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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1933
Page
7
Brooke Peters argues early childhood hobbies prevent nervous col lapses in later life. She cautions that girls face social distractions in adolescence and urges cultivating steady interests beyond marriage and family to build lifelong happiness.
Two inspectors were dispatched to the Crescent wreck site as crews cleared debris from a Pennsylvania main line. Most aboard were asleep in Pullman berths, limiting casualties. Ambulances from two hospitals and a rescue train rushed victims including Myer Blackmas, Paul Hanna, J. C. Cunningham, and several postal workers for hospital treatment amid numerous cuts, bruises, and shocks.
Virginia Van Wie faces a strong field at Exmoor on August 28 as Glenna Collett Ware is absent. Enid Wilson, Maureen Orcutt, Helen Hicks, Leona Cheney, and C. S. Hill join the veteran group, with many young stars like Jane Beebe and Aniela Gorczyca eyeing an upset in the national championship.
Marian Dusmet wife of Capri mayor leads the Fascio Feminile on the Italian island heading a fascist women’s group. She formerly Miss Marian Powers of San Francisco and organized welfare work for Caprese girls sending 60 to Rome to see the National Fascist Exposition.
The proposed Preston Will structure stands 45 feet high, 87 by 80 feet, with a basement housing offices for the county agent state police health officer nurse and spaces for the board of education and related facilities. The first Moor includes vestibules and offices for the assessor sheriff county surveyor county clerk and county court. The second story features an across and along layout with offices for the county clerk judge prosecuting attorney and a court reporter’s room.
The county court outlines a new building replacing the inadequate courthouse with rooms for witnesses jury and lawyers, a 150 seat waiting area, and a torn down crematory. The jail remains in use. stone and brick will be used. $154000 levy funds were partly lost after bank closures. a construction committee led by John E. Jenkins G E Bergman and A L Reed will direct further plans.
Judge Herbert W. Dent in Philippi weighs mandamus actions by Mabel Cleavenger and Enoch Sayre against Barbour County Board of Education. Teachers seek peremptory writ to force recognition of contracts awarded by the old board. Board cites improper remedy and failure to disclose real meetings where contracts were approved.
The petition cites multiple grounds questioning the board of education Pleasant district authority and validity of alleged contracts with two teachers. It argues lack of sufficient allegations, missing authority, funding constraints, and the abolished board replacement by a new corporation. The case includes a damage settlement for Virginia Travise, injured in 1932 when a vehicle rearisted by a company representative struck her.
Pauls Valley Oklahoma August 25 a mother killed herself after poisoning her husband and two of the couple’s children the scene described as a tragic family incident authorities investigated the motives and the full toll of the event remains under review
In McAlister Oklahoma an 18 year old farm boy George Oliver and his uncle Claude Oliver 28 were executed for murdering Claude Olivers 15 year old bride Della Oliver to cash a 5000 insurance policy. They beat her and dumped her body in a ditch near Davis last November 3. Mrs Bessie Rowsley 39 poisoned four daughters and herself. Two daughters Forrest 6 and Esther 9 died. Hazel 13 and Loretta 10 survived. James A Martin Rosemont miner in Johns Hopkins hospital after a fall in a prior operation is in serious condition.
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