Grouting Key to Fairmont Roads Bond Issue
A. D. Williams chief road engineer for West Virginia urges grout ing brick pavements to improve longevity and ride quality in Fairmont district. He says wider roads are needed if a $100,000 bond passes, and notes strong voter interest as registrations double ahead of Monday's election.
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Belgian Railways Order 29 Locomotives in 1921
The American Locomotive Company reports Belgium State Railways ordered 29 locomotives. Speculation suggests the engines may be for use in England France or Russia, with Belgian railroads viewed as largely independent of Germany. Officials provided no further details on delivery or deployment locations.
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Associated Real New York
American Locomotive Company
England
France
Russia
Ashies
New York
Wilson mulls Davis for secretary of state post report
Washington June 18 A dispatch says President Wilson is considering John W. Davis for secretary of state though no White House confirmation exists. Davis, esteemed lawyer in Justice and Supreme Court circles, led key impeachment and investigations, and his rise is seen as one of Wilson’s best moves. Continued on Page Twelve.
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White House
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New York
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Department of Justice
United States Supreme Court
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House Judiciary Committee
Sims-Glover
Supreme Court
Tan Beet
Lawrence Maxwell
Cleveland
Russian Forces Gather to Defend Galician Capital
Reunited Brows reports Allied attack north of La Bassee repelled with few casualties. Austro German forces push in Galicia as Vienna claims Grodek fell. Petrograd denies loss and says Russians defend Lemberg. Grand Duke Nicholas redirects center three times amid fatigued foes. Paris notes German counterattacks and small French gains along the Vosges. Dardanelles news scarce. bankers optimistic on straits opening. Bulgaria maintains neutrality.
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London
Galieis
von Mackenson
Viennni
Grodek
Teutonic
Petrograd
Lemberg
Russia War Office
Nicholas
Vosges
Paris
Arrax
Twelve Die in Kansas Civil Weather and Tornado Toll
A severe rainstorm and tornado in Kansas claim twelve lives and injure many as families lose members and shops suffer extensive flood damage. In Ottawa County a farmer family perishes in a tornado while other towns report buried water pipes flooding basements, with Hartley’s store and Jacobs Building among the hardest hit. The Giants and Athletics are slated to play at South Side Park tomorrow at 4 PM, a game postponed from June 12.
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Kansas City
Jona Burges
Omaga
Potawatomie
Teporta
Topeka
Union Pacific Railroad
People’s National Bank
Hartley
Ios
Bank
Jacobs
Keight and iTans
Giants
Athletics
South Side Park
Weather Outlook for West Virginia and Western Pennsylvania
Rain likely tonight and Saturday as forecast. John A. Zorn of Wheeling visits the city for ten days on business.
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West Virginia
Pennsylvania
John A. Zorn
Wheeling
Plankard mixup cues laughter in Fairmont
A Canton firm pasted a placard reading Pull Down on mailboxes in Fairmont yesterday, though local boxes require lifting up. The gag highlights a miss as the message clashes with city mailbox design, prompting amusement as residents read the misapplied motto Lift Up.
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Fairmont
Canton
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Villa Leader Seizes Wheat as Starving Towns Struggle
Reports from Douglas Arizona describe breadlines and families fleeing into mountains amid wheat seizure by Villa forces. In Sonora villagers subsist on acorns as hunger spreads, while civilians complain only a small portion of harvest reaches them. General Gonzalez moves toward Mexico City as Obregon advances on Aguascalientes. Former Secretary Bryan urges mediation as path to peace and universal extension of a peace investigation treaty.
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Arizoa
Sonora
Campas
Villa Comander
Galveston
Texas
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Mexico
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Bryat
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Mine disasters in Fairmont district claim two lives
Two fatal mine accidents near Monongah and Annabelle kill 18 year old Tang Lugopiatl and seriously injure Austrian worker Peter Lubjec. Lugopiatl crushed beneath a coal car as he attempted to exit during a dinner signal. Lubjec suffers multiple injuries and is hospitalized at Miners Hospital after being crushed between a car and mine rib.
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Fairmont
Consolidation Coal Company
Monongan
Anvirian
Four States
Peter Lubjec
Anabelle
Lugoplatz
Annabelle
Caa
George Howell
Lawn fete at Edgemoor honors Sigma Rho Nu member
Lawrence Barry hosted a lawn fete at his father J D Ras Edgemoor last evening. About sixteen guests, young ladies and gentlemen, including members of the Sigma Rho Nu Society, attended and were delightfully entertained.
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Lawrence Barry
Pleads Against Liquor Christening
Chicago June 18 telegram from Anna Gordon president of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union to Secretary Daniels pleads that the Navy exert influence against the use of alcohol in the christening of the Arizona vessel. The message notes the union has 500000 members and urges restraint in ceremonial liquor use.
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Chicago
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Todrae
National Women's Christian Temperance Caton
Erecting New Livery and Storage Building on Meredith Street
Mr. Charles BE Manley begins work on a four story rear and three front livery and storage building on Meredith street near Madison. The 76 by 130 foot plot will house a leading livery and, later, storage rooms. Brick contract awarded to Louis A Hall and erection to T. Buchinal. Steel and iron awaited to push completion.
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Meredith Street
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Buchinal
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Emissary of envoy confers with officials
An emissary of an envoy held talks with officials as Washington awaits Germany’s likely response to U.S. positions. The discussions occurred early with no clear tone or outcome yet evident. The conversations focused on diplomatic channels and potential next steps.
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Germany
U.S
Berlin papers claim German ambassador denied Mawar secret war links
Washington reports quote Ambassador von Iernetorff saying neither he nor embassy staff knew of Victor Alfred Mawar as a war supplier. He denied requesting an official inquiry and noted Meyer Gerhard’s travel and safe conduct tied to German Red Cross work. A London–Berlin transmission discusses Stat erGirard’s arrival and upcoming talks with German and British officials about the American note and war journalism.
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Washington
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Jay
Beers Try Lansing
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Alfred Mawar
Meyer
Germany
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Tranilo
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Lansing
Redross
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London
Anton StaterGirard
Ers
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Washingtom
Bernstort
Sapien
Foreign Office
Solt
Miner death verdict sparks inquest into coal camp tragedy
Frank A. Lloyd received the verdict today after an inquest into the death of four year old John F. Redtine who collapsed at the Candidation Coal Company in Macoogan. The investigation probed the events surrounding the fatal incident with officials from Gratton and Clarkeburg involved in city business.
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John F. Redtine
Macoogan
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Gratton
C. Sirpeon
Loclock
Clarkeburg
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