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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1930
Page
2
A garbled report notes the administration denying plans to reappoint four tariff board members. The item references assurance from officials that the new tariff will not hurt business, but the text is corrupted with many unreadable phrases and names.
The speaker extols a flexible tariff system as essential to adjust rates to new conditions and correct errors. He argues it enables business-like methods, free from sectional or political influence, and would foster balanced scientific tariff revision by the legislature.
Crookshank a South Hills youth yesterday ended his lonely nine day vigil on the Kanawha river, seeking the body of a young woman in pink believed drowned when his canoe overturned two weeks ago. Police and river patrols, including a government dam watch and patrols by the Indiana towboat, conducted three days of river dragging and searches without yielding the remains.
Large gatherings attend revival meetings at Hansford theater Hansford led by Samuel J Swain of Pittsburgh under Union Mission of Charleston cooperation of denominations at Pratt Hansford and Crown Hill A full day service Sunday begins at eleven with a basket dinner on the old Sheltering Arma hospital grounds followed by prayers for hospital restoration or repurposing Conduct services continue 2 30 and 8 00 with special music arranged
A historical overview tracing West Virginia’s path to statehood from its Feb 1862 Virginia sessions to the June 1961 convention naming Wheeling as the capital and the June 20 1863 birth of the state. It notes the failed 1862 constitution and the 1861 to 1963 timeline culminating with Congress consent and inauguration of state officers.
Fragmentary OCR passage discusses West Virginia statehood timing and officer salaries from 1863, Kanawha County formation, and Kanawha River naming origin. It references Virginia’s consent to statehood in 1862 and debates over when the state began, plus notes on river origins and early explorers such as Colonel Abraham Wood and New River.
River news notes movements of boats on the Kankkwa river observed yesterday by the US river engineer. Vessels Liberty J M Breunton J T Wilson Major and others reported up or down at specified locks and times. River stages at eight o'clock include Chico Pittaburgh Dam Parkbraburg Point Pleasant with dam readings.
Bids were invited for paving with cement concrete along six miles of the Cabin Creek road between Giles and Leewood. The pavement would be ten feet wide. Plans and specifications are available from Conrad MM Boss, county road engineer. Each bid must include a cashier's check for 7500 dollars.
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