Taft Backing River Project Aims for 9-Foot Channel
Albert Bettinger reports President Taft supports a nine foot river channel from Pittsburg to Cairo and bond funding for the Ohio River project. The House Rivers and Harbors committee plans to report a river and harbor bill in the coming session, with Burton and other members involved. Bettinger travels from Cincinnati to Hot Springs to push the plan before heading to Old Point Comfort for vacation.
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Hot Springs
Howard
Ohio River
Congress
House Committee On
Harbors
Albert Bettinger
Cincinnati
Taft
Bettinger
Pittsburg
Cairo
Burton
Tae
Ohio Valley Improvement Association
Old Point Comfort
Blueville social notes mix illness events and local visits
Miss Hattie Blue and Miss Annie Cassell are listed as ill with mild improvements noted for Cassell. Several residents, including George Reese and Hugh Watkins, recover from work injuries at Baltimore & Ohio shops. Thanksgiving visits populate the weekly roundup along with church plans and local travel between Blueville, Grafton, Knottsville, and nearby farms. A major Harrison county deed record is highlighted, and Woolford's Sanitary Lotion advertises relief.
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Hattie Blue
Annie Cassell
George Reese
Baltimore & Ohio
Hugh Watkins
Baltimore & ‘Ohio
Floyd Reese
Charles Cassell
Isaac Reece
Grafton
Effie Rogers
Carrie Casell
Absorbent Oil Promises Quick Pain Relief and Cures
An 19th century remedy claims to be the greatest and fastest pain reliever suitable for internal use against cramps and colic and external use for aches, sprains, lame back, and rheumatism. Sold by drug stores and country merchants with a guarantee.
Railroaders Enjoy Turkey Celebration at Fairmont
At the B and O scale house and nearby railroad men in Fairmont a turkey roast fed forty to fifty employes and visitors in the brakemen’s quarters. Temporary tables held a monster roast served from the Raush restaurant. The feast was described as a kingly spread and a highlight of Thanksgiving Day 1908.
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Fairmont
Ammon Will Grants for Nurses and New York Aid
Three graduates of the Illinois Training School of Nurses receive bequests from Walter E. Ammon a former Jersey City battery manufacturer. Nel lie G Miller and Freda B Phelps each get 500 dollars Alice L Voight 1500 dollars. Miss Anna Louise Cary of New York receives 25000 dollars. Miss Magdalena B Williams gets one third interest in his Jersey City business. The will also leaves sums to stenographers and other young women connected with his firms.
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Chicago
Illinois Training School of Nurses
Walter E. Ammon
Nellie G. Miller
Freda B. Phelps
Alice L. Voight
Ammon
Jersey City
N. J
Auditorium Hotel
Pennsylvania Station
Andrew McGrath
Anna Louise Cary
New York City
Magdalena B. ‘Williams
Williams
Ammons
Christmas Gifts Arrive As City Merchants Display Stock
The merchants of the city are receiving their stock of Christmas presents daily and many have opened part of their holiday displays. Beautiful gifts will be on show in Grafton stores in the coming days and anything desired can be bought locally.
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Grafton
Wind storm leads to unexpected reunion marriage plan
Chicago reports a Thanksgiving wind and rain storm blessed the chance meeting of John J Foley and Miss Josephine Barker, longtime sweethearts who had postponed their wedding. After a sidewalk collision, their eyes met, and Foley offered to accompany Barker home where friends announced their upcoming wedding. In Charleston, the United Mine Workers District No. 17 adjourned after reaffirming existing agreements and urging a joint state convention to discuss a wage scale and nonunion competition.
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Chicago
John J. Foley
Josephine Barker
Ohio
Foley
R. R. Donnelly
Josephine
John
Misa Barker
Mutual Friends
Wife Freed HM From Prison Ammon Notice
New York November 27 Col Bob Ammon, a get rich quick man, published a notice stating he will not pay the debts of his wife who secured his release from prison. He has inherited a share of his slain brother Walter Ammon’s fortune. Mrs Ammon gathered signatures for a petition and pleaded for his pardon after conviction in Mill get rich schemes. The notice asserts that all property in her name was purchased and belongs to him personally and individually.
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New York
Bob Ammon
Ammon
Walter Ammon
Robbers Disguised as Household Head Loot Washington Heights Home
Chicago dispatch says two burglars invaded William Goes residence in Washington Heights. One wore a mask of respectability to trick the mistress. They overpowered Mrs Goes, tied her to a chair and chloroformed her, then looted the house. She remained unconscious an hour and a half and is seriously ill. Harry, 12, freed his mother and sister, and helped restore her.
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Chicago
William Goes
Washington Heights
Harry
Weston contractor ships machinery for new bridges
Joseph Fuedle a Weston contractor who recently finished the stone work on the Cecil bridge has shipped his equipment to Enterprise to construct the stone work on a new bridge for the Fairmont Coal Company.
