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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1915
Page
7
The article criticizes the income tax provisions as unclear and inconsistent. It cites Treasury Department rulings, adverse effects on taxpayers, and mass contradictory decisions. It notes refunds misapplied $500 then $12, illustrating vague language and governmental uncertainty. It urges future Congresses and courts to fix the errors while taxpayers bear the costs.
United States circuit court of appeals in Richmond reversed a jury verdict for the plaintiff in the Downey receivership suit against Hartford Fire Insurance. The court directed verdict for the insurer, part of about $107,000 in claims across federal and state actions over fire damage to the Stewart Vehicle plant. The case may go to the United States Supreme Court.
H E Dunlap Wheeling patent lawyer reports Patent Office records show recent patent grants to West Virginia inventors Joseph F Carpenter Wheeling for cross tie Wm E James Carbon assigner third to KE J Heer Cincinnati Ohio and one third to EB F Hooke Carbon for window screen John H Linn Charleston window curtain and shade holder Solomon Smith Link Fork rover feats and related items
A terse onlookers dialogue shows a customer claiming to have taken seventeen bottles with no relief, while a clerk counters with a biting retort about empathy for those not taking them. The exchange hints at a public drug or medicine scene with sharp social commentary.
A collage of women focused items touches on aging and desire, domestic cooking hints with tuna bisque and celery, wartime job losses in Birmingham, a New York immigrant school on Ellis Island, a Philadelphia centenarian, a Fire Wood Pennsylvania billboard ban crusade, and retiree Rebecca Karp who funded her family and property before plans to retire at 55.
Flemington notes show Emmett Blaney of Grafton visiting, while Mrs. Lloyd Wolverton returns to Salem after a weekend with relatives. Several residents, including Miss Perrin and Miss Estelle McGee, alter school staffing due to illness and travel. The Hen e ta factory resumes operations after a shutdown, and families from Lewis and Clarkburg regions visit or plan to settle.
May 8 London dispatch reports the British steamer Transylvania sailed for Liverpool after Lusitania sinking news. Captain John Black, recently transferred from the Columbia, declares no intent to flag the American flag if the risk remains. Passenger ages and nationalities listed. cancellations total twelve, four due to illness.
John Daugherty aged 55 returned to his Philippi area home after a three day absence. He is violently insane and was placed under arrest for examination. His family cared for him at home as authorities planned an internal or Weston asylum commitment. Hounds and searchers followed trails but weather and illness hampered the effort.
A stallion will stand for service at the old Roe livery stable on lower Latrobe Street in Grafton each Saturday throughout the season.
Dusty Sentinel reports the death of 27 year old Whalen from base skull injuries at the Baltimore and Ohio erecting shops on West Boyd street. He was a Cumberland division fireman recently reassigned locally. A windlass crank struck him during work near a turntable, causing a fatal head wound. his condition worsened after transfer, and he died before hospital transfer. He leaves a widow and brothers James Michael and William, with the family from Ritchie county, near Weston. Funeral details are pending.
FAIRMONT W Va May 7 After selecting Terra Alta to the next place of meeting in 1916 the eleventh annual meeting on Woman s Home in Missionary societies of the Grafton Presbytery closed at Mannington after a two days session largely attended with officers elected for both societies and notes on lectures by Dr T C Johnston and Miss Josephine Petrie The opening address was by Mrs J L Bernhardt and Mannington ladies entertained the visitors. In Fairmont an circus worker Bert Hert knocked from a box car by a steel beam under Lumberport Bridge sustained a head injury and was taken to hospital believed dead but later found alive multiple references to Ringling circus manager N Thompson and past incidents at South Side Park. Should Hert die it would mark a second circus death in Fairmont.
The Lusitania cargo valued at 750000 and fully insured included 189 packages of military goods worth 62221 and 1271 cases of ammunition worth 47624 for Liverpool, 4200 cases of cartridges worth 154400 for London. Other items listed included precious stones brass furs leather copper and drygoods. A separate note mentions prohibiting baseball at Sing Sing during the closed season to prevent break ins.
Government notes show steak price lower than year 1012 with a puzzling 60 value. It frames a moment of national greatness as China prepares to erect its spinal column signaling progress.
Clarksburg West Virginia May 8 Five railroad workers were injured when a double header coal train jumped the track and rolled down an embankment near Lynch's mines southwest of the city. Engineers Thomas Freeman, Harry Fox, Dewey Bennett, Mark Morgan, conductor James Frame, and brakemen were aboard the train. A relief train and physicians rushed to the scene and the injured were taken to hospitals. Cause of the accident is unknown.
May 20 marks the effective date of a new lunacy statute. Lunacy hearings shift to a county lunacy commission consisting of the county court president, prosecuting attorney, and county clerk with two physicians present. Warrants for escaping inmates issued by asylum superintendents, discharge power moves to medical staff, and paroles may occur without formal discharge. The measure ends large fees once charged by justices of the peace.
The jury ruled Creed Bartlett sane on the insanity question in the horse theft case. He must stand trial for horse theft with Judge Fortney adjourning court until Monday. Attorney Merle Watkins was appointed to defend him. Witnesses included Dr. Winn and Dr. Shafter from Clarksburg. A conviction could yield two to ten years in the penitentiary.
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