REA waste fear in wartime unity debate
Spotlight on House committee report criticizes Rural Electrification Administration for duplicating power lines and wasting copper. The piece argues for a national survey of power projects and condemns appeasement of strikers and Communists while praising business leaders and farmers as patriots essential to national unity.
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REA
House of All Military Affairs Special Committee
Rural Electrification Administration
House
Protect Your Heritage and Free Enterprise
The piece argues postwar America must safeguard the right of individuals to work free of domination by labor, business, or government. It warns net earnings may fall during wartime and political upheaval, but preserving the freedom to carry on individual enterprises is essential to national liberty.
National Unity Note on Browder Pardon
The Wheeling Intelligencer discusses President Roosevelt commuting the sentence of Communist Earl Browder for passport falsification and suggests the motive was national unity. The piece questions the consistency of applying unity as a principle, noting Browder’s WWI conscientious objector status and the broader implications.
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Wheeling Intelligencer
Roosevelt
Earl Browder
Browder
Mr. Roosevelt
Germany Italy and Japan postwar fate in Stewart's view
Stewart opines on Germany Italy and Japan after victory by the Allies. He predicts Germany will fall quickly but be treated as a people, Mussolini’s fate as a personal matter, and Japan may wage a long Jap American conflict while Europe stabilizes. He notes China’s role and global readjustment ahead.
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Germany
Japan
Italy
Hitler
Adolf
Fuehrer
Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Benito
United States
Pearl Harbor
Alaska
Alaetians
Midway
Atlantic
Pacific Ocean
United Nations
Europe
China
Uncle Sam
Gosh
Orient
Scottish Rite Club Banquet Heats Maundy Thursday at Grafton
A hundred members of the Scottish Rite club of Grafton gathered at the Moose home on Washington street on Maundy Thursday April 9 1925 for a banquet of unleavened bread and lamb. An orchestra entertained under Lieyd Nuzum while Hon Fred Steinbicker of Wheeling spoke on the aims and meaning of Maundy Thursday. Officers were re-elected and Harry Reeder as president. C J Fleming named president emeritus. Out of town guests attended the celebration. A Flemington resident Fred Roach died suddenly of heart trouble that day in front of the magistrate's office. Funeral arrangements were made by McGrumphrey Funeral Co. of Flemington. The Roach family are early Harrison county settlers with roots tracing to 1844.
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Scottish Rite Club of Grafton
Moose Home
Washington Street
Ladies of Naomi Chapter Order of the Eastern Star
Ant Lieyd Nuzum
Talton W. lBawle
Harry C. Compton
Florida
Fred Steinbicker
Wheeling
C. J. Fleming
Paul P. Wardett
G. Thomas Bartlett
United States
Joseph B. Bradford
Grand Lodge
West Virginia
Benamin F. Poe
W. S. Rowe Jland
Albert Pike
Harry C
Dayton Jackson
W. W. Smith
Rowlesburg
John “T. Pilson
Fairmont
Les Bailey
R. G. Bailey
J. Oght
T.D
A. D. McClung
Edward Vert
Gilly "Williams
Flemington
Fred "Roach
L. C. Haymond
Grafton
A. 8
First National Bank
Main Street
Warder
McGrumphrey
Taylor County
Page Roac
Japanese gas attacks in China prompt U S retaliation warning
The president warned Japan to stop using gas in China or face retaliation. Reports detail two major poison gas attacks on the Chekiang front May 26 and 27 with gas bombs and shells, injuring a large portion of Chinese troops and forcing withdrawals at Tangki and Kinwha. Over five years of conflict the Chinese claim some 455 gas attack instances.
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Nyangpons
China
United States
Chekiang Front
Sinan River
Tangki
Kinwha
Far East
Japan
Gas warfare fears rise as Japan uses gas in Asia
In 1939 gas use by Japan is reported in Toungon and Ichang with extensive shells and bombs. Chinese casualties included 1,000 gassed and 750 dead among 3,000 attacked. U S and Britain warn of future gas atrocities, note American gas stockpiles and defenses, with masks issued on the West Coast and in Hawaii as gas war risks grow. Belgium’s high population density cited at 712 per square mile.
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Toungon
Burma
Ichang
United States
Britain
Germany
Italy
Japan
Teem
Gealy
West Coast
Hawaii
Taylor County Democratic Candidacy Announcement 1942
A political notice from a candidate seeking the Democratic nomination for county commissioner in Taylor County. The candidate declares intent to run on August 4, 1942, asks voters for support, and requests consideration for reelection to the court.
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Taylor County
Tibby Falls From Silver Ship Dream to Awakening
Tibby awakens in a stark white room to the memory of flying the silver ship and a perilous fall. Nurse and Tommy reassure her as she processes the dream that felt like a real flight and crash. The moment blends relief at survival with the bond to her longtime friend and protector.
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Tibby
Mary
Tilby
Wayne
Abe
Tommy
Fiddle Longspay review from The Literary Guidepost
John Selby praises Warren Bledsoe’s Fiddle Longspay, noting a brilliant first chapter about Beauchamp Longspay in Maryland’s hunting valley. The rest is good but not as strong, with satire of high society and lively sketches of familial entanglements, plus playful fireside judgments on the author’s missteps and quirks.
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Warren Bledsoe
Little, Brown
Warren Bletsoe
Beauchamp Longspay
Fiddle
Baltimore
Piddle
Maryland
Mr. Bi
James Branch Cabell
Fragmented reminiscence ends with Battle of Louis Roederer
The fragmentary text reflects on wartime sentiment and media control, noting distorted propaganda by Goebbels and a restless author lamenting unclear family dynamics and editorial faults. It references German newspapers trimmed to six pages and mentions Louis Roederer in 1929.
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Herr Goebbels
Abe
Motofist
Pistsoe
Longspay
Piddie
Powerse
Louis Roederer
Miners Plan Vacation Amid War Effort Talks
Miners plan a short vacation to sustain coal production for the war effort. Tetlow details meetings with southern field operators to arrange repayments and possible settlements this week. Under a proposed schedule, work ends July 2 with three days off, affecting five working days in the districts. The contract contains fines for unauthorized strikes, funds totaling about $400,000 would go to charity as agreed by operators.
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Southtern
Tetlow
Amy
Mussolini
Haltan
Tye
Bey Ieg
Hin Tetlow
Virginia
Kentucky
Jow
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Lexington Ave
Atlanta
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Chicago
North Michigan Ave
Detroit
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Russia
America
Stewart
Charles P. Stewart
Central Press
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Owa
Scottish Rite Club
Belgium
Aoe
Adelaide Humphries
Whitten
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