Christmas Luck At Clarksburg
Three runaway freight train cars crashed into a street car and a lunch room in Clarksburg on Saturday. One man, brakeman W. K. Foriash of Weston, was hospitalized with a broken arm. six people on the street car, six in the restaurant, and two on the train cars suffered bruises or shock. Streetcar conductor-motorman James M. Poling said he stopped before the crossing and was waved across when the cars rolled back into his trolley. the caboose derailed and struck the restaurant, with four customers and the two owners escaping through a back window as the front end was demolished. A wrecking train was dispatched from Grafton with Division Superintendent H. R. Gibson aboard.
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W. K. Foriash
Weston
St. Mary’s Hospital
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
James M. Poling
Stealey Addition
Traction Company
H. R. Gibson
Grafton
Across Word Blitz Puzzle From Fragmented Game
A dense OCR style puzzle list mixes cryptic style clues with many short definitions and letter slots. It presents a word fill challenge with across and down entries, including numbers, abbreviations, and foreign phrases, in a jumbled newspaper keypad format.
Magistrate Receives Parcel Of Human Fingers
In Bruges Belgium a parcel containing eight fingers and two thumbs arrived for a magistrate. The package was neatly wrapped and labeled and had been sent in response to a request to provide fingerprints of an unidentified person held by a communal guard at Vlisseghen.
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Bruges
Belgium
Vlisseghen
Drowning death leads guard to drastic mistaken amputation
A death by suicide by drowning is reported, with a guard misidentifying the individual due to unfamiliar modern ID methods and resorting to amputation to obtain necessary information. The incident highlights errors in postmortem identification practices and the risks of relying on unverified methods.
Van Meter Girl Friend In Jail
Marie Conforti a 21 year old Chicago sales girl was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison at Alderson West Virginia for violating her probation on harboring Dillinger gang members. She testified she joined Van Meter and Dillinger to save herself after threats and said Van Meter later killed in St Paul.
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Associated Press
Madison
Wis
Dillinger
Marie Conforti
Chicago
Patrick T. Stone
Stone
Alderson
W. Va
Wayne
van Meter
Van
William A. McGrath
Calumet
Ill
St. Paul
Tommy Gannon
Miss Conforti
NRA Observance Planned Again in Charleston June 1935
Charleston officials plan a second NRA anniversary program for June 1935 with President Roosevelt as the central figure. NRA compliance director F Witcher McCullough said Saturday. The first anniversary last June featured General Hugh S. Johnson and Donald R. Richberg as principal speakers.
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Associated Press
Charleston
NRA
Roosevelt
F. Witcher McCullough
Hugh S. Johnson
Donald R. Richberg
National Emergency Council
McCullough Aims to Involve Roosevelt in 1930s Meeting
McCullough outlined a goal to persuade President Roosevelt to become the central figure in their forthcoming meeting. Details of the program will be sent to the president soon. Mrs. Roosevelt, who has visited the state to review subsistence homestead projects, may attend along with federal relief and recovery agency leaders including James A. Moffett of the Federal Housing Administration.
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McCullough
Roosevelt
Reedsville
Red House
James A. Moffett
Federal Housing Administra
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