West Virginia Humane Society selects Elkins for Children's Home
The State Board of Directors chose Elkins as the site for the new Children's Home funded with a $20,000 legislative appropriation. Buckhannon submitted several options but Elkins won after site presentations by local leaders and officials. The board plans to visit Elkins around August 10 to pick the exact site and return in October for building plans.
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Parkersburg
W. Va
State Board of Directors
West Virginia
Humane Society
Elkins
Buckhannon
Boyd Weese
W. H. Cobb
Board of Trade
J. E. Heavener
A. F. Wilmoth
Mike King
M. D. Helmick
J. E B. Kildow
Dr. McBee
William S. O'Brien
H. Roy Waugh
F. M. Marple
R. O. Roller
Charleston
M. B. Morris
Glenville
F. ©. Baker
Parsons
J. W. Perry
Huntington
Jewelry theft at Camp Hunt robs visitor of $1000
Mrs. M. Whiteside, guest with Lieutenant Colonel and Mrs. Kreps, reports a hotel robbery at the Belmont in Somerset. Jewelry valued near $1000 vanished from her room after she retired about midnight, including five necklaces, gold earrings, chains, and a diamond and pearl pendant. Police investigate.
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Somerset
8. M. Whiteside
Second Brigade
Morgantown
W. Va
Whiteside
Camp Hunt
Louis T. Kreps
William E. Masscock
Sterns Bankup to Bankruptcy at The Hub Store
Ld. Stern a bankrupt creditor of The Hub has gone to bankruptcy but may resume business. The Mub clothing store on Malin street also closed. Attorney Wo Samples handles the case in referee tie for settlement. Liabilities about 5 000 dollars, assets about 5 000 dollars. Business conditions blamed for failure. Stern plans to return and seek losses. Mr and Mrs Stern went to Atlantic City last evening for several weeks.
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Loum d Stech
Yeeyttetor
Mub
Malin Street Clothing
Wo Samples
Stern
Mrs. Stern
Atlantic City
J B Emploes Big Day at Harpers Ferry Y M C A
Y M C A Day drew more than eight thousand railroad workers from the Balti more & Ohio system and their families to Island Park Harpers Ferry for the 28th annual reunion. Prominent officials attended including I M Rice W C Montiglan and T E Stacy with special trains from Philadelphia Baltimore Washington and other cities. Miss Jennie Smith spoke of conversion work and the Baltimore & Ohio pioneer Y M C A branch praising promotions and uplifting influence. The event recalled the 1881 Island Park meeting for many veteran railroaders.
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Harpers Ferre . Va
Railroad Y. M.C. A
Harpers Ferry
Baltimore & Olio
Ohio River
Island Park
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Washington
Hagerstown
Frederick
Brunswick
Winchester
Staunton
Harrisonburg
Martinsburg
Cumberland
Keyser
Piedmont
I. M. Rice
West Virginia
Parkersburg
Riverside
W. C. Montiglan
T. E. Stacy
Baltimore and Ohio
Jennie Smith
National Railroad
Jennie
Baltimore & Ohio
Grafton
Association
Local league urged to fight tuberculosis in Grafton exhibit
A movement seeks to form a local tuberculosis fight league after a letter from John H. Gillespy. The state league exhibit will be in Grafton on August 4 and is free to all. A ladies fellow committee will guide visitors, and every effort will be made to welcome attendees.
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State League
Grafton
John H. Gillespy
Rumors of resignations in Charleston dry council
In Charleston West Virginia rumors say six or seven dry councilmen may resign at the next regular session. With six wets voting, they could fill vacancies and push for saloon licenses. Wets aim to regain licenses soon, aided by county court approval after council action. Agents for whiskey interests are quietly pressing for licenses.
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Charleston
W. Va
Board of Affairs
Pulliam Dead From Wound In New York
Harry Pulliam, president of the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, died at 7:40 AM in his New York Athletic Club rooms from a self-inflicted pistol wound. Officials say mental distress and recent outbreaks contributed. coroner placed him under technical arrest, no suicide notes found.
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New York
Harry & Pulliam
National League of Professional Baseball Clubs
New York Athletic Club
Fifty-ninth Street
Sixth Avenue
Chicago
Cincinnati
League
Pulliam
Shrady
Longworth Daughter Aims for Balloon Flight
Washington reports that Nicholas Longworth’s daughter, a Roosevelt era figure, has become keen on aeronautics and may take a balloon flight guided by Aero Club of America president A Holland Forbes. Her husband’s consent is noted as a prerequisite for the risk of balloon travel.
