Professor Colebank Resigns Grafton Principal Post
Professor George J. Colebank resigns as principal of Grafton high school to take the principalship of Fairmont high school. The move is a promotion with a higher salary and broader prospects, while his departure is widely mourned by students, parents, and local authorities who value his leadership and the Grafton school's progress.
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Fairmont High School
George J. Colebank
Grafton High School
McBee
Colebank
Grafton
Grafton Schools
Board of Education
Fairmont’ School
Baby Strangled to Death by Mother's Action
Associated Press report from Lafayette Indiana details seven month old infant death as mother pinned nightgown to mattress to keep child from falling from bed. The baby became entangled between bed and floor and strangled.
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Associated Press
LA Fayette
Ind
Lee Marshall
Mulberry
Conciliators Continue Work At Washington
The department of labor conciliators pressed to settle the Kanawha coal strike as D P Evans spoke for operators and Thomas Haggarty and Thomas Cairnes spoke for the miners. It was not determined when talks would move to the coal field site.
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Associated Press
Washington
Department of Labor
Kanawha
D. P. Evans
Kanawha Coal Operators Association
Thomas Haggarty
Thomas Cairnes
Grafton voters approve new high school by wide margin
In Grafton every ward backed the school measure by more than the required three fifths with Fifth ward nearly four to one. The vote turnout was impacted by incomplete registration, but proponents celebrate a grand victory for city progress and public improvements. Concurrently, District Attorney urged Wilmerding and North Braddock saloons to close as strike actions unfold, while Weating house Electric & Manufacturing stockholders debated the strike and guards at the Turtle Creek valley plant. Armed guards were deployed around the electric plant, with ten stationed on a railroad bridge and assertions that some guards were not strike breakers.
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Grafton
Jackson
Wilmerding
North Braddock
Weatinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company
E. M. Herr
Herr
Allegheny Congenial Industrial Union
Pennsylvania Railroad
Westinghouse Strike Staged by Advent of Breakers
At Pittsburgh on June 10, crowds of Westinghouse strikers learned that strike breakers had been sent to the plant. Three cars carried men who crossed Turtle Creek and marched toward Wilmerding and Swissvale. Leaders urged peace while Burgess S. Snyder ordered saloons closed for the rest of the week.
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Associated Press
Pittsburgh
Westingham
Electric Company
Pennsylvania Railroad
Turtle Creek
Wilmerding
Swissvale
Westinghouse Air Brake Company
Union Switch & Signal Company
Burgess S. Snyder
East Pittsburgh
Mediation deadlock at Niagara over Huerta successor
At Niagara Falls Ontario the mediation panel stalls as the United States rejects any transition plan that recognizes Huerta. Mediators press for Huerta to appoint a provisional president, while the constitutionalists refuse any plan allowing Huerta to name his successor. The stalemate blocks progress toward peace. Speaker Champ Clark to address Charleston on June 17 after renomination prospects boosted by five county conventions and a Jefferson county primary. Villa notes hinted at by Huerta may yield material for future stories.
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Niagara Falls
Ont
United States
Mexico
Huerta
Sentative Brown
Champ Clark
Charleston
Brown
Jefferson ‘County
Ute
Vice President Marshall Talks Education and Wealth Gap
In Orono Maine Vice President Marshall addressed 120 at UMaine commencement and received LL D honorary degrees from President Aley and Harry Morrison of New Hampshire. He warned that usury and capital dominance threaten the republic, urged labor and capital balance, state duties, and rigorous anti corruption measures to defend democracy and resources.
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Associated Press
Orono
Ang
Marshall
University of Maine
Robert J. Aley
Harry C. Morrison
Public Instruction
New Hampshire
America
Uncle Sam
Impeachment Charges Against Judge Dayton Made Public
The document argues against absolution from sin and protection from punishment, contending law lacks certainty to define fraud or dishonesty. It critiques higher education for neglecting humanities and urges reinstilling intellectual courage paired with honesty in students to confront social and economic problems.
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Dayton
Political Turmoil and Impeachment Motions in 1916
Uproar across Washington and New York as Amos Pinchot denounces George W Perkins over corporate ties while President Wilson faces a mass meeting request against Perkins. In Congress, M M Neely moves to impeach Judge Dayton amid quorum disputes and unfolding charges about the West Virginia jurist.
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Wilson
Washington
Live and Let Live League’ of
New York
Sub-Treasury
Geo.w. Perkins
Progressive Party
Harmon Mann
McAdoo
Youth Kills Elder After Reproof in Indiana
Evansville Ind June 10 Jacob McCullough a 60 year old bachelor near Hallela Spencer county reproved whistling. Ernest Hawkins 20 quarreled with him last night and struck him over the head with a rifle barrel killing McCullough instantly Hawkins surrendered at Rockport Rd to an officer awaiting inquiry
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Associated Press
Evansville
Ind
Jacob McCullough
Hallela
Spencer County
Ernest Hawkins
McGilhiough
Hawkins
Rockepart Rd
West Virginia dental board holds exam in Fairmont
The West Virginia State Dental Board sits in Fairmont today and will continue Thursday and Friday. Fifty applicants seek certificates to practice dentistry in the state. Dr. W. J. Boydston of Fairmont presides.
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Fairmont
West Virginia State Dental Board
W. J. Boydston
Grafton School District Bonds Bid Notice Sealed bids invited
The Grafton Independent School District Tay lor county invites sealed bids by July 9 at noon for 110000 in 5 percent building bonds dated July 1 1914 issuer may redeem after ten years. semiannual interest. 5 percent certified check required with bid. Funds for a new high school building. Police Kill Striker in Florence Italy confirms two wounded and two police injured.
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Board of Education
Grafton Independent
Taylor County
Florence
Italy
West Virginia Business Men's Association to vote on reform plan
Clarksburg West Virginia June 10 The West Virginia Business Men's Association at its annual convention called on local chapters to decide if the state should enact via legislature the initiative referendum and recall law and whether the legislature should be reorganized to a single house of thirty members The vote reflects a push for direct democracy and streamlined lawmaking at the state level
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Associated Press
Clarksburg
W. Va
West Virginia Business Men‘s Association
Four Men Die in Nevada Auto Crash Near Goldfield
Four Goldfield men were killed when a car returning from a Knights of Pythias lodge meeting in Tonopah left the road. Dr E A Wheeler who drove the car and Daniel Selvey died at the scene. Cyrus Rice and Herman Kruger died later in a Goldfield hospital. one passenger survived with bruises.
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Goldfield
Nev
Knights of Pythias Lodge
Tonopah
E. A. Wheeler
Nevada
Wheeler
Ddniel Sélvey
Cyrus Rice
Herman Kruger
House Committee Votes To Take Up Conservat Program
Washington June 10 A special rule for consideration in the house of the administration general conservation program of five bills was voted out of the rules committee. A special rule for consideration of the Hobson prohibition amendment was enacted upon adjournment to a later day. Charles Stolzenfels returned from Wheeling after attending the bic convention of the Golden Links.
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Washington
House of the Administration
Charles Stolzenfels
Wheeling
Bic
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