Weather of a Year in West Virginia Summary
Henry Howe and the West Virginia section of the climato logical service provide a general summary of the year in West Virginia. The state temperature averaged 52.2 degrees, below the 24 year average, with warmer springs and summers except July near normal. January was warm, February cold and wet, March very cold with record snowfall, April warmer and wetter, May dry with heavy frosts, June light rain but high heat, and July with two heat waves, periods of drought, and variable rainfall.
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Yi Henry
Howe
West, Virginia
Climatological Service
Buresnee
West Virginia
Heamore
Naual
Parkersburg
Elkins
Markersburg
Elking
Inet
Ohio Tiger
Fastern Panhandle
Ezro
Ohio
Thes ‘Hrentytinst
Ord
Finsith
Bayard
Grant County
Jurnace
Justice Lets Chicks Settle A. Gourt Gase
North Ogden, Pa report of a local dispute over a stolen hen and fourteen baby chicks. Justice Tierney ordered the hen and brood returned to Brienegk. Malieck paid $14 costs.
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Northogmnbergand
King Solomon
Michael P. Tierney
Wold
Tierney
John Brienegk
Michael Malieck
Sauire Tierney
Brieneck
Malfeck
Expert Stump-Blower Has Narrow Escape
Kenton Ohio March 20 Jake Bodine a prominent tailor and stump blower narrowly escaped danger after handling dynamite stumps. He found three caps instead of four and a cap rattled out while he cleaned his pipe risking an explosion that could have harmed him and damaged Kenton’s stump work livelihood.
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Kenton
Jake Bodine
Prosperous Outlook for Alaska Promises Big Development
Governor J F B Strong and Mrs Strong arrived in San Francisco citing an era of unprecedented Alaska prosperity. Mining and agricultural growth, rail expansion, and the Panama Canal are expected to unlock vast trade with the United States, with Seattle dominance fading as San Francisco regains prestige. Strong predicts brighter prospects across Alaska, including a surge in southeastern mining and new railroads drawing capital and people.
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San Francisco
Cal
Alaska
Govenor J. FB
Strong
Governor Strong
United States
Developme
Rone
Cest
Seattle
Goa
Portland
Paname
Sistinn
Phuakowim
Cook Inlet
Distric
Irie Possibl
Masons Invite Huntington for Spring Consistory Reunion
Huntington hosts await invitation from Dr. John W Morris to hold the Scottish Rite Masons spring consistory reunion in April. Huntington offers facilities and hotels after Wheeling temple fire. southern West Virginia Masons would attend. over two hundred visitors expected. no move to relocate the consistory. Women invade high class billiard rooms as sport grows. potential for women to become world billiard champions within five years.
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Huntington
Mar
Huntington Lodge of Perfection
J. Marshall Hawkins
John W. Morris
Sovereign Grand Inspector General
West Virginia
Morris
Hawkins
Wheeling
Masonic Temple
Charleston
Bluefield
Williamson
Guyans
Big Sandy
New York
Peace Egg Delights OROVILLE Hen Inspires Expo Pass
Sam Marks and his Plymouth Rock hen known for an egg bearing the word peace have attracted national attention. The Panama-Pacific Exposition president wrote offering a free pass and inviting Marks to bring the remarkable bird and the egg to the exposition, spotlighting the curious achievement.
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Oroville
Qalt
Mar
Sam Mark
Plymouth Rock
Mud Fame
Daily Mail
Marks
Egs
Martha
Professor Wants Us To Eat Hay
Philadelphia March 20. Smoky alfalfa for breakfast stewed timothy for lunch and broiled clover for supper is the menu for the future says Prof Henry Walters a Pennsylvania botanist He claims chemical treatment can make field vines palatable like cabbage and potatoes taste determined by a nerve in the mouth and tongue He warns taste is not hunger but nerve cues guiding food choices In other items Frances E Peters a Kirkwood widow fainted in police HQ after identifying cow skin as Pearl the thoroughbred calf raised by the two suspects Peters cried out for justice as she clutched her hands and begged to be allowed to reach the killers
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Philadelphia
Timothy
Henry) Walters
Pennsylvania
Hes
Becker
St. Louis
Frances E.) Peters
Kirkwood
Pearl
St. Louis County
State Farm Convict Force Plows 200 Acres Near Moundsville
Rapid progress is reported at State Farm east of Moundsville where a convict workforce has plowed over 200 of 274 acres in three weeks. With two fair weather days remaining the spring plowing should finish soon. The irrigation system installed by Warden M. White last fall is being tuned for the season and will draw water from Mournonsville city mains to ensure a stable supply through the summer, reducing drought risk to crops.
