Postal to lower rates but W A will stand pat
Government relinquished control of telegraph lines last night triggering a 20 percent rate cut by the Postal Company while Western Union kept post government rates. Clarence H. Mackay announced the move and warned expenses could force further changes. Newcomb Carlton defended maintaining current rates noting Western Union serves far more communities and must cover higher costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Fostal
Western Union
Effert
Burleson
Clarence H. MacKay
Pogtam
Newcomb Carlton
MacKay
Postal Company
Postmaster General
Bell Telephone-Western Union
Postal Telegraph Cable Company
Carlton
Lenine Plans New Move In Russia Mass
Stockholm August 1 Svenska Dagbladet says Lenin intends to drastic policy shift and retire with Trotzky left in command of the Red Army. Commissaries discussed yielding power to other socialist parties, Lenin arguing a temporary transfer would prove other parties cannot reorganize Russia. Implications for Bolshevik strength and return to power outlined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stockholm
Svenska Dag Blatz
Nickolai Lenine
Leon Trotzky
Red Army
Lenine
Admiral Kolchak
Omsk
Russia
George Tschiteherin
M. Broutchka
Prof. Podrodski
Interior
Department crops forecast for West Virginia area
West Virginia's July crop estimates from the Department of Agriculture show 26,000,000 bushels of corn, 5,441,000 of winter wheat, 94,000 of commercial peaches, 4,939,006 of oats, and 2,200,080 barrels for the Shenandoah-Cumberland apple belt including Panhandle. Hog, cattle, sheep and chicken prices declined 2.4 percent from May to mid June.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarksburg
W. Va
Department of Agriculture
West Virginia
Shenandoah-Cumberland
Panhandle
Fake payroll scheme hits U S a new
Charles J. Strang a shipbuilder was arrested in West Brighton on an indictment from a Florida federal grand jury charging conspiracy to steal through a fraudulent payroll. The Emergency Fleet Corporation says the scheme could defraud the government of about 1 million dollars as conspirators are sought. A senior officer notes the fraud involved one man holding multiple pay cards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Charles J. Strang
West Brighton
Federal Grand Jury
Southern District of Florida
Emergency Fleet Corporation
United States Shipping Board
Duvall Shipbuilding Company
Florida
Strang
Strane
Local Social Notes and Civil War Route History
Pruntytown and Arnettsville social visits are listed as families, friends, and guests attend gatherings with several extended mentions. The piece notes travel of Charles Clendenning to Arnettsville, Miss Edna Tucker hosting a chicken roast, and many visits among neighbors including Mrs. Camlin, Mr. and Mrs. Weaver, and the L. C. Bennett household. It ends with a brief Civil War route summary stating the Fourteenth Corps and Seventieth Corps mileage on Sherman's march.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J.D. Michaels
Arnettsville
F.C. Camlin
Basil Michael
Katherine
Edna Tucker
Charles Clendenning
Sallie Batson
J. W. Batson
Hannah Norris
Kats Johnson
Caroline Fawcett
Virginia
Hill Bainbridge
Dorothy
Lee Pratt
Parkersburg
Lena Woodyard
Charles Sevanage
Kate Kembles
Charles Gawthrop
Wolf Summit
W. R. Demoss
B. Hoffman
Clarence Smallwood
Smallwood
Florence Hall
Bridgeport
M. P. Church
Harriett Steel
Fourteenth Corps
Sherman
Artilery Brigade
Seventieth Corps
Definition of airship and airplane adopted
Washington on July 1 reports the aerial service will use the term airship only for dirigible balloons and other lighter-than-air craft while all heavier-than-air machines will be called airplanes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Bet Ue
Agronauties
Young Girl Assaulted On Public Road Near Uniontown
Miss Goldie Grover, 17, daughter of a Walnut Hill farmer, was assaulted on a road near her Uniontown home. She lay unconscious, bloodied, with torn clothing. A man named Paul Shotar, address unknown, is in custody. Doctors say she cannot testify for about a week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uniontown
Goldie Grover
Walnut Hill
Paul Shotar
Local Woman Margaret Smallwood Dies at 78 in Town
Mrs. Margaret Smallwood a longtime east end resident died this morning at 6 at her home 418 East Main Street from heart disease. Age about 78 she lived in the city nineteen years. Survived by five children including Mrs. John Dean and Mrs. Summers. Funeral plans unclear. burial at Smith Cemetery Pruntytown. Funeral Director John A. McCabe in charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daily Sentinel
Margaret Smallwood
E. Main Street
Johnn Dean
Summers
Wheeling
Hoy
Sistersville
Charles Smallwood
Akron
Ohio
Fanny
Smallwood
Smith Cemetery
Pruntytown
John A. McCabe
Massacres of Russian Jews Reported by Polish Sources
London reports from semi official Polish sources describe a three day massacre of Jews in Odessa by General Gregoriess troops who surrounded the Jewish quarter. The Jewish communities in Ukraine and Bessarabia declare a fourteen day mourning period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Gregoriess
Odessa
Ukraine
Bessarabia
New Battleship Contract Awarded for Massachusetts
Secretary Daniels announced before leaving for the Pacific coast that the battleship No 64 will be named the Massachusetts. The contract goes to Fore River Shipbuilding Corporation of Quincy Massachusetts. The ship will displace 43200 tons and is the last of the authorized battleships to be contracted for.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Daniels
Pacific Coast
Massachusetts
Fore River Shipbuilding Corporation
Quincy
Robberies at wreck of Baltimore & Ohio train No 97
Aug 2 in Doddridge county Magistrate Ireland held Addie Davis Glen Davis and H R Gains all of Long Run to the grand jury on a charge of stealing more than 1000 dollars worth of goods from the wreckage of Baltimore and Ohio train No 97 at No 2 tunnel last Friday. They were arrested shortly after by Lieut D W Howery and Officers C W Mur jed.
