Picture This Grafton Release Previews Feature Ahead
A manager procured a feature before its official release on May 18, tied to Radio Pictures Corporation, claimed to be shown earlier than any theater nationwide. The article then shifts to a technical hearing segment about water power projects and a beaver hole development, with discussions on dam figures and railroad costs. The piece ends with a note on the seahorse fish’s tail and its anchoring method.
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Grafton
Brinkman
Isot
Radio Pictures Corporation
Power Counsel analyzes mine productivity figures and load factors
The discussion critiques the United States Bureau of Mines national average of 960.9 tons per miner per year, with adjustments to 800 tons to include office staff and sales personnel. Cross examination reveals a 230 percent load factor used to inflate displacement estimates for production and consumption, as witnesses testified.
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United Sates Bureau of Mines
Brady
Johnsons
Miners displaced as water project plans faced review
Testimony in a public hearing on the Cheat river watershed project shows estimates of 1,640 miners and 8,200 persons affected by production shifts, later revised to 85 miners and 3,175 persons under a family basis. Brady states intimidation reports came from one source, while officials recall a 1930s Lake Lynn celebration with gubernatorial attendance and tax reductions related to land donated for recreation.
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Johnson
Brady
Cheat River
Cuppett
Thomas
C. BS Ntchmen
Lake Lynn
Power Company
Howard M. Gore
Boulder Dam Begins Work With 10 Million Appropriation
The $10,660,000 initial Boulder Dam appropriation will fund labor and equipment to start construction in Black canyon. Plans include highway access, rail spurs, a townsite, sanitation, water system, and four diversion tunnels. Heavy rail construction will descend into the canyon to supply the dam as it rises to 725 feet.
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Frank L Weller
Associated Press
Washington
Boulder Dam
Hoover
Congress
Ipower
Black Canyon
Elwood Mead
Reclamation
Las Vegas
Nevada
Capitol commission approves buff limestone for main unit
Charleston May 16 The capitol building commission ordered buff limestone for the exterior of the main capitol unit replacing the varied type. The change adds 125000 to building cost. Buff limestone already used on the first and second units. Repairs to plastering in the second unit were discussed but action postponed. Governor Conley presided.
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Charleston
W.va
Capitol Building Commission
State Capitol
Conley
Three Children Die In Camp Area Fire Near San Diego
San Diego May 16 three small children perished in a blaze that wrecked their Camp area home. Their mother Mrs Francisca Ybarra suffered serious injuries as fire of undetermined origin swept the residence late last night.
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San Diego
Cal
Valley Run Gas Well Strikes Major Gusher
The Valley Run Gas Company hit a gas gusher on the Thomas Gaho farm on Laurel Run in Wetzel county. Drillers could not gauge pressure, but the well was believed to flow at least three million cubic feet daily.
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Wheeling
Valley Run Gas Company
Thomas Gaho
Laurel Run
Wetzel County
Hall Under $7000 Bond in Prohibition Raid Case
Earl L. Morrow, arraigned on charges of transporting liquor and stealing automobiles, held under a $7000 bond awaiting hearing before a U S commissioner May 20 after federal officers raided Charleston last night. Morrow was said to have been active in Ohio and West Virginia and located in Akron for a time. A Wilmerding political leader Guy Volpe was arrested after William Mundy, 40, named him as his assailant. The wounded man identified only a slat of the assailant. A roadhouse cook was found at the scene and several witnesses near the location heard shots and saw the slayers flee in a car.
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Charleston
Earl L. Morrow
Ohio
West Virginia
United States
Department of Justice
Morrow
Akron
Guy Volpe
Wilmerding
William Mundy
Plate
Pittsburgh Gunfights Prompt Police Probe
Police investigated two shootings in Pittsburgh on May 16, leaving one man dead and another fatally wounded. Authorities attributed the violence to racketeer warfare between rival figures in the city’s underworld.
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Pittsburgh
Brock plans trans continental flight to set speed records
Detroit on May 16 reports William S. Brock, veteran pilot, plans a 24 hour cross continental flight from Jacksonville, Florida to San Diego, California and back to shatter three speed records. Brock will be accompanied by an unnamed crew in the mission announced today.
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Detroit
Jacksonville
Pla
Diego
Cal
William S. Brock
Brock
Code of Regulations to be Studied by Group
Clarksburg May 16 The code of regulations 8 50 Highway Association was studied by officers and members at a meeting to be held next Wednesday at 10 oclock at the Waldo hotel. A. A. Pickering appointed a committee including H C Compton W A Beavers Gratton F G Bish Charles B Morgan and T E Clovis Pennsboro It is likely the turnpike body will affiliate with the Cincinnati association. For one invention glone a new electric light Edison made notes extending to 40000 pages.
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Clarksburg
Mittees
Thwestern Turnpike
Tac
Waldo Hotel
A. A. Pickering
H. C. Compton
W. A. Beavers
Gratton
F. G. Bish
Charles B. Morgan
T. E. Clovis
Pennsboro
Cincinnati
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Ment
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Albright
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Cheat Valley
Power Counsel
J. J. Remlinger
Barber Shop
East Main Street
White Co. Greenhouse
Betterman
Rollins
Japan
Rollin
C. V. Miller Reliable Footwear
Grafton, W. Va
Anna K. Storck
Elyria
Edward F. Lehlee
Mexico
Tokyo
Congo Forest
Eien
Lenore Ulric
Elrich Mallet
Oya
Auk Pee
Jack Oakie
Polly Walker
Glenn
RED Cross
Trimble Electric Company
RCA
Cunningham
Hall
Glone
Edisoh
Grafton Feed & Storage Company
Order
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Rs. Siminez
Strand
Metro Comedy
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