First in West Virginia Thought on Faith from 1947
A fragment from a West Virginia newspaper dated December 5 1947 offers a daily and Sunday view from Corrier and the W Vo Mell T By Melt including subscription notes and AP news dispatches. It closes with a religious prayer by Harry Emerson Fosdick inviting moral reflection in a challenging era.
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Corrier
The
W. Vo
Mell
Virginia
Associated Press
Asociated
Presa
Weil
AP News
Kanawha Welcomes Air Service With Opening Flights
Opening of air service at the Kanawha airport brings excitement to Charleston and Kanawha valley. The service promises rapid merchandise deliveries and growing cargo use, including machinery parts and large machines, with passenger capacity expanding as airlines operate three routes.
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Kanawha
Charleston
Kanawha Valley
Eans
I’d Rather Be Right In A Poorhouse Economy
Margaret eyes the meager kitchen as she trims costs and imagines a different life. Harry defends frugality on canned meals while Kanawha airport expansion and air cargo plans loom as bright future signs.
Anti Tuberculosis Christies seal advert Christmas item
A holiday bargain promotes Christies seals for tuberculosis prevention and treatment. The design features oxen pulling a snowbound sled loaded with green fir trees, a driver in a red shirt, a snow covered house with a red chimney, and the society’s double cross. Proceeds support TB efforts, a concept linked to Jacob Riis’s charity device.
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Jacob Riis
Celebrities and Phil Regan Shine at Plaza Club
Side glances at stars fill a New York supper club season as Irish tenor Phil Regan returns to the Plaza Hotel, where he now headlines nightly. The piece traces Regan’s rise from Brooklyn to police work, film work, and a hit record, plus anecdotes about public interest in luminaries like Ed Stettinius and King George VI.
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Bob Considine
York
New York
Phil Regan
Plaza Hotel
Phil
Brooklyn
Maria
Mike
George W. Martin
Regans
Jimmy Conboy
Johnny ‘Broderick
John Cordeas
Ralph Wonders
CBS
Anatole Friedland
Guy Lombardo
Burns and Rilen
Hollywood
Runyou Cancer Fund
Hope
Riley
Ed Stettinius
U. S
U.N
Stettinius
San Francisco
George VI
Buckingham Palace
Bob
Chinese Tea Legend and World Affairs Pick Up Steam
A long account blends the Sun Yat sen story with a romantic tale involving American Captain Gerald Tannebaum. It notes government sensitivity in China, the Sun family ties to Chiang Kai-shek, and the romance as a modern Madame Butterfly in reverse. The piece also salutes Oswaldo Aranha and Vermont Senator Warren Austin for roles at the UN, then hints at budget talks between Agriculture and the Army, directing readers to Page 7.
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Ashington
Edward VIII
England
Wally Simpson
Madame Sun Yat-sen
Gerald Tannebaum
Baltimore
Madame Sun
Martha Washington
China
Chiang Kai-shek
Madame Chiang
Soong
Dr. Sun
Chinese Republic
Gen. Marshall
Tannebaum
Madame Butterfly
Sun Yat-sen
Kuomintaka
Mme. Sun
Tannnebaum
Shanghai
Tannebaum I
States
USA
Sen
Warren Austin
Vermont
United Nations
Oswaldo Aranha
Brazil
Aranha
United States
Vargas
U.S
Pearl Harbor
U.S.A
Sao Paulo
Vishinsky
Gromyke
U.N
Austin
Agriculture Department
Army
Sal va tion Army charms four Santas in city event
Dear Harry letter credits Salvation Army for spreading Christmas cheer with four Santa figures in a local city event led by George Maj. Harry Ward and Salvation Army officials.
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Harry
Santa Claus
Salvation Army
George Maj. Harry Ward
City
Labor chiefs clash with GOP in looming presidential clash
National GOP circles portray labor leaders as aloof to victory and unable to unite for a national candidate. John L Lewis faces pressure as AFL circles plan funding and strategy, with potential friction over a pledged $100,000,000 political kitty and a planned AFL parley on 15th Street at the Washington hotel. Other labor giants are described as temperamental under the drive for influence.
