West Virginia Gretna Green Sets 1935 Wedding Record
The notice notes Gretna Green in West Virginia breaking its own 1935 wedding record. It mentions traffic safety Sunday and a National Safety Council forecast of 37 500 automobile fatalities nationwide in 1936. Weekend death totals by state list California through Wyoming with notable counts. John Calloway, V P I student in Blacksburg, spent the weekend with his parents Dr and Mrs C L Calloway.
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West Virginia
Gretna Green
Dakota
Texas
California
National Safety Council
Colorado
Connecticut
Illinois
Indiana
Couples Tie the Knot in Wellsburg Oct 1936 Run
Associated Press reports 971 couples from the tri state area wed in Wellsburg during October raising the year to date total marriages to 7941 for ten months. This ten month figure exceeds all of 1935 by 1956. On Saturday 102 couples were married in Wellsburg.
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Associated Press
Wellsburg
Tri-State
Gretna Green
Sally Salminen Wins Swedish Novel Prize
Stockbridge Massachusetts writer Sally Salminen returns home after winning $1100 for Katr in a Swedish language novel. Residents of Huntington, Beckley, Princeton and Charleston were noted in local social items as friends and relatives travelled or hosted guests over the weekend, with trips to Blacksburg, Virginia and Washington, D. C. mentioned.
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Sally Salminen
Stockbridge
Mass
Katrina
Finland
Hundreds at Party by Woodrow Wilson High School
Several hundred Woodrow Wilson High School students attended a Girl Reserves carnival Saturday night running until 11. Booths offered soft drinks, candy, and confetti. Madame Zora foretold fortunes and Clenn Sallack's Jazz orchestra provided music while a grand costume march selected Miss Mary Alderson as best costume. Proceeds fund schooling for two Clark sburg youths.
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Woodrow Wilson High School
Girl Reserves
Madame Zora
Ethel Keyser
Clenn Sallack
D. P. Griffith
Elizabeth Stephenson
Mary Alderson
C. Binford Simms
Clarksburg
Snow blankets three western states with heavy snowfall
A snowstorm dumped up to 12 inches across northern Utah, southeastern Idaho, and western Wyoming. Three traffic facilities were attributed to the storm, and twelve Girl Scouts plus two leaders were marooned in a cottage by the conditions.
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Associated Press
Salt Lake City
Utah
Idaho
Wyoming
Cold Morning Showers For Health And Youth
A Lake region tale extols cold plunges and showers as healthful boosts to vigor and skin. The piece notes morning baths awaken the body, while cautioning against shock for some individuals. It advises tepid to cool progression, followed by a brisk towel rub, plus an editor note about beauty pamphlets and Miss Glade’s column.
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Glad
Sliss Glade Daily
Keyser Woman Receives High Legion Honor
Nyla Green Wade of Keyser chosen to place wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Armistice Day ceremony at 11 a m. She is part of the Keyser National Quartette of the American Legion Auxiliary with Virginia Kolkhorst Anna Montgomery and Marie Farley. For the second year running these women earned national honors at the American Legion convention in Cleveland. West Virginia shares in Keyser’s recognition.
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Nyla Green Wade
Keyser
American Legion Auxiliary
Will Broadbene
Virginia Kolkhorst
Anna Montgomery
Marie Farley
The
American Legion
Cleveland
West Virginia
Little Romance In Spanish War Tale Of Ta laverada Band
A correspondent describes life in Talavera de la Reina Spain during war time. Flags hang from windows and radios while bands play nightly in the square. Fascists march singing in step and Moors from Africa sing after sunset, their desert songs drifting through shuttered rooms.
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Associated Press
Talaverada de la Reina
Spain
Talavera’s Square
Africa
Horst Wessel
Germany
Civil registrars in Philippines approve marriage licenses
Civil registrars of the Philippines are named official guessers of age under a new law. Applicants for marriage licenses no longer must present birth certificates. If registrars deem the applicants of legal age, the license may be issued.
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Islands
Associated Press
Manila
P. I
Philippines
National Assembly
Youngsters Enjoy Hallowe'en Party at Higgins Home
At the Woodlawn Avenue home of Mr and Mrs Robert Higgins granddaughter Betty Jean Brown and Jean Stinnette hosted about 25 seventh grade classmates for a Hallowe en party. The celebration featured games dancing an apple biting contest won by Miss Brunk and a refreshments course to finish.
