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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1939
Page
2
Amid escalating European tensions reports flood airwaves with multiple networks listing times and programs from London Paris Berlin Warsaw to absorb listeners. The listings show scheduled news and entertainment segments including hosts and musical acts shaping a wartime listening schedule.
Mrs. William H. Corwith of Rockville Centre is among leading contenders for national presidency at the American Legion Auxiliary annual convention in Indianapolis. She serves as national radio chairman and appears amid a schedule of radio programs and broadcasts listed for Friday including WEAF NEBC CBS and NBC chains with varied shows and times.
The article reports a looming Broadway strike as 4-A stagehands refuse to work with Miss Tucker after her union charter. Equity opposition and threats of walkouts by Musicians and SAG backers could affect about 3,000 Broadway workers and tens of thousands in Hollywood, with industry costs running into hundreds of thousands daily.
Local radio listings reveal WMMN with several programs and guest orchestras, including Lama' Piegerdld and Ross Jordan, plus multiple segments featuring Arlen songs and Silhouettes. The schedule spans 5:30 P.M. to after midnight with performances, dramas, and news from NBC CBS and more.
A fragmented recipe describes cleaning wire preservers, deanters, vases and bottles by mixing two parts vmnes with one part sall, adding to one acle, shaking well, and washing. The text is incomplete but indicates a chemical cleaning procedure with several unclear terms.
A ten day county jail sentence was imposed last night on Paul RidenuF, 21, by Justice.
An advertising item promotes rapid relief for hay fever symptoms featuring a potent formula PO-TAS-A-FRAS. The ad urges starting immediately and restoring normal condition with PRAS, sold exclusively at Malone's Cut Rate Drug Store located at 16 West Main Street.
A gift coupon entitles the holder to any one volume from a 42 volume set of World's Greatest Literature. The offer requires a 39 cent price and mail orders need extra postage and handling to the World's Greatest Literature Department at Grafton Sentinel Office Crafton West Virginia.
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