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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1936
Page
3
The Associated Press owns exclusive publication rights for dispatches and local news in this paper. National advertising representatives Howland and Howland offer one week print at $7.50 for first run and $5.00 for repeating insertions.
The West Virginia chamber of commerce elected Richard Harte of Parkersburg as president and A H Andrews of Weehawken New Jersey as managing director. They pledged to conserve promote and support existing WV industries while nurturing a growing summer tourist business. The goal is to develop native talent into major units rather than attract external firms with free sites and tax breaks.
The speakers praise the new state chamber directing heads and urge the supporting membership to back them. They warn against a mere flash in the pan and stress the need for permanent effectiveness built over time, trusting Harte and Andrews to deliver the long, strong pull the state requires.
A columnist survey cites Raymond Buell on Britain's intelligent labor and conservative cooperation, contrasting with American GOP struggles. It quotes editorials from the New York Herald Tribune on the GOP's weakness, predicts a possible conservative nominee, and mulls Republican aims and past inaction as “Liberty at the Crossroads” frames campaign tone.
Convinced Nicholson is the murderer of A Carstairs Bobby Jones and whic Derwent race to prove the case. Bobby is knocked unconscious at Nicholson place Frankie arrives at Tu dor Cottage Chipping Somerton and is chloroformed. They awaken tied on an attic floor as Nicholson vows to stage an accident to kill them both. Frankie mentions Roger Rarengroangrenen may know her location.
Frankie and Bobby confront Roger Bassington-ffrench, who has impersonated Nicholson. A hidden escape is executed when Badger aids the trio, and Nicholson departs, leaving the truth about Sylvia Bassington-ffrench and the morphia plot unresolved but the immediate danger defused.
A satirical fragmentized column questions Governor Hoffman’s hesitation amid current events in Tennessee Valley. It riffs on radio quartets, Italian actions toward Haile Selassie, cod liver oil as wound dressing, spinach poultices, juror chairs at Memorial building, and a quip about lawyers’ arguments, ending with a realtor joke about a lake-view home.
The Wetzel County Rod and Gun Club announced a campaign to stock Wetzel and southern Marshall counties with deer. It will ask the State Conservation Commission to furnish deer for release on a 60,000 acre tract in the region.
Walter Howard, deputy state game protector, said last night that about 40 percent of the quail in Marshall County are dead or dying, as reports from Moundsville, West Virginia, detail heavy losses among the local coveys.
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