County political shifts and farm leader removal noted
Advertising rates are listed for local ads with a 2 cent per word first insertion and 1 cent per word subsequent insertions. The piece surveys the fight over a county unit school bill, its passage hurdles, and a dramatic dismissal of Nat Frame, a famed farm and youth program pioneer, amid broader state political maneuvering and cautions about honorary university awards.
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Stonewall Jackson Park
Lewis County
State Park
Frame
Prohibition Group Forms In City At Enthusiastic Meeting
The county hosts the first local repealist organization in the state as supporters urge a new, more intelligent approach to liquor control and temperance. Separately the lower house rejected the governor’s gasoline tax proposal, voting 52 to 27 to block an increase to between 3 and 6 cents, warning against higher levies amid statewide sentiment.
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Patria
State Organization For Prohibition Repeal
House
West Virginia Joins Vacation State Spotlight
An American Automobile Association official lauds West Virginia as a vacation state after touring the mountain region. The piece credits local enterprise spending about 10 million dollars on highway improvements and foresees tourism becoming a major state revenue source as roads widen travel to eastern and northern cities.
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Waeenny Iews
American Automobile Association
West Virginia
West Virginia’s scenic appeal and enduring marriages
The Elkins Inter-Mountain notes rising interest in West Virginia’s scenic features amid industrial growth in Wheeling. A Harrison couple’s fifty year union ends in divorce proceedings, prompting reflection that most long marriages endure, illustrated by golden wedding vows and mutual devotion.
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West Virginia
Wheeling
West, Virginia
Elkins
The Unit Bill and County School Consolidation
The Wheeling Intelligencer praises the Rump county unit school bill, urging passage as a breakthrough. It argues replacing 295 districts with 55 will end wasteful local barriers, improve economy and equalize educational opportunities, and assures parents no harm to their children's schooling as boundaries are removed.
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Senate
Wheeling Intelligencer
Wheeling Paper
West Virginia
A Foolish Tax Booster Pushes Gasoline Tax Rise
Charleston editors condemn a proposed flexible gasoline tax of three to six cents per gallon, shifting rate control from the legislature to the executive. They warn it will raise car costs amid high license, gasoline, and oil taxes, urging lighter taxes instead to revive revenue.
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Charleston
Clarksburg
Tinplate plant to operate at full capacity Monday
Martins Ferry Ohio May 20 officials of the Laughlin tin plant announced operations would be stepped up to 100 percent capacity for the first time in nearly four years. Three hundred employes will be added bringing the force to 1,600.
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Martins Ferry
Laughlin
Wisconsin milk strike ends as farmers confront governor
Madison May 20. Gov. A G Schmedeman faced thousands of farmers in the University of Wisconsin gym amid boos during a makeshift march to Madison. Mediators readied peace terms while the governor promised energetic efforts to resolve agricultural hardships and restore prosperity.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin
A. G Schmedenan
University of Wisconsin
Ralph M. Immell
Gov. Schmedeman
Trial hinges on Mitchell gifts to wife in tax case
In New York on May 20, the Mitchell income tax evasion trial focused on whether he gave substantial cash gifts to his wife before 1929. Edward Barrett, former head of National City Bank, testified 18 300 shares of bank stock were entered in Mrs Mitchell's account, a key point under redirect examination by U S Attorney George Medalie.
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New York
Charly E Mitchell
National City Bank
Mitchell
United States
George Medalie
Edward Barrett
Noted Ledger Error Reveals Large Mitchell Payments
Testimony shows Barrett’s secretary missed a ledger figure. earlier records show only one payment in September 1924 as a gift. Photostatic memoranda disclose that in 1931 Mrs. Mitchell received $145,000 from her husband in several payments and that she paid him $196,678.18 that year in sums near $49,000 each.
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Barns
Barrett
Mitchell
Medalie
SS Ae
The Profiteer by W W McDaniel
A poem condemns profiteers as thieves driven by greed. It描 describes their doom after death, with harsh imagery of remote heaven and universal hatred, urging forgiveness to avoid eternal punishment.
Plane Crashes In Ohio Injuring Three Men
In Gallipolis Ohio a plane with three men aboard plunged into the Ohio river. The occupants were Clarence B. Connor C B Christie and Raymond Dawson all of Charleston West Virginia. They were injured but managed to swim to safety after the craft sank in thirty feet of water. Dawson suffered a broken nose and twisted ankles and Connor was cut in one eye. Christie endured shock. James Walker and Edward Henry, rowing nearby, rescued them.
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Gallipolis
Ohio River
Clarence B. Connor
C. B. Christie
Raymond Dawson
Charleston
W. Va
James Walker
Edward Henry
Dawson
Connor
Christie
Daily Crossword Puzzle 7 Solution Summary
Puzzle solution list of across clues and answers with garbled letters and misspellings. Includes references to Haristened Engtish Monkeys, Claw, Snares, Pathola, Turbid heavenly, North Americ tou ean, Chita mock Region, rivulet northern, wreathful europe Asiatic tree, Cow Things, Newcomb, maven oir wihilte, Celilo, aration uayel, Girdle OB, Former Ruse, Ah Scheme, Single thing South, Villages country, Great Lake, Fasten again, Weary, Retinue, Town in sn nore oy, Biblical char, White vest, Sailor's foot acciment, Toll hard publication peenem, Shar! Siamese, Holds back wonder, Shellfish pagoda.
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York
South” Amonment
Great Lake Poe
Coatly
Sn Nore Oy
Sailor's
Fogkaive
Peenem
Winistiema
Proposed Amendment To The United States Constitution
Early text shows Congress proposing a 21st amendment to repeal the 18th and end prohibitions. Voter guidance instructs marking for ratification or repeal with a list of named candidates and officials supporting ratification. The article outlines effects including repeal of Prohibition, state rights, tax revenue, enforcement, and social benefits.
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the United States
Congress
United States
West Virginia
Trustee Sale Notices Across Taylor County WV Estates
Public sale notices detail claims against the estate of James T. Knotts and multiple trust deeds in Taylor County West Virginia. Auctions list parcels in Blueville and Grafton with dates in May and June 1933 and specify mortgage holders and trustees including R L Phillips Flora B Phillips A J Rosenshine and Harry Friedman.
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James T. Knotts
Taylor County Bank
Grafton
Taylor County
West Virginia
William P. Samples
County of
Taylor
A. J. Rosenshine
Said County
East Main Street
Sala Street
Said
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Trustee Sale Notice by Deed Dated May 25 1931
Trustee HARRY FRIEDMAN states parcels will be offered separately and as a whole. Terms: Cash. Deed dated and recorded May 25 1931. Trustee authorized to conduct sale. Public notice of impending sale of property.
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Harry Friedman
Classified rates and insertion rules for Sentinel ads
The Sentinel sets two cents a word for the first insertion and one cent per word for each additional insertion, with a five insertion minimum and a 45 cent minimum charge. Each initial on a figure counts as one word and errors must be reported immediately.
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