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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1908
Page
5
A famous poet known for warm early verses sought avoid aging in thought. She placed a mucilage corner on a brow wrinkle after seeing it in a desk mirror. The patch hardened, and she claims to have discovered a new fountain of eternal youth.
An exchange from the Wash inetap Star features Mr. Cumrox and a question about getting along with a foreign son in law. The dialogue highlights mutual difficulty in pronouncing each other names and terms of intimacy, reflecting light domestic humor.
A Spanish proverb notes opportunity follows closures urging optimism as doors close another hundred may open for chance and growth in life.
Fragmented ad style text touts a product as a cure for habitual constipation. It claims the remedy enables forming regular habits and suggests gradual, proper nourishment and consistent use. The piece emphasizes genuineness of the product and urges proper purchase.
Traveler E H Mertes of Spokane reports immense timber reserves in Alaska from Valdez north to the Tanana region. He praises the vast pine forests along the coast, noting the interior’s stunted growth due to harsh winters. He predicts the woods will remain largely uncut for many years.
A girl named Margaret learned a French bedtime prayer from a French nurse but refused to recite it. When asked why, she quipped that she was unsure if God knows French, revealing a child’s witty take on faith and language.
Fiscal year rent and salaries listed including sheriff 8700 1000, teachers with No 1 certificates paid fifty dollars for six months, principal at one hundred dollars monthly for eight months, assistant principal at eighty dollars monthly for eight months. Noted are deductions for redemptions, balance due, gas, coal, printing, text books, painting, repairs, and real estate or personal property accounts.
The 1908 Grafton city council met August 11 in the Boyd building to set budget levies. They itemized debts, salaries, street and sewer work, health, water and electric utilities, and other municipal needs for the year, with a final total estimated municipal appropriation of 58 050 dollars. A separate resolution proposed a 10 cent levy on the dollar to liquidate an outstanding debt of 37,000 dollars, with property values listed and an adjournment set for August 25 to hear objections and proceed per law.
Total valuations are listed including real estate personal and railroad properties. A municipal levy of 35 cents per hundred dollars is proposed to raise 25 000 for the next fiscal year with an adjournment to Tuesday August 26 to consider citizen objections.
J W Jenkins of Chapel Ann endorses Bucklen's Arnica Salve as the best salve the world affords. He claims it healed a felon on his thumb and reliably cures sores burns and wounds with a 250 price at all drug stores.
A trust sale is advertised for August 29, 1908 at 2 p m at the Taylor County courthouse front door. John W. Carney and Lena L. Carney own a one half lot in South Grafton and another parcel opposite it fronting 118 feet. The sale, to the highest bidder, uses a three installment plan with notes for deferred payments. The deed of trust securing a $295 15 debt to Grafton Building and Loan Association remains in effect. W Morgan, Trustee, signs the notice July 29, 1908.
Executrix of James Cronley estate offers at private sale the property in South Grafton Taylor county WV conveyed by M G Crouse and Gatie Boyles by deed dated June 24 1901 filed June 28 1901 recorded in Deed Book 85 page 264 terms cash prospective buyers contact Mrs Catherine A Noonan 18 Emily Street Cumberland Maryland Milwaukee Death Rate Law ranks Milwaukee lowest in death rates among lake cities.
In Chinese coal mines obstructed by water native miners dip water in baskets woven of willow twigs and pass the baskets along from man to man until emptied outside the mines.
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