N&W in 1912--2 items: lifeless; speculation

[NW Mailing List]

Re: Who will it be?
Presumably the paper meant the DETROIT, TOLEDO and IRONTON Railway [not 
Dayton].

Jim Stapleton [just want Gordon to know we actually read his snippets]
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On 2/18/2012 10:26 AM, NW Mailing List wrote:

> Bluefield Daily Telegraph

> Fri., March 29, 1912

> IN CITY AND COALFIELD

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> *Can You Name Him?*

> The badly mangled and lifeless body of an unknown man was picked up

> Wednesday morning near the Norfolk and Western tracks east of Kenova.

> The body gave every indication of having been run down by a train.* Not

> a scrap of paper was found in the wearing apparel of the man by which

> his identity could be established. The man apparently was thirty five

> years of age and wore a dark suit. —Portsmouth Times.

> */Probably won't need a cornor's inquist to determine this cause of death!/

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> WHO WILL IT BE?

> *Probably a Division Superintendent May be Promoted to Succeed George P.

> Johnson.*

> Speculation is already rife as to who will succeed George P. Johnson as

> general superintendent of the Norfolk and Western Railway.

> Some officials believe that one of the present division superintendents

> will be promoted to the vacancy while others think that the office will

> be abolished and but one general superintendent retained for the entire

> system as in former years.

> Mr. Johnson's coming appointment as receiver of the Dayton, Toledo and

> Ironton Railway is regarded as indicative of the road some day passing

> into the hands of the Norfolk and Western. At any rate it will be used

> by the Norfolk and Western as an outlet to the lakes at Toledo and will

> also give a good Chicago connection via the Erie road from Lima. The

> Norfolk and Western for many years has sought such an outlet for its

> coal and coke trade.—Portsmouth Times.

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> Gordon Hamilton