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Clarksburg
Aug
J.addie Davis
Glen Davis
H. R. Gains
Long Run
Doddridge County
P. M. Ireland
West Union
Baltimore & Ohio
D. W. Howery
C. W. Mur Jed
Prices to Reduce 10 Nov 1918 Urges Gov action
Government moves to curb wartime costs with a broad plan. The House delays recess to consider railroad wage requests while the Senate weighs the Myers currency proposal. A three‑man committee begins evaluating living costs, and officials discuss possible wheat market actions to lower flour and staple prices.
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Washington
House
Wilson
Senate
Myers
Brotherhood of Railway Conductors
House Interstate Commerce Committee
Federal Trade Commission
Congress
White House
Palmer
Julius Barner
United States Grain Corporation
Noted New York producer dies after long illness
Oscar Hammerstein II, famed theatre builder and impresario, died in a hospital at 7:35 p.m. from complications after a prolonged illness. Born in Berlin in 1847, he became a key force in American opera and musical theater, building Harlem and Manhattan venues and shaping the era’s operatic and theatrical landscape.
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New York
Osesi Heetawerstein
Hammerstein
Oscar Hammerstein
Amelia
Wew
Mr. Hammerstein
Berlin
Germany
United States
Oscar
Adolph Neuendorf
Bowery
The
Stadt
Lola
Antonio Lobster
Harlem Rest
Neuendorf
Fourteenth Street
Harlem
Koster & Bial
Olympia Theatre
Yvette Guilbert
Olympia
Mir Hammerstein
White
Harlem Opera House
Columbus
Philadelphia
Manhattan
Metrospolitan Opera Company
Impressario
Hanmer
Fred Martin Named Census Supervisor for Six States
Washington Aug 4 Director of the Census SL Rogers submitted for approval a list of Pennsylvania Ohio and West Virginia census supervisors. West Virginia districts include Brooke Hancock Marion Marshall Ohio Taylor and Wetzel counties Frederick T Martin Grafton for the first district and more followed by Knott Clarksville and others with Murhpy Parkersburg and Johnson Union. No appoint available for the sixth district Boone Fayette Greenbrier Kanawha Pocahoh and Raleigh counties.
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Washington
Rogers
Commerce
Redfield
Pennsylvania
Ohio
West Virginia
Brooke
Hancock
Marion
Marshall
Taylor and Wetzel
Frederick
T. Martin
Grafton
Barbour
Berkley
Grant
Hampshire
Hardy
Jefferson
Mineral
Monongalia
Morgan
Pendelton
Preston
Randolph
Tucker Counties
William J. Knott
Shepherdstown
Braxton
Calhoun
Clay
Doddridge
Gilmer
Harrison, Lewis, Nicholas
Ritchie, Upshur
Webster
Percy
Clarksburg
Cabell
Jackson
Mason, Pleasants
Putnam
Roane Tyler
Wirt
Wood
Joseph M. Murphy
Parkersburg
Lincoln
Logan
McDowell
Mercer
Mingo
Monroe
Summers
Wayne
Wyoming
Albert S. Johnson
Union
Boone
Fayette
Greenbrier
Kanawha
Pocahon
Raleigh
View Art Mooney Committed Suicide At Bridge
The body of Arthur Mooney aged Pittsburgh was recovered after he vanished from Sixth Street Bridge into the Allegheny river. He had been walking with his mother when a tan jumper was seen entering the river. Mooney had been recently discharged from an army hospital where he was treated for wounds from action in France. Friends say he believed he would not regain his health and took his own life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Arthur Mooney
Sixth Street
Allegheny River
Mooney
Mooney Wee
Army Hospital
Praice
Nebraska Ratifies Federal Woman Suffrage Amendment
Lincoln Neb Aug 2 Nebraska today ratified the Federal Woman Suffrage Amendment to the constitution with a 94 to 0 House vote after the Senate approved earlier in the week. Nebraska becomes the 14th state to ratify.
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Lincoln
Neb
Nebraska
House
Senate
New Army Truck Gift to Taylor County Arrives
A large two ton U S Army truck, sent by the government after hostilities ceased, arrived in the city last night driven from Charleston and will operate on the Pruntytown road Monday morning. The gift, free of charge, is stored at Walter Cook's garage at Latrobe and St Mary Street while a larger accompanying truck is expected soon.
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Charleston
Pruntytown Road
Taylor County
United States
Walter Cook
Latrobe and
St. Mary Street
Labor demands public control of railroads in new plan
Aug 5 Washington report: organized labor issues a bold proposal calling for private capital to quit the railways. A tripartite body of public, management, and workers would govern, with government bonds replacing private investment and revenue shared equally, aiming to cut living costs and expand service. The plan frames labor as the driving force behind a fundamental industry reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ancan Federation of Labor
Cormigt
Congress
Becaus
Wilson
United States
Wall Street
W. G. Lee
Brotherhood
West Virginia Car Line Put in Receivers Hands
Wheeling Aug 5 West Virginia Traction and Electric Company facing receivership after a court order in Philippi Judge Alston G Dayton appoints J D Whittemore as receiver The firm operates extensively in the Wheeling district and across the state
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia
Wheelng
W. Va
West Virginia Traction & Electric Company
West Virginia
Wheeling
Philippi
Alston G. Dayton
J. D. Whittemore
Gilmer County Farmers Set State Wool Price Record
Gilmer county pooled its wool under university supervision and sold 15,000 pounds for 6 1/2 cents a pound ungraded. The new high price surpasses the prior ungraded wool record of 64 cents per pound.
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Gilmer County
Morgantown
W. Va
EB. L. Shaw
University
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