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Newspaper
The West Virginian
Location
Fairmont, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1920
Page
5
A partial OCR fragment describes a picture of Abe on four sides, a fold, a foiled fine, a dotted section, and instructions to turn over the Wad w aurprising spsult. The readable terms suggest a damaged page with handling notes rather than a complete news item.
A dense, jumbled OCR extract mixing historical names, locations, measurements, and scattered notices. It references figures like James A. McNeil and Mount Wild near Los Angeles, various consent cases, and a forthcoming funeral for an individual named SBigland, set against a mosaic of unrelated fragments and errant phrases.
C C Peters faced a startled greeting at his Gaston home when his car, a Willys Overland roadster traded to his brother in law G S Constable, overturned near the Watson Gaston road. Peters sustained only a bruised leg, while the car suffered a smashed top and damaged left steering gear. Harland Ware King of Watson bought the first bid, Watkins plans repairs before resuming the hunt for a buyer. Posts from Consolidation Coal Company and a vague notice about a Moosta event appear in the cluttered report.
Trial set for tomorrow before Mayor Conaway, Sanford Moriy and Ralph Morrie face charges of new vault and battery. Warrant issued yesterday. Ernst Bell defends defendants, Albert J. Kern prosecutes for the city. Additional notes reference local banquet plans, Rotary meeting talks, and dispatches from West Virginia.
Chicago hosts the annual convention of the B and C relief department with attendees from Chicago Bailey Hupp representing local relief and O A Cather from West Virginia advisory board. Dedstom planned to discuss retirement age changes from sixty five to sixty. Towh Clavie Fett Navy Martinsville linked to Mutual Life Booster.
Records show daily coal and coke shipments by the Baltimore and Ohio line in the Fairmont area with 795 coal cars and 2 percent coke cars loaded locally. On the Monongahela division 495 coal and 482 coke cars were loaded with 8 cars moving east and 5 west.кт
A sprawling, garbled report details coal sector tensions across West Virginia and Pennsylvania. Mentions West Virginia Coal Operators Association, industry figures like Edward Matthews, and currency shifts affecting output. Notes wage disputes at Scranton and Connellsville, pending hearings before the anthracite commission, plus transport disruptions on B&O and Pennsy lines.
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