Indicted Dead Men Tied to Mingo Uprising Case
State indicts four men tied to the Mingo uprising as three remain alive while two others are dead. Jim Poor of Dry Branch, Jim Sullivan of Coal River, and a Stevens named in error are charged with murder and treason. Sullivan reportedly killed himself after a church violence incident. Poor was said to be dead. Stevens’ fate unclear.
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State
Charles Town
Logan County
Indietmen
Jim Poor
Dry Branch
Cabin Creek
Jim Sullivan
Coal River
Stevens
Red
Sens
Merlin
Poor
Sullivan
Indiana Republicans Laud Harding McCray Platform
Indiana Republicans applaud the party and commend the Harding administration and Gov. McCray in a convention platform submitted for ratification. The plank lauding Washington conference acts as a milestone toward ending all wars with the Four-Power Pact and Naval Disarmament Agreement highlighted.
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Indianapolis
Harding
Gov. McCray
Washington
West Grafton Girl Swallows Chloride Poison
Miss Burl Shackelford of Beaumont, living with relatives in West Grafton while employed at Tygarta Valley Glass, is in critical condition after swallowing two bi-chloride of mercury tablets last night. Doctors fear for recovery as the poison remained in her stomach and burned the stomach lining. She had shown no clear motive, though she had expressed a grievance earlier and appeared happy minutes before the act.
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Daily Sentinel
Burl Shackelford
Beaumont
Tygarta Valley Glass Company
Miss Shackelford
National Cemetery
Moscow Art Theater Produces Highest Form of Drama
Moscow Art Theater plans to send a company of players to America late this summer as Russia touts the troupe as producing the highest form of dramatic art.
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Moscow Art Theater
Moscow
A. P. Mail
America
Russia
Government funded theater trains actors before main stage debuts
A government subsidized institution operates multiple studios where plays are rehearsed and actors trained before appearing on the main theater stage. Some productions undergo up to 206 rehearsals and over a year of detailed scenic prep before the first performance. If plans proceed, Russian actors would depart Moscow in August and perform the piece in Russian in America.
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Moscow
Amelca
Train Strikes Street Car Injuring 32 in Birmingham
In Birmingham on May 29 a crowded interurban trolley car on the Birmingham Railway Light and Power lines was struck by a freight train on the Alabama Great Southern Railway near Woodlawn. The car broke in two and thirty two people were injured, several seriously, amid signal confusion at the crossing.
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Wirmingham
Ala
Birmingham Railway, Light and Power Company
Alabama Grew Southern Railway
Woodlaws Sition
Hagman
Grafton Man Dies After Falling From Tree
Robert J. Stark 61, lifelong Taylor County resident and night watchman at Pugh & Beavers Grocery, was found dead after a fall from a tree limb on West Main Street in Grafton. The 18 foot ascent and sudden impact killed him instantly. he is survived by five children and was born near Harmony Grove.
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West Main Street
Robert J. Stark
Taylor County
Grafton
Pugh & Beavers Grocery Company
Stark
Harmony Grove
Alice Glenn
George and
Harriett Glenn
Harry
Sidines Robert
Pture Cob Fauley
Gratton
New Proposal Up in Therr Rate Hearing
Washington May 25 A P Declaration of a railroad rates holiday was suggested at the treasury as a solution to the nations transportation problem. High treasury officials said the 10 percent rate cut ordered by the ICC could yield industrial benefits if earnings withstand new rates, but the real answer is to allow carriers to set their own rates.
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Washington
A.P
Treasury
Interstate Commerce Commission
Sunday School Budget Boost Approved in WV Conference
Delegates at the northern regional meeting of the West Virginia Sunday School Association approved a proposed 60 000 budget to hire five more state staffers after a forceful speech by J D Steele of Charleston. The Mount Hope and Keyser conferences backed the plan and a county campaign will raise funds. Steele urged more paid county workers and emphasized that the Sunday schools reach hard to reach coal mining and lumber areas, noting twelve counties need staff. He cited the Mingo strikes and urged members to recruit and study lessons deeply, quoting Governor Cornwell on the program's importance.
