Landmark UMWA Row Sparks Alarm Over Coal Shipments
A fiery letter decries the CIO and Van Bittner for threatening coal mine shut downs aimed at steel mills, arguing the move would devastate coal operators and brutalize workers while demanding sane contracts and peaceful industry relations. A second piece laments federal delays in repairing Grafton Park after dam work, warning of dangerous erosion and unsafe swimming conditions at Tyger Valley river beaches.
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C. I
van Bittner
Bittner
Steel
United Mine Workers of America
Lewis
Mr. Bittner
Grafton Park
Grafton
Tygarts
Valley Falls
Rudolph Kendzer
Weedish nuisance blocks river entrance to Grafton
Townsfolk call the Riverside Drive junk lot a weed in the wrong place. They urge fencing or staking it off to restore the river admission’s appearance and protect the landscape around the junk business.
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Supreme Court
Riverside Drive
Grafton
Gardner
Opportunity for congress in rejecting court packing
The Wheeling Intelligencer notes the Senate Judiciary Committee's strong push to reject President Roosevelt's court packing plan. It argues Congress has largely bowed to the President since 1933, passing and surrendering constitutional authority under White House pressure.
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Wheeling Intelligencer
Senate Judiciary
Roosvelt
Congress
White House
Senaate Judiciary Committee
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Birth Control Move Dives into Medical Practice Debate
The American Medical Association unanimously backs birth control as proper medical practice, reversing old resistance. The Atlantic City meeting approved voluntary birth spacing, clinic information, device research, and medical-school instruction, signaling a major health policy shift and a challenge to past prohibitions.
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Charleston
American Medical Association
Margaret Sanger
Atlantic City
Association of
Anthony Comstock
Congress
New York Circuit Court of Appeals
Department of Justice
Snead battles to the finish in national open
Sam Snead and Ralph Guldahl headline a dramatic national open finale. Guldahl clinches victory with a final 48 holes at 69 three under par, surpassing Tony Manero’s 282 record by one stroke. Snead, two behind at start of the final 36, posts a resilient 70 in the first 18, showing courage and grit.
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Grafton Sentinel
Grafton Sentinel Publishing Company
Latrobe Street
Grafton
W. Va
Busnes
Grafton Printing Co
The
Carrie
Wee Advance
Postoffice
Sammie
Guldahl
Sammie Snead
Sandy
Marcia
Filton
Los Ange
Los Angeles
Abe Zimmerman
Decome
Paula Broddarg
Hadley
Joim
Tony
Walt
Maria
Ellen
Mexico
Marcia Isrious
Cupid
Yuma
California
National Boundary Line
Earth
Tia Juana
Justice
Hilen
Ensenada
Elen
Tia Juans
Charleston Gazette
Samme Snead
Ralph Guldahl
Tony Manero
Reaping the Wind: Labor Strife Hurts Detroit Boom
A Wheeling Intelligencer summary notes how labor agitation slows Detroit construction, with building permits and starts falling while unions push closed shop tactics and delivery delays. It cites Roosevelt policy, rapid unionization, and concerns that excesses threaten the recovery and prompt government or leadership action to curb abuses.
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Wheeling Intelligencer
United States
Detroit
Pittsburgh Markets Produce Pittsburgh June 16
Produce demand moderate with potato prices listed by grade and region. Potatoes ranged 1.25 to 2.15 per 100 lb sacks and barrels in several regional offers. butter and eggs steady with varied dairy scores. cheese unchanged. poultry prices noted with range 19 to 22.
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Pittsburgh
U. S
Dept. Agr
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
California
Virginia
Maine
Ohio
Kentucky
Fountain service at Grafton Drug and Chem does luncheon
Local ad lists meat and poultry prices for live stock including cows vealers sheep and hogs with direct sale notes. It promotes a Fountain in town offering salads soups baked beans pastries Maxwell House coffee Silex coffee maker and Hagan Ice Cream.
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Maxwell House
Silex
Hagan
Notice All Kinds Of Hauling Ellers Taxi And Transfer
A brief public notice appears for De pendable Taxi Service offering hauling and transfer services. The fragment references a residence at 895 M A Specialty 7 AE and denotes service availability and location details. The incomplete text suggests contractual or regulatory notice typical of local business operations.
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Ellers
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Pata Tae Holt
Palmer
Nae J. Gatrell
Intdeor
National Advertising
A. B. Clayden Inc
New York
Lexington Avent
Chicago
North
Michigan Avenue
John
Tygarts Valley
E Funes
Virginia Scallon
Abe
Hartley
Marcia Mall
Relstadly
Lok
Ben Far
Drug & Chemical
Plymouth
Ford Tudor
Ford
Oakland
Essex
Shriver Motor Company
Pike Street
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