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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1931
Page
6
The Charleston Gazette prints a Thought For Today featuring Robert W. Barbour. The reflection emphasizes patient effort shaping marble through repeated careful chisel passages, producing enduring beauty rather than dramatic single acts. The piece ends with the quotation Let us run with patience.
Savings deposits show a steady rise over the decade with a brief dip in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929 due to stock profits lure. Data from the American Bankers Association and state/national figures show deposits and depositors climbing, with New York accounting for about a quarter of national savings deposits, and posts of postal savings gains.
Deputy manager W Espey Alhig warned at White Sulphur that surplus money must be redirected as pioneering in industry and finance fades. He cited Paris hunger and Marie Antoinette to illustrate neglect of producers, urging West Virginia bankers to protest and learn before the grave is filled. The Gazette notes the wit of the piece.
The piece rails against combines and privileged elites wielding control over raw materials patents transport and finance. It warns that monopolistic power threatens workers farmers and producers and imagines a future where surplus money is found only for dividends to four percent. It likens the plan to a French queen era famine rhetoric and predicts a finished country ruled by a privileged minority.
A Wheeling man lacking work and food resorted to fishing for dinner. A deputy game warden confronted him. an argument led to the man striking the officer with a stone. He was sentenced to 100 days in jail and fined 100 plus costs. The state plans to collect the 100 fine, leaving the family with hardship and hunger as the wife and children seek food elsewhere. The issue reflects a shift from the motto Mountaineers are Always Free to stricter license enforcement.
West Virginia coal accidents caused 26 deaths in May, down eight from April but still high. Of 25 reported deaths, 14 came from roof and coal falls. Lt Gov George A Laughlin proposed a protective bill, but it failed in the state senate. Martinsburg Journal.
Arthur Brisbane notes from 1931 discuss Genoa bombing blasts and suspected communist links, Mussolini's response, the post war flying era, and looming beer policy changes. He critiques the Wickersham Commission, the Catholic Church ban on Leroy, and the limits of proving existence in science and faith.
In a Readers' Forum letter the editor notes a 15 percent rail rate rise prompting shippers and receivers to seek avoidance tips. The piece argues wage cuts without price relief for coal gas electricity and rent hurt consumers. It cites US Treasury and farm income figures to show wealth concentration and questions if 504 billionaires could buy all wheat and cotton crops.
An intercepted message from Charleston Kanawha County Court mentions Doc Thames saving at least 200 lives yearly and discusses a salary figure of 6 000 with 15 625 per head, ending with a signoff and question mark. The text appears as a fragmented confidential communication between fellows.
In New York on June 30 the cost of children’s parties climbs beyond simple games. Agencies offer midget orchestras acrobats clowns and ballet dancers with companies on Madison Avenue and Broadway. A Party Mart decorates homes arranges amusements and restores order. Prices span from 10 to 6500, with lavish Long Island fetes reportedly costing over 5000 and prizes like a Shetland pony offered.
A 1931 column notes Washington’s art-minded treasury chief Andrew Mellon shaping coinage and public art. It describes Mellon as an art expert within the Treasury, his influence over designs, and incidents of design flaws and costly, unresolved infrastructure gates blocking traffic at the White House gate posts.
A stringer entered a church during a service and sat in the back pew. After fidgeting he leaned to a white haired man and asked how long the preacher had been at it. The elder replied decades, unsure of the exact span. The stranger urged the audience to stay, thinking the sermon nearly over.
Fragmentary OCR style note featuring disjointed dialogue about George Washington and caricatured speech. Mentions auto finance and car buying with a remark on parking difficulty. Includes unclear references to Indy and a mock dialect. No clear narrative or date.
Readers are invited to send questions to The Gazette Washington Bureau at 1329 New York Avenue NW Washington DC. Include name and address and stamps for return postage. A quiz asks 20 questions on topics from geography to history, religion, and literature with provided answers and notes on figures such as Dante, Kipling, and Kipling’s poem The Ballad of the East and West, plus details on US presidential voting rights and the District of Columbia suffrage issue.
A Washington Bureau bulletin on prenatal care and pregnancy readiness is promoted for expectant mothers. The notice explains benefits of maternal fitness for a healthy baby and invites readers to mail five cents and return postage to obtain the bulletin.
The article argues tennis builds heart muscle, breathing ability, and overall coordination rather than raw muscle strength. It notes benefits for undernourished youths and cautions on heart conditions, stating that many heart murmurs in youths are not problematic and that serious exertion rarely causes heart failure. It also advertises Dr. Clendening’s pamphlets.
A reflective meditation on memory, recognition, and the clues that surface when the mind wanders. The narrator recalls repeating patterns of familiar places, names, and people, noting how recall arrives in sudden moments and how life feels like a continuing puzzle.
A reflection on frugal living criticizing extreme penny pinching. It questions whether strict saving benefits the family or simply satisfies personal pride. The piece implies family comfort may suffer when one hoards money.
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