The Charleston Gazette Telephones FU 1 80 140
The Charleston Gazette item lists telephones with figures FU 1 80 140, indicating a catalog or price notation. The short entry preserves a Business or Classified style note from the paper.
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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1935
Page
8
The Charleston Gazette item lists telephones with figures FU 1 80 140, indicating a catalog or price notation. The short entry preserves a Business or Classified style note from the paper.
The piece argues that investment firms, banks, utilities, and their vast networks oppose the Wheeler-Rayburn holding company bill meant to regulate those with legitimate purposes and dismantle illicit holding structures. It cites West Virginia figures, political maneuvering, and public sentiment favoring reform, noting a 56 to 32 vote in favor of advancing the bill and framing the issue as a test of presidential policy and mass opinion.
The Fairmont Times notes editorials by Kent and Mullison criticizing Roosevelt and defending his New Deal. It highlights Senator Neely and Governor Rump as effective leaders, questions Republican alternatives, and cites The Finder on tuberculosis fears and need for segregated care facilities. Huntington is singled out for infant mortality stats in a harsh light.
The West Virginia Conservation Commission released 10 wild turkeys in MeaDowell County and stocked 16 000 brown trout in Pinnacle Creek McDowell County. The streams near Kanawha districts receive special attention as restocking expands across forests and streams. The state distributes 500 000 trout from White Sulphur Springs and plans over a million brook trout from Marlinton Whitelingers hatcheries next week.
The article reviews Rexford Tugwell’s $1 billion settlement program within the Works Progress Administration. It notes his constrained funding, agency roll‑ins, and slow progress as he plans land use reforms and rural relief.
Critics and allies debated the political ploy behind Roosevelt’s tax proposal described as a master stroke to gain votes. Observers warned the plan risks overplaying its hand while arguing new taxes are needed to avoid repudiation and costly spending, with support from some factions and doubt from others.
A reader prompt invites questions to the Washington Bureau with mailing details. It lists sample trivia questions on history law geography and science and advertises a 24 page bound booklet of Native American place names with a coupon offer and ten cent postage.
The text mocks a worn constitution and party slogans, describing a half mast status and a plan to postpone congressional action while collecting era artifacts. It alludes to gifts from figures like Huey Long and Upton Sinclair and imagines sealing them with appropriation glue until 1936 as a tax on history.
A fragmented diary entry from New York on June 27 reflects on a failing restaurant atmosphere and social satire. The writer skewers critics, actors, and tastemakers, compares figures to famous personas, and muses on dining customs from cholate cafes to famed gourmets with Sharp witticisms and pop culture analogies.
Arthur Brisbane discusses the human search for sunshine and meaning, then pivots to current affairs. He cites Hitler’s labor quotas, American work habits, and a vision of individual valor. The column weighs Joe Louis’s prominence, Ethiopian sovereignty, and Mussolini’s stance amid the Abyssinia crisis.
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