Home Fires and Balancing Budgets Amid Fiscal Strain
In Raleigh county Wie Town Beckley district and the city face fiscal strain as state aid fades. Boards seek tight economies to balance funds and curb deficits while preserving essentials. Citizens urge clear plans for next year, as schools and supervision costs loom. disciplined spending begins at home.
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Raleigh County
County General Fund
Cas
Boards of Education
Desirabe
Constitution Limits New Bond Issues Under Voter Amendment
The article explains that maximum levies cap new debt and prohibits bond increases. Special bonds may only retire existing debt, with school and road levies remaining until bonds are paid. Civic projects must seek funds from other sources, avoiding high interest tax raises as the Supreme Court enforces the amendment.
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Supreme Court
Healthier There Is No Rise in Death or Nervous Breakdowns
The author argues that fears of higher death rates and neuresthenia due to economic stress are unfounded. Since 1929 the death rate has declined and neuresthenic cases have fallen, despite concerns over losses and unemployment. Life is described as simpler now, with hard living but fewer widespread breakdowns compared to the prosperity years.
Press Comment on FDR Inaugural and Congress Call
The Baltimore Sun notes President Franklin D Roosevelt accepts the crisis and signals Congress will convene in extraordinary session within days. It emphasizes swift decisive action to meet the national emergency and restore confidence in his administration.
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Franklin Y. Roosevelt
Ronmand
Congress
Ito
Ies Tunaral
Roosevelt
Baltimore Sun
Supreme Court limits on bond interest and sinking funds
The supreme court last week ruled that levies to pay interest and principal on outstanding bonds must stay within lay limitation amendments except to prevent impairment of contracts. News attention centered on this, while key topics included a Beckley sewerage system and a Raleigh county courthouse funding being contingent on meeting interest and sinking fund requirements.
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Supreme Court
Beckley
Haleigh County
West Virginia dormitories funded by Reconstruction loan proposal
The bill to borrow money from the Reconstruction corporation aims to build dormitories for West Virginia institutions. It seeks self financing but faces doubt on success and which colleges would receive dormitories. The legislature weighs eliminating some state teachers colleges to save costs, while future lawmakers might pursue abolitions.
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Dese of
Parkersburg Sentinel
Money and governance collide in a radical critique column
A column blends opinion and quotation on money, banks, and government. It argues money should be government issued, criticizes the banking system, and urges populist reforms to raise circulation, relieve farmers, and empower citizens to own homes and meet obligations. It cites Lincoln and constitutional ideas to frame an anti credit, pro money issuance stance.
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Abraham Lincoln
United States
Public Forum on Poverty and Work in New Money Plan
Editor urges action as inequality grows and the credit system fails. Proposes creating ten to twelve million jobs with new government issued money to fund wages. Claims millions idle, some for 13 cents an hour, six hours daily five days a week, to inject 44 million dollars weekly into the economy.
Two Chicago Banks Merge In Consolidation Move
The First National Bank of Chicago and the First Union Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago and its state affiliate will consolidate. The First National, Chicago's second largest bank, will assume all deposits and liabilities, increasing assets to around $700,000,000, with continued trust operations at the Union bank.
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Associated Press
Chicago
First National Bank
First Union Trust & Savings Bank of Chicago
State Bank
Melvin A. Traylor
First National
Traylor
Federal Reserve System
First Union Trust & Savings Bank
London calls reach 745 million in 1932 total
Figures show 745000000 telephone calls originated in the London area during 1932. At the start of 1933 only 10408 Confederate Army veterans remained living.
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London
Theatrical Gossip From New York March Night
New York gossip by William Gaines covers tired stars fleeing cameras in a rehearsal grind. Lew Brown and Stay Menderson, Buffalo writer turned producer, face the lens while Ray Henderson dozes. Jokes on cornet bites and a rubber horse prop for Chic York add backstage humor.
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Wiliam Gaines
New York
Stay Menderson
Buffalo
Ray
Protogs
Henderson
Valiant Dust by Percival Christopher Wren
A fragment from a saga set in a perilous Moroccan court follows Margaret as she schemes escape from Raisul with her husband Jules Maligni and allies. She confronts fear, loyalty, and control while weighing a dangerous bid for freedom and a return to England as she plots possible aid from Elisa Beth el Ain and others.
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Margaret
Jules
Ralsul
Otho Belléine
Otho
Raisul
Niles
Strensth
Pedro Maligai
Stekarzen
Kaid
Zainab
Tangier
Hassan el Miskeen
Mahammed Ali Et Amin
Hay
Pedra
Abu Talib Zerhoun E] Munshi
Kald
Sara
Hassan el Dliskeen
Elisa Heth el Ato
Deflated Bosque in Stow Ends Gag Amid Dark Humour
A peculiar staged gag collapses into tragedy as a rubber steed named Bosque deflates on stage during a performance. Yor k and wife Nose King are linked to the moment while Chie stores the prop in a wardrobe trunk between acts. The scene ends with a quiet, uneasy aftermath and reflections on the stunt’s echo. Nearby notes report community meetings, visits, and family updates from Crab Orchard and surrounding areas.
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York
Nose King
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Greece
Board of Education
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Monaye
Shin
Chie
Crab Orchard
W. Va
Mighty
Mental
N.C. Knapp
Graydon
Jane Knapp
C. Carpenter
Madeline Coleman
Bill King
Dt. T. Meadows
Vandivert
Margaret Lee
John Shrewsbury
Hess Carpenter
Woodpeck
J. G. Carpenter
Russell Egnar
Beckley Hospital
Add West
Frank Jordan
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