Learn a Trade Amid West Virginia Building Boom
Re employment officials and builders in Beckley Charleston and southern West Virginia report a shortage of skilled workers especially plasterers brick and stone masons. As demand rises more trades like carpentry steel plumbing and electrical may face shortages. High school graduates and students should learn a trade now to ensure steady work and upward mobility.
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Beckley
Charleston
West Virginia
The Dalings and the Question of Upbringing
The Dalings, a Nicholas County family once pictured as upstanding citizens, are now seen as outlaws. Two have fled to Virginia to face murder charges, while a third was killed in an officer’s attack. The piece urges stronger youth training in Sunday schools, scouts, schools, and community organizations to prevent such lives.
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Nicholas County
Register
Virginia
Irresponsible Promoters Push Nudity in Texas Centennial Publicity
A Texas Centennial Exposition publicity group mailed items claiming a 500 dollar prize for a nude dance at a midway revue. The note suggested a state backed plausibility, compared to Sally Rand at Chicago, while another item claimed nudism was taboo for Dallas venues except the exposition show places.
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Dallas
Texas
Sally Rand
Director of Welfare
RFC Cuts Rates Across Credit Network After Treasury Change
The RFC slashes interest charges retroactively from 33 4 to 31 4 percent as Treasury finances allow. Chairman Jones says reserves cover contingencies and that 23 4 percent remains above money cost for under 10 year maturities. Reductions aim to help debtors and lenders, including banks, receivers, and borrowers in sectors like agriculture and housing.
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation
RFC
Jones
Publicity Goal Sparks Hope for Feeding Program
Comment discusses the need to accept the publicity outcome and hopes organizers will fund meals for all the girls who compete to win a $500 prize. The remark frames the event's impact on participants and the financial burden of promotion.
Father Coughlin Apologizes and Defends Remarks at North Dakota
Father Coughlin backtracks after apologizing to the American people for calling the President a liar and a betrayer in Cleveland. He seeks to correct misquotation regarding urging farmers to repudiate debts if aid was not forthcoming, blaming the issue on a faulty public address system. His audience and radio influence have waned since last winter’s mass listenership.
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Cleveland
Father Coughlin
Lemke
Betty Joe Dunn Keeps Eleven Cats in Harper
A Memphis-like portrait from the Greenbrier Valley includes Miss Betty Joe Dunn of Harper proudly owning eleven cats. The writer also notes local hay crops, fair advertising in Beckley and Lewisburg, cross-arms at a Glen Daniel store, and road improvements along Route three with ditching near Eunice.
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Betty Joe Dunn
D. R. Dunn
Harper
Burke Williams
Eunice
Coal River
Fleeing motorists abandon car near Glen Daniel post office
Two teenage drivers abandoned a dilapidated Ford license 91 540 near the Glen Daniel post office while road crews worked. They ducked into the woods after Wardens and workers observed them. The car bore the name R M Massey in paint. state police seek owner records to identify the vehicle.
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Glen Daniel
O. B. Harris
Harris
West Virginia
R. M. Massey
Weston School System Sets Early Aug Start Date
Associated Press reports Superintendent William W. Lovell of Lewis County schools announced August 21 as the start date to align with a mid May school closure.
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Associated Press
Weston
William W. Lovell
Lewis County Schools
Valuation gains lift Harrison County property values
Clarksburg July 31 Assessor J Lee Horner reported Harrison County property valuations increased by nearly 3 million dollars this year despite a 384 thousand dollar cut in utility valuations.
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Associated Press
Clarksburg
J. Lee Horner
Harrison County
Screen Life in Hollywood: Artificial Flowers Rule The Set
Robbin Coons explains how Hollywood relies on artificial flowers for film scenes. Studios employ 80 plus flower makers to create durable blooms that look real in all seasons, with real flowers used only when practical.
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Robbin Coonsollywood
Shelley
Hollywood
Drought and politics frame midwest election stakes
The drought dominates talks for both parties as Republicans push state relief ideas while Roosevelt defends his New Deal crop policy. Crop forecasts show wheat near 600 million bushels domestic need with a 150 million bushel carryover, and corn around 2.24 billion. Republicans fault curtailment. Iowa Senator Dickinson and Republican Chair Hamilton attack the drought toll. The drought belt elevates the issue ahead of the election.