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Peni~ Lanitary
Moundsville
M. 2. White
Mournonsville
Houses Are for Rent in Heaven Says Evangelist
Philadelphia march 20 Billy Sunday described heaven visits in a vivid sermon cites "War Rent" signs on mansions for a banker a University of Pennsylvania professor and a board of education member He spoke of real estate in heaven and reported 305 converts in the afternoon bringing total for the day to 607 as crowds filed to the tabernacle audience
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Philadelphia
Billy
Abraham
Tsalah
Daniel
Tabernacle
Rodeheaver
Ackley
Joseph M. Steele
George C. Shane
la Philadelphia
University, of Pennsylvania
Board of Education
Heaven
Acnain
Convict Labor Sought for Kentucky Road Work
Louisville editors report that Kentucky voters will decide on an autumn amendment to the state constitution allowing prisoners to labor on roads and other public works outside prison walls. Previous proposal failed for timing. current effort gains support from labor representatives and governors candidates. The plan aims to restore convict strength through outdoor work, citing Colorado’s Sky Line Drive as a model.
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Louisville
Ke Mar
Kentucky
Pronent
Sears
Linda Neville
Penitentiary
Colorado
League Organized to Reduce Armies Worldwide
The American League to Limit Armaments announces a campaign via conferences with foreign leaders to unify efforts for worldwide reduction of armies and navies after the war. The group aims to coordinate the movement, pressure for a strong public presentation, and seek proportional peacetime disarmament while warends.
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League
SNEW
York
American League
Pebic
Tein
Vais
Ods
Europe
Tope
Prabi
Big Engine to Beat Frisco Exposition
In East Pittsburg a new electric passenger engine weighing sixty tons is completed. It is capable of pulling a full train at sixty miles per hour. The engine will be shown on a turntable in San Francisco next month before entering service.
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Pittsburg
Ina. P
East Pittsburg
San Francisco
New York Theater Glances at Davis and a Blinger Revue
New York columnist notes Glenmore Davis seeking a room in Toledo amid a crowded hotel. He hails the Broadway debut of Facts and Fancies, a KL & FK backed revue with Conroy, Lemaire, McNaughton, Mowan, Lopokova, Doane, Carrillo, Hoban, and the enigmatic Mushazoogoo David Abrams. Irvin Cobb derides ornate language in lectures while Marie Cahill and Daniel Vorth face bankruptcy yet again, amid hopes for a new Miss Cahill vehicle. snow closes a Munro’s dining room with no music or dancing forthcoming.
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New York
Qfer
Glenmore
Klaw
Erlanger
Tom Sharkey
Blinger
KL & FB
Marie Cahill
Daniel Vt
Wolves of
Credle
Misa Galil
Arthi
Daniel Vorth
Arthu
Triplets Five Times Record Family in South Bend
Mrs and Mrs Frank Scott near South Whitley have 19 children, thirteen living, all sons under twenty. They hold a world record with five sets of triplets plus two sets of twins. the family plans to move to Oklahoma or Kansas for tillable land and work.
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South Bend
Ind
Frank Scott
South Whitley
Kansas
Oklahoma
Scott
Frank M. Pugh
Scotts
Flere
Sethoof
Highland
Kan
Muskogee
Okla
Claus
Adhvek
Odd Mishap in Sharon Pa Aims For Clearer Report
Unclear fragments from a Sharon Pennsylvania item describe a mishap involving a revolver and McGuire. The text mentions a discharge and injuries to a knee, with references to Bessemer and a possible bystander or witness. Details are fragmented and unstable.
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Climatologi~ Tal Service
Territory
Przemysl
Junderro
Iwood
Petrograd
Masons
Bie
France
Louis XVIII
Egg
State Farm
State’ Prison
Billy Sunday
Peace Crusaders
Frisco Exposition
Irvin Cobb
Jas
Ashbell
Archer
Austad
Jarthair
Arnold Allen
Abel Sandener
Miray
Scott Ois
Andy H Band
Sharon
McGuire
Bessemer
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