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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1913
Page
3
Questions explain the Christmas Savings Club purpose and how it operates. It outlines member payments, class differences, and how total funds plus interest are returned at Christmas. It explains enrollment at the Savings Department of the Upton Navigation Bank and initial payment requirements.
A legislative committee in Kanawha County finds several state senators and delegates guilty of accepting bribes in the Edwards Edwards bribery case. They recommend expulsion for Senator Ben A. Smith Delegate Ruth Duff Delegate H F Asbury Delegate David Hill. Indictments against VanMeter and Smith uncertain. trial outcomes and perjury inquiries noted with calls for stricter corrupt practices laws and reform of primary elections. The report covers hearings from February to May 1913 and cites investigators Grant Hall and Biddinger, with Townsend as prosecutor.
Bearing a message from the Galveston labor council to President Samuel Gompers Costello walked across the country on a near nonstop towed trip starting October 1. He aims for Washington January 27 and will receive a purse from Galveston unions on his return. He travels with a timbie dog that completed the journey with him and speaks warmly of the trek despite noting he is near the finish.
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