Subscriptions Rates And Local Street Cleaning Debate
Subscription rates are listed for delivery by carrier and by mail with various prepaid terms. The piece also contains a controversial public letter criticizing Grafton street cleaning, urging a thorough washing of Main and Latrobe streets to improve shopper perception and promote business expansion. The letter argues a lack of a street commissioner harms the town and calls for action by local administration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sy Mail
Grafton
W. Ya
Associated Press
Aes
Ietrs
Ca Ous
Thear Iean
National Advertising Representative
B. Clayden Inc
New York
Lexington Avenue
Chicago
Michigan Avenue
Lomi
Christ
Kelley Nominated Candidacy for Taylor County Assessor
In Flemington district residents commend Fred Kelley for announcing his bid for Taylor County Assessor next year. The lifelong Republican businessman, with a record of public service and local leadership, would bring forthright, businesslike governance to the office if elected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred. Kelley
Fred Kelley
Flemington
Taylor County
Wise Boys
Kelley
Ed Lock
Flemington High School
Abe Pickus and the worldwide telephone diplomat
Cleveland’s Abe Pickus using calls to leaders from Hitler to Mussolini and Chamberlain to offer blunt American advice. His bold antics irritate foreign officials and draw both praise and critics, while his tolls fund his global conversations and keep him in the public eye.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MR. Pickus
Cleveland
Philadelphia Inquirer
Abe Pickus
Abe
Hitler
Austria
Fuehrer
Pickus
Mussolini
Chamberlain
England
Finland
Ekko
Russia
Moscow
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Browder Attacks Dies Committee At Madison Square Garden
Earl Browder, close associate of Stalin in the United States, charged the Dies committee with conspiring against democracy and peace. He claimed the phrases democracy and peace mask Stalinist tyranny and mass murder, while praising Dies and allies as energetic and efficient in exposing subversion.
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Earl Browder
Josef Stalin
United States
Madison Square Garden
Dies Committee
Mr. Browder
Russia
Stalin
Browder
Congress
Dies
Fabienne Seymour Returns to Willoughby Hall Belvedere
Fabienne Seymour, granddaughter of Gertrude, reclaims her place at Willoughby Hall near Baltimore after living in New York. She plans a life of riding, society, and philanthropy while balancing debts of family past and a future with Nicky as suitor.
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Gertrude
Comtesse de L
New York
Paris
Willoughby Hall
Maryland Valley
Baltimore
Fabienne Seymour
Carl Seymour
Mark
Ecna Willoughby
Gertrude Willoughby
Richard Seymour
Fabienne de Courcy
France
New Orleans
Fabienne
Fapienne de Courcy
Pablenne Seymour
Maryland
Edna
Europe
Nicky
Molly
Dewey Emerges as National Figure in Minnesota Speech
Thomas E. Dewey, New York prosecutor turned national candidate, delivered his maiden campaign speech in Minneapolis. He attacked New Deal restraint on enterprise, warned government hostility and taxation hinder revival, and urged renewed American initiative. The Wheeling Intelligencer notes his clear vision and potential impact.
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Dewey
Wheeling Intelligencer
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Minneapolis
Homeless Chef and Wife End Subway Sojourn in court
James McDowell, 39, a homeless unemployed chef, and his wife, 35, lived in the New York subway for seven days before a magistrate cleared them of vagrancy charges. The court cited societal conditions as the real issue while noting they had not eaten for 24 hours. McDowell was dismissed from WPA assistance. his wife, once a nurse, remains unable to find work.
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New York
James McDowell
Charles Solomon
McDowell
WPA
The Right to Live in West Virginia Pedestrian Fatalities
The piece warns that pedestrians account for 114 of 274 road deaths in West Virginia over ten months, challenging motorists at intersections. It notes pedestrians often fall victim not to reckless driving but to personal carelessness, reflecting on changing street attitudes and safety.
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Clarksburg
Old Dobbin
West Virginia
Taximan Robbed by Two Women in Huntington
Police said taxi driver Robert Newton was robbed at gunpoint of $4.50 and car keys by two well-dressed young women yesterday in Huntington. Lieutenant M M Johnson noted it was the first armed robbery by women in the city's history to his knowledge.
