Methodist Conference in Parkersburg Plans Welcoming Week
Parkersburg prepares for the West Virginia conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church to meet in September with Bishop Earl Cranston presiding. Rev. Dr. M. F. Compton will deliver the welcome address as sessions and anniversary services outline the week’s program.
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Parkersburg
West Virginia
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Wadeld
Cyrus D. Foss
First Methodist Episcopal Church
Fifth Street
Whch
Jallana
Tenth Streets
Earl Cranston
Washington, D. C
M. F. Compton
Wheeling
Compton
First Methodist Epscopal Church
Hoor
Board of Sunday Schools
Board of Education
Board of Freedman’s Aid, Temperance
Anti-Saloon League
Perley A. Baker
League
Eterans
G. W. Kepler
Elberon
Cranston
Board of Home Missions and Church Extension
Busines
St. Andrew's Methodist Episcopal Church
University humorist urges daily practice for writers
George Fitch, at the University of Washington, tells students that a million words already written and reviewed are good practice before submitting a short story for sale. He emphasizes daily writing, note taking, and studying markets, warning against aiming for the wrong magazines.
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University OF Washington
George Fitch
Vest Pocket Essays
Jnc. Sie
Mr. Fitch
Century
Scribner’s
Atlantic
Cub
Robert J. Burdette
Dogfish horns used to play records in Freeport
Long Island fishermen note dogfish are plentiful in waters. Roger Carman cuts off two small horns and uses them as phonograph needles. He reports the horns reproduce records without noise and fears are unfounded about barking sounds. Fishermen expect a rising demand if proven useful.
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Freeport
N. Y
Long Island
Roger Carman
Carman
Welch & Fullerton Drugstore Ad Claims Nationwide Reach
An old advertisement proclaims that every home with a phone is a branch of Welch & Fullerton, Druggists, highlighting a broad retail network and accessible pharmaceutical service.
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Welch & Fullerton, Druggists
Love is Too Deep For Him Ends Engagement
D Browntown a 21 year old sailor from McKeesport Pennsylvania returned to his ship the US training ship Franklin after the woman he planned to marry denied the match saying it was all a joke. Browntown had spent eight months in correspondence and a thirty day furlough planning a wedding before the rejection. He vowed to return to sea and to his mates saying the love game is too deep for me.
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Hagerstown
D. Browntown
McKeesport
United States
Franklin
Browtown
Browntown
Ten ward precepts urge hygiene in Paris hospital
From a Paris eastern district hospital, a surgeon posted ten rules on ward walls stressing cleanliness to prevent typhus and disease. The notes urge short hair, outdoor living when possible, ash-based dish cleaning, no spitting, and regular letters to relatives. Lady Paget, recently ill with typhus, has left London to resume Red Cross work in Serbia.
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Paris
France
London
Sour milk recipes praised as economical kitchen staple
Culinary expert Mrs. Anna B. Scott urges using sour milk and cream in place of sweet dairy. She offers cottage cheese, cheese cake, sour jam cake, sour cream molasses cake, bread crumb griddle cakes, sour milk cookies, and a sour cream dressing, with tips on dissolving baking soda and safe handling on hot days. The piece lists instructions and ingredients for each dish and notes sour dairy's comparable or superior value in cooking.
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Anna
B. Scott
Philadelphia
Shane
California
Ontario
Do Nots From Brown On Hot Weather Health
Dr. Lucius P. Brown the new health department foods and rugs director issued a list of do nots for hot weather. Do not expose food to dust or handle it unnecessarily keep food in your mouth quickly keep icebox doors open avoid outside viewing of drinks and inform the health department of unclean stores. Maintain ice cold safe food keep icebox clean wash refrigerator daily drink cold beverages slowly avoid stimulants and eat vegetables. Inspectors will target restaurants ice cream stands and soft drink vendors for sanitary conditions and glass cleansing with hot water or paper cups.
