Industrial News Notes West Virginia building plans and bids
West Virginia construction activity is outlined with details of school additions in Richards Construction Empire district costing about 11 000. Yard curbing paving on Pike street to the B&O bridge and Chestnut street to Fairmont Shinnaton pike totals 36 000. Bids sought for three story hotel motion picture theater and store at Pennsboro costing 15 000. Other projects include coal company power plants 6 000 each and a 25 000 school board building in Ravenswood. Industry notes cover plans by Arch. Holmboe Lafferty Adair Stansbury and Ritter with bids set for material purchases and concrete work.
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SRG
West Virginia
Jitz
Board of, Education
Richards
Empire
Thollow
Archie Holmboe
Lafferty
Empireston
Mitch Cisler and
Morris
Marietta, O
Pike Street
Ige
West Fork River
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Chestnut Street
Fairmont and Shinnaton Pike
Pennshoro
B. F. McGinnis
R. H. Adair
Parkersburg
Fairmont
J. G. Smyth
Watson Building
Ira and
Caroline
Helen’s Inn
Consolidated Coal Company
Oak Park
George H. Dieringer
Wheeling
George ‘Hi Dieringer
A. M. Imhoff
Maple Avenue
Tenth
Main Streets
Taner Hawley
Main Street
Bock's Glenn
Stanley Floyd
George Hbeling
McLain Building
Theodore T. Stansbury
Citizens Bank
Julian Street
George Strong
Thirteenth Street
J. B. Collins
Ravenswood
William Howe Patton
Board of Education
Huntington
Verus T Ritter
First National Bank
Fourth Avenue
Ritter-Vickers
Charles Barnes
Eighth
Wallace
Princess Theater Company
A. F. Dickey
Harleston
George F. Gates
Board of County Commissioners
David Dick and Son
President Wilson gifts Mattoon triplets names and funds
Triplets born two months ago near Mattoon receive names William Wood-Yow and Wilson. President Wilson writes a letter praising the mother and hopes the children bring pride to their family and nation. He sends each baby $25 and plans a later $50 education gift. The trio weighed eighteen pounds at birth.
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Mattoon
Til
Elopers Elude Police to Marry in Maryland
Lulu Sterner known as Schulylkill Haven's prettiest girl and Russell R Smith of Glenworth wed in Elkton Maryland after slipping past state and county constables at a border cordon. Parents opposed the match and trains to the border were searched. the couple dressed to avoid recognition.
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Pottsville
Lulu Sterner
Schulylkill Haven
Russell R. Smith
Glen‘worth
Elkmm
Pottaville Ound
Maryland
Smith
Gyo Photographs for Christmas File Year
Gyo photographs for Christmas file year at See The Ideal Studio. The brief work captures seasonal portraits and festive styling, presented as a studio showcase with a focus on lighting, posing, and holiday mood.
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Gyo
Armless Boy Is a Wonder From Buffalo Student
Albany October 30 The State educational department has found an armless wonder in P McAuliffe a Hutchinson High School Buffalo student His physics exam paper was among the best and he passed with a high percentage He writes by holding the pen between chin and shoulder The boy studied physics eighty weeks and his instructors call him exceptionally bright He was born without arms.
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Albany
N. Y
State
P. McAuliffe
Hutchinson High School At
Buffalo
Charles N. Cobb
McAuliffe
Young swindler Thompson held for extradition in Canada
In Portage la Prairie Canada Oct 30 a man named Thompson claiming Chicago ties and a woman named Marle Kennedy, once at the University of Chicago, were arrested awaiting extradition. Thompson allegedly swindled Iowa and Canada out of over 20000 dollars. Kennedy says she met Thompson on the Midway campus years ago and married him before becoming a cloak model. Thompson says his father disowned him over the marriage and refuses to reveal his real father’s name.
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Portage LA Prairie
Canada
Thompson
Chicago
Vann
Ao Accurn Hance
University of Chicago
Iowa
Marle Kennedy
Midway
Shower of Gold For Babies BasBy Votes
A list of names with linked addresses and large monetary figures appears as a community roll, noting parents voting and baby shower participants. Included are Nellie Mills, Lenore McCue Dennig, Edith Mann, and many others with scattered addresses such as Chestnut, Locust, Poplar, and Denham Streets along with various sums. The fragmentary text presents a census-like tally or donor list with numerous personal entries and values, typical of a public records snippet.
