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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1919
Page
3
Public school report from Winding Gulf shows September 1919 enrollment at 202 students with 103 boys and 77 girls attended. Honor roll lists over half the enrollment. notes need for more teachers and strict attendance under new law. Emphasizes school upkeep, sanitary conditions, and care of buildings amid community concerns about vandalism.
Maurice Francis Egan reflects on the Victorian era’s excitement, dangers, and literary culture, comparing past pleasures to today’s tastes and noting events like the Crimean and Civil Wars as catalysts for thought. Miss Opal Canfield of Charleston visits sister Mrs J B Hines in East Park.
Bids for buying the Nitro plant were opened at noon Tuesday in Philadelphia at the ordnance district salvage board office. Charleston chamber members attended to safeguard the powder town's interests as major firms including Procter & Gamble, Hooker, and DuPont submitted bids. Some Chicago packing houses sent discreet representatives to bid, but no details were released.
Mrs. H. T. Calfee and her small son Lionel returned Tuesday from a brief trip to Cincinnati where they visited Miss Muriel Calfee.
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