Solitary in Families and a Grafton Plea for Dog Control
A reader in the Knottsville area appeals for action against roaming dogs menace the county. Farmers report one man keeping 18 dogs, harming cattle and sheep, with officials urged to remove dangerous canines and force owners to compensate losses. The piece recalls a 1896 Bryan McKinley relic and notes local memory of campaign posters linking to current currency debates.
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Knottsville
Grafton Park
Fairmont
Grafton
Chas. A. Pilson
Pilson
Congress
Bryan
McKinley
Mr. Pilson
Myself
Arthur Adair
Come Out and Hear Gold Standard Debate
A public call invites attendees to hear arguments in favor of the single gold standard, urging belief without offense to the poor. The event promotes conviction that gold standard policy is superior and will be explained to attendees.
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Maryland
Special Trains and Excursion Rates for Gold Standard Rally
Baltimore October 20 1896 crowds invited to hear two national speakers as committee promotes low fares to draw the poor and working class to a political event. Receivers for the B&O Mr Cowen may arrange trains to insure large turnout drawing widespread attendance from disenfranchised groups.
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Mr. Cowen
School Lobby Upheld By County Unit Bill Debate
The Intelligencer reports Wheeling officials led a Charleston protest against the County unit school bill. Dr. Kraybill and other school employees mobilized signatures and cards to oppose changes, using pupils to press their stance. The piece notes the bill is a major reform toward simplicity and economy, despite critic’s objections over job losses.
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Senate
D. B. Kraybill
Wheeling
Charleston
Thy
Ohio County
Kraybill
West Virginia
Daily Cross-Word Puzzle Across and Down Clues Mixed
A garbled crossword puzzle page lists numerous Across and Down clues with scattered numbers and symbols, including hints like Harmful, Small round mark, Wreath, Persian, Baptismal vessel, and various others, interspersed with stray letters and formatting errors. The readable items hint at a traditional puzzle, but most words and structure are unreadable or corrupted.
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Persia
Public Store House
McSnow
Wasted Education and Lost Leadership in Depression Era
In a May dispatch from Washington, the Wheeling Intelligencer notes graduates visiting the capital highlight student unemployment amid economic collapse. The Clarksburg Exponent echoes the tragedy, praising colleges for producing capable leaders while lamenting the lack of job opportunities to use their talents.
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Washington
Clarksburg
Body recovered from Ohio river in West Virginia
Harley Thomas 43 of Parkersburg is believed slain. Police recovered his body from the Ohio river at Kirkman’s Landing near Wheeling. He had sold a store recently and was last seen in a Bridgeport restaurant before dawn Feb 3. Thomas formerly worked as a merchant in Moundsville.
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Wheeling
Harley Thomas
Parkersburg
Ohio River
Kirkman’s Landing
Bridgeport
Thomas
Moundsville
Farmers Union asks Roosevelt oust Wallace at Montevideo
The Minnesota Farmers Holiday Association adopted a resolution urging President Roosevelt to remove Agriculture Secretary Wallace. It said he had not shown sympathy with efforts to guarantee agrarians the cost of production through national legislation. The group also decided to...
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Montevideo
Minn
Roosevelt
Wallace
Minnesota Farmers Holiday Association
Farm strike broadens as delegates back moratorium plan
Four thousand delegates vote to join a farm strike starting Saturday and demand a national moratorium on farm and personal property foreclosures. They urge relief measures while the House rejects the cost of production amendment. Gandhi inspired civil disobedience circulations surface in Minneapolis amid calls for mortgage relief and martial law in affected counties.
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National House of Representives
Holiday Association
Milo Reno
National Farm Holiday Association
Fat
Mahatma Gandhi
India
Minneapolis
Floyd B. Olson
Minnesota
Washington
Roosevelt
Clyde L. Herring
Town
Crawford
Plymouth
A. G. Schmedeman
Wisconsin
Omaha
Plans For Preliminary Meeting Include Key Officials
Delegates McCoy D Marian and W T Williamson of Charlester join Commissioner McLaughlin in outlining early agenda items for a forthcoming planning session. The group aims to shape the initial framework and establish timelines for the project.
