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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1949
Page
4
Under the Articles of Confederation Congress adopted the dollar as the monetary unit of the United States in 1785, establishing a standard for trade and accounting across states. The decision unified currency practices and laid groundwork for later national monetary systems.
Elmer M. Grieder, librarian at West Virginia University, was appointed assistant director of Stanford University libraries effective September 1. He previously served as general assistant at Harvard University library and sits on the West Virginia Library Association executive board and its publication editorial board. Howard H. Lapham will serve as interim head librarian starting July 15 until Grieder’s successor is named.
In a Wuhan restaurant Donald Bain, famed for animal sounds on radio, shares a flamboyant backstage tale. He recounts an offbeat pigeon romance in Central Park, impersonating both male and female birds to woo a pigeon named Gilda and its admirer Paul, ending with a tease about a sequel.
WELCH June 21 A year old coal miner Thomas W Benson was charged with second degree murder in the shotgun slaying of James Kyle Hall 24 of Caretta at the Benson home in McDowell County Hall was shot as he neared a stair landing as he came to take his wife back from Benson's home Hall worked as a miner for Olga Coal Co at Caretta Benson a machine operator at New River and Pocahontas Consolidated Coal Co mine at Capels is jailed in McDowell County.
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