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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1935
Page
7
Small Baldwin grand and studio upright piano for sale. Will sacrifice. Terms two dollars weekly. Write O. B. Fawley Baldwin representative Morgantown West Virginia. 115-6t.
In the Northern District of West Virginia Howard D. Fink trading as Home Furniture Company has been adjudged bankrupt on June 13 1935. The first meeting of creditors will be held August 21 1935 at 10 A M at the O E Wyckoff office in Grafton to prove claims appoint a trustee examine the bankrupt authorize sale of personal property and conduct other business.
A dense listing of radio programs by time and station including CBS NBC WGN WJZ WLW and others with orchestras hosts and variety shows. It also contains an advertisement promoting genuine RCA tubes with discounted prices and an extra 10 percent off when purchasing tubes in sets. The items reflect a mid 20th century broadcast and consumer electronics market.
In Grafton West Virginia on August 19 1935 at two o clock pm trustee H R Parrish will auction all restaurant assets at 227 West Main Street Taylor County including tables chairs desk safe cash register ice box water cooler fans racks mirror coffee urn steam table victrola and more seen at the premises. Court Clerk Frank Bennett notes bond and security filed and claims must follow bankruptcy law form.
Hopkins reports progress in relief efforts with a drop in relief population from 19,250,000 in May to 17,937,000 in June and a rise in work relief jobs to 550,000. Of these, 425,000 are CCC members, 105,000 on works projects, and 20,000 on other federal activities.
Congress has moved to conclude business with little debate. The senate has been passing bills, patching long standing house conflicts, and committees hold night sessions as vacation talks and postponement plans surface.
Lightning hit the Woodrow Wilson high school smokestack and the home of W B Redmond in Beckley West Virginia on August 9 causing about 600 dollars in damage.
Jack Holt stars in Awakening of Jim Burke at the Opera House for a two day engagement. The rugged engineer faces a moral choice between a give me girl and a take me heroine as Kathleen Burke and Florence Rice vie for his heart. Dramatic action and fierce conflict drive the plot through Columbia’s drama filled evenings.
Joe E Brown, playin g the title role in Warner Bros. Alibi Ike at the Dixie Theatre Sunday, says he hates alibis and never uses them. He notes coaches despise excuses after errors and poor plays, urging athletes to take defeat without blame.
Dolores Del Rio and Pat O’Brien lead In Caliente at the Strand beginning Sunday. Busby Berkeley frames three big song and dance numbers with Dolores in a dancing revue. Winifred Shaw performs Lady In Red, a group sings In Caliente, Phil Regan duets as bandit chief, and DeMarcos and The Canova Family contribute specialty acts.
Few know that Charles Butterworth, famed for his ineffectual effectiveness on screen, is also a writer. He pens his own quips, a brand of humor unmatched by any other writer in his field.
The film opens tonight at the Strand Theatre with Butterworth adapting lines to fit his vision. Una Merkel co leads as his wife in a story centered on a man hunted as a fiendish public enemy.
Despite circulating rumors the wooden forms for the West Virginia Industrial School for Boys filtration plant escaped major damage from last week’s flood. Director R J Strock said only mud and water needed removal from the underground area, with a potential $500 farm loss if water had demolished nearby fields. Work paused due to a reduced WVRA allotment for August.
Wayne West Virginia August 9 An annual budget of 127275 98 is proposed by the county court for the next year compared with 134102 66 last year.
A terse, fragmentary snippet cites phrases about dissembling as royal knowledge and includes a Q&A list on conversion of weights. It mentions Jonathan Swift and a reference to piracy’s black flag, with cryptic lines lacking full context or narrative.
Nature presents a detailed account of the paca, a pig-like rodent. It measures about one foot six inches by one foot high, with a large head and coarse fur red brown with four white dorsal stripes. It lives about two years, feeds on grasses vines and grains, and swims to escape predators.
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