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Jacson
George Viscent Stan
Charles
Locust St
Harlin and
Harold Goodwin Ei
H. B
Fourth
Gerald Read
William
Denham St
Virgil
Virginia Rush
Lillie M
Dorothy Delbridge
W. F
Virginia St
Agees
Guy
Robert Butler
Chestnut St
Byrd Lane
Garnet Hden Clevenger
Moore Ave
Floyd and Cloyd’ Ridenour
Dwing
James Frances Litsinger
Ralph Dennett
Bristol
Sars Corbin
Mechanic St
al. J
Lee St
Sam
Mulberry St
A. Foster
Buckhannon Pike
Earl Nedrow
Rodehays
Jane Elizabeth Long
Industrial
Weenee
Lora Maxine Hollen Ed. N
John Walton Martin W. Wheeler, Pt. Comfort
Ida Pays Henderahot
Comfort
Hildred Virginia Valentine
Hart St
Brances,Elmo Hum Sreease W. Ji
Milford St . Man
Northview
Charles Roberty
Nellie Bramer
Fanny Irene Matthey
Jas, A. Moore
Hallie Loraine Tate - Homer
Salem
Pearl Campbell
Millard H
Dana Paud Morr
George KR
Dola
Box
Robert Morgan
See
Dole
Odus Ray Kincaid
Folsom
Ruth Hood
Margaret Jackson
George Washington Britton
Lumberport
Ruth Limer
F., McWhorter
Wade Henry Witton
Sw. W
Ralph Lyon
Seeceau
Rhea Wayau
Sarah Burline Waggoner
Burl
Jane Lew
James Vanscoy
Frank
West Union
Edith Robinson
Isse John, Brown
Louis Hale Newberger
Louis, Weston
Helen Splain
Anos
Wolf William Williams
Wolf Summit
Virginia
Clarkeburg
Frances
A. Richardson
A. S
Shinnéton
Helen Irene Oldroyd
BH. C
Washburn
Fort
Duff St
Stealey Ada
Beatrice Bennett
Florence Lola Rice
Corrie Minger
Cw.r
Pike St. Paul Hamilton
Mrs. C., Sutton
Ellenboro May Get Glaga Plant
A party of capitalists visited Ellenboro seeking land to build a glass plant using a new pressing process. They want about 25 acres and 4,000 acres of leases for oil and gas, planning to drill their own gas fuel. They tour Huntington next, then will decide if Ellenboro can host the project.
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Ellenboro
Huntington
Samberton
Harrisville notes and county social items in Belpre and Elarwood region
The column lists visits by McKinley’s deputy and other county residents to Belpre Harrisville and Parkersburg. It notes the Harrisville Owls memorial service on November 7, a successful farmers picnic at the Union tabernacle with talks by H. J. Vandervort and Prof Titlow, and attendance by Miss Sadie R. Gusman. Community events include church activities, travel of local business people, and social gatherings such as the Ellenboro Social Club autumn party with a forest pageant and leaf theming.
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Joseph Gellaher Dawson
Elenboro
Gertrude Boehm
Marian Reed
Peete
J. B. Underwood
Miss Peas
AERIAL MAIL ROUTES PLANNED FOR MISSOURI ILLINOIS
Albert Bond Lambert reports planning of the first U S airplane mail routes. Two Missouri routes and a Missouri Illinois link, each covering about sixty miles, with aviator training by the government. The project aims to test national aerial mail service and national preparedness.
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ST. Louis
United States Post Ofice
Albert Bond Lambert
St.Louis
Missouri
Joe
Illinois
United States
Union
Black Hand Threats Stir Penn Township Fear
In Pittsburg on Oct 80 residents report edward coll received black hand letters. His 16 year old daughter Caroline was assaulted with hair clipped by two unknown men as she walked to school. A note warned secession of demands with a $1000 payoff placed under a stone and a 4 15 a m delivery was promised. The case involves threats to the Coll family and local residents.
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Pittsburg
Penn Township
Edward Coll
Coll
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