Think Bonds Wil Wi Still Time To Help the Good Roads
Voters in Fairmont districts weigh a $100000 road bond with polls open until sunset. Early turnout was light with 96 of 400 registered in county court room and 27 of 296 at Normal School. opponents in outlying areas argue for lower taxes. The article notes city support for the bond while some rural areas resist funding roads.
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Fairmont
Berrackville
West Fork Road
Butcher School
Friends of Good Roads
Friends of 000 Roads
Coon
J. R. Miller
Will Settle Virginia Debt For Right to Sell Liquor
Sam G. Walker, noted saloon proprietor and wealthy figure from southern West Virginia, announces to the press his willingness to assume Virginia’s debt exceeding 12 million dollars. He offers to bond four million dollars and repay the debt with interest in ten years in exchange for exclusive liquor selling rights in West Virginia for a ten year period.
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Virginia
Bluefield
W. Va
Sam G. Walker
West Virginia
Kisses By Mail Cost Very High
In Wichita Kansas in a breach of promise suit Mrs. Mattie Burkelder of El Dorado sued George W Wyant a wealthy Wichita man for failing to marry her in 1913. Love letters containing x marks served as main evidence. The jury awarded Mrs Burkelder 823 dollars. About 323 x characters appeared in the letters presented.
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Wichita
Kan
Mattie Burkelder
el Dorado
George W. Wyant
The Case of Leo Frank A Murder in Atlanta 1913
Fourteen year old Mary Phagan was killed at the National Pencil factory in Atlanta on April 27 1913. Leo Frank the superintendent was tried amid mob fever and convicted August 25 1913. Despite appeals and clemency pleas the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment by the Georgia Governor after widespread petitions.
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Lee M. Frank
Slaton
Mary Phagan
Frank
Leo.m. Frank
Mary Kagan
National
Atlanta
Leo Frank
Auanta
Attornays
Supreme Courts
State Pardon Board
United States
Georgia
Bomb Wrecks Windsor Overall Factory
The Peabody Company Limited overall factory at Walkerville Windsor was partly wrecked by a bomb explosion. Police and military authorities investigate with Horace B. Peabody blaming German sympathizers from Detroit. Property damage estimated at 5000 to 10000 dollars.
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Hn Autociated Press
Windsor
Ont
Peabody Company Limited
Walkerville
Horace B. Peabody
Overall
Detroit
Correction on Watkins robbery account revise aging chief’s father
A correction states that J. M. Watkins aged 80, father of O. J. Watkins, was not near death but very deaf during the Fire Chief Watkins home robbery. He did not wake as the burglar ransacked his room, due to his deafness.
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Watkins
Governor Hatfield Sued For 110000 Damages In Mock Theft Case
William L. Abbott Jr of Philadelphia files a 110000 damage suit in federal court naming Governor Hatfield as defendant. Two other suits by Abbott’s companion George H. Raush claim assault and false imprisonment. The incident centers on a Bible on a Kanawha and Michigan train heading to Parkersburg during an Eugenic meeting trip.
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Charleston
W. Va
H. D. Hatfield
United States District Court
William L. Abbott, Jr
Philadelphia
Point Pleasant
Ja Kanawha
Michigan
George H. Raush
Abbott
Midville Steel Company
Hetfield
Gray
Wirt County
Parkersburg
J. Aspinwall McCuaig
Pt. Pleasant
Roush
Raush
Kaiser Commands Army in Galicia Front
London June 21 Emperor William takes command of operations in Galicia as Austro German forces press toward Lemberg. The war office reports new progress, claiming victory near Lem berg and the capture of Rawa Ruska, about 32 miles northwest of Lemberg, with Russian resistance weakening along the Grodek lines west of the city.
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Berlin
London
Lemberg
War Office
Rawa Ruska
Kaiser
William
Galicia
Grodek
University Summer School Opens Today
The seventeenth session of West Virginia University summer school opened in Morgantown. Convocation Tuesday evening by Dr. Henry Churchill King of Oberlin College. Thursday and Friday lectures by Dr. Arthur Call on Ethics and War. Last year attendance reached 515. this year expected to break records.
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Morgantown
W. Va
West Virginia University
Henry Churchill King
Oberlin College
Arthur Call
American Peace Society
Good Roads Bonds Special Election Day Reminder
Today Monday is the day of the Good Roads Bonds special election. If you have not voted in favor do so at once as polls close at sundown.
Georgia Governor commutes Leo Frank death sentence
Governor Slaton commutes Leo M. Frank's death sentence for the Mary Phagan murder to life imprisonment and orders transport to Milledgeville State Prison Farm. The decision follows long clemency proceedings and public unrest as crowds react outside Atlanta. Frank protests innocence. Slaton releases a lengthy justification centering on Conley’s possible involvement.
Henry Siegel Is Sent To Monroe County Penitentiary
Geneseo New York June 21 Henry Siegel former New York banker and department store owner received a stay of execution in November and left by auto for Rochester to begin a ten year term at the Monroe County Penitentiary.
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Associated Presarm
Geneseo
N. Y
Siegel
New York
Rochester
Monroe County
Weather update for West Virginia shows warm spell tonight
Fragmentary weather note indicates a likely warm front moving into West Virginia tonight and Tuesday. Details are unclear but suggest rising temperatures and mild conditions across the region.
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TET Alls
Frank Case
Galician
University
Milledgeville
Leo M. Franke
Atlantas
City Hall
Marietta
State Prison Commission
Superior
State Supreme Court
Fteral District Court
United States Supreme Court
Nearbees
Ncite
Milledgeville, Ga
Pras
Emor Slaton
James Conley
Henry Siegel
C. D. Conaway
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