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Republican Party
Cio-Political Action Committee
AFL
John 1
Lewis
15Th St
Washington Hotel
John L
Seasion
Sig Bill Hutcheson
AFL unions split as leaders rally different directions
Victor Riese reports on a fractured AFL with Big Bill Hutcherson Dan Tobin and John Lewis leading three major international unions in divergent paths. The GOP gains as unions threaten actions, but no single leader can unify the federation.
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AFL
Big Bill Hutcheson
Carpenters
Bill Green
Hutch
Green
APL
AEL
ATL
Federation
Dan Tobin
John Lewis
Labor-Educational and Political League
GOP
the Gazette
Ask The Gazette A Knowledge Quiz From The Gazette
A reader quiz from the Charleston Gazette Information Bureau includes questions and answers on topics from Nobel prize value to drilling costs and life insurance. It cites figures like the Gide Nobel prize value at about 40 487 American dollars and lend lease totals of 50 377 618 339.74 through March 31. It also notes U S library assets and Oraibi’s age as the oldest continuously inhabited American village.
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Andre Gide
France
Texas
United States
Netherlands
South Africa
Hanson Greg
Institute of Life Insurance
Spectator
District of Columbia
Oraibi
Arizona
Isolated Holly Grove Needs Bridge and State Aid
In Holly Grove, an unincorporated town along Paint Creek near the Kanawha river, residents face isolation due to a washed out or inaccessible state road on the creek’s east side. About 251 people live in $1 dwellings, with a church, store, school, and cemetery nearby. children cross the creek to reach buses, risking missed school or trespass on railroad property. For a quarter century promises of a bridge have faded as funds run short.
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Holly Grove
Paint Creek
U. S. Rt. Él
Hansford
Kingston
Beckley
Oily Grove
Sinatra Ties To Underworld Racket In Florida and Hollywood
A 1940s era expose links Frank Sinatra with Florida crime figures and Hollywood nightlife, naming Tarantino, Raft, Siegel, and Barney Ross among associates. The piece discusses money lending, publicity stunts, and an alleged attempt to frame Gerald L K Smith, with editor Tarantino facing pushback from Sinatra's manager George Evans and critics like Tarantino and Sullivan.
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Underworld
Frank Sinatra
Florida
Cuba
Bugsy Siegel
Beverly Hills
Siegel
Little Hollywood
Stu
Ness
Barney
Itf
Awl
Sinatra
Hank Sankota
Ross
Orange County
N. d
Tarantino
Tarantino Dubiou
Jacobs’ Beach
Son Square Garden
New York
Madi
Gerald L. K. Smith
Mr. Smith
Lst
Oid
Lee Mortimer
Bugsy Siegal
George Raft
George Evans
Barney Ross
Evans
Fd Sullivan
New York Daily News
Frank Marlow
Sullivan
Baering Down on Meat Rationing and Holiday Dining
In a 1947 humorous note Arthur Baer mocks wartime diet controls singling out meatless Tuesdays and chickenless Thursdays. He argues practical living requires appetite reversal while praising Washington controls for improving home life through restaurant dining and holiday offerings.
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Medina Hicmuia
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Harcy
Life
Harrys
Jerry
Hasen
Marcanet
DE Louis
Washington
Drew Pearson
Guess
D.W. Martin
Florence Dolphy
Ram. Ave
Davin Wallace Martin
BO Caperton
Fifayette CO
Hanawha Ave
Caarleston High School
Uaversity OF Michigan
Wyatt Coal CO. Presbyteriam
MASON
Edgewood Country Club
Ocean
Victor Riese
Big Bill
Teamsters
Ask
Charleston Gazetta Information Bureau
Eye St
N. E
D. C
Reader’s Forum
Editor Gazette
State Compensation Commission
United Mine Workers
Tis
Westbrook Peglor
Eisohets Freres
Chicago
Lucky Luciana
Ashton Stevens
Mayos
Rochester
Evens
Mr. Stevens
Mr. Evans
Frankie Boy
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Arthur “Guys” Baer
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