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Robert Higgins
Woodlawn Avenue
Betty Jean Brown
Jean Stinnette
Miss Brunk
Marriage Licenses Granted To Eight Couples
Eight couples obtained marriage licenses from the county clerk over the weekend. Richard Williams and Ellen O'Dell Dye of Sprague. Ewell Snuffer and Faye Jarrell of Montreal. Floyd Nelson Waddy and Elizabeth Threasa Oliver of Royal. Noel Scott Shrewsbury and Naomi Harvey of Rhodell. Vernard Wilson and Gertude Edmonia Washington of Raleigh. Edgar William Leisure and Georgie Belt of Hot Coal and Big Stick. John Lenoir and Carnation Rice of East Beckley. Basil Lee Richardson and ae Jananee Bailey of Less.
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Richard Williams
Ellen O'Dell Dye
Sprague
Ewell Snuffer
Faye Jarrell
Montroal
Floyd Nelson Waddy
Elizabeth Threasa Oliver
Royal
Noel Scott Shrewsbury
Helen
Naomi Harvey
Rhodell
Vernard Wilson
Gertrude Edmonia Washington
Army fliers must use oxygen above 15000 feet
The rule requires U S army pilots to activate oxygen equipment once altitude reaches 15000 feet. In 1904 a transatlantic liner offered a third class passage for ten dollars during a price war.
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U. S. Army
Three Quarter Wife Warned About Cramping Times
An advice style note urges women not to take frustration from cramps out on husbands. It promotes Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a natural aid to ease functional disorders tied to adolescence, motherhood, and middle age, encouraging women to “smiling through.”
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Jisha
Lydia E. Pinkham
Nature
Lydia FE. Pinkham
Jean Morton Hosts Halloween Party at Grandparents’ Home
Miss Jean Morton entertained Saturday evening at the North Kanawha Street home of her grandparents Mr and Mrs William MacTaggart with a Halloween party. Guests wore costumes and masks and revealed their identities late in the evening after games and pranks. A late refreshment course was served to Neva Jane Dempsey Ann Casto Jean Porter Ann Ritchie Ware Betty Mae Samples Lydia Sessions Martha Page Hogg Gloria Hilda Goldstein Marjorie Wiseman Ruth Shanklin and Jean Morton.
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John Jackson
Huntington
Nina D. Bruster
East Main Street
Martha Graveley
Princeton
Hallie Brown
Raleigh General Hospital
Lillian Avis
Frances
Beckley
Katharine Avis
F. L. Banks
Blacksburg
A. K. Canterbury
W. W. Goldsmith
Robert Higgins
Thelma Brown
Betty Jean
Higgins
E. E. Long
Smithers
J.C. Mabe
Jimmy
Margaret Mabe
V. P. L Richmond
Robert C. Hawkins
Charleston
K. Douglas Bowers
H. J. Bostic
Lucille Beckinnheimer
Anna Mae Johnson
Orville Ferguson
Ace
Tony
Hughes Adkins
Danville
Walker Jordan
Betty
Jenkins
A. J. Burke
W. A. Burke
South Oakwood Avenue
Covington
Herbert Stansbury
Lewisburg
W. L. Pearson
Beulah
Blanche Reed
Clay
J. W. Maxwell
Beckley Avenue
Charles Stansbury
G. M. S. Lewisburg
W. F. Tams
New York
Billy
Princeton, University
Princeton, N. J
Jean Morton
William MacTaggart
Kanawha Street
Hallowe’en
Neva Jane Dempsey
Ann Casto
Jean Porter
Ann Ritchie Ware
Betty Mae Samples
Lydia Sessions
Martha Page Hogg
Gloria Hilda Goldstein
Marjorie Wiseman
Ruth Shanklin
Auto Crash Toll Rises With Weekend Deaths Across Nation
The report notes a highway collision injuring eight others near Clay after Henry Osborne’s truck overturned on Saturday night. Across the country at least 156 lives were lost in automobile accidents over the weekend, a high figure for the year, with fourteen deaths reported in South Carolina and South.
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Henry Osborne
Clay
Osborne
South Carolina
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