Special City Council Meets Over Livery Stable and Bond Issue
A special meeting led by Mayor Love discussed Ohio Valley Audit Company litigation, prohibiting the East Main livery stable, voter registration for a 75000 bond election, and Tygart Valley Brewing Company license approval. The license was granted to manufacture ice, lowering city ice prices. payroll estimated near 15000 annually. The council also addressed appeals against city actions, traction company line damage estimates, and bond election preparations for June 15.
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Luzadder
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Perlie
Redinger
Ohio Valley Audit Company
East Main Street
Tygart Valley Brewing Company
Perine
Shaffer
Grafton
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Sapp Ang Wilkinson
Thomas
Electric Light Committee
Frank A. Ross
Messrs
Frank Bennett
Frank Robinson
Traction Company
George L. Hartley
Thomas B. Joyce
Crystal Ice Company
Henry J. Pracht
Robinson
Bartley Creek
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Water Works
Beaumont
Madrigal Chorus Club closes season with concert
The Madrigal Chorus Club held its season finale in the Wehn building hall before a large audience. Florence Hamilton and J. Lee Evans led strong solo runs including Over the Fields of Clover and O Moment That I Bless, with ensembles by Misses Pugh, Hardie, Foreman, and Beavers, plus piano solos by Lear Fawcett and Bennett. The program featured My Old Kentucky Home and an African Love Song, ending with a brief ovation for Attorney J. Frank Wilson and praise for director Prudence Hinkle.
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Wehn
Miss Hamilton
Hattie Foreman
the Prim Rose
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Mr. Cunningham
Grace Lear
Old Kentucky Home
Janenchore
Bernice Beavers
Minale Bennett
J. Frank Wilson
Bertha Newton
Prudence Hinkle
Circus Day in Grafton Draws Big Crowd
A large crowd gathered in Grafton for the John Robinson Circus parade. Early crowds lined the streets as the bands played and the partial parade passed, with wagons and paraphernalia largely ready. Traction cars were packed for afternoon performances and the crowd remained hopeful for another sold out evening show.
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Grafton
John Robinson
Grafton Traction Company
Little Boy Illness Spares Daylight Scheme
Master Addison Butt, the young son of Mr and Mrs Ad Butt, is seriously ill at his West Side home but now shows signs of recovery. A proposed daylight extension by waking two hours earlier is unlikely to appeal to divorce court ladies who lack breakfast appetite until noon.
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Master Addison Butt
Ad. Butt
West Side
England’s Labor Insurance Reform Proposal in Commons
London May 21 Winston Churchill introduced a government bill to create labor exchanges and a national employment insurance starting in 1910. It would cover about 2.25 million workers in building, engineering, machine trades and shipbuilding, funded by workers employers and the state. The plan aims to cut unemployment and better organize labor with a national, voluntary exchange and compulsory insurance books.
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Winston Spencer Churchill
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House of Commons
England
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Home Oil & Gas plans new deep well near Pruntytown
The Home Oil & Gas Company has awarded a contract for a 2500 foot well on the Harrison Jones lands near Pruntytown. Riggers move the derrick from the Whitescarver farm as manager P H McGrady confirms the last well was promising and stockholders remain enthusiastic despite hard times. A broad development push is underway with the rig to drill the new well north west toward Lost Run.
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Pruntytown
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Whitescarver
Lost Run
P. H. McGrady
al Ward
Salem
Williamsburg Bridge jumper leaps 140 feet in wager bid
Albert B. House, 25, a professional high diver, jumped from the Williamsburg bridge into the East River at dusk today after a bet. He was found unconscious hours later in Brooklyn and rushed to hospital with rib injuries and internal trauma from driftwood and heavy ankle weights.
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Williamsburg
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Atlantic Avenue
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Leutenant
Aldrich Bill Could Pass Any Time Senators Back Tariff
Washington March 21 Senator Aldrich said he could pass his tariff bill at any time based on assurances from Senators Daniels and Simmons that they favor protection. It is believed they will lead southern Democrats who support protection. Cottonseed oil remains free with Aldrich's consent.
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Simmons
New high wheat prices hit East Liverpool market
East Liverpool Ohio May 21 farmers sold wheat for 1.50 a bushel and corn for 90 cents while oats brought 65 cents in the morning market. The day saw record grain sales and the highest quotations yet in the area reflecting strong demand.
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Ang Mne
Marron to Lead Fight for Boyles Freedom in West Virginia
John Marron to handle appeal efforts for Mrs. Boyles case as authorities report a confession by John Thompson, a nineteen year old, linking to a 1908 Pittsburg murder of Lulu Stafford and the Carsten family crimes. Proceedings move toward revising life sentences while Marron consults attorneys in Welch.
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Welch
Pittsburg
Lulu Stafford
James F
Poyle
Helen Bolye
McDowell County
Mercer
Court House Yard
Waitla
Sharon
John Marron
Thompson
Pennsylvania
Hampton
Conn
Leute Carsten
Boyle
Boyle Ty
Carsten
Hove
Marron
Steamer Mongolian still trapped by ice pack near Taft visit
A cloudburst in Charlotte during Taft’s Mecklenburg parade review caused panic as a float tangled with the crowd and a nearby explosion flashed. Taft sheltered under a flooded canvas roof, later smiling as rain pelted the scene. In St John’s, the Mongolian remains wedged in harbor ice with about 500 passengers aboard awaiting a rescue attempt by the Diana.
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N.C
Taft
Mecklenburg
Ths
Selwyn Hotel
St. Johns
N. F
Allen Line
Diana
Marrow Harbor
Liverpool
Riot over smallpox case in Philadelphia’s Negro quarter
A May 21 report says a smallpox case at Fifteenth and Kater streets sparked a riot as followers of Joseph W. Crowdy tried to rescue sect members. Police deployed reserves from sixteen districts to quell the frenzied crowd and keep people out of health roped-off areas.
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Fifteenth
Kater
Joseph W. Crowdy
Mt Etna Awakens Prompting Evacuations Near Catana
Residents flee Mt Etna area as a violent eruption threat grows. Air over miles filled with hot ash and fears lava may begin to flow. Several sharp earthquakes shake the region. Scientists visiting the scene deem the disturbance more threatening than in months prior.
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Catana
Mt. Etna
Family attends funeral on train to Greensburg
Mr and Mrs Lawrence Hale travel with their daughter Carrie on train No 7 to Greensburg Pennsylvania to attend the funeral of Mrs Hale’s father who died yesterday afternoon in Greensburg.
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Lawrence Hale
M Carrie
Greensburg
Grafton Glove Factory Leads Local Commerce
F L Losey heads a new fabric gloves and mittens plant at 150 Front Street South Grafton with 25 workers and a daily capacity of 100 dozen pairs. The factory, already employing a dozen girls, aims to supply railroad workers and store shelves in the city.
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Losey
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