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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1929
Page
2
The listing details AL Tuesday August 13 programming across stations WJZ WOR WGY WTAM WEAF WIZ WSB WHAS and more. It notes time blocks for orchestras bands singers news and variety programs including Kate Palmer Lew White Paul Whiteman Sergi Kotlarsky and Bruce Campbell, with station identifiers and locations.
An advertisement touts Zex the Pepaiiated Magnesia Compound as a remedy for nervous indigestion bloating gas and stomach distress. It claims faster relief and promotes sound restful sleep while flushing the bowels and removing waste. Price listed at all drug stores.
Caracas reports that federal troops defeated revolutionists attempting to seize the port city of Cumana, about 250 miles east of Caracas. General Emilio Fernandez died leading the forces. two rebel leaders were killed, others captured, including exiled Francisco Linares Alcantara. Large quantities of arms and ammunition were seized.
Two Justice Department agents traveled by plane from Washington to Phoenix to probe the death of Paul Reynolds, a special agent whose body was found in Phoenix. Reynolds had signaled plans to go to Albuquerque and was last seen renting a car in El Paso, with a briefcase and pistol missing amid narcotics ring suspicions.
In Paris on August 13 communist workmen attempted to persuade construction workers on a new subway to strike for shorter hours. The workers refused, a clash followed with one man slightly wounded by a revolver bullet and several others beaten. Police dispersed the disturbance and arrested three.
A narrator at Blackwater details a fateful summer with Veronica Seddroke, Pell, and rivalries among Marling, Fotherbury, Boyle, and Somerfield. Investigations of excavations, a dramatic library tragedy at Newplace, and Pell’s contested role with antiquities unfold as tensions rise.
In Damariscotta Mills on August 13 Loring Burnham, 82, attempted a crowd-pleasing dive from an iron bridge. Ignoring warnings, he stripped near a high tension line, touched a live wire, was knocked into the river by the current, and died after a high voltage short broke a strand.
The Meredith Family Reunion Association executive committee in Marion county voted to extend the 1980 reunion from 11:00 AM to 7:00 PM at the Doctors and Dentists Club on Prickett's Creek. The plan aims to give every member time to visit, eliminates a business meeting, and names a committee to select officers for 1980 with results posted on a bulletin board.
Surgeons from Pacific Rim nations will gather August 14 to 24 in Honolulu for the Pan Pacific Surgical Congress. Delegates from nine foreign countries will attend demonstrations of new techniques. Dr. Nils P. Larsen and Dr. Nathaniel M. Benyas, both of Honolulu, lead the organizing committee.
The report chronicles Milas Cogswell, niece of J Pierpont Morgan, jailed as a spy during a Soviet Union tour. She and another woman entered unlawfully without a visa, strained borders, and aimed for Mount Ararat. Turkish and Persian authorities refused, halting their ascent.
Kansas City reports Engine No. 4113 established a 26 day 7 380 mile endurance run between Kansas City and Birmingham. The Baldwin Mikado hauled freight, consumed 1 500 000 gallons water and 975 tons coal, covering 23 780 749 gross tons. The run halted by US commerce safety rule requiring federal inspection and shop time.
Detroit, Aug 13. Peter Yosek 24 and his wife Rose were arrested on kidnapping charges filed by the father of a 16 year old Homewood Illinois boy. The claim says the boy was kidnapped from Danielac Country Club near Homewood, placed in a car and driven to Chicago. Both denied the accusation as detectives awaited return to Illinois with the boy and his wife.
The body of Hugh MacNaughton vice provost of Eaton College and noted classical scholar was found in the Thames near Clewer after being missing since Saturday. Friends said he was distressed by war losses among Hronians and mourned his sister’s death three years earlier.
London reports an American visitor, Philip Eaton, held in critical condition with severe razor wounds after a savage attack by two men in his flat in the Mayfair district. Scotland Yard investigates as Eaton lies unconscious for about 12 hours before officers arrived. In New York, former police commissioner Joseph A. Warren, aged 47, is noted in the same dispatch.
In Taylor county on September 6, 1929, at the commissioner’s office in Gratton, WV, a report on the real estate owned by defendant Hugh Evans and related liens will be probed. The hearing seeks details on property description, lien holders, rent sufficiency for five years, and any other pertinent matters.
Judgment of the Taylor County circuit court requires all persons to present claims against Minnie King tied to her real estate. Claims must be filed by September 3, 1929, at Grattan West Virginia, Loar Building, with Comr. S. M. Musgrove and Attorney John L. Hechmer handling the matter.
Notice to all lienholders on Hugh Evans real estate in Grafton West Virginia. Pursuant to decrees in the cause, present all claims against the estate for adjudication by September 5 1929 at the office in the Loar building Grafton WV. John L Coeur Attorney A180 276 Myo USGROVE Commissioner.
Tex Rankin, American aviator, prepared a small 80 horsepower four cylinder plane for a nonstop flight from Vancouver to Mexico with a target ending in Portland, Oregon. He landed after 13 hours 7 minutes 49 seconds covering 1250 miles at over 100 mph despite headwinds, using about 75 gallons of gasoline for roughly 18 miles per gallon. Rankin appears to be the first to depart from Canada and land in Mexico on a nonstop flight.
In Manitoba near Winnipeg on August 13, fires menaced woodland districts as old blazes flared anew while officials checked a term describing the evolving danger. No new blazes were reported and crews remained alert across the affected area.
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