Public sentiment on private enterprise versus government control
The letter page discusses the shift from private to public payrolls as dangerous, urging less paternalism and bureaucracy. It argues public employment grows at taxpayers’ expense and calls for more private enterprise to sustain national services. A Morgantown Post letter favors outdoor tidiness, praising Swiss towns and urging similar community upkeep.
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Itt
Morgantown Post
Clarksburg Daily Mail
Charleston
Switzerland
Grafton Air Mail Service Win Celebrated by Local Postmaster
Congressman's announcement that Grafton will be included in the new automatic air mail pickup marks a welcomed development after years of quiet advocacy by Postmaster Jimmy Murphy. The piece lauds the effort, notes regional air mail progress, and predicts broader benefits as air service expands in West Virginia's northeastern corner.
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Atr-Mail
Jennings Randolph
Grafton
Jimmy Murphy
West Virginia
Suipable
A Confession of Failure in Trade Policy
The Wheeling Intelligencer notes an official admission of the trade program's failure. Records show Secretary Wallace told a House subcommittee that European markets for agricultural products are irretrievably lost and urged developing Western Hemisphere markets instead. He critiques the Roosevelt tariff approach during 1932 and argues the New Deal pursued tariff cuts under the guise of trade improvement, with similar outcomes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wheeling Intelligencer
House
Wallace
Roosevelt
Rosewelt
Congress
Tariff cuts hurt American agriculture and industry
The writer argues that fourteen or fifteen trade agreements lowered tariffs on many products but widened imports, shrinking the farm and manufacturing sectors. Exports failed to rise, the trade balance worsened, and only scrap iron purchases kept the balance from collapsing. The piece urges restoring protection to American manufactories to support producers, jobs, and domestic purchasing power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Mr. Wallace
Wallace
Sympathy for 26 day month in railroad labor dispute
A local speaker criticizes the push for a twenty six day month for skilled railroad workers in Congress. The memo highlights furloughs and long overtime among junior trainmen, estimating about 50 Manongah division railroaders could return to steadier work if the system is reformed. It urges cooperation to distribute work more evenly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Junio
Congress
Maugham on Writing and the Writer’s Path
A Des Moines Tribune style reflection on how famous authors like Maugham Dickens Shaw London and Sinclair Lewis reached writing. The piece argues writers need diverse life experiences including medical study, work, travel and varied jobs before writing, and that Maugham’s standards may be too strict.
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David Copperfield
Murdstone and Grinby
Boz
George Bernard Shaw
Spry
Jack London
Klondike
Sinclair Lewis
Yale
New Haven
Mr. Maugham
Public payroll figures spark tax funded concern
The Clarksburg Telegram notes the National Municipal League citing U S Census figures that one in nine Americans is on the public payroll, excluding relief workers. From 1929 to 1997 public employees rose 17.5 percent while private-sector workers grew 9.1 percent, underscoring rising tax funded employment.
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Clarksburg
National Municipal League
United States
League
United States Census Bureau
Child Slayer Case Hints at Motive Over Talked Dates
The state charges allege the boy was killed because he talked about the suspects dates. Mrs. Karmendi, wife of an Als toon silk mill worker, serves a prison term. The governor’s plea was denied for the second time by the state pardon board. An alienist panel found Lockard “not higher than a middle grade moron.” At Hollidaysburg Prison Warden Hamilton says he is a model prisoner and he received the news calmly.
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Karmendi
Alstoon
J Pardon Board
James
Lockard
Recovery or Reform in Nation's Affairs Reveals Policy Debate
Secretary Hopkins signals federal focus on recovery and reform to lift national income and curb unemployment. The piece weighs risks of rapid change, emphasizes慎 cautious shifts, and outlines three safeguards: curb price hikes, avoid tax cuts without cutting spending, and separate military from recovery spending to prevent future crises.
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Hopkins
Des Moines
Fort
Europe Looks Continued From Page One On War Efforts
British moves slow on a four power anti German bloc with France Soviet Russia and Poland. Poland wary of upsetting a powerful neighbor near its borders. Daladier to speak early next week with loudspeakers in French cities for rebroadcast in several languages. Bonnet returns to Paris after talks with British leaders. Anglo French ties described as perfect. Prospects of France joining the anti Germany group appear dim. Chamberlain faces criticism over delay.