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Ashington
Roosevelt
Midwest
Northwest
Epublican
John Hamilton
L. J. Dickinson
Iowa
New Deal
Republican Plan
Talks to Parents Talks to Parents
Our ancestors faced heat cold and hardship and taught children to stand on their own feet. Today descendants live in comfort protected from weather and rely on gadgets. They die young or old without truly living, missing essential happiness learned through struggle and strain.
Mabscott and Hollywood visitors listed in weekly social notes
Mabscott residents and Hollywood guest Parker plan a return visit. Helen Fadeley returns from Oceana with a group including Crouch family and Paul Zimmerman, the Central American aviator who crashed near Oceana. Several families travel or host, including Lilly, Foster, Smiths, Kirk, Gentry, Pugh, Walker, Wright, Stewart and Richards, with Windbur Gulf flood displacing the Stewart household.
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Winsten Parker
Hollywood
Calif
Frank Miller
Miller
Parker
Helen Fadeley
Oceana
R. H. Crouch
Jack” Neubert
Alfred Manning
Wetzel Clay
Paul Zimmerman
Zimmerman
Carlyn Lilly
Odd
Charles Wallace
Beatrice Gadd
M. J. Foster
Harry Smith
Harriet
Charleston
Virginia Beach
J. B. Kirk
John Gentry
C. H. Pugh
Stotesbury
Loris Walker
Ashville
N. C
Treva Wright
Bluefield
S. W. Stewart
Gene, Charles
Larry
Winding Gulf
Lucy Richards
Stewart
Houston Holliday
Calloway Heights
Jess Crousier
Prosperity
J. S. Daugherty
Peiping dealer executed after public narcotics display
A local drug dealer in Peiping was forced to watch a blaze consuming a large cache of confiscated narcotics including 40 pounds he had been caught with. He was paraded before thousands, then shot against the Temple of Heaven wall in a public execution.
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Associated Press
Temple of Heaven
Urges Modern Farm Methods at WV Teachers Meet
Morgantown July 31 West Virginia vocational agricultural teachers heard Prof R W Greggory of Pure University urge adoption of scientific farming. He said scientific farming has secured a place in agriculture and farmers should adopt its methods fully. Seventy teachers from nearly all counties attended a three day meeting chaired by John M Lowe. Speakers included Dr C H Lane Dean F D Fromme C V Wilson and H M Hyre of the West Virginia College of Agriculture.
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Associated Press
Morgantown
West Virginia
R. W. Greggory
Puredue University
Gregory
John M. Lowe
C. H. Lane
North Atlantic
Dean F. D. Fromme
C. V. Wilson
H. M. Hyre
West Virginia College of Agriculture
Phone Co Sale Good for Owners
Dr. George P. Daniel recalls selling the Trap Hill Telephone company to Chesapeake and Potomac in fall 1920 after storms and damage. The firm, serving 200 subscribers in Glen Daniel and Beckley with central offices at both towns, faced extensive line destruction in the November sleet storm. Daniel notes the new owners had to lift lines from mud, and the sale helped avert collapse of the system.
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G. P. Daniel
Glen Daniel
Trap Hill Telephone Company
Adide
Bug Dust Museum
George P. Daniel
Trap Hill
Daniel
CAPITALS MILK PRICE MAY RISE IN CHARLESTON
Charleston July 31 Owen C Williams district manager for the Dairymens Cooperative association said producers serving Charleston markets are considering a one cent a quart rise in retail milk price. Dairymen from Jackson Mason Lincoln Cabell and Kanawha counties expect to reach agreement with distributors next week on a jump of about 35 cents per hundred pounds. The drought forced winter feeding and higher costs.
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Associated Press
Charleston
Owen C. Williams
Dairymen’s Cooperative Association
Williams
Jackson
Mason
Lincoln
Cabell
Kanawha
Tons of Herbs for America Br The Associated Press
A peasant corporation in Hvar Yugoslavia exports 30 000 pounds of rosemary and other medicinal plants to the United States, with the remaining 170 000 pounds previously sent to Germany, shifting the trade pattern for Yugoslav herb production.
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Associated Press
Hvar
Yugoslavia
United States
Germany
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