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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1930
Page
4
The notice invites letters to the editor but limits content to six hundred perae and requires real names. It warns no anonymous communications will be considered and outlines advertising rates and deadlines for same day insertion with a per word and per inch charge.
The article recalls Mother Jones Mary Jones as a national figure of militant leadership alongside Carrie Nation and Joan of Arc, arguing true leadership transcends gender and honoring their lasting impact on social reform. It also discusses the shift to new driver license examinations, noting the state’s move to test competence for safe driving and the controversy over whether existing licensees should be retested. It ends with a commentary on the folly of breach of promise lawsuits, using a case in Ohio to illustrate heartache money cannot mend and the dangers of sensational legal claims.
The ad touts Boston baked beans in stone Boston Bean Pots with sizes 3 4 5 8 quarts and prices from 30 to 75 cents. It also promotes assorted beans including Great Northern Navies Marrowfat White Beans Pheasant Eye Red Kidney Canberry Pinto and New California Lima Beans from the new crop.
A discussion on the inevitability of defense mud, juvenile delinquency study findings from Colorado State University, and the repeat of lawsuits. The report examines 100 boys aged 10 to 18 from a state industrial school, their backgrounds, education, and mental health, highlighting early influences and the need for prevention and earlier intervention.
Readable puzzle clues mix with garbled OCR text inviting solvers to reconstruct words and phrases. The fragment lists numbers and partial entries like clues for across and down, some names and erroneous letters, suggesting a partially legible crossword from an old page.
S L Watson urges cooperation among Western states to manage water from the Rio Grande to the Columbia. He warns that regional control hinges on interstate compacts and federal land revenues, noting reclamation funds and administration costs while highlighting oil conservation and prospecting permits trends. The article also covers Watson’s memorial service arrangements and ongoing legal notices.
Miller a banker from Hunnewell and Walter Edward a druggist were kidnapped by a bandit who robbed the First National Bank of Braman Oklahoma. The captives were released near Lehigh Kansas after the bandit was wounded in the right hand. The robber took their car and the men were unharmed aside from the escape wound.
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