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Elkins
West Virginia Sunday School Association
J. D. Steele
Charleston
Mount Hope
Keyser
Steele
West Virginia
Jesus Christ
John Cornwell
Walters. Snow
Braxton
Brooke
Clay Harrison
Hancock
Marion
Ohio
Barbour
Randolph
Harrison
Pocahontas
Lewis
Barbow
Pocahontay
Yanner
Jackson
Marshall
Pleasants
Roane
Wirt
Star Counties
Brennan Joins McGrumphy Co. as New Executive
Joseph A. Brennan, a graduate, takes a position with McGrumphy Company here. The announcement notes Brennan’s new role and outlines his background and qualifications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph A. Brennan
McGrumphy Co
Embalmer Brennan Joins McGrumphy Firm at Gratton
The Cincinnati School of Embalming graduate has accepted a post with McGrumphy Undertaking Company in Gratton filling the vacancy left by Archie Sinclair who moved to Cumberland Maryland. Brennan from Thomas West Virginia came from Z Kendall Sons in Elkins and began yesterday.
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Cincinnati School of Embalming
McGrumphy Undertaking Company
Archie Sinclair
Cumberland
Brennan
Gratton
Thomas
W. Va
Z. Kendall & Sons Undertaking
Elkins
Grafton Sees Wide Range of Visitors and Local News
A flood of visitors and locals in Grafton includes T. H. Cooke of Philadelphia and J. A. Kline of New York City as business visitors yesterday and today. Others such as J. D. Murphy of Baltimore and C. Warder of McKeesport shopped or called on trade. several residents reported illness or travel plans including Mrs. Willia Linn and Mrs. William Morgan Jr.
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Daily Sentinel
T. H. Cooke
Philadelphia
Grafton
George T. Nolan
Washington, D. C
W. B. Maxwell
Elkins
E. D. Sims
Clarksburg
W. D. Brown
Parkersburg
James L. Edder
New York City
C. A. Painter
Thornton
M. Harried
Fairmont
Albert Hellains
Pittsburgh
C. Warder
McKeesport
City Hospital
William Morgan, Jr
West Main Street
Lena McDaniel Rauschenbach
Hammond
Ind
Baltimore
University of Maryland Hospital
Charles Carlin
W. H. Orwis
G. W. Weekley
J. B. Harper
Rob, Smith
Long St
Kanawha Station
Henry Nawman
Alpha Mawimram
Tt. L. Smith
Longstreet
D. ©. Hanes
Derbet Croston
Philippi
L. E. Myres
R. L. Paige
C. Duffard
Harry
Roy Yorke to Begin Duties as WV Alumni Secy
Morgantown West Virginia May 26 A P Roy Yorke former superintendent of schools at Weston will arrive here next week to resume his duties at the new Alumni secretary at West Virginia University
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Roy Yorke
Secy
Morgantown
W. Va
Weston
New Alumn
West Virginia Univeralty
How to Treat the American Flag and Nation’s Air
Local people show little knowledge of flag public demonstrations and national songs. An article urges appreciation for the American flag and Star Spangled Banner. It recounts proper saluting in uniform, and cites a Toledo boy’s essay on reverence. The piece notes Roosevelt era adoption of the national air and historical use of Columbia and America.
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American Legion Weekly
Toledo
Ohio
Association of
League For Prevention of
Society For the Promotion of Employment of Women
Tional Council
Roosevelt
National Air
Columbia
America
Poppy chosen as the American Legion emblem after debate
After years of discussion the American Legion selects the poppy as its emblem. The flower, linked to Flanders and World War I sacrifice, is praised for its beauty and resilience yet remembered for sombre memories in memorialization efforts by the Legion and its Auxiliary.
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Flanders
America
Haiti
William the Conqueror
Harold of
England
Argonne
St Miliel
Legion
the Legion
American Daily
American Legion
Legion Adopts White Daisy as Official Flower
Indianapolis May 26 The American Legion selects the white daisy as its official flower. Walter Uritehard Eaton notes the plain small bloom stands apart from the English poetic daisy in a Legion article released by national headquarters.
