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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1928
Page
7
Magistrate A E Breedon presided over an inquest into the death of Aaron Pitzenbarger, 10, near Saxon, shot by Averell Booth, 14, with a shotgun taken while Booth trained the barrel at passing objects on the way to Nickerson school. verdict: accidental death.
Dr. Davis and May Davis drift into a tense quarrel as May allies with perfume maker Beranger de Brie. Myra Pfeffer schemes in a cabaret while Davis’s jealousy and a risky late night drive threaten marriage. Chapter excerpt shows flirtation, deception, and a chaotic club scene as May manipulates the game.
A janitor built a fire in the school stove and swept the room when a gun fired accidentally as he neared Bailes and Booth. The bullet struck the Pitz enbarger boy in the head and shoulders, killing him almost instantly. Funeral services are set from the home this afternoon with burial in Saxon cemetery. Hearings on dam constructions at Sandstone or New Richmond Pailly on New River set for January 4 by the Public Service Commission.
All star cast led by Lowell Sherman and Margaret Livingston presents The Scarlet Dove at the Tiffany Stahle company. The director Arthur George writes and stages a New Year Eve Russia tale of love, marriage, a jealous regiment, a snowbound escape, a hidden retreat, a courtroom trial and a dramatic finale.
Berlin crowd storms theatre offices after Josephine Baker fails to appear The Harlem dancer supposedly injured her ankle or clashed with management over pay for an added appearance Her husband Count Pepito Abalino was involved as costumes were hurled into a car and driven away.
The American Petroleum Institute reports the US crude oil production rose by 1,150 barrels daily for the week ending December 1 to a total of 2,506,150 barrels. East of California daily storage production fell by 850 barrels to 1,829,250 barrels.
Chicago girls Marjorie and Isabelle Meuser aged eight and ten secure adoption by the Marchioness Huntly of Orton Hall Peterborough England. Their father Floyd C Meuser, an advertising salesman, died in February. Probate Judge Henry Horner approved the surrender by their stepmother Louise Meuser. Arthur Campbell Jr arranged proceedings as the marchioness’s son. The estate from the marchioness’s second husband funds the title rich life they will enter.
Charlottesville inmate Henry Hiden Chewning is held for the grand jury on a charge of killing James Keith Summers Jr., a 21 year old University of Virginia student from Rye New York. Bail set at 10000. defense argues accidental shooting from a falling pistol amid testimony of drinking and a disturbance at the restaurant. Summers, son of a New York attorney, had attended Harvard and Virginia.
The New York Clearing House, a longstanding financial pillar on Cedar Street, links 28 member banks with daily clearings surpassing 1.0 billion dollars and checks over 800,000 daily. Its 75-year history includes pivotal support during Civil War finance and crises such as 1907 and 1914, with operations modernized from simple messenger exchanges to bundled clearings and federal coordination.
Frances Porter of Atlanta was accused by Havana police aboard the yacht Malvern, owned by Donkey T. Whitehead of Atlanta, of assaulting him with a shoe. The court order was presented aboard the vessel and Porter faced charges as a representative of Havana police court.
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