Progressive Convention Chooses County Ticket
The Taylor County Progressive mass meeting at the courthouse endorsed the 1912 Chicago platform and selected a county ticket including Clerk of the Circuit Court William Feltner, Clerk of the County Court Byron Dilworth, James Brown for House of Delegates, Baxter Hall for County Commissioner, and Frederick Bradley for County Superintendent. Committees reported quickly and plans to send delegates to state and federal meetings were set. The gathering lingered to about 10:30 PM amid a tone that criticized the old parties as railroad and coal influenced.
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Daily Sentinel
Taylor County
Court House
Jos
Dr. T.lanham
Byron
Dilworth
Martin Wolfe
J. W. Brown
J. Oscar Jaco
Willam Gillespie
Everett McDaniel
W. McDaniel
F. A. Bradley
W. Merle Watkins
William Feltner
Baxter Aller
Grafton
Knotts‘ile
Jaco
T. F. Lanham
William Gillespie
Theodore Roosevelt
Dr. Lanham
J. O. Jaco
A. A. Doak
Martin L. Wolfe
Consolidated Coal Company
Wwiliam Feltner
Byron Dilworth
House of Delegates
James Brown
Baxter Hall
Frederick Bradley
Grafton Urged to Boost Housing for Factory Workers
Article urges local business people to start building substantial modern rental houses near the Hast End glass factory to solve worker housing shortages. It argues real estate is a solid investment, immune to currency laws or stock market swings, and essential for factory expansion.
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Grafton
City of Good
Hast End Glass Factory
Wall Street
Suffragists Confident of Endorsement by Federation
Grace Wilbur Trout, a leader in the women's suffrage campaign, stated in Chicago that there would be little opposition to endorsing the principle of woman suffrage at the General Federation of Women's Clubs convention. She noted no attempt to make suffrage part of the federation's propaganda.
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Chicago
Grace Wilbur Trout
General Federation of Women's Clubs
Federation
Dean's Kidney Pills Endorsement From Grafton Resident
Mrs G L Blaney of 107 High St Grafton West Virginia reports kidney trouble with swelling dizziness and backache. After taking Dean's Kidney Pills from Union Drug Co she slept better woke refreshed and felt normal. She endorses the product and confirms the prior praise. Price 50 cents at all dealers Foster Milburn Co Props Buffalo N Y
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Grafton
Dean
G. L. Blaney
High St
W. Va
iCo
Doan
Californian Volcano The Real Thing
Redding California June 13 report describes a volcanic eruption at Mt Lessan more violent than last night’s, with sulphur smell in the air and ashes falling at Mineral sixteen miles from the peak.
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Redding
Mt Lessan
Two Men Die In West Virginia Mine Locomotive Crash
In Lookout West Virginia today George Willis and Samuel Cooke were killed when an electric mine locomotive ran away and crashed into the tipple of Blume Coal company. Lawrence Villa and Samuel Flint were probably fatally injured as bodies were tossed into a ravine.
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Associated Press
Charleston
W. Va
George Willis
Samuel Cooke
Lawrence Villa
Samuel Flint
Lookout
Blume Coal Company
Liner Collision Between Pretoria And New York In Dense Fog
The Hamburg-American Pretoria and American liner New York collided in dense fog 400 miles east of Ambrose light, injuring none. The New York limped on, slackened due to fog, and proceeded. Passengers slept through most of the shock. The Pretoria tore a large hole in the New York’s port side, yet officials report minimal damage and both vessels continued their voyages.
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New York
Siasconsett
Mas
Pretoria
Hamburg
Roberts
Mass
Ambrose
New Pretoria
Child Rescued From Bridge by Man Gripping Dress with Teeth
In Reading Pa on June 12 Stephano Circelli saved a two year old girl clinging by her Little blue dress on a rotten slag dump bridge above the Reading tracks. A neighbor and Circelli climbed the perilous west side to reach the child, who regained consciousness after being lowered to safety amid cheering onlookers.
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Reading
Stephano Circelli
Seyfert
White House
Ignate
Klopena Periovana
Mary
Stephano Girelli
Cheelll
Sing Bank
London Police Tackle Suppressed Teddy Movements
In England police fear publication of Teddy’s movements to avoid sparking suffragette activity. The ominous comment questions motives and warns that preparation matters more than bravado in confronting unrest.
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London
Teddy
England
Go to Church movement urged as national uplift
A fiery call extols the Go to Church movement as a broad, uplifting force across the United States. It argues religion never truly died, only slumbered, until churches drew people back. The author urges readers to attend services next Sunday instead of leisure activities, framing churchgoing as service to God and nation.
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Tow
Hamlet
United States
Sayini
A Frank Confession Full Effect on Canal Toll Plan
President Wilson told farmers in New Jersey that the Democratic party stood with the agriculturists. He claimed he did not know the toll exemption would alter canal rates and that the coastwise exemption would affect American vessels, simplifying tolls.
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Wilson
Tillman
Senate
Bryan
United States
South Carolina
New Jersey
Unknown Man Killed Near Morgantown
An unidentified man was run over and killed by a Baltimore and Ohio freight train near Beechwood ten miles south of Morgantown West Virginia. The body was found by the crew of passenger train No 1 and brought to Morgantown at 6 53. No identification has been made.
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America
Great Britain
New England
Massachusetts
Boston
Merchant Marine
England
South Carolina
Benjamin Franklin
Morgantown
W. Va
Baltimore & Ohio Freigt
Beechwood
Pioneer B 60, Railroad Man Buried Here
John C. Englehart aged 83 dies at home near Gladesville Preston County marking another pioneer of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. He worked on the Cumberland to Grafton grading with Uncle Billy Graham and later served on the Cumberland division under Davis. Survived by four of eight children Edward Fred and two daughters, funeral at Andrews M. W. church at 2 pm conducted by the Odd Fellows.
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Daily Sentinel
John C. Englehart
Gladesville
Preston County
Baltimore & Ohio
Englehart
Cumberland
Grafton
Billy Graham
Mollie Snyder
Letterman
Bluemont Cemetery
Edward Englehart
Urichsville
Ohio
Sentinel
Blue
Bluemont
Edward
Pennsylvania Railroad
Fred
Chicago
Wabash Railroad
A. L. Creager
Logan
G. W. Roberts
Andrewa M. W
Odd Fellows
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers In Graf ton History
In Graf ton the first Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers division was organized as division No. 55 in 1867. The text notes Montgomery Inn, Md and Dennison Ohio division No. 265 and mentions Mr Englehart as a charter member of the early organization on the B and O system.
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Monternport
B. of L. B
Dennison, Ohio
Englehart
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Grafton
Tariff Fears Loom Over Mills as Imports Soar
April import data show a 129 percent rise over 1912 levels, with March and earlier months also strong. Union estimates warn many American mills will cut work weeks or close, as German competition and low-cost goods flood the market, threatening hosiery, cotton, and sweater trades. Local manufacturers report four-day weeks and idle machines while warning of long-term closures if tariffs remain ineffective.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Protective Union
The
Protective Union
Robert Blood
John Blood and ,Company
Europe
Chemnitz
Germany
George Kramer
Brownhill & Kramer
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