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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1935
Page
6
The Charleston Gazette Independent Democratic Newspaper reports on local politics, civic events, and community notices from Charleston and surrounding areas, highlighting elections, public affairs, and societal happenings in a mid century tone.
AReflection on happiness compares joy from helping others to wealth art and status. It declares true happiness arises when self is drowned in the blessings of others, surpassing material luxuries and personal achievements.
A delegation representing 26 towns from Cabin Creek to Oak Hill petitions the state road commission to repair state route 61. The effort, led by the Kanawha South Side Improved Roads association, cites dense population and major industries urging timely upgrades to handle rising river traffic and expanding terminals along the Kanawha and Ohio rivers.
A speaker argues that State road No. 61 from Charleston to Kanawha Falls is hazardous and inefficient, neglecting the populous industrial south side. They urge adopting the Midland Trail north of the river for higher traffic, tax revenue, and future growth, calling toll bridges archaic and demanding better south side road service.
H E Bek of H FE Bek died suddenly at his Charleston home on Tuesday. A prominent automobile dealer and former National Automobile Dealers Association director he also led the Charleston chamber of commerce and served as a bank president. His death ends a life of wide achievement, public service, and devoted family leadership, leaving a void in church, fraternal orders, business circles, and among friends.
Randolph Review notes that bids have been called for road projects by the State Road Commission but Randolph remains unlisted. Routes 5 and 15 are unfinished, and the good roads amendment aims to connect counties, yet neither Pendleton nor Webster county seats are linked to Randolph, leaving the town isolated.
A compact tale explains how advertising combines information and news value. An experiment with nine cent brooms draws hundreds of shoppers, turning ad content into news that boosts store sales and prompts belief in advertising as news.
A fragmented stream of prose sketches a busy street and a doorman with a hat, clocks and dogs, then shifts to philosophical musings on progress. It mentions Avenue Henri Machin, a stroll from the Trocadero to the Bois, and a weathered, decaying urban mood framed by memory and decay.
A garbled, satirical squib mocks Congress and tax policy, referencing Boston tea party era themes and figures like Luther Bur tank and Radio City builders. It parodies fiscal battles, mentions double-entry bookkeeping and invented vegetatle taxes, with fragmented phrasing and repeated misprints.
Kipae Simipson surveys U S labor policy during the New Deal era, examining the role and fate of the National Recovery Administration and its impact on wages, working conditions, and government versus employer control. The piece weighs Perkins’s views on self imposed discipline and evolving labor ethics amid political pressure and constitutional limits.
Readers are invited to send four questions with three cents for return, and test knowledge with a list of items about Soviet Russia Roosevelt and place names. The page promotes an Indian place names booklet and requests readers to mail to Washington Bureau for a copy and further information.
Fragmentary text appears to be a byline and note about Arthur Brisbane with garbled typography and mis-OCR words. No clear event, person, place, or date is readable to form a concrete news item. The fragment references a column by Arthur Brisbane and Gunfire/Gazette style printing details, but lacks a coherent narrative.
The article notes Bermuda steamer arrivals with heavy luggage marked gin rum and duty free imports, citing U S lax rules and border commuter activity. It contrasts Jamaica and Buffalo cross border shipments, then shifts to yacht racing fever and moral musings on killing and electrodes.
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