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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1934
Page
3
Editorial offices located at 102 Latrobe Street Grafton West Virginia Business department reachable by line 185 R Editorial or News department 580 Grafton Printing Co Job department 185 R Entered as second class mail matter at Grafton West Virginia postoffice
A miscellany of notes covers a hitchhiking youth, reflections on Chicago pay and reform, a Niagara Falls race riot, and a critique of FDR era policy. It analyzes a Roosevelt Johnson NRA clash, Sinclair’s Democratic bid, and the California political scene amid a New Deal debate.
The article urges a late summer clearance sale by local merchants to clear summer stock and display fall goods, targeting a 40 to 50 mile shopping radius. It also recalls Sheriff Williams bond settlement of about 17 000 dollars, a past bank robbery, and a lost Ohio college professor found near Red House, with warnings about thumbers and roadside hobos and a call for strong local enforcement.
A dense scanned puzzle page presents a mixed assortment of across and down clues. It includes numbered entries, theme notes, and remnants of solution lines with hints about various words, with references to persons, objects, and abstract terms.
Senatorial observers note the party's shift under Roosevelt as California primaries approach. The piece flags concern among traditional Democrats about the party's course and marks the political climate ahead of the votes.
The article recounts a hangman leading a prisoner to the gallows after a final appeal, noting his job paid $33.50 with half shared with assistants. It then previews “Behind the Scenes with Royalty” featuring Netley Lucas detailing how Madame Lupescu outwitted Queen Marie and the romance that nearly toppled Young King Carol’s throne.
Classified notice shows two rental properties: a three room unit at 70 West Street Charles Street with contact phone 219 M, and a furnished duplex apartment at 210 Peart Street currently being renovated with phone 126 111.
A long, garbled legal notice compiles bankrupt proceedings for Stephen P Pendergast in Taylor County West Virginia with a bankruptcy meeting set for September 11 1994 and creditor claims. plus a trustee sale notice for Hy Kerns debt to Frick Company detailing an Eclipse table saw mill and related machinery to be sold for cash on September 23 1934 in Grafton West Virginia.
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