West Virginia city plans growth and modernization drive
The document outlines extending the city limits to include Mabscott and surrounding built up areas, establishing a city planning and zoning commission with a paid building inspector, creating a park area, expanding the public library, pairing water and sewer systems under a single public utility, adopting a city manager charter, developing small farms in the Smokeless Coal region, boosting tourism and summer appeal, funding a one cent per ton coal tax to promote Smokeless Coal nationally, pushing industry attraction, and expanding school facilities in Beckley and Raleigh county.
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Mabscott
City Planning and Zoning Commission
West Virginia
Beckley
Raleigh County
Too Perfect Toys Preview Or toys run adult like in real life
A discussion on modern Christmas toys notes automobiles radios and trains that actually work with lighting elevators and spouting faucets. It questions whether excessive realism stifles a child s creativity by depriving them of making and building with simple materials and by limiting hands on experiences for both boys and girls.
Stalin’s sparse public remarks defend leadership honor
Stalin spoke after seven months of silence addressing executions tied to alleged traitors. He noted about 1,200 Russians died in the purge and lamented leaders misreading their elevated roles within the Soviet system, contrasting it with democratic accountability where leaders are voted out rather than executed.
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Josef Stalin
Stalin
Russia
Tarbell Says Nation Has Grown Soft and Cushioned
Ida M. Tarbell, veteran exposer of social evils, argues modern society shelters people from hardship. She notes aversion to cold and hunger and claims the era needs old fashioned muckraking to expose industrial stubbornness and political corruption. She plans three books but reveals nothing specific about topics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ida M. Tarbell
Dry victory trend prompts talk of new prohibition movement
Ohio now shows a quarter of the state dry after local option votes with 510 wins in 730 elections since 1933. Drys have mostly defeated hard liquor, beer issues often fail. Similar gains appear elsewhere, signaling renewed calls for national prohibition while noting enforcement and abuses behind past eras.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Wylie Hospital tour and a one ton X ray machine
Dr Ward Wylie showed Mullens residents a new hospital with a highly balanced one ton X ray device. The facility features automatic power failover lighting and electric equipment in multiple rooms, signaling growing use of electricity in medicine. A separate note compares a coal mine rotary converter’s 23 year operation to the national debt, humorously calculating revolutions and dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ward Wylie
Wylie Hospital
Mullens
Wylie
Releigh Coal and Coke Company
M. K. Clay
Patience of Animals and a Boy's Mischief Tale
A reflective narrator recalls cats and dogs tolerating children better than adults, recounting a boy’s risky boar tail driving episode. He notes a motorist avoiding antifreeze damage, with a repair bill around one hundred dollars. A old proverb about stitches ends the recollection.
Strenuous wets urge better liquor law enforcement
The wets claim stronger enforcement will deter dry laws and educate the public. Both sides acknowledge the public seeks temperance with decent enforcement, sensible liquor use, and responsible advertising.
Opinions At a Glance on Nazi Fascist Influence in Latin America
Washington opinion piece warns that Germany Italy and Japan seek new allies among Latin American republics. It notes Brazil Uruguay Argentina and others show mixed democratic and dictatorial tendencies, risking friction with the United States amid a pan American balance of power.
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Washington
D. C
Germany
Italy
Japan
Democratic
U.S. A
Brazil
United States
Latin America
Latin Americas
Portugal
Spain
Franco
Youre Telling Me parody column by William Ritt
A Central Press humor piece surveys quirky lines and wry observations. The writer riffs on a San Franciscan roughing a policeman, a Duchess fashion trend, a Wisconsin astronomer with rouge for lenses, London taxi jokes, parachuting Santa, a health food scare, and Thanksgiving thanks tied to war news from the Atlantic and Pacific.
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William Ritt
Central Press
San Franciscan
Man About Manhattan
George Tucker recounts two New York anecdotes on slow island traffic and a hotel tale. Sheila Barrett endures a 40 minute taxi ride across five blocks while Betsy Flanagan the innkeeper near Yonkers inspires the origin of the cock tail with a French joke about a pheasant
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George Tucker
New York
Sheila Barrett
Miss Barrett
Hotel
Roosevelt
Betsy Flanagan
Betsy
Yonkers
Nina Faces a Crossroads in Love and Family
Nina grapples with a tangled love triangle involving Richard and her mother Honey while caring for David and facing a pivotal talk with Richard. Doctor Fellows warns Honey is exhausted from recent upheavals and proposes an early Mediterranean cruise to restore her health.
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Nina
David
Richard
Honey
Hester
Harmony
Horseface
Frippe
Grippe
Carrie
Cray Heart
Fellows
Margaret Herzog
The Awful Truth tops Hollywood comedy previews in 1940s note
Screen Life reviews mark The Awful Truth as a major box office prospect with Irene Dunne and Cary Grant delivering sharp dialogue in a witty divorce farce. Stand-In features Leslie Howard and Joan Blondell in a satire of Hollywood foibles as The Perfect Specimen promises a new box office favorite directed by Tay Garnett.
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Ollywood
Leo McCarey
Irene Dunne
Cary Grant
Hollywood
Clarence Buddington Kelland
New York
Atterbury Dodd
Leslie Howard
Joan Blondell
Howard
Hamlet
Humphrey Boart
Britain
Alan Mowbray
Tay Garnett
Miners Challenge Chesapeake and Ohio Rail Rate
Five coal mining firms in the Logan West Virginia district filed a complaint with the Interstate Commerce Commission against the Chesapeake and Ohio railway coal rate to Huntington. They call 75 cents per ton unjust and unreasonable, a rate in place since June 1935, up from 50 cents before.
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Associated Press
Washington
Logan
W. Va
Interstate Commerce Commission Today
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Coal
Huntington
Mooney Accepts Job At Local Company Store
Glen Mooney, previously a timberman in Coal City, accepted a position at the company store. His family has moved to town and is living in the home of Ed Thomas, father of Mrs. Mooney.
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Register
Glen Rogers
Glen Mooney
Coal City
The Trojan Horse review by Christopher Morley
A New Books notice assesses Christopher Morley's The Trojan Horse from Lippincott. The reviewer notes Morley reworks the Troilus and Cressida legend into modern prose with satire and timeless dialogue, calling the book fun yet whimsical and not merely whimsy.
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Christopher Morley
Lippincott
Department
Chaucer
Shakespeare
Dryden
Daggerel
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Two’s Company
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