Pin Trave'ed in Body 15 Years
West Philippi resident William Schoonoverof Barbour County West Virginia has suffered long health battles marked by a now removal of a steel pin found in his toe, believed to have entered 18 years ago during pocket pin use while working in Randolph County. His doctors remain hopeful for recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pin Trave
William Schoonover
West Philippi
Barbour County
W. Va
Barbour Democrat
Philippi
Welch
Oklahoma
Bluejacket
Smithsonian Institution
Four colored prisoners recaptured after escape from Hagerstown jail
Report states four colored prisoners escaped from the county jail in Hagerstown on Tuesday and were recaptured by Wednesday. The text promotes Burdock Blood Bitters claiming to improve appetite digestion sleep and vitality at a price of $1.25.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cacapea
Hagerstown
Wgo
Children Cry for Fletcher's Cast Qa Ria
Fragmentary diary style lines convey fear and whispered lines about a girl, a bachelor, and odd sounds under a bed. The text presents garbled phrases and incomplete quotes suggesting a scene of tension and mystery in a theatrical or sensational context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fletcher
County Road Capitation Tax Kept At One Dollar
The tax commissioner directs Jefferson county to collect a county road capitation tax of one dollar per male inhabitant aged 21 or older, regardless of residence, with two dollars directed to the state school fund and county road fund. Also notes prohibition enforcement imperfect but improving and cites a drop in drunkenness arrests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jefferson County
Hallani
Aity
Full of pep girls draw men to parties and dances
An advice column extols a lively attractive girl as the measure of popularity urging red blood vitality and mood. It promotes Gude's Pepto-Mangas as a tonic and cites Desters Nave use for decades. A Roanoke passenger conductor named JB Metz is arrested in Williamson W Va for transporting moonshine whiskey. He is jailed after a 500 fine and 60 days. The piece notes moonshine imports into the state. Also referenced is a 1928 plan for the longest single span bridge across the Delaware connecting Philadelphia and Camden with a 1750 foot span and a 125 foot width costing about 29 million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bes
Gude
Desters Nave
Adve
Jb, Metz
Roanoke
Winston-Salem
N. C
Williamson
W Va
James O'Brien
Graden B. Godfrey
West Virginia
Meek
Divorced American Socialite Ties to Italian Romance
Katherine Edking Elkins Hitt, once Miss Katherine Elkins, confirms a divorce decree granted last summer in Paris to Mrs. W. F. R. Hitt, daughter of the late U.S. Senator Elkins. Grounds cited incompatibility and separation. Hitt silent in New York and at Middleburg Va. The couple wed in 1913 after long publicized hopes of marriage to the Duke of the Abruzzi. The Elkins and Hitt fortunes are substantial, with Elkins heirs and Hitt in seven figures. The piece notes the era’s high society intrigue surrounding Elkins, the Duke, and royal possibilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Katherine Edking
Herband
Paris
W FR. Hitt
Katherney Elkins
Elkins
West
Rene
Hitt
Washington
Te.ts
Middleburg
New York
Ekins
Duke
Abruzzi
William F. R. Hitt
Katherine H. Elkins
Abruza
Italy
House of Savoy
Europe
America
Miss Elkins
Mr. Hitt
Billy” Hitt
Julius Townsend
United States Navy
Joseph Leiter
Hit
Duke of
Jamestown
Cdstome
Pittsburg
Missina
Albania
Greece
Himalayas
Vier Famenst
Mice Elkins
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Miles
Eee
Amoco Gas
Mericam Ol
Compauty
National Highway Garage
Chas. T. Engle & Bros
Charles Town
Ado
Eagle Pencil Company
Carioun Antiques
Ambaston
Derbyshire
John
Soar
England
Oma
Mercia
St. German's Gate
St Alban's Abbey
British Museum
Babylon
Geniua
Christopher Sholes
Forest Home Cemetery
Milwaukee
Shores Monument Commission
Laporte
Ind
Sholes
W. Soule
Paros Glicten
Intelligencer of
Danville
Southport Telegraph
Milwaukee News
Minnesota
New York City
Park Avenue
Memes Lake
Manitoba
Gayne
Jadie
Totet
Tate
Linge & Myers
Chesterfield
Jem
Mae
R. A Haynes
National Prohibition
Law Enforcement League of Chicago
Haynes
Philadephia
Camden
Delaware River
Crystal Sprints
Missisippi
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