Blind Craftsman Kibler Overcomes Adversity S
The Star spotlights B Homer Kibler a blind craftsman at 131 South Loudoun Street who sells and makes home goods including brooms chairs and upholstery. After losing a Hazleton coal mine job eight years ago he learned braille typewriting and trained at Charlottesville Virginia to run his own correspondence and craft business.
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Blind residents and Kibler's skill in Virginia
In Virginia about 5000 blind people exist with five self sustaining industrial schools run by L. L. Watts who is himself unsighted. Mr Kibler proves the unsighted can overcome handicap with skill and many satisfied customers. He asks for business not pity or charity. Mrs Harry Albin.
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Cities of State Spend on Public Schools
A Virginia Municipal Review table shows city shares of revenue spent on public schools. Winchester leads or near top with about 20 percent, while others range from the high teens to the low forties, with Richmond and Norfolk among mid to upper levels. The Handley Foundation aids local schools. no other city reports a sustaining foundation or dedicated fund.
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Reward Offered for Bank Bandits Captured in Boyce
A movement by the Virginia Bankers Association and the burglary insurance company offers rewards to officers who helped capture four negro bank robbers at Boyce in Clarke county. Deputy Sheriff Taylor of Washington county Maryland arrested one suspect at the Williamsport bridge on the Potomac River, who reportedly carried part of the stolen money. Two others received 18 years in the penitentiary.
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Taylor
Washington County
Williamsport
Potomacc River
Robbery suspects held after Martinsburg chase ends in injuries
Court at Berryville yesterday handed out terms while a fourth suspect James Lee remains hospitalized in Winchester from a thigh wound. Maryland officers and Sheriff Pannett expect the robbers to cross the Williamsport bridge.
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Mount Williams Notes
Mount Williams Virginia notes Mrs. N C Williams and two children Harding and Earle visited Mr W T Williams recently. Mr E R Crowser purchased a Ford touring car.
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N. C. Williams
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Earle
W. T. Willams
E. R. Crowser
Sunday Visits and Local Accidents Reported
Mr J H Burkhart and son Virgil spent Sunday with relatives at Fawcett Gap. Mr W T Williams visited Mr J M Orndorff on Sunday afternoon. Henry Fauver sprained his wrist falling from a truck while working in apples at Charles Snapp's orchard Cedar Creek grade. C J Keckley and Mrs J M Orndorf were dinner guests at A L Brewer's last Sunday. Ernest Ashwood, Middletown high student, spent the weekend at home.
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J. H. Burkhart
Virgil
Fawcett Gap
W. T. Williams
J. M. Orndorff
Henry Fauver
Charles Snapp
Cedar Creek
C. J. Keckley
J. M. Orndorf
Sirbaugh Sent to State Farm for Medical Confinement
Ira Sirbaugh, serving a one year jail sentence for auto theft, is to be transferred to the State Farm near Richmond under law for medical care. He reportedly plotted jail escape with plans to obtain revolvers and saws, leading to his relocation from a cell to a steel cage.
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Ira Sirbaugh
State Farm
Richmond
Sirbaugh
Pannett
Decree Orders Commissioner to Report on Anderson Real Estate
In Brick County Virginia the case Whitacre’s Admr versus V Belle Anderson et al is referred to a Commissioner in Chancery. The Commissioner will report on Anderson real estate liens and values and notify lien creditors to appear October 29 1926 at 9 am to present evidence in Winchester Virginia.
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Circuit Court
Brick County
Virginia
George S. Whitacre
Admr
Belle Anderson
W. Belle Anderson
Commissioner In Chancery
Commissioner’s
Winchester
Joseph B. Newlin
Chancery Ward & Larrick
Census Shows Vast Female Workforce and Health Claims
The 1920 Census of Manufactures lists 8,549,511 women and girls in all trades in the United States. The piece frames Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as helping working women stay healthy, citing testimonials from Mrs. W. M. Barry of Atlanta and Mrs. Anna Cott of Parkville Missouri about renewed vigor and ability to work and manage households.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Napoleon
Atlanta
Lydia B. Pinkham
Parkville
Lydia B.B. Pinkham
Lydia
Pinkham
Anna Cott
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Escape from state camp near Gore sparks manhunt
A Black man fled the state convict road camp near Gore in the western county. Guards conducted an all night search with little prospect of success as he could likely evade capture, fleeing into the mountains in that area.
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