Rooster Crow Sparks Local Backstory in Beckley Alley
A Rhode Island Red rooster, once free on a Clayton WV farm, was captured and transported to Beckley in a crate and truck, crowing defiantly along the alley behind the Raleigh Register office. Owner threats aside, the bird persists in its bold calls amid moving plans and local chatter about its fate.
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Raleigh County Bank
Mick Or Mack
Raleigh Register Office
T. J. Knapp
Alderson
Mr. Bowden
Mr. Knapp
Beckley
Snuffer
Aracama Hotel
Comic strip and local reminiscences in late page note
A Post-Herald reading scene shows a boy glimpsing the Jimmy And the Tiger comic as a tired man scans the sport page. Dr J A Campbell recalls Gordon Lester of Ellet Va and Wickham store days, recounting a tale of five cent cigars turned into two-for-a dime smokes after a prank.
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Jimmy
The
Tiger
Big Socker Dill
Hollywood
Post-Herald
J. A. Campbell
Ellet
Gordon Lester
Wickham
Dr. Campbell
Sixty five dead in island riots in Manila area
In two battles linked to uprisings against the projected new commonwealth, sixty five people were slain. A La Vanguardía wire report from Cabuyao described extremists barricading behind a wall in Plaza town for the night, with disturbances also reported in Cavite Bulacan and nearby provinces.
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Manila
la Vanguardia
Cabuyao
Plaza
Santa Rosa
Cavite
Bulacan
Queen Shenandoah XII Crowned At Shenandoah Festival
Mlle Nella Veverka daughter of the Czechoslovakian minister in Washington is crowned Queen Shenandoah XII at the Shenandoah apple blossom festival in Winchester Virginia. Rain delayed pageants as a parade and coronation drew about 15 000 spectators with Governor Kump of West Virginia presenting the crown. Cadets from the Massachusetts Military Academy and 33 college princesses formed the royal court while local schoolchildren staged a postponed dawn in springtime pageant.
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Associated Press
Winchester
Mlle
Nella Veverka
Washington
Garland B. Quarles
Frederick County
H. G. Kump
West Virginia
Virginia
Maryland
Pennsylvania
District of Columbia
Glee Club
Harrisonburg State Teachers College
Handley High School
Robert F. Hannon
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
Brantz M. Bozel
John W. Nail
Cedar Creek
C. R. Anderson
Mary Elizabeth Ebert
Massanutten Military Academy
Woodstock
William Miles Jr Wins UC Liars Contest in Berkeley
May 3 in Berkeley at the University of California a liars contest crowned William Miles Jr as winner. Miles is a student preparing for the ministry.
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Associated Press
Berkeley
Cal
University of California
William Miles, Jr
Revival in Wyco Church Sees Near Score Conversions
In Wyco West Virginia revival meetings led by evangelist Rev A F Clendenin during the first week, about twenty conversions are reported by Pastor Rev K C Ep ling. Attendees rise with outsiders from the Gulf area filling the church to capacity as Mullens Quartet performs three numbers Monday night.
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Wyco Church
A. F. Clendenin
K. C. Epling
Gulf Area
Mullens
Wyco Revival Ends With Love Feast And Baptismal Service
The Wyco revival, led by pastor Rev. K. C. Epling, runs through Sunday with a love feast and baptismal service planned after several Thursday presentations by the Wyco colored chair and Itmann Young People's department. A marriage announced at the local parsonage ties Wyco couples Santford Rhodes and Ada Lee Riddle, while Mrs. John Davis survived a car accident near the Wyco filling station as a wall and creek were narrowly crossed.
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Wyco Colored
Itmann Young People’s Department
Santford Rhodes
Charles Rhodes
Ada Lee Riddle
William Riddle
Wyco
K. C. Epling
John Davis
Barbara
Billie
Guests Saturday evening at Homer Mc Coy home
Guests Saturday evening were the brother and sister in law of Homer Mc Coy, Mr and Mrs Homer Mc Coy, at Herndon.
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Mrs
Homer McCoy
Herndon
Bell System moves night rate hour to 7 P.M.
New tariffs filed with the Federal Communications Commission by the Bell System advance the station-to-station night rate to start at 7:00 p.m. from 8:30 p.m. effective June 1. The tariffs also cover the introduction of night rates on transatlantic service, altering long distance pricing.
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Federal Communications Commission
Bell System
Telephone Tariff Changes Filed For Interstate Rates
The American Telephone and Telegraph company filed tariffs to apply between 5:00 p m and 5:00 a m effective June 1 1935. The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone company of West Virginia plans to adopt similar interstate tariffs with Public Service Commission approval, said C A Robinson general manager.
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Vice
American Telephon and Telegraph Company
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
West Virginia
Public Service Commission
C. A. Robinson
Fountain pen buried in 1908 found in Santa Rosa yard
A fountain pen unearthed from a ranch yard near Santa Rosa California, first terraced in 1908, was discovered recently in excellent working condition.
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Santa Rosa
Calif
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Harold M. Riffe
Charleston
Andrew W. Mellon
Robert H. Jackson
Gans
Ibs
Fryer
Crescent Grocery
Shenandoah XII
Prague
Ferdinand Veverka
Mme. Veverka
Clara Kimball Young
W. Va
Lew Ayres Claire Trevor Walter King Zasu Pitts
Jack Haley
Jolson Léeler
Jewel Bulova
Bulova
Clip and Mail
Berman’s
Fayette ST. Beckley Rear
Irene Rhodes
Rhodes
Alvin Moorefield
Tennessee
D. D. Wilkinson
E. W. Tate
Bernardine Bias
Shinnston
Arthur Hypes
Princeton
Earl Gilkerson
Katheryn McCoy
Bessie Woodrum
Transatlantic
Main St
Drakes
By Mick OR
Mack
Mick
Mack’s
Wheaties
Maxwell House
Floridas
Texas
Ietta
Les
Kradut
Wilson
Libby
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