Wedding in Pickus department store recalled in Beckley column
A Raleigh Register clipping recounts a 19th or early 20th century wedding of Miss Minnie Carter and E. W. Robertson performed by Rev. Fonn Nutter. The piece notes Nathan Pickus allowed the reprint and reflects on Beckley soda fountain prosperity, summer heat boosting ice cream sales, blooming roses on Soul Oakwood Avenue, and a cosmetic moving van scene with a lavishly dressed boy.
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Raleigh Register
Pickus Department Store
Eccles
Minnie Carter
E.W. Robertson
Fon. Nutter
M. E. Church
Nathan Pickus
Mr. Pickus
Beck-ley
Patitas
Soul Oakwood Avenue
Blind farmer Nash runs Virginia farm unaided despite blindness
Bluefield Herbert Nash, a blind farmer from Virginia who visits weekly for provisions, is praised as one of the region's most successful. For forty years he manages plowing, fencing, calf separation, and other tasks unaided, seemingly sensing fence breaks and gate openings by intuition.
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Bluefield
Sidney Nash
Virginia
Nash
Great Saluda Dam Redraws South Carolina Landscape
Electrical Quest explores how growing power demand drives the Saluda River hydroelectric project near Columbia. The 208 foot high earth dam will form a 57 square mile lake, displacing about 5 000 residents as utilities consolidate into large systems under General Gas and Electric and Associated Gas and Electric.
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William 2. Kuhns
Associated Press
Columbia
China
Saluda River
America
Waler
Edison
Central
Pearl Street
New York
W. S. Barstow
Lexington
General Gas and Electric Corporation
Associatce Gas and Electric System
Saluda
Sity
South Carolina
George UI
State Police orders amid roadside stops to keep traffic moving
Superintendent Narry J. Heaaks ordered state police to pace highways and invite slow drivers to move on. Officials said parked cars will be treated as serious problems, while motorists who obey will not be arrested.
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Charkeston
Narry J. Heaaks Lay
Brooks Sais
Two of a rind Wheeling did a police man from Pittsburgh
A clipped tale from Wheeling describes a bemused scene at a police station where a visiting man answers to several names. The exchange ends with the visitor insisting his own name is unknown in the confusion.
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Wheeling
Pittsburgh
Omheer Jones
Jones
Frank
Annie
Maan
Bailey Leaves Raleigh Dairy for Virginia Park Move
Bailey, dairy manager, resigns from Raleigh Dates Company after eight years to manage a 2,000 acre dairy farm in Aldis, Virginia. John R. Spaith, company president, announces Bailey’s departure and notes Bailey’s long service and local impact in Raleigh and Shady Spring district. Boy Scout Troop 23 from Sacramento sails June 19 for the Orient.
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Bailey
Virginia Park
Maret
Raleigh
Aldis
Raleigh Dates Company
John R. Spaith
Baileys
Htois
Boy Scout
Sacramento
Cal
Orient
Movie Man Held Over Alleged Violations in Del Havion
Williamson O proprietor of a moving picture theater in Del havion faced police questioning over alleged violations of state laws. He posted bond after being charged with opening his theater on a Sunday amid reported feasts and a pre existing event. authorities cited eight violations and a possible closure.
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Williamson
O. Vindy
Delhavion
Malecelin
LUU
Martinsburg tenor sues railroads over injury to voice
Martinsburg tenor Le Barretd claims injury to his vocal chords from smoke aboard a Jersey City passenger train. He alleges the fire and smoke on the car caused by the Ohio Railroads and Baltil Iniave contributed to his condition while aboard the train last August 1. The board of engineers and other passengers are referenced in the suit.
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Martinsburg
Lenton le Barretd
Dias
Seit
Cerreuit Eauri
Baltil Iniave
Ohio
Sot KK
James Prout
Jersey City
Glorification of the Kitchen Sink Art Contest
A fragment notes an art contest at the Chicago Art Institute focusing on unconventional or everyday objects. The text references strange paths and a theme that elevates the mundane kitchen sink as a subject for artistic exploration.
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Hese
Chicago Art Institute
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