Taylor County bonds pass by landslide for road plan
Complete returns from all 26 Taylor County precincts show a 2,632 to 431 vote in favor of a 1,000,000 bond issue to build about 38 miles of hard surface roads. The Irontown precinct was the only district with a majority against the measure. rural areas supported it heavily. The effort was led by the Taylor County Good Roads Association.
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Taylor County
Yestor
Taylor County Good Hteads Association
Grafton
Precnet
Booths Creek
Knollsville
Irontown
Dancing at Cunningham Hall Evening Social
Dancing at Cunningham hall Wednesday evening from seven to ten thirty. Good music, admission fifty cents. J A Cunningham, proprietor. 91-2t-fp
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Cunningham Hall
J. A. Cunningham
Notice for Ex-Service Men to Join Taylor County Post 78
Ex servicemen are invited to join Taylor County Post 78 American Legion. See Wilt Morman at the Merchants and Merchants Savings Bank or Arthur Yates at the First National Bank for details. Yearly dues are 2.50 dollars. Burdett, Post Commander.
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Taylor County Post No
American Legion
Wilt Morman
Jpy
Merchants and Merchants Savings Bank
Arthur
Yates
Natonal Bank
Burdett
Joint Scale Committee To Agree On Wages
Washington March 24 central competitive bituminous coal operators and miners scale committees to meet in New York Monday to draft a new wage agreement. John L Lewis telegraphed Thomas Brewster requesting the conference. President Wilson urged quick meeting and indicated he expects the commission’s majority report to recommend a 27 percent wage increase as binding.
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Washington
New York
Aday
John L. Lewis
Thomas Brewster
Mani
Wilson
Cent Commission
Wife pleads mental insufficiency in Mann Act case
Mrs. I. B. V. McGinnis of St Lonix testifies that her husband, a former army captain, was gassed in France and is pending acquittal from charges of transporting Esther Potts, his stenographer, to California in violation of the Mann Act.
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San Francisco
Cal
France
IB. V. McGinnis
St Lonix
Esther Potts
Hia
California
Two Auto Accidents Mar City Streets Tuesday
Two separate city crashes occurred Tuesday with minimal injuries and significant vehicle damage. A five passenger Ford driven by Miss Lottie Klepfel plunged from a rural grade, throwing her from the car near the Hasel Atlas Glass Factory. The second crash involved a Tina Rutek car owned by B Ellers, driven by Joe Tucker, which toppled over a bank on Grand Street and was struck by a northbound train, leaving the vehicle heavily damaged but the occupants escaped serious harm.
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Hasel-Atlas Glass
Kleptol
E. T. Danser
Well Nown
Krepful
B. Ellers
High Street
Joe Tucker
Grand Street
Con Vol
Tina Rutek
Move of liquor may be made to new residence
West Virginia owner may relocate intoxicating liquor to a new permanent home in another state. The ruling was issued today by Federal Prohibition Director Charles Lively. The decision hinges on movement of liquor from private residence to a new home outside the state.
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Parkersburg
West Virgina
Charles Lively
Federal Prohibition
Connecticut convention sessions special session in March
The Republican State Convention in New Haven recessed to name fourteen delegates to the national convention and considered a resolution urging Governor Holcomb to call a special legislative session on the federal suffrage amendment. The governor had previously refused to recall an emergency session on the issue.
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Counj
Holcomb
Delaware Ratification Doubt in Third Day of Session
The Delaware legislature entered its third day of an extraordinary session with uncertainty over whether Delaware would become the sixth state to ratify the federal woman suffrage amendment.
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Dover
Del
Mareh
Delaware
Population gain in Parkersburg grows in 1920 census
Washington March 24 Population statistics from the census bureau show Parkersburg West Virginia 2039 an increase of 2197 or percent.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Parkersburh
West Virginia
Two Thousand Barrels of Scat Without a Home
Pittsburgh March 24 two thousand barrels of bonded whiskey in the Moore distillery warehouse will go on bond without a home as the receiver winding up its affairs asks the common pleas court for guidance. The whiskey is owned by persons holding negotiable certificates making it hard to identify owners. Four thousand five hundred dollars is due for storage, but payment is not customary until whiskey leaves bond. The court took the question under advisement. Mis Ih Everly of Kingwood has been at the parsonage of Mrs A Thoric at Andrew's M B church on McGraw avenue for two days.
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Pittsburgh
Moore
Common Pleas Court
Everly
Kingwood
A. Thoric
Andrew's
M. B. Parsonage
McGraw Avenue
Mixed situation in Germany reports six thousand troops clash
WESSEL Germany vid Berne March 24 six thousand government troops reinforced by armed countrymen fought a skirmish with about fifteen thousand communist guards near Wesel last night. Reports say sixty two killed and over a hundred wounded. Across the Rhine from Wesel Ruderich. March 21 the Ruhr district troops besieged in Wesel nigh attack continues. Authorities note volatile conditions as Berlin reels from unrest.
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Wessel
Germany
Berne
Scare for Woman Suffrage Supporters in Dover
Dover Delaware March 22 tension rose among equal suffrage backers as Owenly-org house members warned that if this afternoon no bill for ratification is introduced they will move to defeat the equal suffrage amendment. With 21 opponents ready to vote yes or oppose, ratification seems likely given the 35 member house. The claim is that additional opponents may join when the test comes, strengthening the anti suffrage position.
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Dover
Del
Equal Suffrage Workers
Owenly-org
Friends of Suffrage
Shies Cone
Massive Soviet Losses Reported on Russian Steppes
London reports a Soviet communique from Moscow states more than 18000 anti Bolshevik soldiers were found frozen to death on the steppe spanning Southeastern Russia and western Asiatic provinces.
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London
Moscow
Russia
Navy disorganized says high office during war testimony
Captain Lanning assistant chief of the bureau of navigation testified before the senate investigating committee that the Navy was disorganized after a plan of action from the bureau of operations was disapproved. He cited lack of clear direction and the secretary of the navy's personal characteristics as making it hard to secure approval of key policies.
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Ie United Sites
Lanning
Bureau of Navigation
Senate Investigating Committee
Bureau of Operations
Secretary of the Navy
Delay in Aid to Ex Service Men Drives IWW Recruitment
J F Holden Utah American Legion adjutant told the House Ways and Means Committee that failure to aid former servicemen has spurred IWW propaganda. He warned the IWW is discrediting government aid and wooing veterans nationwide, including many gullible ex soldiers, to undermine the government and the Legion.
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Washington
I. W.W
House Ways and Means Committee
J. F. Holden
American Legion
Utah
Jnd
Holden
LW. W
Pennsylvania jurist comes to sudden end
Sharon Pa March 24 Judge A. W. Williams sixty eight national counsel for the Protected Home Civic ie and for eleven years presiding judge of the Mercer county bench died last night in its home at Mercer.
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Sharon
A. W. Williams
Civ Ie
Mercer County Bench
Mercer
Local Dealer Ad Highlights Spring Samples From Lamm & Co
A fragmentary classified note shows F Friedman & Co presenting spring samples from Lamm & Co of Chicago for selection and ordering tonight. It references a display of about 100 samples and indicates purchasing options available to customers.
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Lamm & Co
Guard saves huge stock of stored liquor in Baltimore scene
Report from Baltimore Maryland describes guard Thomas Kennedy seizing a $75 000 liquor stock at A T Carogza’s country home amid invader police uniforms. Uniformed men were denied entry as Kennedy detained them and two squads pursued in a high powered car.
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Baltimore
Maren
Thomas Kennedy
A. T. Carogza
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