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New York
Lucius P. Brown
Bureau of Foods and Rugs
Health Department
Dog Reggie Finds Way Back After Long Trip
New Rochelle July 24 After Mr and Mrs Michael Sweeney and their two children left 38 Rose Street to Peekskill on a cross country trip to San Francisco they realized their bull terrier Reggie was missing Eight miles from home the dog exhausted and determined followed the van and was found on the road near White Plains Reggie was placed aboard and the family continued their journey in a home built on the car Sweeney once ran a New Rochelle hotel and the dog came to him years ago in Newport from John D Rockefeller's acquaintance
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New Rochelle
Michael Sweeney
Rose Street
Peekskill
San Francisco
Reggie
White Plains
Mrs.Sweeney
Sweeney
Boy Aged Two Rides Father's Horse in Mich Town
Billy Slater two and a half years old untied a halter and rode the horse from the Slater home. Two hours passed before he was missed, prompting a villagers search joined by Shep the collie. The dog found the pair asleep beside the road five miles away.
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Sheboygan
Mich
Billy Slater
Billy
Shep
Slaters
Oklahoma City Defendants Given One Year Terms After Court Request
In Oklahoma County Court July 24 a defendant urged a greater sentence than county attorney recommended but was denied. Mrs Jennie J. Cowan and co defendant B C Reynolds asked for one year terms instead of nine months. The judge granted one year terms for both with clemency possible for Cowan citing spousal mistreatment and influence by Reynolds. Cowan previously held property near Lehigh. Reynolds was a former oil gas wells inspector.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Jennie J. Cowan
B. C. Reynolds
Oldfield
Poth
McAlster
Reynolds
Cowan
Lehigh
Ed Boyle
Rescuing Pastor Drowns Off Wingersheek Beach
In Gloucester Massachusetts on July 24 Reverend Arthur M. Pingree pastor of the Norwood Congregational Church drowns while attempting to save 10 year old Helen Perkins at Wing ersheek Beach. He saved Helen Marston first then perished with Perkins after the girl wrapped her arms around him triggering their drowning. A group of Pingree’s church women campers were nearby.
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Gloucester
Mass
Helen Perkins
Wingersheek Beach
Arthur M. Pingree
Norwood Congregational Church
Diving Girl Turns Frog Bites Into Catch At Highland Lake
In Winsted Connecticut on July 24 a girl in a bright red bathing suit was struck by frogs while swimming at Highland Lake. She then sewed about fifty fish hooks onto her suit and reentered the lake, emerging with bullfrogs on nearly every hook. The stunt aims to popularize frog parties at inland resorts.
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Winsted
Conn
Highland Lake
Stingiest Man on Earth Faces Divorce Suit
Mrs Lena S Perry sues Albert Perry a Sonoma County rancher for divorce claiming he refused to pay for the marriage license the preacher transportation of the honeymoon trip and the three days hotel bill, ending their short romance.
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San Francisco
Lena S. Perry
Albert Perry
Sonoma County
Farmer Thomas Wentz Near Glassboro In Gas Poisoning Incident
In Glassboro New Jersey on July 24 Thomas Wentz a 57 year old farmer living nearby attempted death by gas poisoning in his new home. His son found him in the cellar with a gas tube at his mouth and his timely arrival saved his life.
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Glassboro
N. J
Thomas Wentz
Wentz
Detective's tame ducks to be sacrificed this year
Portland police officer Tackaberry raises three ducks of the wild species that now follow him around the yard. One duck will be sacrificed on Thanksgiving and the other two on Christmas, as part of a curious domestic experiment.
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Portland, Or
Tackaberry
Portland Police Bureau
West Virginia Crop Prospects Praised After Advisory Tour
Charleston July 24 Howard E Williams state agriculture commissioner says West Virginia crop conditions compare favorably with eastern states visited on a vacation tour through Pennsylvania New Jersey New York Massachusetts Connecticut and eastern West Virginia He notes corn and peaches strong while apples lag and comments on road quality favoring brick and concrete pavements over macadam for heavy auto traffic.
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Charleston
Howard E. Willams
New England
Willams
Williams
Retired Bishop Cranston Likely Under Modern Retirement Law
The general conference at Saratoga Springs will automatically retire Bishop Earl Cranston under the church age limit. Clergy and laity debate the law and its repeal, though many praise Cranston as a capable executive. If retired, he would lose authority to preside over conferences and would instead perform visiting and special preaching duties.
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Earl Cranston
General Conference
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Saratoga Springs
Cranston
Bishop Cranston
Copperhead Snake Surprises Farmer In Arkansas
Ed Weaver, a stockman and farmer near Omaha Arkansas, pulled a copperhead from shelled cowpeas. The snake slipped from his arms into the box, then Weaver struck it with a club and killed it.
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Omaha
Ark
Ed Weaverer
Weaver
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