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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1931
Page
8
A brief page from The Charleston Gazette notes a distribution of Associated Press dispatches and local items. The piece includes a morning line from editorials and a quotedThought for Today about strength and virtue.
The Harding Memorial near Marion Ohio features forty eight Greek columns representing states and houses the graves of President and Mrs Harding. Its completion cost about three quarters of a million dollars funded by popular subscription. Dedication was delayed until a president could attend with Hoover and Coolidge involved in the plan. The essay notes most presidents are buried near where they lived and cites ages at death and natural cause statistics for early presidents.
The St Lawrence waterway plan to open the Great Lakes to ocean vessels has spanned a dozen years of US Canada talks. A 1922 engineering board favored the project and 1925 international commission backed it. Costs cited range from 200 million to 835 million with power generation to fund development.
The piece compares proposed canal routes linking the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence. It notes Canadian and American preferences for all-Canadian or all-American paths, mentions bonds and financing in New York, and lampoons government relief ideas with a satirical reference to Hoover.
West Virginia faces a shift of taxing power as the state auditor would apportion utility property values across 600 districts. Critics warn of potential corruption, credit risk, and loss of local control, arguing local county courts and officials know conditions best and could protect public fiscal health more reliably.
Mrs Julia Maude Lowther 73 is sentenced to death in Ohio for murdering Mrs Clarm Smith, wife of a man awaiting execution. The case draws attention as no woman has been executed in Ohio before, while other news notes a meteor crash near Malinta and discussions on four percent beer and prohibition.
An intercepted note questions recognition of a word to meet President Hoover next Monday in the morning or noon. The fragment references a plan to arrange an audience or rendezvous with the president and hints at timing.
A 1931 McNaught Syndicate piece surveys Broadway and New York scenes with a collage of quotes and observations. It notes performers, socialites, and everyday urban life from the Plaza to Battery Park, mixing celebrity glimpses with street-level detail and a toast to American character.
The essay compares how Taft Wilson Harding and Coolidge held audiences, noting Taft’s eye contact, Wilson’s oratorical flair, Harding’s memorized passages and eye contact, and Coolidge’s calm, factual delivery. Hoover’s private humility contrasts with his on mic self presentation and reliance on text.
Readers are invited to mail questions to The Gazette's Washington Bureau at 392 New York Avenue Washington D C for answer and return postage. The page lists sample trivia questions with answers on history language fractions and flags and promotes a bulletin titled THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES with a coupon for five cents or a stamp to receive a copy.
The text discusses eggs as potent dietary factors that spur growth and vitality, outlining how they enhance an adequate diet. It cites experiments on animals and observations in children, noting increased hemoglobin and overall health with daily egg inclusion, while detailing egg composition and related nutritional insights.
A speaker recalls cherishing a long held grudge but admits it became a nuisance gathering dust as years passed. Finally they discard the old grudge, realizing it served no purpose and letting it go forever. Old enmities drift away like neighborhood quarrels.
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