100 Years Ago
Thursday, December 5, 1918
“The Rhine! The Rhine! The German Rhine!
Who guards today that stream divine?
The answer to the impassioned shriek is:
Men from off of Bruffeys Creek
And Briery Branch and Rosin Run
And towns like...
100 Years Ago
Thursday, November 28, 1918
The State of West Virginia will decorate a block of New York’s Fifth Avenue to welcome the incoming soldiers who will begin to arrive soon.
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The government has raised the...
100 Years Ago
Thursday, November 21, 1918
“What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings
For equal division of unequal earnings,
Idler or bungler, or both, he is willing
To fork out his penny and pocket your shilling.”
We do not...
100 Years Ago
Thursday, November 14, 1918
WAR OVER
The Great War ended on Monday at eleven o’clock when Germany agreed to all the terms laid down by the Allied Commander, General Foch.
The Local Board has been notified not...
100 Years Ago
Thursday, November 7, 1918
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. C. Gardner have returned from Baltimore, where they were married on October 19, 1918. Mrs. Gardner was a Miss Cocke, of Baltimore. Mr. Gardner is a large...
100 Years Ago
Thursday, October 31, 1918
The eastern proverb is that you should sweep your house seven times before you accuse your neighbor of theft. Along the same line, you should see that there is no mink...
100 Year Ago
Thursday, October 24, 1918
If it were not for the statutes in the case made and provided, there would be no elections this year. As it is, we take our biennial political mud bath, but...
100 Years Ago
Thursday, October 17, 1918
We can assure our political editors that their political editorials do no harm. They are not read. Mr. Common Man has grown very adept at skipping this class of literature.
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