Learn to Do Well and Public Notices in a Local Paper
A fragmentary historical page includes a mix of delivery rates and postal notices with Associated Press rights, advertising agents, and a religious-leaning scripture exhortation from Isaiah. It shows the era's marketing language, press rights, and community notices in a single clipped column.
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Associated Press
We For Publicaon
A. E. Clayden Inc
New York
Lexington Avenue
Chicago
North
Michigan Avenue
Customs halts Howland Spencer yacht in Palm Beach search
U S customs halted Howland Spencer's yacht Maja off Palm Beach for a search amid reports they sought undeclared ancient clerical robes valued at 15000 dollars. No robes found, crew only small trinkets seized. Spencer critic of FDR defends the incident as a blunder and questions motives.
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U.S
Howland Spender
Maja
Palm Beach
Spencer
Howland Spencer
Roosevelt
FDR
Franklin
Krum
Hyde Park
Hudson River
Father Divine
U. S
Common Sense Appeal Urges More Street Repairs in Grafton
As the St Marys street bridge opens WPA crews near wrap up work on Market street, Wilford, West Boyd, and the hill road. The plea urges redirecting crews to resurfacing urgent streets Knotts Avenue Spruce Barrett West Main toward town to save jobs and improve through traffic. Committees should press authorities for constructive civic action now.
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St. Mary's Street
Grafton
Market Street
Wilford Street
West Boyd Street
Fetterman
Knotts Avenue
Spruce Street
Barrett Street
Creek Bridge
High Street
West Main
Trade Pacts Face Scrutiny As Reciprocals Hinge On Returns
In a Philadelphia Inquirer preview of Hulls trade pact anniversary remarks critics warn reciprocal agreements must boost American trade without crippling domestic industry. The piece notes bipartisan push to curb executive power over pacts and seeks Senate oversight on future treaties while recounting reactions to the Czech abrogation and its impact on Pennsylvania workers.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Hull
Mr. Hull
Germany
Great Britain
Congress
Senate
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Love, Age, And Quiet Turmoil In A Family
Eleanor Parrish confronts a tangle of love and duty as her daughter Jessica lingers with Dennis Kendall, while Phil, practical and loyal, urges calm. Eleanor wrestles with trust and restraint, planning a family dinner to address Jessica’s relationship with the older, recently widowed Kendall. Dennis invites Eleanor to New York for a key meeting as the chapter ends.
Trade deals spark wage debate at Roosevelt era congress
Labor leaders decry trade arrangements as harming jobs while factory wages split. An American Iron and Steel Institute study shows 84 cent hourly pay in steel, with basic foods costing far more in foreign nations. The most favored nation policy prompts questions on tariffs and congressional taxing power.
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Michael J. Flynn
Roosevelt
American Iron and Steel Institute
Améridttny
Congress
No Evidence of Sabotage in Recent Submarine Sinkings
The Morgantown Post notes three submarines from the United States, Britain, and France have sunk within a month with loss of life. No current evidence of sabotage exists, though heightened rearmament may bring more such tragic incidents at sea, air, and on land as nations prepare for war.
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Morgantown Post
State Plans Critica and the Shocking Confession
The report describes a tense interlude with Critica from Pate One and a lie detector expert who quotes a pregnant woman told by a sheriff that she would be the woman who killed her baby. She agrees to reveal the full story to Sheriff Myers as he notes her intent to get rid of the infant after a quarrel with her mother. The child's father, Ervin Ink, divorcing Jane on gross neglect grounds, says he may visit the jailed woman and that he still cares for her and could forgive her.
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Jessica
Eleanor
Kate
Dennis
Mother
Annie
Mrs. Parrish
Phil
Nell
Lily Nell
Atrayén
H. G. Robinson
Sheriff Myers
Myers
Ervin Ink
Jane
Escape Plots Highlight Ohio Women Inmate Case
Four escapees from a reformatories cell block included Virginia Brandy Florence Sheline and Mary Ellen Richards. Marguerite Reiley, superintendent, reported the four women fled at 6 am. Mrs. West, paroled after pleading guilty to second degree murder, had been denied release by the Ohio parole board last year. West killed her husband Thomas Edward West in 1927, a case that shocked Cleveland suburb reports.
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Virginia Brandy
Akron
Florence Sheline
Gallipolis
Mary Ellen Richards
Cincinnati
Marguerite Reiley
West
The History of Taylor County Chapter Fifty Two
In 1867 Baltimore and Ohio expanded to handle postwar growth in Grafton with larger locomotives and a rebuilt roundhouse. Immigrant traffic surged, locals protected visitors, and town leaders reshaped schools, streets, and the national cemetery project while key figures like Samuel Burdett and Leonard Mallonee shaped civic life and business.
