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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1932
Page
2
In a luncheon with Democratic leaders, the speaker, a Methodist, pleads for repealing the 18th amendment citing political and personal attacks. He recalls suffering bigotry and vows to travel with Roosevelt, planning a September tour through New York, the East, and West as the campaign heats up.
AP reports list current radio programs across NBC WEAF CBS WABC and NBC WJZ networks with evening lineups including dinner music news, comedies, orchestras, sketches, and drama. Programs run through late night with various orchestras and vocalists, ending around midnight.
A seventh grade boy, once boastful about wealth and feats in swimming, loses attention as classmates ignore him. He seeks private talk with a teacher claiming to want adoption after describing a sick father and large family. The teacher encourages honest effort, helping him confront his issues and gradually drop his braggart manner.
A note recalls C. F. Pendleton serving as postmaster in four states. In Paris, the Font Alexandre III bridge spans the Seine, while Calcutta in Bengal, India, has a population exceeding 3,327,500. Shreveport uses daily 20,000,000 cubic feet of gas.
A Universal drama opened at the Opera House detailing a ruthless city editor who drives sensationalism to boost circulation. Star turns by Charles Bickford and Pat O’Brien anchor a tale set in a metropolitan newspaper’s “city room” with transatlantic flight scenes.
Grand Theatre screens Paramount's Million Dollar Legs, opening Thursday. Not a chorus girl but an Olympic runner headlines the plot. The cast features Jack Oakie, W C Fields, Andy Clyde, Beth Turpin, Hank Mann, George Barbier, Hugh Herbert, and Lyda Roberts among others in a star studded comedy lineup.
Paramount star Jack Oakie provides an exclusive story linking ancient Greek javlin history to the 1932 Olympic Games. The farce Dollar Legs blends ancient and modern Olympiad backgrounds as it opens at the Grand Theatre for a three day run. A bull drowning incident is also noted in a chaotic excerpt from the production or report.
In Grover Utah on August 16 a bull owned by Joseph Winck drowned after its head went into a grain bucket and became trapped by the bucket handle in the water. Local reports note the mishap occurred in the village setting.
George W. Snook 21 of Harrisburg and Dorothy E. Race 18 of West Fairview Pa. rode 75 miles by hitchhiking from Harrisburg to Hagerstown to obtain a marriage license. They arrived at 5 30 a m and waited three hours outside the courthouse for the clerk to open. They planned to thumb their way back to Harrisburg after the ceremony.
Speaker Garner urged an end to whispered campaigns during a New York rally. He defended his 1928 support for Al Smith, called himself an outright repealist on prohibition, and acknowledged past religious bias by Southern leaders while praising Smith as a great president. He also apologized for Texas possibly leaning Republican in 1928.
Natchez's social circle frames a grim Mississippi tale of Richard Dana and Octavia Dockery charged with murder. Jane Merrill, once central to society, fled to Glen Burnie after a broken engagement. The saga unfolds around Glen Burnie and Glen Wood estates as a decaying mansion, livestock intruders, and a sheriff’s inquiry mark the drama’s collapse.
A dense OCR fragment presents a daily cross word withAcross clues, scattered phrases about Dana Dockery and Merrill, and a murder accusation involving goats. The text mixes puzzle entries with a narrative about Jennie Merrill, Octavia Dockery, and Dick Dana in a faded 19th century style.
Two men died in a Kentucky gunfight after an argument near Williamson Nelly Hatfield and Dave Coleman of Phelps were victims in the clash In Charleston a bill to allow Wheeling to borrow from pension funds became law Governor Conley signed It James S Kit Je Bluefield was named Mercer county criminal court judge Corbin a 24 year old Black man was killed in a wreck near Martinsburg when thrown more than 100 feet by a Baltimore and Ohio Capital Limited The Fellowsbee tinplate plant in Wheeling failed to resume with few workers Jefferyan Glass Co of Follansbee said the plant will reopen with about 200 workers After four months closed in Wheeling Sierra Nevada mining corporation of Charleston was incorporated by Secretary Sharp with Sallie Harrison Margaret Kuhn and Mayme Lonin as incorporators
President Hoover samples Chesapeake Bay spots from a marine speedboat near Solomons Island Maryland and later rides the Sequoia inspection craft. Photographers trail in small craft as officials request distance while no catches are confirmed on this first extended vacation in a year and a half.
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