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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1933
Page
4
The editorial urges school nurse led prenatal and obstetric instruction for high school girls to reduce West Virginia’s high infant mortality. It condemns the recent execution at Moundsville penitentiary, arguing the death penalty is fitting and necessary, while expressing regret for the condemned youth.
In Westerville Ohio on August 11, Charles V Taylor obtained a permit to sell 3.2 beer despite a petition by Dr Howard Hyde Russell founder of the Anti Saloon League. The move stirs activists from the prohibition era as the town, long dry since 1909, debates the policy on its home turf of the Anji Si Joon League of America.
Long-arid Westerville's battle to curb alcohol sales centers on Otterbein College chair of the local law enforcement committee who asks lawyers to review old ordinances. A mass meeting aims to stir public sentiment and an injunction could rest on an ordinance banning beverages containing over half of 1 percent alcohol. Prohibition has kept bootleggers scarce according to city officials.
A long piece argues the death of a former reform school inmate and its moral weight on survivors, then shifts to critique grain subsidies, NRA policies, and taxes harming consumers. It notes Cuba's leadership crisis under Machado, Alabama coal codes resisting unions, and North South mining revival. The discussion ties local industry recovery to industrial and community future prospects.
West Virginia cities push special debt levies beyond constitutional maximum to cover existing indebtedness. Tax Commissioner Fred L. Fox defends the practice, noting 1933 law required such levies while urging a court remedy if constitutional limits were violated. State lawmakers and municipal boards follow legislative directive despite criticism from local press.
The article describes a broad moving plan under the National Recovery Act led by General Johnson to implement a blanket covenant and code system. It anticipates job restoration by the hundreds of thousands, a minimum wage, and a nascent recovery, then emphasizes creating a willing market to buy goods to sustain industry and prosperity.
Mrs. Henry Kramer of Blueville and Mrs. Gay Cahill of the New Blen Avon Hotel returned last night from Hacker Valley near Webster Springs after attending the funeral of Mrs. Orpha Bosley. Bosley died last Monday night in a Clarksburg hospital shortly after the birth of a daughter who lived only a few minutes. Bosley, 27, was well known in Grafton where she and her husband worked as an engineer for the state and lived at the New Blen Avon Hotel. She was a former teacher and active in 4-H work. her friends mourn her loss.
At Norwood Park race track in Clarksburg on August 20 Roy E Parrish Post of the American Legion will stage two events for the International Congress of Daredevils. Alf Talbot of Chicago will perform an automobile somersault in front of the grandstand using a special car with a trigger mechanism. The stunt, imported from England, is described as the latest thriller in the program.
Talbot asserts the country’s land is among the most thrilling features in America, highlighting its allure and significance as a notable attraction.
Elizabeth Mairs of Charleston posted 5000 bond to await trial as an accessory in the slaying of Deputy Roy Shamblin and his prisoner Ralph Harper. Fellow defendant Louise Frazier also faces August 15 trial. other defendants include Leo Frazier Henry Cano and Charles Harpeeer.
A Huntington man and his brother, both implicated in the slaying of a prisoner, are named to appear before Judge Miller on Tuesday for trial under indictments charging them with the murder.
Mrs Irene Black Jefferys, 28, of this city, who was seriously injured in an automobile crash on State Route the night of Sunday July 24, has been removed to her mother's home in Elkins from the Davis Memorial hospital where she underwent skull fracture surgery.
Colin Hewitt and Germaine Tremblay overhear a danger hub in a fog drenched city as Lazarre faces a bootlegging club. Colin resolves to warn Lazarre while considering a risky overland route via Anatole Bouchard, venturing into marshy tracks to reach the guide’s shack after a tense night.
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