains unidentified and police pursue leads.
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Tampa
Buddy ‘Merrill
Hugh Merrill
Tragic Outing Ends With Death At Hospital
Two brothers hurried from a home to recount their tale to a policeman. They said Buddy died at a hospital after being among a group of victims taken there.
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Kenneth
Buddy
Big Four Train Kills Two Huntington Boys
Cincinnati dispatch reports a Big Four passenger train fatally struck two Huntington youths, Carl Juney, 19, and Hobart Qualls, 20, in a freight yard. Juney died after being hurled about thirty feet. Qualls suffered minor bruises and a cut. Both were walking along the tracks when the accident occurred.
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Cincinnati
Huntington
Carl Juney
Hobart Qualls
Janey
Qualls
Victim Identified in Ohio River Drowning Case
The body recovered from the Ohio River is identified as Joseph Sykes, 40, of Clarington Ohio, who drowned at Woodlawn on January 15 near Sistersville West Virginia. The report notes caution and a caller’s warning about telephone etiquette.
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Ohio River
Joseph Sykes
Clarington
Ohio
Woodlawn
Sistersville
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Czecho-Slovakia
Thomas G. Masarkyk
Browning
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the Love Drug CO
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Grafton, W. Va
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