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Washington
Nicholas Longworth
Roosevelt
A. Holland Forbes
New York
Aero Club of America
Longworth
Angry tin workers clash with strike-breakers in Clarksburg
Clarksbury, W Va July 30 Joseph Frell an Italian and Rus tie Steen a Finlander said to be in the employ of the American Sheet and Tin Plate Company were set upon by employes of Phillips Sheet and Tin Plate plant here and 30 severely beaten with one taken to a hospital The men were trying to lure local tin plate workers to Pennsylvania plants as strike-breakers Steen was mobbed by two hundred men and rescued by the plant forman
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Clarksburg
W. Va
Joseph Frell
Rustie Steen
American Sheet and Tin Plate Company
Phillips Sheet and Tin Plate
Pennsylvania
Steen
Forman
Taft notes lumber cap at 1.25 in tariff talks
The Payne Aldrich tariff conference reaches agreement on disputed points and the conferees sign off. President Taft warns he will veto if lumber, gloves, hosiery, leather schedules exceed his concessions. House vote set for Saturday amid a split with Speaker Cannon.
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Washington D. C
House
Washington
Taft
Congress
Bannon
Conference Committee
Houses of
Senate
Aldrich
Bailey
Law Should Be Repealed Over State Child Care Charge
J Ed Kildow of Elkins urged repeal of a West Virginia law he says shoves a child from one state institution into another, forcing Randolph County to pay fifty dollars a year for a three year old with epilepsy born in an Barbour almshouse. The child, placed by the West Virginia Humane Society, was rejected as a state charge by Attorney General Conley. The case, highlighted in Parkersburg, involves the state home for incurables at Huntington and a plan to move the child back to Elkins next week.
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Parkersburg
J. Ed Kildow
Elkins
West Virginia Humane Society
Randolph County
Kildow
State Humane Society
Barbour County
Hikins
Huntington
Conley
West Virginia
Randolph
Giants Lose In State Championship Battle
Dabney's Gratton Colored Giants fall to the Wheeling colored team in a two game set for the state title. Wheeling wins 4 2 in game one as Redman holds the locals to few hits. In game two Dabney struggles with Rowles behind him and Wheeling’s bats explode, aided by a saved play from a Cub player.
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Dabney
Gratton
Colored Giants
Waterloo
Wheeling
Redman
Giants
Burf Howell
Beaner
Rowles
Heston
Cub
Grafton
Injured in Laundry Engine Accident at Dye Works
Hugh Waing, a washer at Home Steam Cleaning Dye Works and Laundry, was badly injured in the laundry department near noon today while working on the engine. A deep cut severed a vein. Dr. Warden attended him and Waing will be off duty for several weeks.
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Hugh Waing
Daily Sentinel
T. W. Heironimus
Waing
Warden
Imner School Closes After Successful Summer Session
Morgantown West Virginia July 30 The university summer school closed today after the most successful session in its history with an enrollment of 421. Mrs J George Preizs of Main Street returned yesterday from a visit to her daughter Mrs Charles Pilson at Meta. Mrs Mary J Painter of Thornton was in the city yesterday.
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Morgantown
W. Va
J. George Preizs
Main Street
Charles Pilson
Meta
Mary J. Painter
Thornton
City
Desperate Spain faces Moorish victory and urban unrest
Madrid reports a crushing defeat for Spanish forces in Morocco near Melilla while Barcelona erupts in riot and pillage. Moors push toward Alhucemas as Madrid braces amid anarchy, anti war protests, and garrison disaffection. About 3,000 killed or wounded, with Melilla under siege.
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Madrid
Spain
Morocco
Barcelona
Abyssinia
Alhucemas
Melilla
Oficial
Tere
Belleville woman helps trap her father's killer
Ella Waltz of Belleville says she identified Roy L. Griswold a photographer in Georgetown Colorado as the man who chloroformed robbed and threw her father Peter Waltz from a third story window killing him last November. Griswold denies the charges and claims he has never been in Belleville.
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Denver
Ella Waltz
Belleville
Roy L. Griswold
Georgetown
Col
Peter Waltz
Walts
Blondie Blake
Roy Blake
Miss Waltz
Griswold
Milneis
Colorado
Blake
Miss Walta
JOLLIFFE DIES. EARLY WVU GRADUATE
Morgantown, July 80. W B Jolliffe of Morgantown died last night after long cancer. One of the state university’s first three graduates, class of 1871. He was prominent in local business circles and is survived by three daughters.
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Morgantown
W. Va
W. B. Jolliffe
The
State University
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