I SIBLE THOUGHT AND PRAYER and New Year Reflections
The piece blends economic musing on wealth in real estate and stocks with reflections on New Year traditions. It notes population growth increasing land values, urges calmer driving after highway hazards, and reports Rivera’s resignation in Spain. It closes with a pep talk to advertise, plan, and seize the new year in Grafton.
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Price
Europe
Spain
Gen
Rivera
Alphonso
Land of the Dons
Mark Twain
A New Year By The Wayfarer
A 1930s exhortation urges Grafton citizens to boost their town and take responsibility for a prosperous year. The piece emphasizes daily opportunities, personal effort, and a square deal from the community, urging constructive support over criticism. It speaks to communal pride and mutual obligations in starting a new era.
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Grafton
Delegation seeks pardon for life prisoner Poe in 1924 slaying
Advisers to naval delegates from Alderson federal women’s prison met nine days ago in Raleigh County Jail. The Charleston delegation urged Governor Conley to grant clemency for J. F. Poe, a former state prohibition agent serving life for the 1924 Chelsey Childers murder near Barboursville.
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Federal Women's Prison
Alderson
Raleigh County
Charleston
Conley
J. F. Poe
Prohibition
Chelsey Childers
Barboursville
Faith Unshaken on France’s Attitude Toward Naval Conference
Washington officials say a firsthand examination of the note describing France’s stance toward the upcoming naval conference does not threaten the chances of success at the talks. The belief remains that Paris poses no danger to the conference’s aims.
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Washington
Jan
France
Industrial combinations become assets says Atterbury
General W. W. Atterbury, president of the Pennsylvania railroad, stated on January 1 that the great combinations of industrial enterprises, once feared as trusts, are now recognized as assets. He highlighted a shift in perception of large corporate alliances and their role in the economy.
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Philadelphia
W. W. Atterbury
Pennsylvania Railroad
Haitian fire probe advances on incendiary warehouse blaze
In Port-au-Prince on January 1 an investigation intensified into the fire that threatened warehouses of five treaty service departments. Suspected incendiary origin noted as investigators found cans of oil at the scene.
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Port-Au-Prince
Haiti
Treaty Service
Embezzling Charge Shocks Bangor City Hall
Bangor Maine January 1 City Treasurer Thomas Donovan arrested on embezzling jetty funds. He pleads not guilty before a municipal judge and is jailed on ten thousand dollar bail. Mayor John Wilson says Donovan confessed to taking twenty thousand to twenty five thousand over years while treasurer for over ten years.
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Bangor
Maine
Thomas
Donovan
John Wilson
S Donovanis
Attempt to Wreck Train Ends as Bridge Dynamited
Enid Oklahoma January 1 three men in a automobile were seen at the St Louis San Francisco Railway bridge east of Enid just after a westbound Tulsa passenger train passed over it The Garfield county sheriff said the wreck attempt failed and the bridge exploded it was revealed by the sheriff's office
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Enid
Okla
St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company
Tulsa
Garfield ‘County
Aarmer
Easley
Sister of Eielson Holds Hope Brother Will Be Found
Miss Adeline Elelson, sister of Carl Ren Elelson the American aviator missing in the Arctic for about seven weeks, expressed confidence he would be found. She, a Wenatchee Washington teacher, said he told her not to worry if no word came for several months.
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Eielson
Portland
Ore
Adeline Elelson
Carl Ren Elelson
Arctic
Elelson
Wenatchee
Wash
North
National student problems take center stage at Palo Alto meeting
Delegates at the Fifth Annual Con area of the National Indent Wan discuss student problems of national importance during today’s session in Palo Alto. The report notes extensive debate among attendees despite fragmented local notices and limited readable details.
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Palo, Alto
Cant
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