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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1929
Page
4
Public notice from the Associated Press style sheet outlines republication rights and editorial policies. It details word limits for letters to the editor, anonymous communications, and advertising charges. It sets deadlines for ads by 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. for removal notices.
Local sportsmen denounce pollution of the Cheat River by tannery and chemical wastes contaminating stewart stretch waters. The Fish and Game Commission faces scrutiny over enforcement of laws and governor Conley’s pledge to apply laws equally. Also notes the Graf Zeppelin’s transatlantic voyage with possible U.S. arrival near Lakehurst after a failed prior attempt.
A fragmented line from the page references banks and an ongoing dispute or incident described as an outrage involving fish and a fire. The readable text is sparse and unclear, with no definite names, places, or dates to identify a concrete event or outcome.
At noon yesterday convicts protested meal service leading to dispersals to cells and a shoe factory. A second and third demonstrations followed with furniture and cell damage. Riot guns were used by guards, resulting in the death of Mike Martines and injuries to H L McLaughlin John J Jones and Fred Conners.
An opinion from the Clarksburg Exponent notes most grade crossing crashes result from autos striking trains rather than trains striking vehicles. It argues motorists are careless or inattentive, cites rising numbers, and critiques city life as driving people to seek relief at amusement parks and open spaces.
Prosecutor brings photographs of the crime scene and the victim to the stand as evidence in the Snook Hix murder trial. Witnesses recount finding Miss Hix’s body near a rifle range and describe the events leading up to the killing, including a reported emotional stimulant and the accused’s alleged actions.
Bi George Shorty Horne star right winger of the Toronto Maple Leaf was drowned yesterday while on a prospecting trip north of Gogama Ont. The body was not recovered.
Washington reports Hubert Work as retiring chairman of the Republican National Committee may convene the committee during the second week of September to select a new leader. Rumors focus on Claudius M. Huston of Tennessee as the probable choice for the party’s nominal head.
The Duchess of Bedford, England's flying duchess, boarded her monoplane Spider at Lympne on August 2 for a planned 10,000 mile round trip to India and back within a week. Captain T D Barnard piloted, with Bob Little as engineer and second pilot.
Herbert Plummer recounts David Aiken Reed’s 1898 campus tale from Princeton to Washington. Reed and a friend rode freight and trolley, reaching Baltimore then Washington for McKinley’s inauguration, facing hunger cold and poverty before cashing a check in a tense pursuit.
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