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Europe
Black Sea
Rumania
Germany
France
Soviet
Russia
Poland
Britain
Mussolini
Lona
Daladier
Neville Chamberlain
Edouard” Daladier
I Man
Georges Bonnet
Paris
Chamberlain
PWA Check on School Building Project Progress
The project on room grade school buildings totals 663 636 dollars with 554 301 awarded by March 10. Excavation began December 8 on Riverside drive for the new high school and progress is rapid. Haymond school excavation finished Thursday by Baker and Combs, general contractors, with work advancing Monday on all buildings.
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Iuir Pase
Riverside Drive
Haymond
Baker and
Combs
Convicts Daughter Returns to City After Tragedy
Lane Ackerman, branded by headlines as the convict’s daughter, leaves Bridgewater after her father’s death and faces harsh judgment in the city. She searches for work and a new start while grappling with stigma, threats, and the pull of romance with Jim as she battles to rebuild her life.
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State Penitentiary
Lane Ackerman
Lape
Bess
Tate
Une
Jim
Lana
Sona
Bridgewater
Finis
Anxiy
Construction pace seen on Baker high school project
Lynch of Baker and Combs reports that the senior high school at Flemington will be finished before the scheduled date, possibly before January 1. Indications of steady progress show more than 600,000 of 2,300,000 bricks have already been laid.
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Flemington
Lynch
Baker and Combs
Foul Avalanche In Pyrenees Claims Fifteen Workers
From Toulouse on March 25 reports say fifteen of fifty workmen trapped by an avalanche on the banks of Lake Isour in the Pyrenees foothills perished. Rescue squads reported that thirty five were saved.
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Toulouse
France
Lake
Isour
Pyrenees
Canal Scheme Seeks Flood Control Through Ohio Valley
Dr Charles H Holzer of Gallipolis testified before a House appropriations sub committee urging approval of 195 million dollars for flood control by the army engineers. He described a canal linking the Sioto river to the Ohio and a second reservoir within 50 miles of the Ohio River to impound 1.5 million acre feet during floods. The Sandusky would feed Lake Erie and the plan would allocate about 27 percent of the total Ohio Valley projects to Ohio under the 195 million dollar package.
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Ohio River
Holzer
Sejoto
Ohio
Sandusky River
Lake Erie
Charles’ Hy Holzer
Gallipolis
Ohio Valley Conservation and Flood Control Congress
House Appropriations
Army Engineers
Budget Bureau
Ohio Valley
Brame
Armistice Page One Continued Bombing Report
A wartime dispatch notes heavy bombardment leaving six civilians dead and many injured. Nine bombers dropped 40 to 50 bombs, destroying an airport and nearby houses. Spisska Nova Ves lies inland near the Carpathian region, about 99 miles from the Ukraine border and 15 miles north of the old Hungarian border. The communique says Hungarian air raids on the town were a reprisal for Slovak bombing of Sobrance, Hungary.
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Spisska Nova Veg
Ukraine
Sobrance
Hungary
Trustee's Sale of Lucretia Property in Grafton County
By virtue of a deed of trust dated May 10 1927 and recorded in Deed of Trust Book AH page 270 Taylor County Court Clerk's office I will sell at the front door of the Court house in Grafton County at 71 09 a m on Thursday March 30 1939 the described real estate known designated and bounded as Lucretia property securing The Real Estate and Improvement Company of Baltimore City Maryland William Kennedy and William Dudg ley trustees
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William B. Sevier
Dave Bevier
William M. Kennedy
William’ J.dudg ‘Ley
Baltimore City
Baltimore
Maryland
Taylor County Court
Grafton
Said County
West Virginia sale notice of Lucretia map lots 8 and 9
Describes sale of parcels eight and nine in Block One on the Lucretia map in Knottsville District Taylor County West Virginia. Property traced in Deed Book 64 page 40 and to William B Sevier per Deed Book 70 page 231. Terms require one half cash with rest in two notes due in one and two years secured by personal surety and counsels retained. Mar 4 11 18 35.
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Lucretia
Knottsville
Taylor County
West Virginia
William B. Sevier
William M. Kennedy
Francis L. Warder
Armel
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Grafton Sentinel
Grafton Gentinel Publishing Company
Latrobe Street
Eo F. Holt
Palmer
Busines
Tsc
W. Va
Associated Press
Prn
E. Clayden Inc
New York
Lexington Avenue
Chicago
North
Michigan Avenue
Ernest Minor Patterson
American Academy of Political and Social Science
Mrs. Peterman
Mr. Sanders
Western Realties
Barney
Mr. Sanderson
Sanders
Aling Service
East Main St
Gratton, W. Va
Schick
Remington Rand
Sunblam
Lam Gii
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