Forest Camp Boy Reports Doing Fine
The Sentinel notes Pete Collier of Taylor county among over fifty local youths in the federal forestry program for six months. At Greenbrier Camp in Rupert, twenty Taylor county boys hold squad roles with five leaders in top positions. Pay starts at 30 dollars monthly with 25 dollars allotted for dependents. Folio and Bolliger receive raises to 36 dollars.
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the Sentinel
Pete’ Collier
Taylor County
Collier
Fred’ B. Collier
West Main St
Kentucky
Feder Forestation
Rupert
Greenbrier County
Greenbrier Camp
Greenbrier
Aimee Pauses Personal Tangles for Chicago Trip
Temple pastor Mary Aimee McPherson, in a breakfast hotel discussion, decides to set aside marital tangles and depart this afternoon for a trip to Chicago, ordering train reservations.
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Aimee Temple McPherson
Butohaafelus
Chicago
Raleigh Miners to Get Raise in Pay
A substantial wage increase for 7,500 miners in 43 mines across the Winding Gulf coalfields in Raleigh and Wyoming counties was announced after a district operators meeting. The new scale, effective August 1, aims to raise one basic rate from 35 to 45 cents an hour pending code approval under the Industrial Recovery Act.
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Beckley
Gulf
Raleigh
Wyoming Counties
Five Feared Victims Of Cloudburst Found
Reports from Wheeling on July 27 state police confirmed five additional youths drowned in a cloudburst Tuesday. Walter Davis and his son were among the victims. Davis’ body was recovered but his son remains missing.
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Wheeling
Walter Davis
Davis
Chevrolet and Pontiac plants announce 16 percent wage raise
Detroit July 27. William S. Knudsen, president of Chevrolet, announced a 16 percent increase in hourly wage rates for about 40 000 workers across 20 Chevrolet and Pontiac plants in Detroit Michigan.
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Detroit
Mich
William S. Knudsen
Chevrolet Motor Car Company
Chevrolet
Pontiac
Taylor Named Deputy Prohibition Administrator for Southern WV
J Alfred Taylor former speaker of the house of delegates and former congressman confirmed he had been recommended for appointment as deputy prohibition administrator for southern West Virginia He cited advice from Senator Neely that the recommendation had been made.
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J. Alfred Taylor
Noyettevile
House of Delegates
Congress
Euthern West Virginia
Neely
Carrier Boy Given Note for Ransom
Federal operators and police in Tulsa report a carrier boy, unnamed, was stopped by four men in an automobile early yesterday and given a ransom note addressed to Mrs. Charles F. Urschel. The note, written on the back of a blank Exchange National Bank check, demanded 10 000 dollars.
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Tulsa
Okla
Nesta
Ner
Charles F. Urschel
Oklahoma City
Exchange National Bank
West Virginia Chronicle A state weekly planned at Charleston
Announcement from Charleston states the Commonwealth will get a new state weekly newspaper named the West Virginia Chronicle. Plans progressed quietly for months with leaders surveying state papers to determine features serving West Virginia readers. Appearing each Friday, the venture promises a unique weekly publication for the state.
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Charleston
West Virginia Chronicle
State Weekly
West Virginia
Commonwealth
The
West Virginia Chronicle to Launch Weekly Journal
Chronicle plans broad state coverage from state capitol to Washington with Friday analytical digests of political and economic developments. It will feature editorials and an agricultural page plus education and church treatment, a busy sports section, and occasional pieces on West Virginians. Homer F. Young leads. subscription first year 1.50 dollars, single copies 5 cents. inquiries to Charleston West Virginia. Mississippi’s record corner was grown in 1917, yielding 87 million bushels from 4,100,000 acres.
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Chronicle
Ancare
Ius
West
West Virginia Chronicle
Charleston
West Virginia
Mississippi
Belington Rail Lines Scrapped as Town Reels from Decline
In Belington area on July 27, three side-tracks were removed with more to follow on the old Belington and Northern line. The plan may see the main line from Abbott to the woods plant disappear. The region’s rail network once linked to the Wabash system and fed booming mines at Abbott and Mount Royal, but decades of decline left the town ghostly with few railroad jobs and a shrinking population.
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Belington
B, and
Uttle
Arizona Dry Forces Granted Temporary Injunction
Arizona’s dry forces win a temporary injunction restraining state and county officials from electing a state convention to act on a proposed repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. The effort failed to secure enough petition signatures for a ballot measure.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Arizona
Softness of Gold Fails to Move Stocks in Early Trading
New York July 2041 Late trading left stocks in a steady to firm posture despite gold softness. Transfers reached about 2.7 million shares as mining issues fell after Washington ruled that gold ore processed by smelting could not be exported. Steel and railway issues rose modestly with U S Steel and National Steel among leaders. Home stead Mining dropped 17 points and U S Smelting fell six.
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New York
Washington
Attorney General's Office
United States
Speéckadties
Strong
Spethielien Gyeel
Iithe ™ Steel Division
S. Steel
National
Pee Republic
Case
American Rolling Mi
Union Pacific
American
Union
Erie
Santa Fe
Homestead Mining
List of Gold Hoarders to Be Published
Washington July 27. The attorney general announced publication of the names and prosecutions of gold hoarders who refused to return the metal to the government. About 207 persons refused to return 1,231,086 in gold. those who still refuse will face federal authority. Also note Mrs Vernie Setler ill at home and police ordered to clear abandoned vehicles on St Luke streets.
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Washington
Cummings
St. Luke
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Hants
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State Capitol
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Associated Prose
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Beaver Creek
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