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Huntington
Robert Newton
M. M. Johson
Lawrence lawmaker indicted in 1938 primary graft case
Lawrence, secretary of the commonwealth in Earle's cabinet, faced indictments for allegedly favoring Pioneer Materials in state gravel contracts, blackmailing ex-president Spurgeon Bowser for 5000 and omitting the sum as a political contribution. Defense claims he was framed while next month's trial looms alongside Ralph Bashore and others in a month-long proceedings.
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Pennsylvania
Lawrence
Commonwealth
Earle
Pioneer Material
Spurgeon Bowser
Ralph M. Bashore
Democratic State Committee
Baas Labor and Industry
Obituary and recollections from Grafton’s history
Obituary reminiscences recount John Haslup a leaders in Grafton’s B and O foundry period and a longtime Mason. The narrative recalls Taylor county figures including Samuel Gramm Bruce Blue and DeMolay Commandery founders, civic roles, Civil War service, and local industry along Main Street and West Main Street. It notes Haslup’s death July 18, 1894 and burial in Bluemont cemetery and mentions efforts to revive horse racing at Taylor fairgrounds in 1894 and later civic achievements in Grafton with prominent families and merchants.
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John Haslup
Grafton
Edward Osborne
Baltimore and Ohio
North West Virginia Railroad
Nicholas Longworth
Nichols Gray
Main
Haslop Streets
Grafton Lodge No. 15
Fetterman
Presbyterian Church
East Main Street
Bluemont
Cemtery
John N. Tregellas
Abraham 3. Warder
Charles R. Durbin
Charles B. Kefauver
Old Taylor Fairgrounds
West Grafton
Hiram Gaines
Samuel H. Gramm
State Senate
Morgantown
Paradee-Cook
West Virginia
Taylor County
Reno
Grand Army
National League of Republican Clubs
Nashville
Tennssee
Cincinnati
Ohio
State Senate of
Monongalia
Preston
Taylor
F. Bruce Blue
Prominen
Stephen
Ann Burdett Blue
Remembrance Blue
Frederick Burdett
Stephen Blue
John W. Blue
Virginia
Pruntytown
Beverly and
Fairmont
J. B. Solomon
Seventeenth West Virginia Cavalry
Wheeling
Webster
J. M. Adams
West Main Street
Whitescarver
S. J. Willhide
Willhide and Blue
Willhide
St. John Street
Boyd and
Lafayette
Charles H. Straub
House of Delegates
Knights Tempars
Sirs Vernon Beall
A. J. Bonafield
J. W. Bradshaw
George Brinkman
George W. Creel
George B. Dunlap
Frederick C. Dudley
Robert L. Heflin
John 8. S. Herr
Albert C. Holy
J. M. Goodwin
BR. W. Kennedy
G. W. Leonard
Robert W. Kennedy
Grand Commandery
Convictions Enter Road Department Pay Roll Probe
The padding of state highways department pay rolls and related corruption cases are under appeal as the grand jury probes continue. Statements recount convictions tied to the 1938 gubernatorial era while James P. Kirk and Victor Skok face conspiracy allegations in bonding highway contractors. A former chief engineer, H. Temple, was acquitted in a separate inquiry amid cabinet upheaval and deer season changes.
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James P. Kirk
Pittsburgh
Victor Skok
Pennsylvania
JH. H. Temple
Earle
Charleston
de Batle
Roy E. Brownmill
H. F. Far
Kelley Seeks Republican Nomination For Taylor County Assessor
C Fred Kelley announces candidacy for the Republican nomination for Taylor county assessor and asks Republican voters for support at the May primary. He emphasizes his ability to discharge duties to general satisfaction and urges voters to back him. The piece also notes a West Virginia deer hunting policy remark about voluntary reporting and lighter penalties.
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Taylor County
C. Fred Kelley
West Virginia
Poling in Hospital with Serious Pneumonia
Forrest By Poling, assistant attorney general of West Virginia and American Legion department commander, is under observation at Mt. Alto hospital with an abscess of the right lobe. Doctors report his condition serious. Poling had been ill with pneumonia at his home in Charleston, West Virginia.
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Washington
Forrest
Poling
Atprney
West, Virginia
American Legion
Mt. Alto Hospital
Charleston
W. Va
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