Columbia Tile Co enters Grafton with Empress plant
The Columbia Tile Company plans to employ about forty men at start in the Empress Glass Company plant in Grafton. Charles R. Durbin is president and the company may later manufacture glassware if tile demand warrants. Start date anticipated in February with repairs ongoing and new machinery to be installed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia Tile CO
NEW Grafton Industry
Empress CO
Columbia Tile Company
Grafton
Waldo Hotel
Clarksburg
Oww Company
Charles R. Durbin
Charles W. Steele
William Nichols
Lee Bennett
G. H. A. Kunst
Empress Glass Company
First Ward
Empress
Nichols
Ftma
Firat
Com
Sentinel
Miss Sarah Keener Dies Sudden in Delaware Ohio
Miss Sarah Keener aged about 60 died suddenly of heart disease in Delaware Ohio on Wednesday. She was sister to Mr. Taylor Keener of Irontown and lived in town about 30 years ago. Remains will be brought here Friday for burial beside her mother in Bluemont cemetery. She lived with her brother E. T. Keener and leaves four sisters Frances Pierce Fairmont Ruth Adams Newark Nancy Hebb Rowlesburg and Susan Ayers Springfield Ohio.
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Sarah Keener
Delaware
Ohio
Taylor Keener
Irontown
Bluemont Cemetery
Miss Keener
E. T. Keener
Frances Pierce
Fairmont
Ruth Adams
Newark
Nancy Hebb
Rowlesburg
Susan Ayers
Springfield
City Streets Require Thorough Cleaning After Snow Melt
Citizens urge a citywide flush of filth from melting snow to curb typhoid risk. Local pleas call for a full street cleaning tomorrow to improve health and cleanliness.
Three Brooklyn Children Die In Home Fire
Mrs. Julia Jameson found her three children suffocated by smoke upon returning to her Brooklyn residence. Twins John and James aged three and sister Frances aged four perished as a stove overheated, fire burning out in the chimney corner with minor property loss.
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New York
Julia Jameson
Brooklyn
John
James
Frances
Sewing machine for sale offers Singer Bowing machine
Woman advertises a nearly new Singer sewing machine for sale claiming it cost $60 about a few months ago. Contains readable name Mary Ro Nog and awkward OCR elements but conveys an ad sale for a Bowing machine.
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Italx
Mary RO Nog
Ad “Adalaon
Apreet
Quiet Wedding Seals Mary Coyner Snider in Buckhannon
At Mary M. Coyner’s Buckhannon home a quiet ceremony tied Miss Coyner to Joseph Snider of Buckhannon, a telegraph operator. The couple, guests of groom’s parents on West Side, receive warm congratulations from The Sentinel.
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Mary M. Coyner
Buckhannon
Snider
Joseph Snider
Grafton
John Snider
Voters Must Confes All They Know or Go to the Pen
West Union Iowa December 29 The Adams county vote buying probe intensifies as Judge Blair warns that full truth must be disclosed or maximum penalties will follow. Prosecutor Stephenson says penitentiar y terms loom for anyone withholding information. Sam Howell, 84, walked 18 miles to correct his confession from 11 to 15 dollars. Grand jury has 140 to 150 indictments prepared, pushing total toward 900 with more expected in the next days.
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West Union
Adams County
Stephenson
Blair
Frank Saulabury
Ater
Sam Howell
Passes Granted to Silvered Veterans of Baltimore and Ohio R R
Oldest pensioners on the B and O Railroad roll receive New Year 1912 passes allowing travel across major divisions from Philadelphia to Parkersburg and Chicago to Louisville. The roster includes 36 men in their nineties, with the oldest at 92 and several at 90s, 89, and 88.
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Baltimore
Ohio
R.R
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
A. W. Thompson
Baltimore and Ohio System
Philadelphia
Parkersburg
Umbus
Longevity and Loyalty Mark Baltimore and Ohio Pension Era
History notes from 1820 to 1828 detailing the Baltimore and Ohio railroad pension system, age distribution among pensioners, and long service records. It cites 624 pensioners with 17 percent over 75, and a majority exceeding forty years in service, plus the railroad's pioneering pension fund of over a million and a half dollars. It also honors Weston police and sheriffs for quelling a lynching, praising state authority over mob violence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Biblicott Mills
Baltimore and , Ohio
Baltimore and Ohio
Thirst
Aemin I
Weston
West Virginia
Foy Man Wanted for Columbus Street Car Killings
A telegram from The Citizen of Columbus, Ohio, reports A D Foty, a former Grafton man, on the run after a workhouse sentence for killing a man during the recent Columbus street car strike. He was formerly a car chocker for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in Grafton and has connections to Clarksburg and Farmington.