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Indianapolis
Ind
American Legion
Walter Uritehard Eaton
Legion
Explosions Kill Eight at Grasella Chemical Plant
In Sinnamahoning Pennsylvania on May 26, a powder mill blast and two follow up explosions destroyed three loading houses and another building at Grasella Chemical Co. Eight men died instantly, three were slightly injured, and surrounding structures suffered damage. The cause remains undetermined as workers fled the initial blast.
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Grasella Chemical Company
Sinnamahoning
Grasella Chemical Co
Ettae
Fiabe Anai
Weil
Northern Regional Sunday School Conference Ends in Elkins
Dr. George Platt Knox urged action back home as the three day Northern Regional Sunday School Conference closed in Elkins. Mrs. Walter A. Snow of Clarksburg received $110 to attend the international convention in Kansas City. Wheeling was chosen for the 1922 statewide meeting, with Charles Bates extending the invitation. The event honored Mrs. Snow and featured division conferences on children adults and young people led by regional educators across Harrison, Buckhannon, Clarksburg, and Morgantown communities.
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Elkins
George Platt Knox
International Sunday School Association
Knox
Dennison University
Granville
Ohio
Sayre
Wheeling
Association
Charles E. Bates
Ohio County
D. B. Purinton
Morgantown
Mary Wayman
Clarksburg
Leroy Dakin
Charleston
B. B. “Turner
Charles Bates
Denver C. Pickens
Terra Alta
D. F. Taft
Philippi
J. M. Criswell
Harry Peters
Moonshine Case Debates Close as Radki Trial Ends
Moonshine cases dominate a Moundsville court session with prosecution and defense arguments wrapping up in the Radki case. The state alleges ownership and operation of a moonshine still found near the defendant’s home amid a search by federal officers. earlier, Tom was sentenced to 11 years after a whisky charge and a $300 penalty.
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Radki
Hardman
State
Moundsville
Brown
Labor wage claims rise in pause of coal strike
Pittsburgh May 25 A P Satisfactory settlement of the coal strike will stimulate business more than any other element in the situation said Thomas B R McAdwn of Richmond Va president of the American Bankers Association addressing the Pennsylvania Bankers Association convention here today Labor which seeks to maintain war time wages he added does more harm to labor than to capital as the bill forexclusive wages in the last analysis comes largely from the pockets of the workingman who is hard able to pay.
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Pittsburgh
Thomas BR. McAdwn
Richmond
American Bankers Association
Pennsylvania Bankers Association
Visitor from Mrs Baca shoots at Lovett Academy
In Pueblo Colorado on May 25 Misa Consuelo Baca 18 was shot and badly wounded at Lovett Academy by Miss Josephine Liberto 21 Milas Liberto earlier asked for a taxi and was allowed in the building causing confusion with the sister superior who mistook the visitor for Mrs Baca.
Captain Hobson Delivers Red and Black Flag Address
Captain Hobson of Merrimac faces the audience at the Baptist church addressing the crisis in prohibition. Hon Wyckoff presided and introduced the speaker while congregants joined in songs and the church orchestra performed. Hobson’s talk urged peace loving Americans to join the effort to crush alcohol abuse. He later spoke to Graft High School pupils and eighth graders, inspiring the students. He is now in the country under World League Against Alcoholism.
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Captain Hobson
Baptist
Gal Tierson Hobson
Merrimac Faing
Wyckoff
Hobson
America
Ing
Los Angeles
Disease costly in Kanawha county health drive
Charleston May 26 an estimated four thousand dollars was lost in Kanawha county last year from preventable diseases. Health Commissioner W T Hi urged a campaign for full time health units, noting legislature allowed a three cent levy on property for maintenance. He praised Hancock county for efficient health organization and commended its achievements.
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Charleston
Kanawha
W.T. Hi
Birdie
Te County
Hancock County
Sioner
Explosion at ammunition plant in Vienna claims more lives
A May 26 report from Vienna states a blast at the digas ammunition factory near ab weir caused a rising death toll. The incident, described as severe, has prompted officials to increase the death count while rescue operations continue at the site.
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Vienna
Digas Ammunition Factory
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Walter A. Snow
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