West Virginia to Play Leading Role at Education Meet
West Virginia will have a prominent part at the annual conference for education and industry in Chattanooga April 27 to 30. Delegates from WV, led by M P Shawkey and J I Marsh, join Kentucky and other southern states to study school, farm, mill, and community development, with focus on preparing students for industrial work and improving public and high schools.
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Cuahooga
M. P. Shawkey
Stairment
Schopls
Kentucky
Lexington
Chattamoora
Dean FE
D. Sanderson
Cnllege of Agriculture
J. I Marsh
State Board of Regents
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Chattanooga
Attony
J. F. Joyner
Joyner
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Atv Mengs
Cour
Soho Chéliiven
A. C. Monachap
United States Department of Education
TL. Friend
Lida
Gardner
Carlisle
Eggs Fried in Nest by Lightning Win.
Genn Moore reports entering a hen house during a storm and finding three fried eggs in a nest. He observed singed tails and wings on most white leghorns, with a bolt of lightning entering the building. No horses were present and none were killed.
Enormous Increase In Holland's Budget
Amsterdam reports Vorwaerts highlights a vast rise in both temporary and permanent wartime expenditures. The budget forecasts interest on war loans and postwar costs doubling existing taxes, with estimates of 625 to 750 million dollars added. The secretary of state avoids naming new revenue sources while considering future financial reforms. Boersen Halle cites yearly war loan and survivor costs at about two billion marks, warning of incalculable damage to national wealth and potential worker emigration as living costs rise.
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Associated Tress
Amsterdam
Vorwaerts
German Stock Exchange
Japan
South America
United States
Germany
Year Without a Summer and Other Historic Weather Events
A compilation notes long cold and wet years in Harrison County from 1816 to 1899. It recalls a frost year 1816, a severe sleet 1820, the 1855 meteor shower and fear of the end times, 1828 wheat blade markings, 1833 hurricane across Middle Island Creek, 1852 Elk Creek flood, 1855 frost, 1888 great flood, 1840 snow depth, 1899 extreme cold, minor earthquakes, and enduring weather traditions with forest clearing affecting river flows.
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United States
Potomac
Harrison Couny
Earth
Middle Island Creek
West Union
Salem
Bristol
Indian Run
Harrison County
Elk Creek
West Park
Maulsby
West Fork
Clarksburg
Thomas Haymond
Italy's Queen May Lose Arm After Messina Earthquake
Unwritten history says Queen Elena of Italy may lose an arm due to injuries from aiding victims after the Messina quake. Miss Irma Guthrie Wright cites a letter from the queen describing a malignant growth near an old bruise and concern by royal physicians that amputation could be necessary.
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Los Ange
Italy
theMessina
Royal Trinity
Irma Guthrie Wright
Elena
Miss Wright
Europe
Orient
George Guthrie
Mieyican
Japan
Mias Wright
Rome
Messina
Willi Sue Carnegie For $1
John Munde files a claim in Chicago Small Claims Court seeking $1 plus costs from Andrew Carnegie claiming a loan made fifty-one years ago when Carnegie was broke. Mund says the amount now totals $17.52 and plans to file suit in Chicago after traveling from Kansas City.
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Chicago
Andrew Carnegie
John Munde
Small Claims Court of
Mund
Kansas City
Care of the Baby handbook by Child Federation warned for mothers
The Child Federation launches a twenty four page booklet The Care of the Baby to guide mothers in infant welfare during the summer campaign against mortality. It emphasizes cleanliness of air clothes milk and home, warns against germs from kisses and crowded places, and provides bottle feeding rules home remedies and eleven rules for treating a sick baby. The handbook costs five cents and is available at 1524 Chestnut Street Philadelphia headquarters.
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Child Federation
Marasmus
Federation
Chestnut Street
Philadelphia
Rate of exchange travels with war impact in Oslo dispatch
Correspondent reports in Christiania that war has driven exchange rates higher. The American dollar, normally 3.70 kroner, rose to about 4.11 and shows little chance of dropping below 4.09. The English pound climbed from 18.16 to 19.61 kroner, while the German mark fell from 89 to 0.84 kroner. Imports suffer from dearer foreign money as Vienna proceeds with tenement building for the poor with cooperative stores for tenants.
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Associated
Christiania
Aged Syracuse man jailed over contempt of court
In Syracuse on April 24, Thomas Goggin, claiming to be 102, refuses to pay a $21 contempt fine from Judge William Gray. He sits in county jail after ignoring orders to appear, says he is sick and a martyr, and asserts he has about $15,000 but cannot access it.
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Syracuse
Thoams Gorgins
William Gray
Goggins
George M. Price
Cady
Gogz
Immeless
Ireland
First Aid Convention to Boost Huntington Rail Rates
Huntington hosts a May 14 First Aid convention for miners with West Virginia railroads offering materially reduced excursion rates. The event runs with the State Medical Association and mine rescue demonstrations at League Park, aided by Red Cross judges and medals. The chamber of commerce schedules programs to handle a record turnout and promote safety and sane operation in the coal industry.
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Intington Chamber of Commerce
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Chamber of Commerce
Oerasion
State Medical Association
League Park
Red Cros
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The
Red Cross Society
Fossil Cavern Findings Draw National Museum Visit
In Cumberland Maryland Raymond W Armbruster reopened a cavern near Cash Valley on the Western Maryland railroad. He reports fossils of prehistoric animals aged 150000 to 300900 years. J W Gidley assistant curator from the National Museum arrives to study the find and a specimen is named for Armbruster.
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Cumberland
National Museum At
Washington
Raymond W.armbruster
Big Cut
Western Maryland
Cash Valley
J. W. Gidley
Mt. Armbruster
Rat Catcher of Galveston Quits After Big Haul
Charles Bertolina known as the Galveston Pied Piper resigns from rat catching along the water front and beach after months of steady work. He reportedly captured about 2,000 rats monthly, with bonuses for high monthly totals, including a 10 dollar bonus for reaching 1,090 rats in thirty days. His career began with a plan to buy a boat and motor, which he fulfilled before presenting his commission to the health office. The latest record cited shows 1,028 rats in sixteen days and earnings at eight to ten cents per rat plus bonuses.
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Galveston
Tex
Charles Bertolina
Charles
Axe Exposes An Old Love Note In Pennsylvania Log Shed
In Middlesburg Pennsylvania a farmer named Francis Specht found a paper hidden in a log wagon shed plank. The note dated March 30 1870 bears Mary J Zellner and Mary Zellmer messages with a 3 cent Civil War era coin. The mystery remains why the enamored youths hid the missive forty five years ago and what stopped them from marrying.
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Middlesburg
Francis Specht
Si. C
Mary J. Zeller
James Shumen
Mary Zellmer
Lehigh County
Zeller
Slatington
Zellner
Tamaqua
Veteran fireman William May to retire after 33 years
London AP reports William John May head of the London fire department will retire after 33 years of service. He joined in 1883 and became senior superintendent in 1913, one of the city’s few officials promoted from the ranks. The piece also notes polar regions encompass 6,970,265 square miles with 309,000 inhabitants and mentions savings in Russia rising after vodka business abolition.
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Associated Press
London
William John May
London Fire’ Department
Polar
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