Daring Mail Robbery Strikes Lynchburg Station
A bold heist at Lynchburg Union Station occurred about 3 am on July 4. A Black man reportedly broke into the mail locker, grabbed a large registered pouch bound for Columbus Norfolk, and fled toward 9th Street. a sleeping postal porter was not awakened. Police and Postal Inspector N L Murray hunted for the thief and the missing mail all night, with little trace found. The hasp was forced with a blunt instrument, likely a stove poker, but the value of the stolen contents remains undetermined.
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Lynchburg
Nork
Union Station
9Th Street
N. L. Murray
Norfolk
Break With Past Lawyers Advised At Virginia Bar Meeting
Sherman L. Whipple of Boston urged the bar to emancipate from old traditions and adapt to modern conditions at the Virginia Bar Association session in Natural Bridge. He praised General Robert E. Lee and defended Taft over the Carnegie pension issue, calling for a shift from clerical to practical, contemporary legal practice. The gathering closed with a banquet after no evening session.
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Natural Bridge
Virginia Bar Association
Sherman L. Whipple
Boston
Shipping Board
Taft
Carnegie
Whipple
Segal
Robert H. Lee
Leviathan Sails On Another Atlantic Voyage
The reconverted Leviathan, hailed as queen of the American merchant marine, departed on Uncle Sam’s birthday for its first pleasure voyage under the Stars and Stripes. Thousands gathered on the waterfront as river craft and airplanes circled, flags fluttered, and a tiny Clermont toy ship steamed at her bow.
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New York
Leviathan
American Merchant Marine
Uncle Sam
Stars and Stripes
Hudson
Robert Fulton
Clermont
America
Early apothecaries emerge in medieval Europe
Pharmacy and medicine became separate professions by monks and priests in the tenth and eleventh centuries. Constantine Afér of Carthage is noted as father of the apothecaries. Preparations were sold to the rich and given to the poor, with no apothecaries in France before 1484.
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Constantine Afér
Carthage
France
Woodstock Baseball Rally Spoils Opponent With Late Scoring
Woodstock buildup in a rough game featured multiple innings with runs on key hits and errors. Plank delivered four hits including a bunt single to cap a late rally as Woodstock outreached their rivals.
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Plank
Cromweil
Ee Garrett
Ruppert
Schrole
Potts
Woodstock
Ed Lult
Dellinger
Stickley
Hult
Watt
Smith
Laughlin
Norris
Winchester
Short
Grisson
Giovengatti
Wise
Giovennatti
Garrett
Huff and Dellinger
Grissom
Giovemnatti
Short Wise
Taught
Hazlett
Cornwell as West Virginia Senate prospect linked to 1924 bid
Martinsburg West Virginia July 5 veterans and state observers discuss former governor John J Cornwell as a possible Democratic Senate nominee in 1924. Currently Baltimore and Ohio Company counsel, Cornwell’s previous statewide lead in 1916 and national attention are cited as factors in a potential bid despite lack of declared interest.
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Martinsburg
W. Va
West Virginia
Old Dominion
John J. Cornwell
Mountain
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Baltimore
Davis Elkins
Ohio
Cornwell
West
Virginia
M. M. Neely
Big City
Fountain Pens Through Three Centuries of Trade
The article traces fountain pen use to 1600 with an 1788 advertisement and notes broad adoption only in the last fifty years. It highlights Joseph Bramah, granted a patent in 1890, who also inspired the Bramah lock and hydraulic press.
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Joseph Bramah
Bramah
Men Easily Placed by Emerson Quotation
Brief excerpt presents an Emerson meditation on how a man reveals his position in life and thought. It contrasts senses and understanding with ideas imagination and duty, hinting at moral and intellectual self-awareness. The reflective fragment reads like a line from a lecture or essay.
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Emerson
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