Rural Electrification Push Speeds West Virginia Coverage
Democratic gubernatorial nominee Homer A Holt and Rep Andrew Edmiston advocate extending electric service to rural West Virginia. Holt notes low current farm electrification and cites public service commission cooperation with power companies to ease farm chores and rural living. He contrasts Roosevelt era debt with Hoover era figures and cites prohibition administrator Major Maurice Campbell on 1931 speakeasies in New York.
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Homer A. Holt
Public Service Commission
Andrew Edmiston
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Roosevelt
Maurice Campbell
New York
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Kindness Patience and Charity Aid to Marriage
Chicago parishioners of Rev. Clinton C. Cox share a marriage survey advising happiness through kindness patience and forgiveness. Jealousy nagging and temper spark unhappiness while lessons include restraint patience and avoiding early crossovers before marriage. The responses touch on age differences in marriage in laws and mixed marriages with a call for sane sex education and guarded birth control. Moonlight schools in Kentucky and Tennessee by Mrs. Cora Wilson Stewart reduced adult illiteracy.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Clinton C. Cox
Drexel Park Presbyterian Church
Cox
Kentucky
Tennessee
Cora Wilson Stewart
Reduce Safely Uses Rock-A-Water Tablets for Weight Loss
An advertised offer claims a box of Rock-A-Water tablets from Watkins' helps reduce ten pounds in thirty days with a thirty day treatment for $2.00. The sale promises fat loss without dieting and guarantees results.
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Stoco Parent-Teacher Association Elects New Year Committees
Mrs Jas Rowe P 1 A Chairman leads Stoco PTA in Besoco with new committees for program membership publicity finance and budget publication hospitality and more. Dr W W Hume county health officer addresses Raleigh county health work as Stoco high school band performs two numbers under Mrs John Brooks hospitality lead.
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Besoco
Stoco Parent- Taecher’s Association
W. W. Hume
Raleigh
William Shanklin
Henrietta Koiner
J. L. Hornbeck
J. W. Ailstock
Elsie Mae Deaner
John Wirtz
Earl Shaw
J. M. Jessup
Grover Walker
Charles Swift
Martha Wright
Katherine Harrington
Lacy Lilly
W. S. Overstreet
G. E. Via
D. C. Weeks
O. A. Akers
H. D. Clark
J. E. McKinney
Harold Yates
E. C. Minter
W. Smedley
C. C. Lewis
T. F. Dollinger
John Brooks
Steve Socola
Jim Howard
Joe Dice
Lacy Wood
Elizabeth Compton
Gladys Woolridge
Henry Smith
G. W. McKinney
Edward Wallace
Helena Doyle
Thomas McEwan
Gazelle Ware
R. S. Ellison
Newy
Stoco High School
Frogs Occasion Kick to Council
An anonymous writer asks Los Angeles officials to ban harboring bullfrogs after a Cheviot Hills pond grew from a goldfish tank to a chorus of loud singing frogs. The note claims neighbor imported frogs from around the world including Soviet Russia, likening the sound to artillery. a council debate follows.
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Los Angeles
Cheviot Hills
Soviet
Russia
Fifth District Women to Meet in Princeton
Ad viser for the Fifth congressional district Ethel Hinton calls a meeting of district association chairmen and workers in Princeton on Saturday October 24. A luncheon at the Virginian hotel will open the event with women from seven counties expected. Mrs. Douglas Brown of Huntington WV will attend as Democratic national committeewoman.
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Y Register
Hinton
Ethel Hinton
Democratic Woman's Clubs
Fifth District
Princeton
Virginian Hotel
Dougls Brown
Huntington
West Virginia
State Poetess Dies in Morgantown Under Pen Name Elizabeth Davis Richards
Morgantown West Virginia Mrs Del Roy Richards 52 widely known as a poet and musician died suddenly after a brief illness Her pen name was Elizabeth Davis Richards Her poems include Peddler of Dreams Leaves of Laurel My Hearts in West Virginia Her husband Del Roy Richards bank executive survived Funeral services set for Friday at 2 pm at First Presbyterian Church with Rev Dr Edward A Krapp Wellsburg officiating Burial in East Oak Grove Cemetery
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Associated Press
Morgantown
W. Va
del Roy Richards
Elizabeth Davis Richards
United States
England
West Virginia
Bank of Morgantown
First Presbyterian Church
Edward A. Krapp
Wellsburg
East Oak Grove Cemetery
Black-Draught: Quality and Value in a Vegetable Laxative
The advertisement touts Black-Draught as high quality yet affordable. It emphasizes the key ingredient as leaves from a distant plant, essential to its laxative reliability, warning against substitutions. Each 25-cent package contains about 25 doses.
Roosevelt Opens Eastern Campaign
President Roosevelt launched two days of New England campaigning in Providence Rhode Island with a pledge to shield people from regimentation and economic distress. He said human resources matter more than machines and planned a tour across industrial towns northeast of New York before returning to Washington for weekend duties.
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Providence
R. I
Roosevelt
New England
America
New York
Washington
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