DISSENTION AMONG REPUBLICANS IN BECKLEY ELECTION TICKET
In Beckley the Democratic party unveils a strong ticket for the October 6 city election led by Mayor William H. Fife and Recorder J. O. Freeman with a council group chosen from ten nominees. A Republican ticket also forms with Dr. J. A. Campbell for mayor and R. M. French for recorder, amid reports of discord in the party over remarks targeting African American members.
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Beckley
Court House
William H. Fife
J. O. Freeman
John F. Davis
T. R. Raglana
Geo. W. Bair, Jr
R. V. Martin
T. L. Conway
K. M
J. E. Summerfield
R. K. Rubush
C. M. Ward
W. E.palmer
J. A. Campbell
R. M. French
Francis L. Conway
R. F E. Turner
R. L. Maxwell
W. E. Griffiths
L. M. Dorsey
Ben Tolbert
Kaiser Urged War Warned Austria to declare war with Germany support
In Vienna, revelations claim the ex Kaiser urged Austria to act against Serbia with unlimited German backing. Count Marich’s report details William II telling Francis Joseph that Germany would back actions without delay, given Russia’s hostile stance. Vienna notes also claim the Austrian Foreign Office drafted a memorandum to sway Berlin toward strong action against Serbia before Sarajevo.
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Vienna
Germany
Austria
Count Marich
Berlin
Francis Joseph
Bethman-Hollweg
Serbia
Kaiser William
Austria-Hungary
Russia
Sarajevo
Austria- Hungary
Mrs C A Jourbet Returns Home From Virginia Visit
Mrs C A Jourbet went back to her Lynchburg Virginia home last week after a pleasant visit with Mr and Mrs C Landon Scott.
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C. A. Jourbet
Lynchburg, Va
Vermont tales of kinfolk and a cautious greeting
Representative Frank Green of Vermont visits towns during recess and regales locals with tales of ancestral ties. He frames a joke about being “young Green,” listing relatives in quarrying, livery, furniture, baking and other honors. An elderly resident, impressed by the genealogy, concedes it may indeed rain.
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Frank Green
Vermont
Congress
Green
Young Green
Wy Uneles
New York Times
Small Boys Lost and Found After Storm Dell Beckley
Two Beckley boys Wendell Harvey and Fred Phelps Jr. wandered during a chestnut hunt and became lost in a forest. They followed a Virginian train smoke to a railroad track and found their way home. Parents worried as fathers searched before the boys returned at 9 30 p m drenched but safe, grateful to be home.
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Wendell Harvey
Fred Phelps, Jr
Beckley
A.C. Harvey
Capt
Fred Phelps
Right Spirit: American Doughboy’s Steady Patriotism
An officer praises the American doughboy in The Last Million for his fervent patriotism and eagerness to boost all things American. A tense wait for an American staff car yields a striking reply from a Marion Ohio chauffeur who declares his hometown as the world’s greatest steam shovel producer.
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Mar
Ian Hay Beith
Chaumont
Headquarters
Marion
Ohio
New Construction Method in Norway Popular Mechanics Reports
Norway builds exhibition halls and assembly rooms by attaching a netting of wooden rods bound with tin-plated wire, then plastered. The method, praised for speed and ease, is touted as useful in winter.
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Norway
Popular Mechanics Magazine
Lieut Virgil Pownall Returns to Norfolk Camp
Lieut Virgil Pownall came back to camp at Norfolk Virginia on Monday after a brief stay in Beckley for business affairs.
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Virgil Pownall
Norfolk
Beckley
Wyoming Sheep and Cattle Company Forms Big WV Venture
Frank M. Foote promotes the Wyoming Sheep and Cattle Company with 40000 dollars to raise sheep cattle and hogs on 30000 acres leased from Andrew Squire s heirs near McGraws Wyoming County West Virginia Foote will be president and manager with C L Beckner as vice president and other officers named The venture aims to breed and expand herds rather than purchase stock and move into fall operations amid strong confidence in profits.
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West Virginia
Frank M. Foote
Raleigh County
Wyoming County
Foote
Wyoming Sheep and Cattle Company
Andrew Sauires
Cleveland
Mr. Foote
C.L. Beckner
T. E. Bibb
E. M. Merrill
J. L. Bumgardner
McGraws
Squires
Secon Place
Raleigh
Must Attend School Under New Compulsory Law
The new compulsory school law requires daily attendance for eight months for all children who have reached age seven and are under fifteen. Each day missed counts as a separate offense with penalties including a fine or imprisonment for the parent or guardian.
Marines land in Buccari near Fiume amid Italian ultimatum shift
A Rome dispatch reports American marines landed at Buccari near Fiume. One U.S. vessel lies in Fiume harbor far from the city. The Italian ultimatum to D'Annunzio, granting extra time, has reportedly been modified to extend the deadline to Friday night.
