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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1920
Page
9
A housewife declares that small price drops and home crafts threaten large scale profiteers. The piece argues Americans, especially women, will reclaim cost through home arts, cooperation, and patriotic work during and after crises. It links reform to traditional domestic labor and national resilience. Public notices follow with constitutional amendment text and election ballot language.
Prohibition agent Summer Knox reported Henry Vanderpool jailed in Iowa after his farm hogs appeared intoxicated. A crashed vehicle revealed a pig wheezing and 30 hogs gorging on whiskey mash, leading Knox to uncover an organized still and Vanderpool’s arrest.
The Raleigh County Teachers Institute will be held in Beckley the week of September 6 10 1920. Instructors include T J Coates of Richmond Ky and Mary B Fontaine of Charleston. Topics cover Moral Education Physical Education and Citizenship. Attendees must go to all sessions. no excuses from the County Superintendent. O F Cooke Supt Raleigh County. Proclamation from Governor Cornwell republication notes an error in Section 22 of the Constitutional Amendment proclamation. Voters of West Virginia to decide on the amendment on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November 1920.
Notice by Commissioner of Accounts in Beckley West Virginia for the estate of Stanley Carpa deceased. Creditors must present claims for allowance at office in Beckley Raleigh County by September 11, 1920 with proofs. Dated August 9, 1920. J. BE SUMMERFIELD, Commissioner of Accounts.
Local listing shows Bell Phone 252 offering a range of staples including flour meal cracked corn dairy feed mixed feed and fertilizers seeds vegetables cured meats and various groceries and candies in a single advertisement.
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