Ford plans 100 mile railway link to coal fields
Ford outlines a plan to build a 100 mile rail link from Iron Ironton area to Bluefield and Williamson to connect his Kentucky coal properties with a coast outlet. The route would extend from Detroit to the Atlantic seaboard via a branch of a regional system, with surveys in progress and aimed at serving Western Virginia and surrounding coal regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Va
Ford
Bluefield
N. C
Kentucky
Bone Reinia
Seaboard
Detroit
Ironton
Kenserved
and Western Railroad
Williamson
Era Railway
Ita
West Virginia
Virginia
Local social notes and incidents from Aug 17
STRIDGE IDGE Aug 17 Mrs leap of Toledo Mrs Net or Blyria and Mrs Per were guests of Mrs J H and family Friday. Other visits and calls across Oberlin Amherst Elyria and Cleveland noted. A windstorm caused a car mishap in Chillicothe. Packing Power Co plans wireless system near Nelsonville.
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IDGE
Mra. Leap
Toledo
Netor Blyria
Perwera
J. H
A. J. Barnard
Ited
Dorgin
Blyria
B. O. Pope
Chillicothe
Henry Brandie
Warter Hotel
Yemily
Cesier Hotel
Nelsonville
Packing Power Co
Atorme
Ex-Official Arrested in Bank Failure Conspiracy
Raleigh August 17. W B Cooper lieutenant governor of North Carolina and four others were arrested on conspiracy to wreck the Commercial National Bank of Wilmington which closed eight months ago. Cooper bonded at 10000 for a hearing in federal district court. Also arrested were Thomas E Cooper president of the defunct bank and a Democratic national committeeman candidate. Horace Cooper, son of the lieutenant governor, was named in the warrants.
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Raleigh
N. C
Commercial National Bank
Wilmington
W. B. Cooper
North Carolina
Cooper
United States District Court
Thomas E. Cooper
Horace Cooper
Four men waived examination in bond case
Horace Cooper and Lassiter plus two others were held under $5,600 bond with the white seat of Thomas E. Cooper set at $10. The four men named included ant governor Clyde Lassiter and two others who waived examination.
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Ant
Clyde. L. Lassiter
Horace
Cooper
Lassiter
Thomas E. Cooper
Toronto chosen as 1924 typographical convention city
Atlanta, Ga August 17 Toronto Canada was selected today as the 1924 convention city for the International Typographical Union meeting its sixty eighth annual session. Hibbits Minn eldest rival of Toronto lost by 49 votes.
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TYPOS
Canada
Atlanta
Toronto
International Typographical Union
Hibbens
Minn
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Ruth Hunger
Cleveland
Fred Penfound
George
Bucyrus
Milly Joy
Fred Fay
Ernest Holliday
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Walter Hadaway
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Edith Fermiss
Fred Britten
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Fred Vietzen
Pempell
Indiana
Zimmerman
Thelma Battenhouse
Kent
Arthur Wrangst
Alice
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Adam Hahn
Edna Knispel
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Martin Walkenhorst
Alvina Jaroch
J.H. Penfound
Persis Squire
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Mary Pember
George Gill
Stillman
Bert Cox
Ellen
Frank Beardsley
Merle Strong
North Eaton
Charles Swartz
Henry Shanner
Claude Terry
I Slyria
William Wagner
Russell Rhodes
Marion
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BE. J. Burrer
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Clarence Pierce
Lorain
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Frank Baus
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Charles Morse
Jos Reed
Shirley Lite
Fred Vietsen
Albert
Elmer Vietzen
Hicksvield
Avaba' Jones
Johnstown
Pax
Tulsa
Birdseye
Oklo
Walton
Oklahoma
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Esty
J. C. Walton
Nathan Hantman
India
Dunlop
Africa
Eldot Read Tire & Supply CO
New York
Aus
Cabis Walker
England
Henry Sullivan
Lowell
English
City Hall
Mada
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The
Armour Grain Company
Chicago
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OK Beckett
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