Democracy and tablets spark debate in wartime article
A lengthy letter column argues against memorial bronze tablets for PWA projects and questions the display of Roosevelt and Ickes on monuments. It contends democracy is a state of mind, not force, and warns about overreaching leaders while noting taxpayers fund all construction.
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Morgantown Post
Public Works Administration
Roosevelt
Ickes
United States
P. S
Hitler
Mussolini
Coal Commission Panned in Roosevelts Plan
The Wheeling Intelligencer argues the National Bituminous Coal Commission failed due to infeasible goals set by the Guffey Act. It urges transferring duties to the Department of the Interior, predicting little improvement and calling the original law a mistake that should be corrected by appeal.
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Wheeling Intelligencer
National
Bituminous Coal Commission
Roosevelt
Intelligencer
The
Coal Commission
United States
Department of the In
Terior
Cape
War for Democracy Echoes Through Time
A brief historical reflection notes that the nation entered World War I in 1917 to make the world safe for democracy, while acknowledging skepticism about the motive and the ease of defending such a grand ideal in political discourse.
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Charleston Gazette
Wev
Jerkwater College
Quick Results Try a Sentinel Want Ad
A brief notice highlights quick results from sentinel listings and urges readers to place want ads for faster responses. The item emphasizes efficient marketplace matching and local classifieds as a fast channel for buying selling and services.
Gillette Seeks Broad Neutrality Law Rewrite
Senator Gillette proposes to repeal most of the current neutrality laws except money controls and munitions oversight. His plan would empower Congress and the president to declare war, create combat zones, and allow travel and shipping at individual risk. It would drop the automatic arms embargo and the cash and carry provision.
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Gillette
Lafollette
Wis
Munitions Control Board
Congress
State Department
Prisoner Captured McMechen
Officers recaptured Fred Hummell, who escaped from the prison road camp at Green Sulphur Springs last Saturday, at his sister’s home in town. He was sentenced to three years for larceny.
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McMechen
Fred Hummell
Green Sulphur Springs
Democracy's two great pillars colonist the reader's note
A Berkeley reader argues democracy rests on two core elements. First, the sacredness of individual personality, guarding freedom equality and tolerance against totalitarian regimentation. Second, economic democracy, enabling free choice of work, ownership, competition, and prices that reflect supply and demand, linking economic and political democracy. The piece warns that limits on free market forces empower monopolies and state control, weakening democracy worldwide and in the United States.
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Berkeley
California
United States
Early settlers of Taylor County and Pleasant Creek region
The history records John Simpson as the first white man in the Pleasant Creek area before 1770, then David McDaniel establishing the first ferry on the Tygart Valley. Jeddediah McDaniel and Rev. Moses Tichnell shaped the community, founding the first church and a subscription school, with Sayre family roots and connections to Grafton and Barbour.
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Pleasant Creek
Taylor County
John Simpson
Pringle Brothers
White Day
Tygart Valley
Pleasant
Simpson
McDaniel
Grafton
Waitman W. McDaniel
Cecil
W. W. McDaniel
David Sayre
Green County
Pennsylvania
Hannah ‘Frazier
Virginia
Barbour
Hall
Sutton
Little
Fawcett
Thorn
Weaver
Jeddediah
John McVicker
Jeddediah McDaniel
Moses Tichnell
Ater
Sayre
McGee
Massachusetts
Long Island
New Jersey
Seaboard
Benjamin F. Sayre
John Sayre
Isaac Sayre
Edmonton gum ban for traffic cops sparks street lore
A clipped jumble of trivia and jokes mentions traffic cops in Edmonton forbidden to chew gum on duty, a tulip linked to onion ancestry, a Harvard astronomer on runaway stars, autograph bans in Japan, a Sweden king on crowded streetcars, Polish yells, a burglar sighting, and New York World’s Fair bustle framed by family ties nearby.
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Edmonton
Canada
Sweden
Beaux Brummel linked to murder in New York case
FBI enters murder probe as arraignment and exhumation order draw scrutiny to Paul Petrillo, a witchcraft practitioner nicknamed Beaux Brummel. Police say Giacobbe accused Petrillo of murder intent after an affair, with Petrillo allegedly taking out life insurance naming himself as beneficiary. Investigators explore ties to nine poison slayings in NY, Brooklyn, and Jersey City. Petrillo is a cousin of Herman Petrillo, a convicted poisoner facing the electric chair.
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FBI
Beau Brummel
Paul Petrillo
New York
James Kelly
Petrillo
Kelly
Paul
Giacobbe
New York City
Brooklym
Jersey City
Herman Petrillio
WPA
Nurse or Career Dilemma Frames Parrish Family in New York
In a tense scene Eleanor Parrish weighs motherhood against her career as she returns from the baby’s birth to discuss work with Kate Douglas. Phil contemplates a Long Island move while Kate debates Nell’s return, aiming to balance family needs with income and publishing life. Kate ultimately declines immediate reinstatement.
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Phil
Tad
Jeanor
New York
Eleanor
Kate Douglas
Meats
Pi Cc AP
Edings
Phil Parrish
Nell
Kate
Jessica
Long Island
Paverishes
Printer
Eleanor Parrish
eChild
Ally
Murphy Brothers Involved in Sanity Hearing And Shootout
An accused man faced a sanity hearing before trial in a dispute over money. Murphy, in his cell, received glucose and a syrup drink. Harry and Roy Murphy, with Bill Murphy, operated an oil town cafe. a buyout dispute led Roy and Bill to Harry's cabin for a final settlement and a shooting. Bill Murphy awaits trial.
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Cal Quarrel
Murphy
Harry
Roy
Bill Murphy
Bill
Obituary Note Mentions Riley Family and Recent Deaths
A brief obituary fragment notes a woman entering the office of Robert J. Riley and mentions her husband’s death on December 28 of the previous year, indicating a family obituary context and a personal loss.
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Robert J. Riley
Aged Lady Dies in Wheeling
May 12 report states Mrs T. Riley widow of former state attorney general and mother of Supreme Court Judge James Riley collapsed and died today in Wheeling.
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Wheeling
Riley
Supreme Court
James Riley
G O P Rally Ad Faces Open Meeting Tonight
The campaign ad rhetoric warns that any other action could jeopardize victory at the polls or risk a national administration unable to meet obligations. Open meetings feature Hallanan and Hamilton as speakers while the national chairman urges workers to demand honest, principled candidacies and oppose compromise on core values.
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Hallanan
Hamilton
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