Beckley Brick Company sparks new Raleigh county industry
The Beckley Brick Company near Skelton in Raleigh county demonstrates that high quality brick can be produced from local clay. A 100000 brick kiln has proven prospects, with plans to expand. Output ranges 15000 to 20000 bricks per eight hours, using Sewell seam clay over 15 to 20 feet thick. The venture, led by Wm. P. Robertson, J. M. Huffman, and J. Q. Hutchinson, eyes incorporation and broader leases while courting coal and rail access for cheap freight.
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Beckley Brick Company
Mountain State Construction Company
Skelton
Wm. P. Robertson
J. M. Huffman
J. Q. Hutchinson
J. L. Teel
New River Company
C. & O. Railway
Virginian Power ¢ Company
Beckley
Sewell
Photographer at Lilly's Music Studio in town
In town, R F Whitt offers portrait work and Kodak processing at a studio above Lilly's Music store. Patrons are invited to stop by for prints and photographs while their Kodak work is handled.
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R. F. Whitt
Lilly
Kodak
Claim Descent From Celts Declares Scottish Celtic Roots
An Edinburgh Scotsman excerpt argues against Saxon origins of southern and eastern Scotland. It asserts Celticity through place names and language, noting Irish annalists and Hector Boece discount Saxon descent. It cites Professor Keith praising Scots as a core nation and eastward fusion over 1500 years.
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Scotland
Hector Boece
England
Keith
Edinburgh
Must Be Born a Singer in Birds and Humans
A Philadelphia North American note links throat, nostrils, and facial structure to singing ability in humans and birds. It suggests a full throat, large thorax, open nostrils, and prominent facial proportions indicate vocal power, while round ears imply musical appreciation. The idea is that anatomy predicts talent in both canaries and people.
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Philadelphia
The Gifted Voice Versus Innate Vocal Limits
The text argues that vocal quality stems from natural anatomy, noting that the smallest sounds and beauty of tone come from the throat head shape and bill, while a duck with a flat bill cannot sing. It suggests that even with training some people lack pleasant notes due to inherent vocal mechanisms.
Christian Rally Day Observed at Beckley Church
Sunday school begins at 10 a m with promotions and sermon at 11 a m led by new pastor Rev Gerald Culbertson formerly of Longview Texas. Rally Day previously observed at Baptist and Presbyterian churches with special music and a Blair sermon at the Baptist church.
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Beckley
Incombustible Insulating Material Created from Minerals
A new insulating material is formed by combining 51.7 per cent powdered asbestos 14 per cent powdered mica 20 per cent mineral rubber 5 per cent resin and 638 per cent bisulphide of selenium. After washing and air evaporation a hard non absorbent substance is produced which becomes plastic when heated and can be molded to any shape.
How Laundering Affects Clothes and Water Type
After thirty washings with hard water and a mix of soap soda sodium silicate and borate linen and cotton textiles show higher strength with hard water. Soft water causes injurious effects from sodium silicate on cotton while perforate remains more harmful. Soap enhances luster and white reflectivity. soda yields yellow with pink hues. reflected light gray. Silicate washing leaves fabric white but dull and chalky.
Electrician Joke From Pennsylvania Punch Bowl
Classified humor notes Jack brags about fixing a fuse during a night at Jane's. Jill questions his claim as Jack proclaims he is an electrician, admitting he missed his calling. The light fuse burned out and he fixed it himself.
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Jack
Jill
Jilli
Jane's
Pennsylvania
Anatolia: Turkish province at peace conference noted
Anatolia is described as one of five large Turkish provinces in Paris peace conference reports. It lies between the Mediterranean and Black seas and houses about 7,000,000 of Turkey's population. Other districts listed are Armenia Syria Mesopotamia and Kurdistan.
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Anatolia
Paris
Turkey
Mediterranean
Black Seas
Armenia
Syria
Mesopotamia
Kurdistan
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New Beckley
Uilding
Sketon
Raleigh County
Raleigh
Charleston
Huntington
Williams
T. J. Williams
Over Lyric Theatre
Beckley, W. VA
Kanawha Valley Leather Company
Kanawha Street
Charleston, W. Va
South Bend
Qin
Pam
Q Rat TV
United States
France
Raleigh Hardware Company
West Virginia
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