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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1934
Page
2
A historical meal plan lists serving four breakfast items and a menu including grapefruit, toast, coffee, and cold milk. Detailed are a pea soup with onions peppers celery and a creamed sauce, plus a baked custard recipe with eggs sugar nutmeg and vanilla.
Do not overcook the custard. It should still wobble slightly in the center to set correctly as it cools. Remove from heat promptly to avoid curdling and ensure a silky texture.
West Virginia officials warned school bus contractors to stay within their transit duties and no longer accept extra assignments such as football games tours or band travel. Violations could lead to contract revocation as state rules and regulations are enforced. A Wheeling event featured talks by Oscar de Priest Carl Bachmann and Charles Schuck during the Ohio Valley homecoming. Capitol roach bugs invaded the Charleston capitol, prompting cleanup efforts as workers fought the infestation with many roaches waterbugs and bedbugs reported in the first unit.
The report notes a temporary mass execution of cockroaches and water bugs, then a renewed infestation in the first unit. Swats and stomping feet delivered death blows, while Captain Willian Washington McClung, 88, Confederate veteran, died of pneumonia in Ronceverte after a long life and nine sons and two daughters. Harold K Bradford, deputy securities commissioner, said the Wood county grand jury will hear evidence against individuals involved in oil and gas racketeering.
The Robinson annual reunion will be Sunday at Pleasant Creek church with speakers Hon Ira E. Robinson and Howard H. Holt plus other talks. Choirs from Blueville and Pleasant Creek, a Current family entertainment, and a dinner on the grounds are planned. A memorial service honors Jesse Robinson, Civil War veteran.
Federal investigators linked a threatening letter to Mrs Roosevelt with Giuseppe Zangara who attempted to assassinate the President and killed Mayor Cermak. The note demanded money and used the line By order of Zangara, signing with that name and referencing a Sloane House telephone number that guided the probe leading to the arrest of Varn. Varn, claimed heir to a Charleston family, faced arraignment in Federal court as a former machinist and Navy Aviation Corps veteran.
The body of Samuel Leiberman a 42 year old jitney driver from Atlantic City was found early Wednesday on the Black Horse Pike near Cardiff ten miles west of Atlantic City. He had been shot once and stabbed twice. Cash and a wrist watch remained, mystery to police. Leiberman left two children. The scene mirrors a prior unsolved killing of Leo Vincent McElroy of Baltimore five weeks earlier. General Grant era note references Beale Street Memphis and blues birth.
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