June Job Bonanza and Coal’s Hidden Roles
A June job surge for engineers and other graduates drives salaries higher with 400 to 525 dollars monthly for engineers and rapid placement across disciplines. Government and industry seek tens of thousands of graduates, while coal and steel underpin daily life from cars to medicines, highlighting unseen links between energy and employment.
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Johns Hopkins
Georgia Tech
Northwestern National Life Insurance Co
Conrad A. Elvehjem
University of Wisconsin Graduate School
War Dead and Veterans Grave Trends Across Conflicts
The piece compares American military personnel tallies and deaths in World War I World War II and Korea noting 16.1 million in World War II vs 4.3 million in World War I and 408 000 versus 126 000 deaths. It notes more World War I veteran graves and explains reasons including influenza and later medical advances.
The Dollar’s Power and Pitfalls Revisited
An old essay in the Business Man's Magazine on money as the heaviest burden and the force shaping nations. It argues the dollar governs leaders and lives, describing wealth as silent, pervasive, and capable of both uplifting and ruining recipients.
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U. S
Business Man's Magazine
Worthwhile Parables and Laughable Echoes From Bygone Files
The piece reflects on constant human traits like industry and idleness, then recalls century old snippets from Muskegon and Boston. It notes a dead man’s voice singing his hymn at his coffin and a revival meeting where two speakers humorously refuse to testify, causing laughter.
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Register
Muskegon
Mich
Requieum
Boston
Sister Jones
Smith
Jones
Beckley WVa Newspaper Rates Public Notices
Classified notice details Beckley WVa and Hinton WV circulation terms for Waleigh Register. Includes pricing, delivery options, tax note, and change of address instructions from Beckley Newspapers Corporation and Associated Press affiliation.
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Beckley Newspapers Corporation
Beckley
W. Va
Hinton
C. J. McQuade
Associated Press
AP News
Brooks & Finley, Inc
New York
Philadelphia
Chicago
Detroit
Boston
Cleveland
Atlanta
Los Angeles
San Francisco
West Virginia
Cat
Six Rockets Plan Space Satellites For IGY Mission
The United States will launch six satellites for the International Geophysical Year to study sun rays meteors cosmic rays and earth magnetic fields. Each satellite will focus on a different research group with a Moon rigged for meteor counting and wind-free weather data.
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Alton L. Blakeslee
Washington Ui
United States
Congress
U. S
IGY
Department of Defense
Navy
Air Force
Army
Homer E. Newell Jr
Science
Vanguard
Earth
Group
Group 1
Space
Moon
Modernized coaches spark a dining etiquette complaint on train
Aunt Lelia recalls a rail journey with reclining seats and luxury beds but objects to waiters touching cups and money in coffee service. The narrator notes his own train ride and changed purchase choice after witnessing perceived hygiene lapses.
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Lelia H
Ft. Wayne
Indiana
Davenport
Case Records of a Psychologist Worry Clinic
The article warns about sanitation lapses in eateries with wait staff sharing spoons and touching money and butter with contaminated fingers. It urges restaurant owners to post sanitary guidance and notes flu epidemics spread by unhygienic staff. Also mentions Havana bingo mania and a dream book guiding roulette bets with numerical symbols and fortune-linked incentives.
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Tve
Walters
Crane
Havana
Batista
Cuba
Las Vegas
North
South American
Middle East
Hilton
Riviera
Capri
Gambling gossip and Hollywood ties from a Cuba trip
A rambling column links gambling lore in Cuba with a mix of show business news. Notes mention Irene Wilson and others, a hotel fire, a reader quip about bets, and celebrity moves including Jackie Gleason, Hugh O Brian, Vera Ellen, Bing Crosby, Tonway Manville, Martha Raye, and Micki Marlo.
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South America
Long Beach
Cal
American Society of Newspaper Editors
San Francisco
Jackie Gleason
CBS
Hugh O'Brian
Dorothy Bracken
Gleason
Vera Ellen
Billy Roses
U. of France
Bing Crosby
Tonway Manville
Mike Wallace
Martha Raye
Steve Allen
Micki Marlo
Ann Lorain
Unions Face Clean-Up Test After Beck Revelations
The AFL CIO faces scrutiny over how it policing its member unions including the Teamsters case led by Dave Beck. The Executive Council can investigate and suspend unions but lacks subpoena power, prompting calls for stronger action or federal laws. The recent suspensions mark its strongest move since the merger two years ago.
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Washington
Aplcio
Afl-Cio
Congress
APL
CIO
Senate Backets Committee
Teamsters Union
Dave Beck
Aflcio
Beck
Teamsters
Senate
George Meany
Council
Industrial and Distillery Workers
Ue Council
Prayer for Grace and Open Hearts
A devotional prayer asks for God to make the speaker a channel of grace and to remove obstacles to divine inflow and outflow. It seeks openness to love and mutual generosity through the Holy Spirit, ending with an amen in Jesus' name.
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Jesus
George C. Pidgeon
Toronto
Ont
United Church of Canada
Army trains troops for atomic warfare at Fort Riley
At Fort Riley Kansas the U S Army conducts mock atomic warfare drills with the 1st Infantry Division The Big Red One leads the pentomic reorganization amid new tactics and five battle groups Veterans from World War II remain on the rolls while regiments 16th etc were disbanded A demonstration before editors showed a simulated atomic strike and an objective taken signal in half an hour
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FT. Riley
Kane
U. S
Jeb" — Stuart
George Custer
George Patton
Jonathan Wainwright
U. S. 1St Infantry Division
David H. Buchanan
Marion
Algiers
Elbe
Kansas
Howard B. St. Clair
Bockley
W. Wal
Bank Officials Elected in Pineville and Local Recovery News
Ninety years ago in Pineville stockholders organized Citizens National Bank and elected John Ball president Jas H George vice president and R A Keller cashier. R E Fanagan of Hinton fully recovered from injuries from a fall into New River. Beackley banks show strong condition due to management and regional health.
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Pineville
New Citizens National Bank
John Ball
Jas. H. George
R. A. Keller
R. E. Fanagan
Hinton
New River
Beckley
Fire destroys two buildings and political reshuffle noted
In 1932 Raleigh Register files a blaze destroyed Joe Welzer's sausage factory and a Charlie Brooks dwelling, with a brick house damaged. A recount gave B. P. Pettry a win over Frank Massey for Justice of the Peace in Marsh Fork District. F Wilber McCullough resigned from the State Board of Control amid feud with Gov. Conley over a million dollar deficit and taxes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Hope
Joe Welzer
Charlie Brooks
J. BR. Melger
B. P. Pettry
Frank Massey
Justice of the Peace
Marsh Fork
F. Wilber’ McCullough
State Board of Control
Gov. Conley
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Job Bonanza
Secretary of Labor
James P. Mitchell
Temple
University of Cincinnati
Mitchell
U.S. Navy
Ranger
C. J. ‘Needy
McQuade
Waleigh
Naval Research Laboratory
Omaha
Biren
Bingo Brigade
Wilson
Irene
Dolores
Marie
Margaret
Rose
Hotel Nacional
el Prado
Arline
George Ross
Ross
Hal Boyle
Raleigh Register
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