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McCoy
Marian
W. T. Williamson
Charlester
McLaughlin
Vote Higher Fees For Undertakers Charleston May 10
Increased fees for undertakers were approved by the house after debate lasting over an hour. Delegate Wells led the fight for the bill opposed by some who said higher fees would drive small undertakers out of business. A vote of 36 to 1 sent the bill to the senate, raising license from 50 to 50 and annual registration from 2 to 3. The house also sent to the senate a bill to let circuit courts of criminal jurisdiction fill vacancies in prosecuting attorney posts, and approved general authority for counties to borrow Reconstruction Finance Corporation funds.
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Charleston
House
Wells
Rvant
Senate
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Substitute Approved For 30 Hour Work Week Bill
Washington May 10 The House labor committee unanimously approved the Connery substitute to establish machinery to fix minimum wages permit production control forbid child labor ban imports at entry cost less than American cost of production and license all interstate commerce firms A woman Miss Sarah Van Housen Jones named one of Michigan six master farmers in 1932.
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Washington
House Labor Committee
Connery
Sarah van Hoosen Jones
Michigan
Mathews Chosen Leader of West Virginia Fair Commission
In Charleston on May 10, Mathews of the state senate was named head of the state century of progress commission, responsible for West Virginia's role in the Chicago World's Fair. Speaker Hiner was elected vice chairman J Blaine Care the agriculture secretary. The commission named three members to go to Chicago.
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Charleston
Mathews
State Senate
State Century of Progress Commission
West Virginia
Chicago
Hiner
House
J. Blaine Care
Agriculture
Higher output of electricity in New York area
New York May 10. For the first time in nearly three years electric output and consumption last week rose above the year prior. The Edison Electric Institute reports a weekly total of 1,435,707,000 kilowatt hours, five tenths percent above the 1,429,032,000 a year earlier. A modest week-to-week gain also appears against the usual seasonal trend, the last increase dating to June 14, 1930.
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New York
Edison Electric Institute
Cement Plant Resumes Work At Manheim
Industry channels report the Alpha Portland Cement plant at Manheim Preston county has resumed operations after a long shutdown. About 125 men are employed on six hour shifts, signaling an upturn in industrial conditions locally.
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Alpha Portland Cement
Manheim
Preston County
Politicians Home Bombed in Pittsburgh
A bomb struck the home of Charles Martin a Republican ward official and city assessor board member in Pittsburgh Pa early today the front porch was torn off and two first floor rooms ruined four occupants including Martin his brother James an assessor investigator and two sisters escaped injury Police arrested a man who gave the name Joe Girgiolo 31 a partner as a suspect
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Pittsburgh
Charles Martin
Board of City Assessors
Martin
James
Board of Assessor
Joe Girgiolo
Notice of debts and claims and law case publication
Public notices warn all indebted to the late James L Lilly deceased to settle with administrator C P Green at 110 Ethel Street and file claims. Also a June 1933 West Virginia chancery suit against H E Bailey seeks to attach his personal property to satisfy a banking assessment and requires Bailey to appear within one month after first publication in the Grafton Sentinel.
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James L, Lilly
James L. Lilly
Ethel Street
C. P. Green
West Virginia
Circuit Court
Taylor County
West Va
E. Lawhead
Merchants & Mechanics Banks of
Grafton
H. E. Bailey
Commissioner of Banking of
Merchants and Mechanics Savings Bank
Grafton Sentinel
Cory
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W. VA
Howard H. Holt
Latrobe Street
Grafton Printing Co
Postoffice
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Casitas Asti Conte
Rife Ag
Dr. E. L. Love
James A. Holt
the Sentinel
James W. Holt
Isador Raynor
Will
Grafton, W. VA
Jersey
R. F
Tali
Home Bldg. & Loan Assn
Federal Home Loan Bank System
Grafton Banking& Trust Co
Baltimore
Friends of the Gold Standard
Timi
Altice Te
Semeilia
Corrade
Merry
Lee Bennett & Son
West Main Street
KC Uy
Ali
REY Dior
EIR
KY Ae Sit Iai EY
Wheeling Intelligencer
Farmers Union
Coats
Friedlander
W. Main Street
Sentinel
Maple Avenue
Pearl Street
J. Kerstin
Call
Sam
Fed
R. C. McDade
Maple Ave
E. Clarksburg
Leonard St
Care Sentinel
P. O. Box
MotorService
Heberling
G. C
Heberling Company
Dept
Bloomington
Ill
Fair Commission
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