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Baltimore and Ohio
Grafton
North West Virginia Railroad
United States
Baltimore
Ohio
Charles W. Newton
Thomas A. Reed
John Cart
George W. Williams
George H. Shaffer
Thomas Shanley
Henry Compton
Richard Blue
George Latham J
Kate Jordan
Math and
Mill Streets
East Grafton
Issac “Morris
Samuel ‘Swinton Burdett
Congress
Iowa
Grand “Army of ‘the Republic
Pruntytown J
War Department
Arthur Brooks
Edward E. Gilberti
Alexander Yates
Stewart
Yates
Joseph Warder
Webster
R. C. Bates
National Cemetery
Maple Avenue
James Breedlove
Breedlove
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Grafton-Piedmont
Luzadder Street
Leonard Mallonee
Fetterman
John Evans
Main
Latrobe Street
First National Bank
Mahoneé
Old Rector College
Edmund Luzadder
Mill Street
Three Fork Creek
Mallonee
Board of Education
Old Central School
St. John
Francis M. Durbin
Tomas E. Davis
Mallohee
Brandy girl an honor prisoner in reform school beauty shop
The Brandy girl, an honor prisoner in the reform school beauty shop, and three others escaped around 5 a.m. after stealing cell keys. A note to reform school superintendent Mrs Marguerite Reilley said she knew release chances were gone and asked for one last good time. She expressed sorrow for the escape and said she would return if it hurt the superintendent, adding that she loves her wife most after her own.
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Reformatory
Marguerite Reilley
Reilley Best
House Plans Extend Taxes and Postage in Senate
Legislation would levy 18 percent on firms earning over a year and preserve 12 to 16 percent for incomes under 35000. The bill extends nuisance taxes of 544000 and keeps a three cent postage rate on out of town letters for two years. Both provisions expire June 30 if not enacted. Roosevelt floated broadening the income tax base but committee members doubt action this session. Senate split on the measures as deliberations continue.
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HOUSE
Senate
Roosevelt
Finance Committee
Asé
Three-Will Split on Relief Bill and Monetary Policy
The chamber divided into three camps over the president's dollar policy, with factions for passing the bill intact, boosting silver prices and greenbacks, or eliminating the president's edition of the dollar. Democratic Leader Barkley pushed action on the $1.735 billion relief measure passed by the House, while other reforms proposed a three-man WPA board and tighter relief controls alongside tax and monetary measures amid neutrality act revisions from the administration.
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Barkley
House
Japs Employ Food Delivery Concession Measures
Reported notes describe efforts to control fresh food delivery to concessions in a port under Japanese occupation. A Japanese farmy spokesman cited no official knowledge of the ban on Samoan deliverers while a temporary Chinese customs office was opened to clear vessels outside concessions. Britons face food shortages and rising prices as authorities in London, Washington, and Paris await action. General Hamme, commander, referenced ongoing security concerns at the concession borders.
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Chinese Maritime: Customs Service
China
London
Washington
Paris
Hamme
Japan vows tighter isolation in Tientsin conflict
The Japanese garrison in Tientsin signals plans to tighten isolation measures until Britain ends support for Chiang Kai-shek and the British concession there falls. General Hammasalt warns Japan can endure British pressure only with American cooperation, which is deemed unlikely.
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Tientsin
Japan
Britain
Chiang Kai- Shek
America
Helium Discovery Tale in 1903 Kansas Mystery
Fragmentary report notes two obscure scientists in Kansas in 1903 reportedly discovered helium. The text oddly muses on tone birds, servants wearing trousers, and ancient Greece, ending with abrupt comments on slavery.
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Kansas
United States
Chain Store Tax Fight Continues Across States
In a continued debate the chain store tax is called a vicious attempt to shift the burden onto a few members of a class. The Commonwealth notes that the United States Supreme Court has upheld similar taxes in states including Iowa, Florida, Louisiana and Virginia.
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United States Supreme
Iana
Florida
Louisana
Virginia
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Stton
W. Va
Charles
Charles Kendall
Phi
Jessica Ia
Cook
Dennis Pryor
Deanta
Taylor County
Charles Brinkman
the National Cemetery
Duke University
Durham
WN C
Wy R. Loar
Bon Qeafton
Graf
Fairmont
Main St
Court Home
West Virginia
Union Brokerage Inc
Lotus Made
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