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the Citizen
Columbus
Ohio
Grafton
Baster Sentinel
W. Va
A.D. Foty
Sherif
A. D. Foty
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Car Chalker
Futy
U. S
Marshal Happ
Farmington
Davis Liquor House
Clarksburg
Davis House
Vexpress
Marshal Hupp
Lilly
Litly
aMrehil Hupp
Lumbus
Columbus Traction Company
Traction Company
Sheri Hetner
Zanesville
Columbua
Picture at the Dixie Red Cross Tuberculosis Film
The Edison Company and National Red Cross Society presented The Red Cross Seal at the Dixie theatre last evening. The film educated viewers on combating tuberculosis, showing filthy tenements and convalescent patients at Vander Dilt clinic in New York. It aims to recruit public effort to stamp out the “white plague” in cities.
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Red Cross
Edison Company
National Red Cross Society
Dixie Theatre
Vander Dilt
New York
Officer Shoots Man in Harrison Street Clash
Police in Parkersburg say officer William Hill shot Tico Snodgrass three times during a confrontation after Snodgrass allegedly resisted arrest and attacked the officer with a washboard. Snodgrass, who was drunk, reportedly drove his wife and children from their home. He is expected to recover.
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Parkersburg
Willam Hill
Snodgrass
Harrison
Mr Thomas J McAvay Visits Jacksonville Florida
Mr McAvay writes from Jacksonville praising Southern hospitality yet ranks Graf ton hospitality highest. he is a frequent southern visitor. FARM FOR SALE 63 acres near Grafton two miles east improved with 4 room frame dwelling good orchard 4 acres growing timber call SCOTT A KINNEY 329 West Main St Grafton WV Also listing a fine line of box pacers at a low price.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas J. McAvay
Jacksonville
Florida
Grafton
Scott A. Kinney
Main
Prisoner Furby Lodged Behind State Walls at Moundsville
William Furby, a 30 year old Black man, charged with criminally assaulting Flora Anglin at Weston, was secretly moved to the Moundsville penitentiary. He arrived by train, was handcuffed between deputies, and kept in a separate cell pending Weston’s grand jury. Deputies Richards and Robinson escorted him, then returned to Clarksburg.
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Moundsville
William Furby
Flora Anglin
Weston
Manndeville
Engro
Furby
Richards
Robinson
Clarksburg
Government to press sugar frauds terms with refineries
Washington reports the customs service says draw back frauds against the government grow daily and that the government can dictate compromise. The American Sugar Refining Company recently offered seven hundred thousand dollars, but the government possesses evidence to compel repayment of not less than a million dollars. Politicians are discussed as usual in the fragment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
SUGAR
Washington, D. C
Official Customs Service
American Sugar Refining Company
Very Pleasant Party At Pruntytown Home
A very pleasant party was held at the home of Mr and Mrs rank Moore in Pruntytown last evening with dancing and games. At a reasonable hour refreshments were served. Miss Catherine Brively Miss Eadie Hueston Mosars Willie Heldt and George Hunston of this city attended.
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Rank Moore
Pruntytown
Catherine Brively
Eadie Hueston
Mosars
Willie Heldt
George Hunston
Disolution Notice for J Lée Hvans & Co Partnership
The firm of J Lée Hvans & Co will dissolve its partnership on January 1 1911. All persons owing accounts toward Ward Gram should settle on or before December 1910. All accounts not paid by that time will be placed for collection.
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J. Lée Hvans & Co
Ward Gram
Ealm
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GHAS
P. Durbin
Comp'y
Mari Ile
Saba
With Bride
Clarence D. Keer
Grifith
Greenwich
Virginia Stein
Washington Street
Mary Edith Disbold
Keefer
Carar Keener
Arthur E. Snider
Cmy
Orig
Foy Man
Mann
the Dixie
Uncle Sam
Jomer J. HM
Magill's Pharmacy
Roya
Model Bakerry
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