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Rome
Buccari
Fiume
D’annunzio
Belgian Royal Party Embarks for United States
Despite warnings of war between Belgium and Holland a Brussels dispatch reports King Albert Queen Elisabeth and Crown Prince Leopold have left Brussels for Ostend to board the George Washington for their voyage to the United States.
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Albert
America
Belgium
Holland
Brussells
Elizabeth
Prince Leopold
Brussels
Ostend
George Washington
United States
Register Subscription Rate Advanced to $2.00 Per Year
The Raleigh Register announces a rate increase effective October 1 1919 from $1.50 to $2.00 yearly with six and three month options. Subscriptions remain available at $1.50 through September 30 and may be extended for multiple years at that rate. Wages and printing costs cited to justify the change.
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Register
Raleigh Register
Greatest happiness in married life recalled at lamp light
A Buffalo News writer questions happiness in marriage, then notes joy in shared evenings. The piece contrasts courtship memories with social life and ends with a domestic scene as a wife asks her husband to bring a regional bank and a dime bank home for larger money.
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Stevenson
Buffalo News
Tennyrate
Logan County Sheriff Shot in Charleston Lobby
Sheriff Frank P. Hurst of Logan County was shot and possibly fatally wounded in the lobby of the Kanawha hotel in Charleston around noon Wednesday. The attack is linked to tensions over Logan County coalfield reports on union activity, with papers to be served for the circuit court. Governor Cornwell ordered a Logan County inquiry, but the case is handled by a governor appointed board.
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Frank P. Hurst
Logan County
Kanawha
Charleston
Logan
Kanawha County
Hurst
Cornwell
Handshaking Cited As Influenza Vector In Montclair
Health officer John Gaub of Montclair New Jersey warns residents against indiscriminate handshaking. He urges a clean hand habit noting the human hand has spread many diseases and that influenza infection is often conveyed by a handshake.
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John Gaub
Montclair
N. J
Schools May Teach Printing In Education Reform Debate
The nation wide push favors adding printing to curricula. Oregon State Editorial Association backed the idea and an Oregon paper argued that typesetting and printing offer deeper learning than most studies. The text also notes a family motor trip to Roanoke Virginia to visit relatives.
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Oregon State Editorial Association
Oregon
Ugly riotous strike grips Pennsylvania steel plants
The nation wide steel strike began Monday with idled plants across the east north and south. Union leaders claim swelling ranks from 284000 on opening day to 32000 next day and expect nearly all of about half a million steel workers to join. U S Steel faced with refusal to confer. Readings show 1918 payrolls and wage gains 131 percent since 1915. Rioting marked openings with fatalities reported in New Castle Ferrier City Pittsburgh and Buffalo.
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United States Steel Corporation
U. S. Steel
U. S. Steel Corporation
New Castle
Ferrer
Pittsburgh
Buffalo
Still-Making New Industry In State
A new industry in West Virginia has surfaced, the manufacturing of illicit whiskey stills in Clarksburg. C. H. Wolfes and E. E. Burkhart, tinners of Clarksburg, were arrested by state prohibition officers on manufacturing outfits. Two completed stills were confiscated and both men held to the Harrison county grand jury. Moonshining appears not confined to the south, with a 50 gallon still taken September 4 and a forty gallon still raided September 13 in Clarksburg, plus several northern arrests for bootlegging and moonshining.
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West Virginia
Clarksburg
C. H. Wolfes
E. E. Burkhart
Tinners
Prohibition
Harrison County
Grand Jury
Prohibition Department
How to Cut Clothing Costs Suggestion from Hoover
A San Francisco dispatch quotes Herbert Hoover urging a drastic price remedy for clothing. He says he could rectify the whole business in three months by not buying any clothes or shoes for that period.
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San Francisco
Herbert Hoover
New Counterfeit $20 Note Reported in Circulation
Washington report cites a new counterfeit twenty dollar bill on the Federal Reserve Bank of New York market. The fake note is said to show a solid black border and solid black background behind Cleveland's portrait, with treasury numbers in black instead of blue, signaling a distinctive counterfeit feature.
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Washington, D. C
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Cleveland
Treasury
Typhoid Strikes Hilton Family in Sprague
W H Hilton of Sprague, long ill with typhoid fever, was moved from his home this week. The Hilton family is reported to be suffering the same disease at Nogk Dynital Twother.
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W. H. Hilton
Sprague
Hilton
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Frank Foote
NEW Corporation
Dearing Cash
R. T. Bair
Chilren
Ruth
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James
Roanoke
Baws
Charles Prince
Pennsylvania
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