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Joseph Fuedle
Weston
Cecil
Enterprise
Fairmont Coal Company
New Day Tank Boosts Tygart Valley Glass Plant Output
Charles C. Meyer notes in the Commoner Glassworker that the Tygart Valley Glass Co of Grafton West Virginia has added a second New Day tank alongside its 12 pot furnace. Blown amps are the sole output of the tanks while the furnace runs ten press shops. Each shift runs one blow shop making candy revolvers and other private molded novelties from pot glass. Cut ware production has fallen to small levels with only two cutters on payroll. Four new lines expand gas output, including a TK colonial design and imitation cut. A new catalog of these latest productions is ready. Since starting blast in 1907 the plant has operated continuously, with only holiday stops or glass shortages causing downtime. Meanwhile the remaining stock at the Empire Glass Company's Graf ton works has been sold and is being shipped. there is no clear plan to open that operation soon. SEVERAL MINERS KILLED. Springfield Mt November 28 A cage loaded with miners at the Devereux mine north of the city was sent through the top works at 8 30 this morning and the cage wrecked at the bottom of the pit. Several are reported dead.
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Tygart Valley Glass
Charles C. Meyer
West Virginia
Tygart Valley Glass Co
Grafton
W. Va
Furna Ice
Empress Glass Company
Springfield
Devereux
Great Gloom In Marianna Over Mine Disaster
Marianna Pennsylvania is engulfed in grief after a Saturday mine disaster. Authorities say about 120 to 130 victims are unidentified with rescue efforts ongoing and a morgue established as families gather, awaiting word from officials. Experts from major western Pennsylvania mines inspect the scene as coffins and bodies are moved to the pool room morgue.
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Marianna
Justice Lilly to Open Insurance Agency After Term
Justice Charles R Lilly plans to retire from office and enter the insurance business. He has secured agencies for reliable life fire accident and health policies and will be resident agent for Scottish Union National and Aetna Accident Health. He will open offices over the post office and continue duties as United States Commissioner.
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Charles R. Lilly
Scottish Union & National Insurance Company
Aetna Accident and Health Company
Justice Lilly
United States
Miner Joshua Shaffer Killed In Farm Quarry Accident
Newburg West Virginia November 28 Joshua Shaffer was killed by a fall of slate while digging coal in a private mine on his farm about miles from Newburg. His nephew witnessed the incident but was unharmed. The Shaffer family burial plans list Reedsville cemetery.
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Joshua Shaffer
Preston County
Newburg
W. Va
Joshua Sghaffer
Shaffer
Bird's Creek
David Shaffer
Craneavile
Reedsville
Hitchcock Selected for Postmaster General Role
New York announces Frank Hitchcock has been offered and accepted the postmaster general position in Tait's cabinet for work in the recent campaign. Mrs. Thomas Henderson and her children of Fairmont visited here over the weekend with relatives before returning home.
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New York
Frank H. Hitchcock
Tait
Thomas Henderson
Fairmont
New Bank Venture by St Marys Parish in Manchester NH
November 28 in Manchester New Hampshire reports the organization of a popular bank by St Marys church parish members. The bank combines savings and cooperative features allowing deposits to borrow up to savings, with a board of advisers assessing responsibility. Deposits may be trusted up to a limit and then converted into redeemable shares in the depositor’s name. Officials are drawn from the shareholders.
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Manchester
N. H
Canada
St. Mary
Woman Shoots Self in Head at New York Hotel St. Regis
A woman identified as Mrs. B. M. Cowper of Middletown New York shot herself in the head and was found dying in her hotel room at the St. Regis after a note indicating imminent death reached a man named John Hood. Doctors said she was beyond medical help.
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New York
B. M. Cowper
Middletown
N. Y
St. Regis
John Hood
Hood
Denham Cleared of Pernicious Political Activity Charges
Washington November 28 Postmaster General Meyer announced that charges of pernicious political activity against Postmaster S Denham of Clarksburg West Virginia had been thoroughly investigated and not sustained Opponents of Senator Stephen B Elkins had charged Denham with being too active in the senator s interests The announcement ends the dispute over the postmaster s conduct in the Elkins campaign
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Washington, D. C
Meyer
S. €. Denham
Clarksburg
W. Va
Stephen B. Elkins
Denham
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Blueville
Edward Ware
Frances
Alberta
Lelia
John Cassell
Irvin Kinter
Ogden
Low Ayers
William Whitman
Knottsville
George Lucas
Lucas Daisy Farm
Lucas
Arthur Elder
Daisy Reece
Near Grafton
George Reece
Joshua Robinson
William Bowman
Won Farley
Henry Cramers
Carrie Shafferman
Bessie
Lou Ayers
L. S. Grose
Fetterman
Harrison County
Harrison
Dooridge
Joseph B. Barnes
Allegheny County
James R. Barnes
Alfred Cochran
Fayette County
Woolford
Jackson & Bro
Turkey
HS Money
Atheart
May Hare
Charleston
United Mine Workers of District No. 17
Kanawha, Valley
Minea
Committee On
Kanawha
National Executive Board
National Board
New River
Cabin Creek
Island Creek
Col
The
West Virginia Business College
Echool
Clarksburg, W. Va
Washington County
West Zollarsville
Corjoner W. H. Sipe
Govelock
Margut
Sipe
Louttit
John H. Jones
Pennsylvania
Regio
Calvary
Bucks
Jones & Laughlin Steel Company
Charles Dilworth
Dilworth Coal Company
Jonrface
Monongahela
Monongal
Black Diamond
Hazari
Pera
Confussons
Jones
Dilworth
Mariana
Practical
Rainers
Hitchcock
Pee Ey
New Bank Venture
Ss Rege
St. Regis Hotel
Western Canada
Western
Ian
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