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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1930
Page
7
A scrambled OCR puzzle list with across clues and disjointed phrases. It includes misread entries for many terms like feminine or male gender, locations, and various scattered word fragments, lacking coherent question structure or solvable items.
Raoul Walsh’s Fox Movietone drama The Big Trail plays at the Strand with sweeping pioneer wagon train action. The film showcases grand production, dramatic fording of the Snake River, Indian siege, buffalo stampede, cliffline dangers, and a strong love story featuring Marguerite Churchill and newcomer John Wayne. Tyrone Power’s bullwhacker and other cast members deliver memorable performances.
In a tale of the film Lightnin many scenes used a Grant sleeping bed found in a Comstock mine area once home to a 30 000 person town. Twain reportedly slept under a tree while Grant once rested in the bed now exhibited by Rogers in Beverly Hills. Louise Dresser Joel McCrea and Helen Cohan star in the production.
The Opera House hosts the comedy drama Ladies Must Play tonight and Saturday. The film blends stage and screen techniques using sound dialogue and shifting backgrounds to enhance motion pictures. Dorothy Sebastian Neil Hamilton and Natalie Moorhead perform in repartee demonstrating modern talking picture artistry. A rescue scene with speed boats highlights the screen’s capabilities beyond stage limits.
Senate committees debate power commission appeal and drought relief bills while House panels begin treasury post office bill readings. Appropriation panel weighs $150 million unemployment fund as Agriculture pushes drought relief. Immigration panel drafts new restrictions amid talks. Fish committee reviews Communist leadership issue.
Four fold continuation discusses penitentiary issues in West Virginia. Proposals include a state prison farm to grow produce for state institutions, possible two year delay due to economic conditions, and expansion of the Moundsville facility. A plan for an intermediate penitentiary is debated, while road project prisoner use and financing challenges are examined.
A hunting party member and De Groat said they wounded a deer on Monday and De Groat followed it onto Mrs Armbusters land. Mrs Armbuster was hospitalized in Scranton for a major operation yesterday after admission on Wednesday. Lt Henry Ogden, a US Army flier, opened a new air transport line linking Los Angeles Bakersfield and Taft California.
Charleston reports the Public Service Commission sets uniform rates for United Fuel Gas Company after over a year of litigation, effective after December. Other briefs note the State Bridge Commission’s preliminary toll bridge conferences with 24 owners, James M. Preston acting mayor in Lewisburg, and various local notices including a death and a homicide confession.
Revenues from prison labor waned as operating costs for the penitentiary neared 365 000 dollars annually, with only about 200 000 expected yearly from prisoner employment over the next two years. A shortfall of 165 000 would require general funds. Hawes Cooper interstate shipping rules hamper prison-made goods, foreseeing dissolution of the prison manufacturing system. The Salt Lake City Utah department also recovered 6 700 dollars on bicycles last year.
Obvious plea from 1930 asking readers to donate one dollar per month to feed hungry children and adults in Grafton through the Salvation Army. Includes coupon route via Charles Steele at First National Bank or Captain WA Arnold, listing aims to raise about 26 dollars to feed a child all winter.
The Comstock gold mine’s billion-dollar tale is dwarfed by Will Rogers as his Fox Movietone "Lightnin'” opens Sunday at the Strand. The famed wit brings humor to a Nevada setting as General Grant’s bed rest and Rogers’ presence frame the show.
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